Uncover The Secret: Why High-End Clothing Loves Imported Fabrics

our country Imported fabrics for clothing Mainly chemical fiber products, accounting for 60% - 70% of the total number of imported fabrics. According to the statistics of fabrics used by 14 typical garment enterprises, 70% - 85% of cotton, wool, silk and their blended fabrics are domestic fabrics, and 98% of linen and linen blended fabrics are domestic fabrics. In recent years, with the development of chemical fiber technology in China, the import of chemical fiber fabrics has declined year by year, but some high-end brands still prefer to use imported fabrics.

　　 Clothing enterprises The main reason for choosing imported fabrics is that the quality of foreign chemical fiber fabrics is better in five aspects: appearance style, hand feeling performance, defects, drape (formability) and color. The investigation and analysis data show that the main part of imported high and middle grade chemical fiber fabrics is polyester differential filament fabrics, and a small part is other new chemical fiber fabrics and their blended fabrics, mainly from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and other countries or regions. It can be seen that there is still a big gap between the quality of domestic chemical fiber fabrics and the international advanced level. Today, we will analyze the gap between domestic fabrics and imported fabrics.

The varieties are quite different

In developed countries and regions such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, the fiber composition of their latest fabrics has developed to 2-4, with more than 5-6 fiber blends. It has become a development trend to achieve simulation and ultra real effects through changes in fiber structure and fabric structure. At present, the performance of new chemical fibers in China is not stable, and the application is not widespread. The average use of blended fabrics is 1.3 kinds of fibers.

The single fiber of domestic functional fiber is too thick. Comfort in itself fibre However, the hand feel and style do not meet the requirements for summer wear.

There is a gap in aesthetics

Domestic chemical fiber printing and dyeing simulation and ultra fidelity are mainly achieved through "alkali decrement". "Alkali decrement method" is a process that needs to be gradually replaced due to its less style change, serious environmental pollution and large energy consumption.

The "alkali deweighting method" is used to treat ordinary polyester fabric, which results in increased fabric softness and improved surface aurora, but the disadvantage is that the style is single, the formability of the fabric when it is made into clothing is reduced, and the fabric is still not rich, bulky, slippery or smooth.

Domestic polyester fabrics give the impression that they are softer than in the past, but the fabrics made into uniforms are not rigid enough, poor fullness, slippery or smooth enough. Most of the drape fabrics are low density woven. The fabric is soft but the yarn is hard. The fabric cannot naturally and smoothly droop. The color rendering of the fabric is poor, the appearance is rigid and uniform, and there is no natural appearance of natural fibers. Therefore, polyester fabrics from South Korea, Taiwan and other places have poured into the mainland market.

Chromatic aspect

The color of the domestic fabric is not bright enough, the purity is not high enough, and the fabric is gray, so the color of the fabric looks chaotic, and there is a feeling that it is not very clean; In the printing of domestic printing products, the whiteness of the white spot is insufficient, the continuity of fine warp and line is poor, and there is a lack of vividness. The printing accuracy is also lower than that of the sample; Fabrics produced with imported grey cloth, imported equipment and imported dyes and chemicals still cannot achieve the same level of brightness, luster and color reproduction accuracy as foreign products.

Hand feel

Most of the high-grade fabrics produced by foreign fabric manufacturers contain a variety of new fiber components. Due to the combination of the advantages of a variety of fibers, its drapability, softness and glossiness often exceed those of natural fiber fabrics. The new synthetic fabric is mainly made of pure polyester filament or polyester filament, which is novel and beautiful, soft and fluffy, and elegant in appearance.

Although some domestic products have little difference in appearance, they have thin hand feel, and their indexes such as drape and elasticity are similar to those of foreign products. The handle is not as soft, waxy and plump as the sample.

Performance after garment

After the same cutting, sewing and ironing, the fabrics with similar appearance to imported products will feel different after wearing. In the process of cutting, lining and steam ironing, the expansion and shrinkage of domestic fabrics are different from those of imported fabrics, which is an important reason. After the finished product is made, its size has a large gap with the original size, which affects the adhesion between the fabric and lining and the appearance quality, resulting in a high change rate in garment processing. After the qualified fabric is ready to wear, it can not meet some requirements, resulting in economic losses and waste of resources.

Although the fabric products in China are qualified, there is a certain gap in appearance and internal quality compared with foreign fabrics. Therefore, many brands still choose imported fabrics for clothing production, which is an important reason why the same fabrics and high-end clothing are expensive.