Abstract: Based on the research of intelligent clothing development, this paper classifies intelligent clothing into functional material type and electronic information type. There are many application fields of smart clothing, involving sports health, medical monitoring, military equipment, and live entertainment. According to its functions, it can be divided into intelligent positioning function, intelligent monitoring function, intelligent interaction function, and intelligent adjustment function. At last, the paper points out that intelligent clothing will develop in three trends: more functional and high-performance, more accurate and systematic, more commercialized and beautiful.

Key words: intelligent clothing; intelligent textiles; electronic information technology; function classification; development trend