Garment Type

Soft, long-sleeved pullover garments usually made of a cotton or cotton/polyester blend knit fabric that is soft and fleecy on the inside, sweatshirts have long been worn by athletes while warming up, watching from the sidelines, or cooling off after exercising. The sweatshirts began to be worn by nonathletes as well during the 1960s and were actually adopted by designers as part of their collections in the 1980s. By the 2000s sweatshirts were one of the most common parts of a typical person's everyday wardrobe and came in many different fabrics and styles.

The word sweatshirt was first used during the mid-1920s to describe the simple pullover jerseys, usually gray, that athletes wore before and after workouts. During the 1930s Abe and Bill Feinbloom, who owned the Knickerbocker Knitting Company, came up with a technique for applying letters to the knitted sweatshirts. They also designed a sideline sweatshirt, with a hood and a zipper, intended for football players to wear while sitting out of the game. Their company eventually became Champion, one of the best-known American manufacturers of athletic wear.

Sweatshirts were still worn mainly by athletes until the 1960s, when sweatshirts displaying the names of colleges and universities became popular with students. The trend toward informal fashion during the 1960s brought sweatshirts out of the locker rooms and onto the streets, as young people began to dress for comfort instead of following formal dress codes.

It was in the 1980s, however, that sweatshirts went from casual wear to high fashion. During the 1980s fitness fads like jogging and aerobics became very popular. The layered look was also fashionable during the 1980s, and sweatshirts layered well over T-shirts and jeans or spandex leggings. Many people did not want to wear just any sweatshirt; in the image conscious 1980s they demanded sweatshirts with a designer brand name. Upscale designers and retailers filled that need. Loose and comfortable, sweatshirts became a basic part of almost everyone's wardrobe, and their popularity continued into the twenty-first century.

1) Normal Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Normal wash Sweathirt Production consists of washing garments in hot water with adequate detergent and softener, rinse with plain water and dry in tumble dryer until it is 100% dry. Some sodium is added to lend the sweatshirt a prominent washed look. Water temperature, proportion of components of wash is adjusted as per requirement of wash and types of fabric; the Sweatshirt is made of. The softener makes the fiber soft and tumble-drying makes the fabric fluffier. Our expert technician can handle washing by an expedient way to solve many problems arising out during washing. Washing can also affect different sweatshirt parts differently. Shell fabric may be solid color while pocket may be white pocketing piece. After washing, it may appear that pocketing piece has been stained.

2) Pigment Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Pigment Wash Sweatshirt production is similar to normal wash but a bit costlier. The sweatshirt is solid color pigment dye. The requirement is that the color should fade evenly to lend the sweatshirt a prominent washed look. Pigment wash requires a higher temperature of water than a normal wash.

3) Bleach Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Bleach wash sweatshirt production means that bleach chemical is used in water while washing in a tumble washer. Strict washing time is a requirement with such wash because otherwise the sweatshirt may be over bleached and the color cannot be reversed.

4) Stone Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Stone wash sweatshirt production means washing sweatshirts with special stones so that sweatshirts achieve a very strong washed effect. Volcanic stones are used in such wash abrade exposed parts of the sweatshirts, this idea of washing with porous volcanic stones is to give the sweatshirt a strong and rough wash to achieve the pronounced washed effect through abrasion on the exposed areas, such as the seams and pocket corners.

Sometimes, bleach is added to the wash so that the color fades in a more pronounced manner. This is done to make navy sweatshirts into a more faded light blue. Such wash requires a lot of skill, experience; workmanship and expertise so that desired results are achieved.

5) Acid Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Acid wash sweatshirts production is a patented process and can be used only by permission. Acid wash sweatshirt production is also a kind of stone wash. The wash is performed in two steps: in the first step, sweatshirt is washed without water and in the 2nd step with water.

The treated stones carry the chemical to bleach the exposed parts and bleach them to white. But the hidden parts remain untouched. Whitening agents are often added to water during rinse to make the white color in the sweatshirts whiter to display acid wash.

6) Enzyme Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Enzyme wash sweatshirt production is performed with a kind of live cell. Enzyme can break some fibers of fabric and gives the fabric special effect desired on the sweatshirt. Enzyme wash provides the fabric a soft, sanded or “peached” effect very desirable on many sweatshirts.

7) Caustic Wash Sweatshirt Production:

Caustic wash sweatshirt production is a pre- printing wash. Caustic is a strong chemical with highly corrosive features. Prior to printing on cotton fabrics, gray goods are treated in boiling water with caustic, which also has strong cleaning power, especially for grease. This caustic wash sweatshirt production can remove all soil, dirt, grease, fine particles of cotton seeds as well as all foreign materials. As a result, only pure cotton fiber in the fabric for printing is left. It leads to stability of printing and well-cleaned fabric. However, when we want to do caustic wash on sweatshirts, we just do the opposite of the above; prior to printing, fabric is not treated with caustic wash for cleaning.

Printing is done on the row & unclean fabric so that about 30% of the printing done on the surface may eventually fade away. Finally, printed sweatshirts are caustic washed. It leads to, about 30% of the printing washed away along with the foreign materials- leaving about 70% of the printing on the fabric. It eventually makes the design or stripe of the desired look. For this type of wash, the printing must be pigment print with a binder. Baking treatment should also be performed so that the color will stay on the fabric more or less securely to coincide with the caustic wash to be done later.

8) Garment Wash Sweatshirt Production And Over-Dye Sweatshirt Production:

This type of wash is also used for sweatshirts to give them an exclusive look. Garment wash sweatshirt production creates a unique but different look. In this process of wash, the lining or pocketing will pick up the color too. By this garment wash, direct dye or reactive dye same as dyeing fabrics or yarn may be used. Direct dye is cheap. So, direct dye may be utilized with the concomitant use of color fixing agent, after dying to make the color more stable. In case of solid color fabric staining within the sweatshirt is not a problem. However, if sweatshirts of different colors are washed together by the consumers, color may transfer to other sweatshirts. Reactive dye is always preferable in this case.