Have you ever encountered any of the following pitfalls when buying clothes? When I looked at the model, the pattern was quite wide, but it felt soft when I got it. I wanted to buy something that was soft and skin-friendly, but when I bought it, it was a bit firm or even pierced my body. The quality I bought was not good, it didn’t feel the way I wanted, or I bought something I liked. Yes, but it pills like crazy when wearing it, making it impossible to wear.
Teach you the most basic knowledge of fabric classification and classification, which is very easy to remember and allows you to easily buy clothes that are good-fitting, comfortable and cost-effective
Fabrics can be divided into three categories according to material. Natural fiber, regenerated fiber, chemical fiber
Natural fibers refer to textile fibers that exist in nature or are obtained from artificially cultivated animals and plants, such as the most familiar cotton, linen, and silk. , wool, the four major natural fibers
The common advantages are no static electricity (except wool), moisture absorption and breathability, relatively soft, and a certain gloss. The disadvantages are that they are easy to wrinkle, shrink, and fade. Natural materials have become more popular in the past two years. The prices of cotton, linen, silk and wool have increased. Regardless of whether the raw materials are good or bad! As long as natural materials are available, prices have increased a lot. Sisters and aunties who want to know more about cotton, linen and silk can click on my avatar to take a look. I have written about these materials in depth before.
Regenerated fiber refers to textile fibers that are inspired by silkworm spinning, using natural cellulose and natural proteins as raw materials, and chemically processed fibers (because these natural fiber proteins cannot be used like cotton, linen, silk, etc. Can be used directly, must be processed) The main raw materials they use are fine lint cotton in cotton and wood pulp of various trees. Different materials and different processes will produce different effects. For example, the main raw materials of soybean fiber are You read that right, the soybean we commonly see in our daily life is the soybean that can be eaten. The main raw material of Lyocell is beech wood, which is called Qinggang tree in China
The commonly used raw material for Modal is eucalyptus, which is why many companies call it eucalyptus bark fabric
The advantage of regenerated fiber is that it is basically resistant to static electricity , moisture-absorbing and breathable, even better than pure cotton, soft against the skin, not easy to fade, and not easy to wrinkle
The disadvantages are high cost, troublesome process, and poor elasticity
I made a table of their respective advantages and disadvantages. You can save it and watch it later, no charge! If you find it useful, please leave me a comment, favorite, and forward! Good things should be seen by everyone
Advantages and Disadvantages of Regenerated Fiber
The main raw material of chemical fiber is petroleum. Petroleum is refined and synthesized into four major materials of chemical fiber: polyester, acrylic, spandex and nylon
The biggest advantage is that the color is bright and does not fade, the drape is good and wide, very strong and durable, and most importantly, it is very cheap
The disadvantage is that it is easy to generate static electricity, has poor hygroscopicity, poor heat resistance, and is easy to absorb Dust and the feeling of wearing pure chemical fibers will be difficult to bear in summer
These four major chemical fibers. Many are blended with other recycled fibers or natural fibers. For example, add polyester to resist wrinkles, add nylon to resist wear, and add spandex to increase elasticity.
Many of our summer suspender skirts that are wrinkle-resistant and drapey are made of polyester. Other fabric components neutralize the shortcomings of polyester’s stuffiness. Nylon is also used in autumn windbreakers, and most cheap sweaters are acrylic! Oh, right! Don’t buy sweaters that contain a lot of acrylic or even full acrylic. No. Not just sweaters, but all woven sweaters, cardigans, sweater dresses, those containing acrylic or even full acrylic are best not to buy! The static electricity is very high and will pill like crazy! It pills to the point where you don’t want to wear it again within a month or two. If you don’t care about pilling, just pretend I didn’t say that. (Sweaters and cardigans containing acrylic and full acrylic are easily sold to consumers as wool by some people.) Everyone must pay attention to distinguish them in autumn and winter!
Give you some cool knowledge. Many years ago. The population is growing rapidly. Agricultural productivity is not developed enough. In order to solve the problem of food, a policy was formulated that cotton would not compete with grain for land. At that time, most people wore pure cotton and coarse cloth. Insufficient cotton production will naturally lead to clothing shortages. Buying clothes in those days was not like it is now. Most of them are sold with cotton tickets. At that time, we wanted to solve the problem of clothing shortage, but we could not occupy farmland to grow cotton. Then we can only think of a solution based on the material.
In the 1970s we came from Japan, France and then Germany. Chemical fiber production equipment was introduced, and from then on it was possible to use synthetic fibers to make clothes. So a kind of really good fabric became popular in the 1980s and 1990s. It was not comfortable to wear. It was neither close-fitting nor sweat-absorbent. It was very stuffy when worn in hot weather. However, it also had many advantages: it did not wrinkle, shrink, or fade. It looks lean and tall when worn, which is a different fashion for people who were accustomed to wearing cotton and coarse cloth at that time. The most important thing is that the annual output of Deliang reaches an astonishing 1.9 billion square meters! It can almost meet people’s clothing needs. It is no longer as embarrassing as the time when food stamps were distributed. Those born in the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s and 50s should all know that it is indeed cool. Many years ago…At that time, the very popular Doliang fabric was used to make short-sleeved shirts and pants, but it gradually disappeared and no one can find it. In fact, it is polyester among chemical fibers.
Finished sharing the trivia! Let me give you some more useful information and share with you one that I compiled. Price list of clothing fabric styles. Avoid buying nitrile wheels at the price of wool. I can buy silk-like polyester fiber at the same price as real silk
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