Aspects herein relate to apparel items and apparel systems that utilize applied or printed foam nodes to provide, among other things, stand-off between an apparel item and a wearer's skin surface. One or more of the foam nodes, or areas of the textile surrounding the foam nodes, may be perforated to provide a fluid communication path between an inner-facing surface and an outer-facing surface of the apparel item. The communication path may be used to facilitate air exchange between the external environment and the wearer's body and/or to provide an exit path for moisture vapor generated by the wearer.

Protective clothing is described which is not only excellent in wearing comfortability but also suppresses the occurrence of dew condensation even when accouterments are worn, where the protective clothing is coupled with a hood that is composed of a nonwoven fabric having a quantity of ventilation of 20 cm.sup.3/cm.sup.2/sec or more and 150 cm.sup.3/cm.sup.2/sec or less and a nonwoven fabric having a quantity of ventilation of 0 cm.sup.3/cm.sup.2/sec or more and 19 cm.sup.3/cm.sup.2/sec or less, the hood having an opening at a position to be center of a wearer's face and belt-shaped materials at an upper side of the opening and at lower portions of right and left sides of the opening, where the two belt-shaped materials are coupled with or are configured to be couplable with each other at right and left side heads.

There is provided an open-palmed glove. The glove includes a first layer of material. The glove includes a second layer of material coupled to and extending about peripheral portions of the first layer of the material. There is also provided an open-palmed glove comprising a single material in the form of one of leather, leather suede, synthetic leather, and microfiber, with a lining coupled to said single material and forming an aperture aligned with the back of the glove. There is yet further provided use of an open-palmed glove for rock climbing. The glove consists of a single material on the back thereof. The single material touches both the hand and a rock that is being climbed. There is yet additionally provided a kit comprising a plurality of pairs of rock-climbing gloves of different sizes, each having its own color which corresponds to a color of a camming device.

A batting glove for baseball or softball may include a glove base and a reinforcement layer set. The glove base may include a palmar region, a dorsal region located on an opposite exterior side of the batting glove from the palmar region, a plurality of finger regions, a wrist region at a bottom of the glove base, and an ulnar border region. The ulnar border region may be located along an outermost edge region of the glove base following a length of the little finger region along an outermost side of the little finger region. The reinforcement layer set may be connected to and exterior of the glove base in a manner that covers at least a portion of each of (a) the palmar region, (b) the ulnar border region, and (c) the dorsal region.

The present invention provides a lightweight glove for baseball or softball that may include an elastic backfinger to provide a conforming fit to the wearer's hand. In general, the elastic backfinger may replace existing, often leather backfingers, the back panel, the liner, and/or other elements of traditional gloves glove with the elastic material, combination of elastic materials, or combination of elastic and inelastic materials.

The present disclosure relates to a breathable, reusable, leakproof, absorbent, antimicrobial, waterproof and vapor disperser multilayer lining for clothing. A purpose of this lining is to avoid the release of body fluids such as sweat, blood, vaginal fluids, menstrual fluid, urine, breast milk or postoperative fluids.

Provided is a protective clothing comprising a pair of sleeve parts and a body part, wherein one of the pair of sleeve parts comprises a part A covering an elbow joint of a wearer's right arm at the time of wearing the protective clothing, wherein the other one of the pair of sleeve parts comprises a part B covering an elbow joint of the wearer's left arm at the time of wearing the protective clothing, wherein the body part comprises a part C covering the wearer's greater pectoral muscle at the time of wearing the protective clothing, wherein the protective clothing has a first fabric having an air permeability of 30 cm.sup.3/cm.sup.2/sec or more and a second fabric having a bending resistance of 80 mm or less, wherein the first fabric is arranged on the part C and has a laminated structure of a first spunbonded non-woven fabric and a first melt-blown non-woven fabric, and wherein the second fabric is arranged on the part A and the part B and has a laminated structure of a second spunbonded non-woven fabric and a second melt-blown non-woven fabric.

Aspects herein are directed to an apparel item that promotes thermo-regulation through the use of engineered openings, venting, and/or stand-off structures. In exemplary aspects, 20-45% of the apparel item may comprise the engineered openings. Vents may be positioned on the apparel item in areas that experience high amounts of air flow to help channel air into the apparel item. The stand-off structures may be positioned on an inner-facing surface of the apparel item where they help to create a space between the apparel item and the wearer's body surface in which air can flow and help cool the wearer by promoting evaporative cooling.

Aspects herein are directed to an apparel layer system configured to provide variable levels of insulation, warming, or air permeability. The apparel layer system comprises a first layer of material and a second layer of material both extending in a first planar direction. A third layer of material is positioned between the first and the second layers of material and is selectively affixed thereto. An adjustment mechanism coupled to the second layer of material can be mechanically manipulated to shift the second layer of material between different positions or states to achieve variable levels of offset between the first and second layers of material in the first planar direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first planar direction.

An article of apparel is described which is effective to regulate the temperature of the wearer. In an embodiment, the article of apparel includes a base textile with a thermal regulation membrane. The thermal regulation membrane contains a plurality of system-reactive components selectively engaged heat and/or moisture. In an embodiment, the printed coating includes a cooling agent, a phase change material, and a heat dissipation material. In operation, the article of apparel is effective to delay/diminish the rise in skin temperature (compared to a garment lacking the membrane), increasing wearer comfort.