Short-sleeve shirt, long-sleeve shirt, sports shirt, athletic shirt, and other articles of clothing. A shirt includes one or more regions that de-couple the movement of arm-regions of the shirt (or sleeves of the shirt), from movement of the chest-area or trunk-area of the shirt. A sports shirt includes: a right-side short or long sleeve; a left-side short or long sleeve; a front area to cover a chest of a wearer; a back area to cover a back of the wearer; an optional collar; a right-side decoupling region to decouple movement of the right-side sleeve from movement of the front area and the back area; and a left-side decoupling region to decouple movement of the left-side sleeve from movement of the front area and the back area.

Clothing articles (e.g., aquatic board shorts) are generally comprised of at least one unitary woven fabric panel having multiple seamlessly adjacent different fabric weave sections. These seamlessly adjacent different fabric weave sections may be selected from plain fabric weaves, twill fabric weaves and/or Dobby fabric weaves. Aquatic activity shorts are provided which include a one piece rear fabric panel providing a seamless back rise.

An article of apparel having enhanced mobility portions is provided herein for an upper torso of a wearer. The article of apparel may comprise a front panel affixed to a back panel. The back panel comprises a first portion having a first lateral stretch characteristic, where the first portion is located along an upper part of the back panel. The back panel may further comprise a second portion located adjacent to and below the first portion. The second portion has a second stretch characteristic that less than the first stretch characteristic.

Disclosed is a functional sportswear having ripping lines. The ripping lines 6 and 8 are patterned by cutting a portion of a fibrous sportswear top 2 or fibrous sportswear bottoms 2A so as to form one or more pieces 10, and sewing adjacent pieces 10 to each other and sewing respective pieces 10 to cut portions adjacent thereto using a ripping-line sewing thread 12, which has a lower tensile strength than a tensile strength of a typical sewing thread, in a zigzag form. The ripping-line sewing thread 12 is formed of a twisted yarn including a frangible fiber yarn 14, which has a lower tensile strength than a polyester fiber yarn for a sewing thread, and a soluble yarn 16. The soluble yarn 16 is dissolved and removed after weaving using the sewing thread, whereby the frangible fiber yarn 14 remains in the ripping-line sewing thread 12 that sews the ripping lines 6 and 8.

The present invention discloses a spacer fabric structured garment, which comprises a garment body, a plurality of filling cavities arranged in the garment body, and spacer fabrics arranged in the filling cavities, wherein the spacer fabrics comprise a plurality of dragging units, and the dragging units comprise an upper surface layer, a lower surface layer and a dragging part connected to one side of the upper surface layer and the lower surface layer which are close to each other. The present invention has the advantage that the spacer fabrics can be used to prevent the filling materials in the filling cavities from piling up.