Fashion and beauty have helped shape history and today more than ever, we find ourselves under increasing pressure to think about what we wear, what we look good in and how best to enhance our body shape and size. Behind this seemingly superficial industry, however, lies a technical thinking firmly grounded in science and technology. In one fully comprehensive book, Clothing appearance and fit: Science and technology provides a critical appreciation of the technological developments and scientific understanding of the appearance and fit of clothing. The authors bridge the science of beauty and fashion design with garment evaluation technology, garment drape and human anthropometrics and sizing. The ten chapters of the book provide a detailed coverage of clothing appearance and fit. Chapter 1 considers body attractiveness and how it relates to clothing material and design parameters and discusses classical and contemporary theories of beauty. Chapters 2 and 3 present the industry's techniques, methods and standards for assessing clothing appearance and fit and Chapters 4 and 5 review the research and development of objective measurement technologies for evaluating clothing appearance and fit. Fabric objective measurement, fabric properties and garment drape are covered in Chapters 6 and 7 and the R & D of body measurement, anthropometrics and sizing systems are detailed in Chapters 8 and 9. The final chapter reviews published work on garment design and pattern alteration for achieving good clothing appearance and fit. This book is an essential reference for researchers, academics, professionals and students in clothing and textile academia and industry. It includes many industrial standards, techniques and practices.About the Author: Jintu Fan currently holds the positions of Morgan Sesquicentennial Fellow, Professor and Department Chair of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University and Professor at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the developer of the world's first and largest apparel knowledge portal on the internet. Winnie Yu is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her famous inventions include the 3D body scanner "Cubicam" for customized fit jeans and the first soft mannequin for pressure evaluation of intimate apparel. Lawrance Hunter is Head of Textile Science at the Nelson Mendela Metropolitan University, South Africa.