{"id":54536,"date":"2023-11-28T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=54536"},"modified":"2024-02-01T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:36:06","slug":"caroline-ellington-13-14-using-textile-engineering-skills-in-the-luxury-sportswear-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/caroline-ellington-13-14-using-textile-engineering-skills-in-the-luxury-sportswear-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Ellington \u201813, \u201814: Using Textile Engineering Skills in the Luxury Sportswear Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
As a Park Scholar<\/a> and student-athlete on the varsity women\u2019s golf team, Wilson College of Textiles<\/a> alumna Caroline Ellington always had an affinity for applying herself on and off the course. Through textile engineering<\/a>, she found a way to combine her many passions and interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI’ve always been interested in performance apparel, the luxury sector, and how that intersects with athletics, especially golf,\u201d she says. \u201cI like approaching things from a more pragmatic point of view, so that led me to go down the engineering path. Through the engineering curriculum, I learned about fibers, yarns, fabrics, and garments from the molecular structure up; which gave me a robust technical understanding of material attributes and apparel construction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n