Sportstech: Revolutionary Fabrics, Fashion and Design

by Sarah E. Braddock

In the 1990s advances in textile and garment technology, much of it especially developed by the sports industry itself, but also inherited from research for space travel, the military, industry, and medicine, resulted in ever more sophisticated sportswear. Crucial fractions of a second can be saved in modern speed-sports by wearing the latest designs. In "extreme" sports, survival itself may depend on the properties of the chosen clothing. There...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500510865
• ISBN13: 9780500510865
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 10.6"