Goverment testing for sun-blocking clothes?

[Frank N. O.]

I just noticed a headline on the danish news (no idea why I keep reading, it's almost all just bad news) and it said a danish company had developed clothes that blocked all but 2% of UV-radioation from the sun by using a special weaving-method. Here's the part I noticed, it was mentioned that the australian goverment had tested it to confirm the claim, and the article said that sun-blocking clothes like that were important there, is that due to the thin ozone-layer I've heard about over Australia or is it any place in the world with many sun-hours?

Frank

[TheSoccerMom]

I've never seen these items close-up, but have seen them in quite a few sporting goods catalogs.  I'm curious if they really work, but am too cheap to actually buy anything to see.   

[Baradium]

I was under the impression that most clothing blocked most UV radiation...  really doesn't take much to stop...

[Frank N. O.]

Ah, well I guess I don't know that much anyway. One thing that really was a point of interest for me was to reduce the risk of dying from cancer like my dad, his younger brother, sister and their dad, or have to go thrue surgury to survive it like the other sister and one of her kids had to do. (The older brother that died three doors down two weeks after we moved over here was the only one that didn't die due to cancer, that was a heart-attack).

Frank