This study was carried out to identify differential wear sensibility of stretchable leather suit from normal leather garment and
to explain the relationship between physical properties of stretchable leather and its wear sensibility in order to provide
information for development and marketing of stretchable leather clothing. A lamb leather underwent 'Stretch Finish(SF)' for
improving stretchability by drawing it to be thinner and by being laminated with synthetic film and the finished one was
compared to unfinished counterpart as well as to other commercially available leather samples for apparel in terms of mechanical
properties by KES(Kawabata Evaluation System) and stretch properties as physical parameters. Clothing pressure and subjective
sensation as wear sensibility were evaluated in wear test. As results, the finished leather was found to be more easily tensile,
more resistant to be compressed, smoother, thinner, and lighter owing to SF. It showed similar stretch properties to normal
stretchable woven fabrics including elastic fibers.