Proper clothes for health and wellness

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Well fashioned clothes are very much necessary in today’s life. Every one of us wants to wear trendy clothes as it gives us a confident look. But, does ‘well fashioned’ dress really good for your health always?

I think none of us think about it. In our daily routine, we all wear what we like to wear or we wear from our year long habit or we wear something which is trendy.
But, do you know that some types of fabric or clothing can harm your wellbeing? Your skin can’t breathe under those clothing or you may get a heavy rash even permanent allergy due to it.

Unknowingly, if you continue to wear those types of dresses then there is a fair chance to have a permanent impact on your skin and overall wellbeing.

Clothes help to maintain our personality, so, choose a cloth that suits you best. Nowadays clothes are modified with some extra fabric or structure, named ‘well fashioned’, which may be trendy but not as good as your comfortable wear.

So, this article brings you about the scientific knowledge of proper clothes for your health and wellness.

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Clothes and health

The impact of your cloth is generally reflected on your health. There are lots of things to know from your cloth other than your personality and look.

Clothes are in touch with our skin all days long, during this time you may feel back ache, or rash due to unfitted or harsh fabric of your cloths [1]. Some health problem you can found during or after the wearing of some fabrics or unfitted clothes are as follows (but not limited to):

1. An unfitted or under-fitted upper inner wear can harm your shoulder in case of women. Even you may feel pain on the back and shoulder, constricted breathing and muscle strain.

2. Our skin needs to breathe, but due to clothing it is not possible most of the times. So, if you continually wear a synthetic fabric, then you may get rash in those areas where sweat can accumulate.

3. Some artificial fabric can cause you dermatitis, eczema, inflammation and allergy.

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Some unhealthful fabrics

Not all fabrics are good for our health and not all suit to everyone. Here I want to discuss about some fabrics and their impacts on our health.

1. Rayon

The first unhealthful fabric is rayon. Most of us, specially girls, have a dress made up of rayon. It is not a wrinkle free cloth, comes with a lot of wrinkles that needs ironing before use.

It is a fiber made from cellulose, chemically processed from wood pulp. Longtime wearing of rayon is very much unhealthy.

Its processing phase is too dangerous and it pollutes our environment. This product can emit toxic substances which cause nausea, vomiting, chest pain, insomnia and headache.

So, refrain yourself from incorporation of this material to your wardrobe. I have also this product 2 or 3 pieces, but, after knowing this, I stopped buying dresses made of this material.     

2. Polyester

Polyester is the second harmful fabric that you have to avoid. It is very popular synthetic fabric, produced by blending of natural components like cotton. Unlike rayon, it is wrinkle and tear free.

If you wear polyester for long time then you may feel varieties of problems, because, your skin can’t breathe under it.

Polyester can rise your body temperature and then some chemicals get released from the fabric which in turn absorbs in your body. Your skin shows rashes, redness, itchiness and dermatitis.

It is highly recommended to all girls and boys, that not to wear polyester as their inner wear. Avoid buying or wearing polyester from now.

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3. Nylon

Nylon is heavily used in inner wears or under wears, socks, swim wears and stockings. It is preferred as an alternative of silk, and due to its durability it is highly popular and less expensive.

Nylon can harm your skin, if you wear them on bare skin. It has zero capacity of absorbance of your sweat, which leads to various skin infection, irritation and release bad odors too.

So, try to avoid wearing nylon, just wear pure cotton in place of it.  

4. Lycra/spandex

This fabric is very stretchy by nature and used in different tight clothes like leggings, sports bras, shapewear, tights etc.

Lycra or spandex contains carcinogenic chemical viz. polyurethane, from the time of it’s production. Long wear of this fabric can release this chemical to your skin and cause irritations, rashes and dermatitis.  

So, avoid this fabric for the sake of your health.

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Some healthy fabrics

Healthful fabrics are those which don’t hurt your health or you never feel any discomfort or irritation to your skin after prolonged wear.

Always opt for these fabric for your cloths, try to buy your daily cloths made of these fabrics. Some healthful fabrics are as follows:

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1. Cotton

Cotton is the most favorable fabric for your health, it is very much breathable. Cotton can absorb your sweat well and it is durable.

It can protect us from both heat and cold. We use it all year long as it is hypoallergenic and doesn’t have toxic chemicals.

So, wear cotton as much as possible, mainly inner wear should be of cotton always.

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2. Silk

Silk is very soft and supple fabric with a lucrative look and lavish texture. It can pamper your skin as it is hypoallergenic.

Silk can gives you a very comfortable feelings and research suggests that it can slow down aging process too. It has anti-fungal effect and it helps to reduce asthma, eczema and irritation, helps you sleep better.

If you sleep on silk covered pillow, your hair remains well maintained. So, go for a silk dress blindly.

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3. Linen

Linen is another very helpful fabric for your health. It has numerous health benefits like:

1. It protects us from solar gamma radiation.

2. It has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial property.

3. It decreases some skin diseases like eczema. A Japanese researcher has shown that a bed ridden patient doesn’t get bed sore if a linen bed sheet is used scientifically.

4. It is hypoallergenic and helps to treat some sort of allergy.

5. It absorbs 20% of its dry weight, so, after wearing it, you always feel fresh and cool.

6. It can reduce inflammation, it possess high air permeability. It can keeps you cool at least 3-4C than cotton or silk in summer and keeps you warm in winter as well.  

So, go for linen as it is best fabric for your health.

4. Cashmere/ Bamboo

These fabrics are very precious, luxurious to touch and without any strong chemicals. It can feel as very soft and silky in your skin.

It is hypoallergenic, very much breathable like linen and thermo-regulating too. Like linen it can absorb sweat very easily, gives you truly comfort.

These fabrics are eco-friendly, gentle and suitable for sensitive skin as it doesn’t irritate skin.

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Types of cloths to avoid

If you want to follow the trend, then you must found various dresses of different styles and fashion. But, not all the outfits are meant for you, not are suitable for your health too.

Some design has perfect suitability to somebody but not other. Style and fashion is your choice but, there are some types of clothing which secretly ruining your body day in and day out. So, try to avoid wearing following types of clothing, as much as practicable, for your health and overall wellbeing. It can constrict muscle, may be not breathable and can irritates skin, these are:

• Skinny jeans
• Yoga pants
• Ill-fitted bra
• Shapewear
• Swimwear
• Tights
• Leggings

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Smart Clothing: An era of “active well clothing”

We are now entering in an era of “smart clothing” or “active well clothing”. The intelligent cloths are rising nowadays with an antibacterial effects that can auto clean itself, or cloths which heal or moisturize your body well, even cloths which express your mood too [2].

Concepts of ‘comfortable clothing’ are changed due to those high-tech ideas in clothing industry. With a seamless knit technology and organic body mapping, leggings and tops are made to control air permeability, you will feel it like second skin because it adopt to your breathing and movement [3].

Like this, UV-protecting, bone protecting cloths are also on the way in this era. A wearable collagen is another smart cloth, which moisturizes you throughout the day [4].

Another high-tech smart clothes developed by researchers of University of Central Florida, helps you to express your mood by changing colour and pattern of your cloths according to your mood using an app [5].  

A programmable t-shirt named 'Sygnal' was made by the India-based 'Broadcast Wearables' that helps people to change designs and slogans with a tap on the logo [6].

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ConScience

This is not any biology blog, but still I want to say that skin is the largest organ and you should treat it well and everyday it comes closer to one thing that is clothing.

So, maintaining a proper clothing is utmost important to ourselves to keep a good health. Always choose the right fabric smartly for your skin and give attention to your shape of body and the dress you wear.

Smart cloth is on the way, it is just a matter of some days from when we can rely upon our cloths regarding our health. But, until then shop for stylish but comfortable wear with highly helpful fabric. Have a comfortable and happy life…