Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Cool touch shirts can make you feel cool on hot days, but which materials work best?

  • Written by Susan L. Sokolowski, Director & Associate Professor of Sports Product Design, University of Oregon
Cool touch shirts can make you feel cool on hot days, but which materials work best?The material that your shirt is made of plays a big role in how hot you feel. RUNSTUDIO/Photodisc via Getty Images

It’s another hot and sweaty summer day, and you see an ad for a sports T-shirt claiming it is made out of a material that will instantly make your skin feel cool. Intriguing, but does it work, and if so, how?

Companies have...

Read more: Cool touch shirts can make you feel cool on hot days, but which materials work best?

More Articles ...

  1. Trump accepts the nomination from the White House lawn, portraying a nation in crisis and himself as its hero
  2. Why Americans are buying more guns than ever
  3. Así es como la moda ha servido históricamente para el distanciamiento social
  4. Religious tourism has been hit hard in the pandemic as sites close and pilgrimages are put on hold
  5. FDA is departing from long-standing procedures to deal with public health crises, and this may foreshadow problems for COVID-19 vaccines
  6. The white supremacist origins of modern marriage advice
  7. Trump's foreign policy is still 'America First' – what does that mean, exactly?
  8. Abolishing child labor took the specter of 'white slavery' and the job market's near collapse during the Great Depression
  9. Jerry Falwell Jr. will leave behind a very different legacy from his influential father
  10. Hurricanes and wildfires are colliding with the COVID-19 pandemic – and compounding the risks
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more