Fabrics are also the main factor in making fashion products, both apparel and accessories such as bags and shoes. When designing your mode line, it is important to consider which materials and fabrics most suit your design, your customer preferences, and the price point you want to use. Every material you use will affect the nuances of the final product, consistency, appearance, and overall quality.
Choosing the right cloth makes a big difference in your ability to reach certain groups of customers. This contributes to your brand image as luxury, mass market, or fast fashion. And if used correctly, can be the main asset of differentiation for your line. Here it must be considered when choosing from between the most popular cloth designers used. You will also find out about new innovative textiles that have recently started to enter the designer technology package and fashion buyer cabinets.
What will affect which fabric you choose?
The material you have to use for your clothes depends on whether your core problem is a minimum product, environment, product shades, or something else. If you are worried about the minimum height when producing your product, choose polyester on cotton. In general, cotton requires a minimum high for printing patterns or designs. If you want to make an environmentally friendly line, avoid synthetic things like polyester and nylon. They both are not biodegradable and damage the environment.
If you produce seasonal lines, it might not be a question about what fabric is used, but rather how much is used. Winter wear fabric tends to weigh heavier than summer clothes and maybe the price is appropriate.
Natural fabric fiber VS Synthetic fiber
Natural fiber comes from natural sources such as plants or animals. Examples of natural fibers include cotton, wool, flax, and silk. Synthetic fibers are man -made fibers, produced from chemical compounds known as polymers. Polyester, Nylon, and Rayon are synthetic fibers that are popular in the fashion world. If natural fibers are taken from animals (like wool), it is warmer than synthetic fibers. While acrylic (synthetic fiber) is also soft and warm, less “breathing” rather than natural fibers like wool.
Environmentally friendly material sources
Only 1% of clothes recycled back into clothing and 73% were sent to landfills as solid waste. One problem that hinders clothing recycling is that many clothing articles consist of synthetic and natural fibers, which are difficult to separate. That’s important because experts anticipate that fashion will contribute 25% of the world carbon budget in 2050.
How?
We can take the example of the cotton material. Although cotton is a natural fiber that can be mixed with, if it is not produced in a sustainable manner, it can endanger the environment. The planting process requires a lot of water, with a pair of jeans requiring between 10,000 and 20,000 gallons. Cotton also contributes a sixth of pesticides that are used globally, which has a negative impact on farmers and local communities with damaging chemicals. According to the world health organization, around 20,000 people in developing countries died of cancer or suffering from miscarriage due to chemicals sprayed on cotton.
Conversely, fashion companies must use similar organic cotton or sustainable alternatives that use the cultivation process. Fashion brands that are insightful to do this and more to try and limit the environmental hazards to build clothing lines.
Make a path for linen
While cotton, even some options that are certified as sustainable or organic are cultivated and produced in a way that negatively affects the environment. Linen has gained popularity for opposite reasons. Lyst, a global fashion item platform, said that the 2019 summer months had increased 46% in the search for linen goods since January 2019.
Linen is a cloth that is more sustainable than cotton, with one hectare Linen absorbs 3.7 tons of CO2 every year and 1kg of cotton that consumes 22,500 liters of water. While Linen was shown in loose silhouettes, many designers now use them in sharp blazers and shift dresses.