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Protective clothing with electromagnetic shielding effectiveness (EMSE) is a functional textile, which shieldselectromagnetic waves to protect the human body from the far infrared rays. Traditional EMSE garments primarily usemetallic plates for reflecting electromagnetic interference (EMI). However, they also have disadvantages of a heavy weight,easy corrosion, and high production cost. In this study, three different functional yarns are combined, during which the twistnumber of metallic wires is changed for a better shielding effect. A crochet machine is used to fabricate functional elasticknits with the metallic composite yarns as the warp- and weft-inlaid yarns. The test results show that double (D) functionalelastic knits exhibit EMSE of above 20 dB when the EMI are between 1.0 and 3.0 GHz. In addition, the knit structure canimprove breaking tensile strength by 170 % and increases bursting strength by 58 %, but undermines the tear strength by10 %. Although changing twist number of metallic composite yarns does not affect water absorption rate along the weftdirection, it helps increasing elastic recovery rate by 3.1 %, water absorption rate along the warp direction by 106 %, farinfraredemissivity by 2.3 %, water vapor transmission rate by 20 %, and air permeability by 6 %.