In recent years, the apparel industry is committed to integrating functional design into the sales of garments, aiming to maintain the efficiency and comfort of the individual's survival, health, and life, and has greatly satisfied people's demand for high function and high efficacy of clothing. At present, functional apparel sold on the market can be classified as protective and non-protective.

Among them, protective functional clothing is used to prevent human injuries, such as safety, environmental protection, etc. Specific functions include waterproof, wind, UV, moisture fast dry, antibacterial, flame retardant, anti-static, anti-electromagnetic wave; non-protective type Functional clothing is used to increase the body's function and improve the wearer's work efficiency, such as climate regulation functions, body-cleaning functions, etc. Specific functions include: ironing-free, anti-wrinkle, easy-care, anti-fouling, deodorant, abrasion-resistant, etc. .

In order to adapt to the rapid development of China's functional clothing industry, the National Clothing Standardization Technical Committee has done a lot of market research work, and believes it is necessary to build a functional clothing standard system and to revise relevant functional clothing standards. In view of the more mature functional clothing market, the Technical Standards Committee has gradually increased the standardization and revision efforts to standardize the functional apparel market in China.

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the revision of functional clothing standards in China, and the formulation of a number of important functional clothing standards and the application for projects have been completed. The product standards include GB/T 21980-2008 "Professional sportswear and protective equipment. General Technical Specification, GB/T 24278-2009 "Motorcycle Protective Clothing", GB/T 23316-2009 "Workwear Antistatic Performance Requirements and Test Methods", and method standards include GB/T 22042-2008 "Garment Protection Electrostatic Performance Surface Resistivity Test Method, GB/T 22043-2008 "Apparatus antistatic performance through material resistance (vertical resistance) test method", radiation protection clothing shielding electromagnetic radiation efficiency test method (item number-T-608) Such as, initially established a prototype of our functional clothing standard system, providing a strong technical support for the smooth upgrading of China's functional clothing industry.

Since 2009, the National Garment Standardization Technical Committee has been devoted to broadening the coverage of functional clothing standards, steadily improving the standard of functional clothing during the reform, and gradually improving the functional apparel standard system in China. Through the combination of product standards and method standards, China has established a comprehensive functional clothing standard system, continuously enriched the work of the revision of functional clothing standards in China, and provided uniform standards and norms for the emerging functional apparel industry.