Natural material is
no longer the only thing making the latest mid- and high-class fashions. The
2001 DuPont Lycra Best Companion Fabric Exhibition has sent out a message
that blending and chemical fiber materials will gradually replace traditional
natural materials including cotton, flax, and silk, and become the mainstream
of the latest mid- and high-class fashion materials.
Over 60 domestic material companies and some overseas companies attended this
exhibition showing new material styles which were made by technical measures
and new elements, such as Lycra, Tactel Textile nylon, CoolMax functional
fiber, and Thermolite warmth-keeping fiber, and showed softer, more comfortable,
more beautiful, more durable, and more fashionable characteristics than traditional
materials.
According to Bao, Ming-Xin, a PhD tutor at Fashion College in Dong-Hua University,
P.R.C., people in the 21st Century not only look for comfortable materials
but also ask for catenary's and crease resistant clothes which has made the
garment materials unavoidably turn to blend natural fibers with chemical fibers.
Moreover, the breakthrough and innovation of textile technology has given
all types of blending and chemical materials new faces and has totally changed
the old image of being sultry and stiff. No matter the comfort or air permeability,
new materials can compete with natural fibers. Some of them are even better
in crease resistant, color fading resistant, color innovation, and pattern
innovation and have given those people who wear them more beautiful body shapes
and more vivid colors.
Specialists have anticipated that for the next few years, although natural
fibers will continuously keep part of the market due to its unique and comfortable
feel, blending and chemical materials will gradually replace the natural fibers
and become the major role due to their rich plasticity, and their match to
modern men's simple lifestyle and characterized clothing ideas.
(China Petrifaction News)