Fabrics for Men’s and Boy’s Wear

2020-12-04 09:38

Men’s clothing includes garments such as suits, topcoats, cover coats, jackets, and slacks. Boy’s clothing includes suits, topcoats, overcoats, jackets, and raincoats. With the emergence of fashion as selling force, there are more divisions of men’s and boy’s section in department and specialty stores.

Apparel Fabrics for Men’s and Boy’s Wear

Men’s wear may be classified as:

  • Men’s clothing and

  • Men’s furnishings.

A similar division may be made for boy’s wear. Work clothing is often treated as a separate classification.Men’s and boy’s furnishings are composed of similar articles, the chief of which are shirts, sleepwear, underwear, hosiery, robes, ties, handkerchiefs, belts, suspenders, garters, muffles and scarf, sweaters and bathing suits. Men’s jewelry (non-textile) such as cufflinks, studs, tie clips and stick pins, are also commonly included in the classification.

Shirts

The shirt may be classified according to the occasion for which they are worn:


    1. Dress (tailored garments worn with a necktie for business, street, and semi-formal wear)

    2. Work

    3. Sports and

    4. Formal

Dress shirts are usually all white, solid colored or stripped. For work shirts, khaki, dark blue or blacked are common colors. Sports shirts may be white, solid colored, plaids, stripes or checks. Men’s dress shirts size run 14 to 17 (neckband measurements). Men who cannot wear standard sizes should buy custom-made shirts. Sleeve lengths come in sizes 32 to 36. Boy’s sizes run 3,4,5,6, and 8,10,12,14,16,18,20. Sleeve lengths are usually identified as long or short.

All cotton or polyester and cotton blends are commonly used for shirting. Best quality fabric for the shirt is produced from 2 x 2 combed cotton of a count of 144 x 76, mercerized, and shrinkage controlled. Poorer grades may have the following weakness: 2 x 1 (two-ply warp and single filling) or single carded yarns in both warp and filling; a count as low as 100 x 56; little or no mercerization.

Work shirts for utility wear are made of sturdy fabrics, such as mercerized cotton twill, polished cotton, a blend of 65% Dacron polyester and 35% cotton poplin, blends of 17%nylon and 83% cotton twill, all cotton chino 65% Dacron polyester and 35% combed cotton gabardine, all-cotton denim, and all-cotton drill. The emphasis in selecting work shirts should be suitability rather than style. For comfort shirts usually have long tails that stay tucked in sleeves may be long or short, and sizes are based on the neckband.

Although sports shirts vary in style, a common feature is that they are made to be worn without a tie. They may or may not have a collar and may have either short or long sleeves. Since sports shirts are intended for active sports and for casual wear, a comfortable easy to care for fabric is suitable. In general, sport shirt fabrics are classified as knitted or woven.

Shirts for formal wear are usually pleated or plain, with a starched or soft bosom depending on the current mode. Fabrics include pique, broadcloth, silk or synthetic fibered crepe, and blends. The durability of a shirt is determined by the grade of fabric(judged according to the quality of the fibers, yarns, weaves, and finishing processes).

Ease of laundering is also a factor in durability. Single cuffed shirts are easier to iron than those with double cuffed, but the latter are usually more durable.Price is often a major consideration in selecting a shirt. Men’s consider the factors of color and collar style first. For the women, however, collar style and price were the first consideration in buying a man’s shirt.

Sweaters

Many customers are interested in style when they buy a sweater. The two classic styles for men as well as women are the pullover, which pulls over the head generally has no buttons but may have short zippers, and the cardian, which fastens down the front, generally which buttons or a zipper. The pullover with sleeves is more popular than the sleeveless variety, although the latter is often preferred under jackets or coats.

Necklines of the pullover may be V-shaped, round, boat turtle or crew. Sizes are 36 to 46. The cardian may be made with or without a shawl collar and two lower pockets.Sweaters are made in smooth and in bulky, shaggy-hairy, and nubbed textures. The former is more comfortable under a jacket, whereas the latter is particularly suited to sportswear. Sweaters are made of all wool or all cashmere, all cotton, 100% 01 Orlon Acrilan acrylic texture nylon, and blends of 75% wool and 25% mohair.


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