Why are high-end clothes made of polyester fiber? Can they be dyed?

Why are high-end clothes made of polyester fiber? Can they be dyed?

Why are high-end clothes dyed with polyester fiber? Polyester fiber belongs to chemical fiber. When it is contaminated by pigment, you can choose to use emulsion stripping method to remove it. We can learn more. Let's see why high-end clothes are dyed with polyester fiber.

Why are high-end clothes dyed with polyester fiber? 1 polyester fiber is not easy to dye and bleed. It is difficult to dye with ordinary methods, and disperse dyes must be used to dye at high temperature or in the presence of carriers. The molecular structure of polyester fiber material determines the difficulty of dyeing. In addition to common fabric dyeing, it can also be colored before fiber spinning and directly made into colored fibers.

Polyester fibers dyed before spinning can be staple fibers or filaments. The key to dyeing polyester fiber before spinning is the selection and processing of colorants. The quality of colorant will directly affect the finished product of colored polyester fiber. In addition to high temperature resistance, it should also have good color fastness, including sun exposure, soaping, rubbing, sweat stains, chlorine bleaching, sublimation, smoking and sea water stains.

Why are high-end clothes made of polyester fiber?

1, polyester fiber has many advantages.

The core reason why polyester fiber is used in many clothes and high-grade clothes is that it has many advantages, such as it is not easy to wrinkle under pressure, its shape retention is not easy to deform, it is very wear-resistant and scratch-resistant, and it is well maintained without frequent ironing and not easy to stick to hair, so many clothes will be used.

2. Good cost control

Polyester fiber is very cost-effective, its fabric cost is very cost-effective among many fabrics, and its output is very low, so it is easy to buy, so manufacturers are more suitable to use it as fabric from the aspects of production and cost control, and it has many advantages, so its comprehensive performance is better.

3. The market is very recognized.

Finally, there is another reason why polyester fiber is used in high-grade clothes, which is recognized by the market. Generally, clothes made of polyester fiber fabric are popular in the market and sell well. Of course, the more manufacturers use them. And everyone likes this kind of fabric, and many people think it is one of the better fabrics.

What fabric is polyester fiber?

Polyester fiber is a kind of synthetic fiber, which is usually called chemical fiber. The synthesis of diacid and diol is the most common synthetic fiber at present. It also has a well-known name, Dacron, which has been used since 194 1 and has a wide range of applications.

Why are high-end clothes made of polyester fiber? There are dozens of fabrics, which can be roughly divided into natural fibers and chemical fibers.

Natural fiber can be subdivided into animal fiber, plant fiber and mineral fiber.

Plant fiber refers to the fiber obtained from plants, including fruits, stems, leaves and seeds, such as kapok and flax.

Animal fiber refers to the fiber obtained from animal hair or insect secretions. For example, the most common cashmere comes from sheep wool fiber, and silk comes from silkworm secretion.

Mineral fiber mainly refers to asbestos, which is a "double-edged sword". Although useful, it is a carcinogen in some cases, but it is hardly used in the field of clothing, so it is left out in the cold.

Chemical fibers can be subdivided into man-made fibers, synthetic fibers and inorganic fibers.

Man-made fibers, also known as regenerated fibers, are mainly composed of some natural fibers and some fibers that have lost their value during processing, such as viscose fiber, acetate fiber and cuprammonia fiber.

Synthetic fiber is the key point, which refers to fibers extracted from substances without fiber and protein and made through a series of chemical reactions, such as the most common polyester fiber (polyester), polyamide fiber (nylon or nylon), polyvinyl alcohol fiber (vinylon) and so on.

Inorganic fibers include glass fiber, metal fiber and carbon fiber, which are not important and can be ignored.

The advantages and disadvantages of some fibers are as high as dozens, and it is really impossible to elaborate on them one by one. Here are some common fibers in life.

1. cashmere

Cashmere is an extremely high-quality animal fiber. Its fineness is generally between 13um and 16um. It has high natural curl and good warmth retention. Because there is an air layer in the middle, it feels smooth and waxy, and the whole is very light.

In addition, cashmere is a very high-quality natural fiber with soft color and high overall elasticity, which is deeply loved by consumers.

The disadvantage of cashmere is that it is easy to pilling. Once pilling, the overall appearance will be greatly reduced.

2. Cotton

Plant fibers such as cotton are very common in our lives. For example, my summer T-shirts are basically cotton. The moisture content of this fiber is as high as 8~ 10%, and it has good hygroscopicity. At the same time, cotton fiber is a poor conductor of heat, so its thermal insulation is very good.

In addition, cotton fiber also has strong alkali resistance and has no side effects on human skin.

But its disadvantage is that it is easy to wrinkle, shrink and deform.

3. Polyester fiber

Polyester fiber is a kind of synthetic fiber, which is widely used in clothing industry at present. It combines many excellent characteristics such as wrinkle resistance, non-ironing, firmness, light resistance, acid and alkali resistance, mildew resistance and moth resistance, and insulation.

Polyester fiber is not without its shortcomings, such as poor hygroscopicity and poor air permeability, but it still occupies the main market of fabrics because of its low cost.

Why are many big-name coats made of more than 80% polyester fiber? After a brief understanding of fabric knowledge, the next step is to analyze this problem.

1. Polyester (polyester fiber) is not as simple as you think.

Why did humans invent polyester?

To put it bluntly, human beings need some characteristics of polyester, so they vigorously develop it and then enter the stage of widespread use.

Consumers think polyester is cheap because they think synthetic polyester is cheap, but the truth is that after a series of post-treatments, such as antibacterial deodorization, moisture absorption and perspiration, cooling, waterproof and ultraviolet protection, the price of polyester has already exceeded that of ordinary natural fibers. (Of course, it is an indisputable fact that polyester manufactured by ordinary technology is very cheap. )

2. Blending technology makes polyester "even more powerful"

For example, a garment needs to have the characteristics of wear resistance, pilling resistance, good elasticity, strong wrinkle resistance, smooth front, antibacterial warmth, moisture absorption and perspiration. Obviously, it is impossible to rely solely on one fabric.

However, modern technology can mix polyester, cotton and cashmere into blended yarn, which can solve the problems of cashmere pilling and cotton fiber shrinkage. This dress is based on polyester, which will have the advantages of three fabrics at the same time and make up for its shortcomings.

3. Brand designer: Use whatever you need.

The vast majority of friends have a misunderstanding that big brands are using polyester as black-hearted money, but it is not.

There are many factors for designers to consider. In the whole process of design, production and processing, designers need to combine different fabrics perfectly to achieve a "natural" state.

Moreover, this kind of clothes can also reflect the beauty of human beings when they are moving and stretching, so this is a difficult challenge.

Designers will continue to screen, mix and match, try and error, re-screen, and mix and match from the fabric library until a dress can integrate practicality and aesthetics, and at the same time highlight the brand design concept.

So among dozens of fabrics, designers choose polyester not because it is cheap, but because it is really easy to use. Besides, as mentioned above, the price of polyester after a series of deep processing is not lower than that of natural fiber, so there is no such thing as "cheap" for truly high-quality polyester.

High-end is to choose what you need, not the cheap fabric.

Conclusion To sum up, the quality of clothes made of 100% polyester is really average, because polyester has its own shortcomings. In the case of 100%, this dress can't be compensated by other fibers, and it can't increase the quality characteristics of other fibers.

But now the blending technology can perfectly combine all kinds of fibers. If you need to add any features and remove any shortcomings, you can freely match them. Otherwise, you can go and see if most clothes on the market now have descriptions like "polyester xx%+ cotton xx%".

As for high-end brands, what people care about is not the price of fabrics, but the quality of products. When human civilization developed polyester, the original intention was "multiple choices". Don't always think that polyester is synthetic, so it's cheap. "Painting the ground as a prison" is a taboo for designers!

What is polyester fiber made of?

Polyester fiber is made of organic dibasic acid and diol. Polyester fiber, also known as PET fiber and polyester fiber, belongs to polymer compounds and is a synthetic fiber spun from polyester condensed from organic dibasic acid and diol. Invented in 194 1, it has the largest variety of synthetic fibers in the world.

Polyester fiber has good wrinkle resistance and shape retention, and also has high strength and elastic recovery ability. Its fabric is durable, wrinkle-resistant, non-ironing and non-sticky.

Polyester fabrics can also resist microorganisms and are not affected by moths and molds. And does not need to be moth-proof during storage.

However, polyester fiber has some disadvantages, such as poor air permeability, poor dyeability, low water content and easy pilling and fuzzing.

Why are high-end clothes made of polyester fiber? Can they be dyed? 3 0 1. Let me talk about the impression of polyester fiber in the hearts of Chinese people.

Polyester fiber is also called polyester and chemical fiber. For our generation, after all, we have all experienced the era of lack of clothes and food. In the 1980s, "Polyester" and "Polyester Card" were the standard of that era. Later, with textiles such as cotton, silk and wool, it was discovered that the airtight polyester fabric was rubbish. Therefore, among the textiles made of natural materials, polyester fabric is a cheap commodity like oil and plastic in our impression, and polyester is the least valuable.

In fact, with the continuous improvement of textile processing, people have made this polyester into many fabrics with different functions, such as the quick-drying and sweat-absorbing function of sweatshirts, the waterproof function of ski shirts, and the warm-keeping function of a large number of asbestos. Polyester fabric is not the kind of "polyester" or "polyester card" we imagined before, but it is difficult to change people's impression of it for a while.

02, polyester fabric is not necessarily bad.

Because in the impression of many people, polyester chemical fiber fabrics are far less than natural silk wool, and even can't be compared with pure cotton fabrics, so as long as the fabrics marked with polyester fiber components don't look high-end, the price should be inexpensive. This is actually a misunderstanding caused by common sense.

For example, the polar fleece fabric launched by Uniqlo feels very comfortable and has good thermal insulation performance. The biggest feature is that raw materials are wider than natural materials, which is very suitable for making explosive clothes accepted by the public.

For example, many big-name fashions we often see, even if there are natural ingredients such as pure cotton, wool and silk, will add a certain proportion of polyester fiber, in fact, not only to control costs. Because natural materials have the disadvantages of natural materials, such as pure cotton and wool fabrics, it is easier to control the pattern of clothes with polyester blended with cotton or wool fabrics; There are also natural fabrics that are not as free and easy as polyester in stretching and dyeing. In fact, without polyester fiber, it is difficult for fashion designers to design fashions of various colors and shapes. This is why fabrics with natural ingredients such as pure silk and pure cashmere can only be made into clothes with simple technology and monotonous color.

Because we are engaged in clothing production, we often buy big-name clothes and then disassemble them. We found that many big-name clothes can be made better than them in workmanship, but it is not easy to make fabrics with the same texture as big brands. Even polyester fabrics, many big-name fabrics are very particular about technology. Those fabrics with twisting process and superfine fiber are also very delicate, and the cost of making them will not be much cheaper.

03. The pricing of big brands has little to do with fabric cost.

Big-name clothes are usually more expensive, while polyester fabrics feel very cheap. So this should also be the subject's question: since a dress is so expensive, why can't it be made of better material?

It is normal to have such doubts. In fact, for many styles of a brand, the final decision on what material to use is basically decided by the designer according to the requirements of style, modeling or functionality, and the final price of this dress in the market can't be said that they completely ignore the cost of the fabric, but the relationship between the cost of this fabric and the final price is not particularly great.

For example, a ski down jacket of moncler costs as much as 1000 yuan, and the fabric is basically polyester fiber; Maxmara's pure cashmere coat costs about 10,000 yuan, but the fabric is pure cashmere. Relatively speaking, the handmade cost of pure cashmere coat is higher, and the cost of ski down jacket is much lower, but sometimes the price difference is not much. But for brands, the premium rate of this brand is enough for their profits, and the cost of this fabric is negligible compared with this expensive price.

Of course, many people like to buy this big-name clothes, and they are not only interested in their own products, but also have many brand complexes, so friends who are really willing to pay for this big-name clothes actually don't care about the material of the clothes.