Gildan | Cool Socks for Athletes Jazmen Gary, Ben Hindley, and Courtney Ledlow
The goal of this project was to create a measurably cooler athletic sock with long lasting cooling properties to help keep the wearer cool and dry, thereby, improving their athletic performance. As of today, there are no true cooling socks on the market, and this may be attributed to a couple of challenges this study serves to address. First, it is difficult to quantify cooling with any specific lab test since the sock is in an enclosed environment, and second, the shoe inhibits evaporative cooling. In order to address these issues, a list of important measurables was created and innovative ideas were generated. 18
