Woven Flame-Resistant Garment Fabric, and Garment Made Therefrom

A woven flame-resistant garment fabric, the fabric comprising warp yarns that extend in a longitudinal or warp direction and fill yarns that extend in a width direction of the fabric, the warp and fill yarns comprising at least about 30 wt. % inherently flame-resistant fibers, the fabric being woven from a plurality of warp yarn groups consecutively arranged across the width direction in a recurring pattern, each warp yarn group consisting of a plurality of adjacent consecutively arranged warp yarns,

• wherein at least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven with the fill yarns in a plain (1/1) weave and at least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven with the fill yarns in one or more non-plain weaves each selected from the group consisting of 1/2, 2/1, 2/2, 1/3, and 3/1, and
• wherein approximately half of the warp yarns in the fabric are woven with the fill yarns in a plain (1/1) weave and the remaining warp yarns in the fabric are woven with the fill yarns in said one or more non-plain weaves, in an alternating fashion.