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Journal of Textiles and Engineer, vol.19, no.88, pp.13-27, 2012 (Scopus)
Fashion designers are mainly concerned to create certain aesthetic values on fashion products. Most of the technical work to prepare fashion drawings, garment patterns, surface and structural designs etc. has now been taken over by computers. It is however important that the aesthetic aspects should be compatible with physical aspects of product, both being in harmony with product's end use and with available technology. Although the relationships between physical and technological aspects are well known, those between physical and aesthetic aspects are somewhat obscure. The paper gives a short account of studies made to build mathematical models to estimate aesthetic values of textile products as functions of structural parameters. This knowledge may help in training fashion designers and may also be employed in new enhanced design software. It is also shown how an appropriately organized data base can be used creatively in computer aided fashion design.