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In daily life one would not think of clothing as a system in the first place. Still, even in civil life, where fashion aspects of clothing count heavily, the choice of clothing shows rather systematic trends. Most people have a summer and a winter wardrobe, enabling them to choose the clothes that fit the environmental conditions. It is recognized that the air temperature is the main factor in this choice, although other environmental and even ergonomical factors can play a role. In this way clothing can be considered as a systematic tool to maintain thermal equilibrium. This may be called a behavioural aspect of thermoregulation.
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Lotens, W.A. (1981). The Smallest Manned System: Clothing. In: Moraal, J., Kraiss, KF. (eds) Manned Systems Design. NATO Conference Series, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3306-7_15
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