Consumers always demand increased comfort. Stretch fabrics are not just used for function anymore but for fashion as well. As a property of fabric, elasticity is used to achieve outstanding performance, and individual consumers welcome and appreciate it. It made its debut in sports and leisure garment, and now-a-days is increasingly becoming the standard for working apparel and in denim, the universal clothing fabric. For more than 30-years, elastic fabrics have enjoyed an increasing popularity because they posses a high wear comfort, crease resistance, durability, require minimum ironing and have a pleasant drape and hand. The filaments that appear to possess stretch properties are rubber, polyurethane elastomer, texturized polyester and stretch nylon. The filament that appears to possess stretch properties in the denim fabric is polyurethane elastomer.
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