TY - JOUR TI - The danger of wearing low-quality clothes. Part 1: Physicochemical characterisation AU - Ignat, Madalina AU - Chelaru, Ciprian AU - Constantinescu, Roxana AU - Perdum, Elena AU - Iordache, George-Ovidiu AU - Radulescu, Razvan AU - Mihai, Carmen AU - Durbaca, Ion AU - Sporea, Nicoleta T2 - Industria Textila AB - Clothing has always played a vital role in people’s lives, indicating social and moral status and the state of health. In a world where, for some, the appearance of a clothing product plays a much more important role than the quality of the product itself, it is necessary to know that although an item is fashionable and affordable, it may pose a real danger to health. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to analyse, from a chemical point of view (phthalates and formaldehyde determination, FTIR measurements), the materials from which various clothing items are made and their behaviour under certain conditions (accelerated UV and visible light exposure), to highlight the danger of purchasing low-quality products. The obtained results showed that although the samples are inexpensive and look nice, they contain compounds dangerous for human health, such as phthalates and formaldehyde, which are present in materials that should not come into contact with skin and stained the material support after intensive light exposure. DA - 2025/06/30/ PY - 2025 DO - 10.35530/IT.076.03.2023111 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 76 IS - 03 SP - 326 EP - 333 SN - 12225347 ST - The danger of wearing low-quality clothes. Part 1 UR - https://www.revistaindustriatextila.ro/images/2025/3/03%20MADALINA%20IGNAT%20INDUSTRIA%20TEXTILA%20no.3_2025.pdf Y2 - 2025/07/08/17:35:24 ER -