  Thermal comfort of textiles plays an indispensable role in the process of
human civilization. Advanced textile for personal thermal management shapes
body microclimates by merely regulating heat transfer between the skin and
local ambient without wasting excess energy. Therefore, numerous efforts have
recently been devoted to the development of advanced thermoregulatory textiles.
In this review, we provide a unified perspective on those state-of-the-art
efforts by emphasizing the design of diverse heat transfer pathways. We focus
on engineering certain physical quantities to tailor the heat transfer
pathways, such as thermal emittance/absorptance, reflectance and transmittance
in near-infrared and mid-infrared radiation, as well as thermal conductance in
conduction. Tuning those heat transfer pathways can achieve different
functionalities for personal thermal management, such as passive cooling,
warming, or even dual-mode (cooling-warming), either static switching or
dynamic adapting. Finally, we point out the challenges and opportunities in
this emerging field, including but not limited to the impact of evaporation and
convection with missing blocks of heat pathways, the bio-inspired and
artificial-intelligence-guided design of advanced functional textiles.
