Protective clothing

An article of clothing, comprising a clothing part adapted to surround and cover a users s body;

• and a layer of a polymeric adsorbing material applied on said clothing part and formed so as to retain at least some toxic components of a poison gas so as to prevent penetration of the some toxic components to a user's body, said polymeric adsorbing material including porous hydrophobic divinylbenzene copolymer which initially has surface exposed vinyl groups in which thereafter the vinyl groups are chemically modified so as to form different surface exposed functional groups with a greater hydrophilicity and greater biocompatibility than those of the vinyl groups.