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What are the purchasing skills of yoga clothing fabrics and the advantages of common fabrics?

The characteristics of choosing yoga clothing fabrics are the key. There are many kinds of fabrics in the fabric industry. From the material of yoga clothing, there are polyester imitation silk, polyester wool imitation fabric, polyester imitation linen fabric and polyester imitation deerskin fabric. The more suitable fabrics for yoga are viscose + spandex (that is, stretch), polyester + spandex, nylon + spandex, cotton + spandex, rib + spandex, each with different characteristics. It can be seen that all fabrics have spandex components, and the price with and without spandex is also worlds apart. The more spandex the more expensive it is, the more comfortable it is.

Yoga clothing fabric
Let's talk about the advantages of specific fabrics.
1. Viscose + Spandex (that is, elasticity)
Very comfortable, the skin feels very good, absorbs sweat, wicks away sweat, is environmentally friendly, and the price is medium and low.
It is suitable for tops, pants are suitable for people with a standard body, and women with fat belly are not suitable.

2. Polyester + spandex
Polyester is an important variety of synthetic fibers, and is the trade name of polyester fibers in my country. It is a fiber-forming high polymer obtained from purified terephthalic acid (PTA) or dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene glycol (EG) through esterification or transesterification and polycondensation reaction— — Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), fibers made by spinning and post-processing.
Polyester has a wide range of uses and is widely used in the manufacture of clothing fabrics and industrial products. Polyester has excellent shaping properties. After the polyester yarn or fabric is set, the flat, fluffy shape or pleats, etc., can be washed for many times in use, and it will remain unchanged for a long time.
There are many types of polyester fiber fabrics. In addition to weaving pure polyester fabrics, there are many products that are blended or interwoven with various textile fibers, which make up for the shortcomings of pure polyester fabrics and exert better wearing performance. At present, polyester fabrics are developing in the direction of naturalization of synthetic fibers such as wool-like, silk-like, linen-like and deerskin-like.
Comfortable, good fit to the skin, sweat absorption, perspiration, environmental protection, the price level varies greatly depending on whether it has moisture absorption and perspiration function, be sure to keep your eyes open to pick good products. Many brands will call products such as milk silk and quick-drying cotton as polyester + spandex. Please analyze it clearly, the feel is different.
Real polyester is very loose and comfortable to wear. Even if it is close to the body, it will not feel very tight. It is suitable for tops and pants. According to the design of the style, it is suitable for many people. The loose style is more suitable for middle-aged women. It is a loose style home, and yoga can be used.
Polyester imitation silk fabric is a polyester fabric with a silk appearance and is woven from polyester filament or staple fiber yarns with circular and irregular cross-sections. Common varieties are: polyester silk, polyester crepe, polyester satin, polyester georgette, polyester interwoven silk, etc. These varieties have the elegant drape, smooth, soft and pleasing to the eyes of silk fabrics, and at the same time, they have the rigidity, wear resistance, easy washing and no ironing of polyester fabrics. In order to overcome this shortcoming, more new polyester fabrics have come out, such as high hygroscopic polyester fabric is one of them. (Nowadays, this new type of functional fabric is widely used in the manufacture of sports, outdoor and fitness clothing, and this new type of fabric plus Lycra fiber is used in yoga clothing)
Polyester wool-like fabrics are made of polyester filaments such as polyester stretched yarns, polyester network yarns or polyester yarns with various special-shaped cross-sections as raw materials, or mixed with medium-length polyester staple fibers and medium-length viscose or medium-length acrylic fibers. The woven woolen-style fabrics are called worsted wool-like fabrics and medium-length wool-like fabrics, and their prices are lower than those of similar woolen fabrics. It not only has the characteristics of woolen wool, which is full and bulky, and has good elasticity, but also has the characteristics of polyester, which is firm and durable, easy to wash and dry, flat and crisp, not easy to deform, not easy to fluff, pilling and so on. Common varieties are: polyester elastic serge, polyester elastic gabardine, polyester elastic tweed, polyester network silk spun wool fabric, polyester viscose mid-length tweed, polyester nitrile hidden tweed, etc.
Polyester hemp-like fabric is one of the most popular clothing materials in the international clothing market. It is woven into plain or ribbed weave fabrics with polyester or polyester/viscose strong twisted yarns, which has the dry feel and appearance of hemp fabrics. For example, the thin imitation hemp Molik is not only rough in appearance, dry in hand, but also comfortable and cool to wear. Therefore, it is very suitable for the production of summer shirts and skirts.
Polyester imitation deerskin fabric is one of the new polyester fabrics. It is made of fine denier or ultra-fine denier polyester fiber as raw material, and is specially processed to form a polyester suede fabric with fine short piles on the fabric base fabric, which is called imitation deerskin fabric. Generally, non-woven fabrics, woven fabrics and knitted fabrics are used as base fabrics. It has the characteristics of soft texture, fine fluff, plump and elastic, rich hand feeling, firm and durable style. There are three common types of artificial high-grade deerskin, artificial high-quality deerskin and artificial ordinary deerskin. Suitable for women's clothing, high-end dresses, jackets, suit tops, etc.

3. Nylon+Spandex
It should be the most expensive. It is generally used for high-end swimsuits. It is often used for fitness clothes. It is a big trend to use this fabric for leisure sports abroad and casual wear. Therefore, the price of this fabric is also quite high.
Style features: Slim fit and strong stiffness, so there are more tight-fitting clothes. The relative comfort is lower than the first two, but different effects require different groups of people. Even middle-aged women who have a fat abdomen can hide or appear thin.

4. Cotton+spandex/rib+spandex
These two fabrics do not need special explanation, mainly because the price grade and style effect of adding spandex and no spandex are different.
For yoga, it is recommended to use fabrics with spandex. When choosing a style, you can choose a close-fitting, self-cultivating style with the graceful movements of yoga. Being too fat doesn't show your graceful posture.