Patent ID: 8470722

Claim:
A garment having the ability to pass moisture vapor while protecting the wearer from wind and/or water comprising a composite fabric of at least one woven fabric layer adjacent to and in a face-to-face relationship with a nanofiber layer, wherein the nanofiber layer comprises at least one porous layer of continuous, polymeric nanofibers having a number average diameter less than 1000 nm to about 50 nm, a basis weight of between about 1 g/m 2 and about 100 g/m 2 , and wherein the composite fabric has a Frazier air permeability of between about 1.2 m 3 /m 2 /min and about 7.6 m 3 /m 2 /min, and a moisture vapor transmission rate per ASTM E-96B of greater than about 500 g/m 2 /day said nanofiber layer being dyed, over all or a portion of its surface, and wherein the continuous polymeric nanofibers are not meltblown fibers.