Editor-in-chief	Jinlian Hu Research Journal of Textile and Apparel c/o: Institute of Textiles and Clothing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2766 6437 Fax: (852) 2773 1432 Email: tchujl@inet.polyu.edu.hk http://www.rjta.org
Editors	George Baciu Lai-kuen Theresa Chan Chun-wah Marcus Yuen Chi-wai Kan

Ron Postle New South Wales University, Australia Heikki Mattila Tampere University of Technology, Finland Heinrich Planck University of Stuttgart, Germany Jiri Militky Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic A. Blanton Godfrey North Carolina State University, USA S.C. Yao Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Chris Carr University of Manchester, UK Xiaoming Tao The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong V.K. Kothari Indian Institute of Technology, India Guangdou Ye Sichuan University, China Kwok Wing Yeung Clothing Industry Training Authority, Hong Kong Changfa Xiao Tianjin Polytechnic University, China Vladan Koncar Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Textiles de Mulhouse, France Mu Yao Xi�an University of Engineering Science and Technology, China Qinfei Ke Dong Hua University, China Hirai Toshihiro Shinshu University, Japan Xi Xu State Key Laboratory for Polymer Materials and Engineering, China Tae Jin Kang Seoul National University, Korea

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