Abstract: In order to evaluate the deformation comfort of knitted apparel, the crosswise tensile of tubular knitted fabric was tested on the instrument which was used to test hosiery, the correlation between subjective and objective test was evaluated. In the tensile test, 8 tubular knitted fabric samples were selected. After obtaining the relevant data, the deformation comfort of the knitted apparel was analyzed by subjective evaluation method. Finally, based on cluster analysis and correlation coefficient method, it’s found out that the objective test has good conformance with the subjective evaluation.

Key words: knitted apparel; deformation comfort; crosswise tensile test