Abstract: It is the object of the invention to provide a fiber excellent in cool contact feeling which is excellent in hand and skin touch and capable of preventing unpleasant feeling in the wet state and a woven fabric, clothing, and underwear excellent in cool contact feeling and obtainable by using the fiber excellent in cool contact feeling. The invention is a fiber excellent in cool contact feeling, which contains a thermoplastic elastomer and an inorganic filler.

Abstract: The present invention relates to deodorizing fibers that especially effectively deodorize body odors such as sweat odor and have improved launderability (durability), and a process for producing the same. The object of the invention is to provide a process for producing deodorizing fibers by imparting excellent deodorizing property and improved launderability (durability) to natural fibers or synthetic fibers, or textiles such as underwear formed by weaving or knitting yarns therefrom. The process for producing deodorizing fibers according to the present invention comprises treating fibers with a treating liquid containing chitosan and/or a modified chitosan, a carboxylic acid polymer, zinc oxide and a binder resin. The deodorizing fibers of the present invention have a coating layer of a waterproof binder resin comprising chitosan and/or a modified chitosan, a carboxylic acid polymer and zinc oxide.

Abstract: A waist protection member comprises a primary chamber (33) to be placed against at least an area of the human body surface in correspondence to a greater trochanter (1a) of a femur (1), and is fined with a gel-like substance (32). The waist protection member also comprises at least two auxiliary chambers (34) which are vertically juxtaposed to be placed against an area of the human body surface forwardly of the area covered with the primary chamber (33), and which are each filled with the gel-like substance (32) and have a smaller contact area with the human body than does the primary chamber.