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===Function of clothing=== [[File:The Real and Its Ideal.jpg|thumb|"The Real and Its Ideal", 1898 illustration by [[E. J. Sullivan]] for [[Thomas Carlyle]]'s ''[[Sartor Resartus]]'' (1833โ34)]] Serious books on clothing and its functions appear from the nineteenth century as [[History of colonialism|European colonial powers]] interacted with new environments such as tropical ones in Asia.<ref name="Jeffreys1858">e.g. {{citation |year=1858 |author=Jeffreys, Julius |title=The British Army in India: Its Preservation by an appropriate Clothing, Housing, Locating, Recreative Employment, and Hopeful Encouragement of the Troops |place=London |publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts |url=https://archive.org/stream/britisharmyinin01jeffgoog#page/n7/mode/1up |access-date=8 September 2010}}</ref> Some scientific research into the multiple functions of clothing in the first half of the twentieth century, with publications such as [[J.C. Flรผgel]]'s ''Psychology of Clothes'' in 1930,<ref name="Flugel1930" /> and Newburgh's seminal ''Physiology of Heat Regulation and The Science of Clothing'' in 1949.<ref name="Newburgh1968">{{citation |date=1968|orig-year= 1949 |editor=Newburgh, Louis Harry |title=Physiology of Heat Regulation and The Science of Clothing |place=New York & London |publisher=Hafner Publishing}}</ref> By 1968, the field of Environmental Physiology had advanced and expanded significantly, but the science of clothing in relation to environmental physiology had changed little.<ref name="Hertig1969">{{cite journal |last1=Hertig |first1=Bruce A. |title=Physiology of Heat Regulation and the Science of Clothing |journal=Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |date=February 1969 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=100 |doi=10.1097/00043764-196902000-00012 |pmc=1520373 }}</ref> There has since been considerable research, and the knowledge base has grown significantly, but the main concepts remain unchanged, and indeed, Newburgh's book continues to be cited by contemporary authors, including those attempting to develop thermoregulatory models of clothing development.<ref name="Gilligan2010">{{citation |date=January 2010 |author=Gilligan, Ian |title=The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model |journal=Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=15โ80 |doi=10.1007/s10816-009-9076-x|s2cid=143004288 }}</ref>
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