As a kind of casual wear, T-shirts are fashionable but not pretentious, noble but not arrogant, elegant yet approachable, unique yet natural and easy-going, showing strong personal style and aesthetic taste. We must be familiar with the fact that Steve Jobs, the head of Apple, always appears in T-shirts and jeans on major occasions, and Bill Gates often appears in casual clothes.
Some people also wear suits and leather shoes in their daily lives, walking, visiting, going to the grassroots, and even riding motorcycles. In fact, only middle and senior managers of enterprises, business owners, middle and senior government officials and other senior staff with communication and public relations needs wear formal attire on a daily basis to cope with various formal and semi-formal occasions that may arise. For others, it is better to choose T-shirts, jackets, jeans and other casual clothing that show your personality.
How to choose a suitable T-shirt?
1. Choose a brand
Purchase brand-name products produced by well-known companies. Because of the guarantee of reputation, consumers can avoid unnecessary troubles. Once there is a problem with product quality, it is easy to coordinate and solve it. The top ten domestic brands in terms of sales: Giordano, Montagut, Crocodile, Goldlion, Jeanswest, Rimba, Shanshan, Semir, and Yichun. There are also many second-tier brands with reliable quality.
2. Look at the label
The product should be marked with a durability label, including: product specifications, washing instructions, fiber composition and content. The product tag or outer packaging should be marked with the factory name, factory address, product name, execution standards, product quality level, safety category and product certificate, etc.
3. Select fabrics
From the perspective of fiber raw materials used, traditional cotton, wool, silk, and linen are still the main choices for T-shirt fabrics, especially when using modern fabrics. New products that use scientific and technological means to modify natural fibers are even more popular among consumers, such as mercerized cotton, Basulan, lyocell, bamboo fiber, etc. At the same time, blended products continue to appear. One category is blended products using two or more natural fibers, such as silk-cotton, silk-linen, silk-linen-cotton, etc. One type is blended products made of natural fibers, man-made fibers, and composite fibers, such as Lycra, Tencel cotton, chiffon, memory silk, etc. Here are some common fabrics:
(1) Pure cotton: It feels better, comfortable to wear and environmentally friendly.
(2) Mercerized cotton: Using high-grade cotton raw materials and accessories, and going through a series of strict processing procedures, it not only retains the natural advantages of pure cotton, such as softness, comfort, moisture absorption and breathability, but also has increased yarn strength. Large, not easy to deform, increased gloss, silk-like brightness, improved dyeing performance, bright color, not easy to fade.
(3) Polyester cotton: It feels thicker and soft, but it will feel stuffy when worn on the body. The comfort is slightly worse than pure cotton. Often used to make school uniforms.
(4) Lyocell fiber: commonly known as "Tencel", it is made of natural plant fiber as raw material. It came out in the mid-1990s and is known as the best in the history of man-made fibers in the past half century. Best value product. It has the characteristics of natural fiber cotton such as comfort, good feel, and easy dyeing, and it is also environmentally friendly.
(5) Basulan wool: refers to wool that has been treated with Basulan technology. It has the advantages of fluffiness, softness, bright color and little fiber damage due to strong force. Basulan treatment is usually applied to high-count wool, and its products are mostly positioned as high-end woolen fabrics, which are relatively expensive and are usually dry-cleaned or carefully hand-washed.
(6) Merino wool: Also known as superfine merino wool, because its fibers are extremely fine, have good elasticity, and feel very soft and delicate.
(7) Cashmere: It is a rare special animal fiber (different from sheep wool) and a precious textile raw material. It is called "fiber diamond" and "soft gold" abroad.
(8) Bamboo fiber: It is made from 3-4-year-old strong and tall high-quality green bamboo as raw material. It is steamed at high temperature into bamboo pulp, cellulose is extracted, and then made through processes such as glue making and spinning. of regenerated cellulose fibers.
(9) Lycra (LYCRA): It is a new type of fiber introduced by DuPont in the United States. It can be freely stretched 4 to 7 times, and quickly returns to its original length after external force is released. It cannot be used alone and can be interwoven with any other man-made or natural fibers. It does not change the appearance of the fabric and is an invisible fiber that greatly improves the performance of the fabric.
(10) Nanometer silk: also known as ultrafine fiber.
Due to the extremely fine fineness, the stiffness of the silk is greatly reduced, making the fabric feel extremely soft. It can also increase the layered structure of the silk, increase the surface area and capillary effect, and make the reflected light inside the fiber more delicately distributed on the surface, making it look like real silk. It has an elegant luster and good moisture absorption and dissipation properties.
(11) Memory wire: Shape memory fiber. The fabric has a soft and bright luster, good anti-crepe and anti-shrink properties, and has wicking, perspiration and anti-UV functions. The softness is comparable to silk, with a silky luster and comfortable hand feel. The fabric produced has good permeability, smoothness, gloss, anti-wrinkle, anti-shrinkage and no need to iron.
4. Look at the appearance
When purchasing, check the symmetry of each part of the product. The stitches are round and smooth, horizontally and vertically, and there should be no wrinkles, such as two shoulder widths, The length of the two sleeves, the left and right rib seams, etc. should be the same, and the color of the main accessories should be the same. Carefully observe whether there are pinholes at the seams. Since knitwear is highly detachable, once a pinhole appears, it will quickly form a hole, affecting the use of the product.
5. Smell
The national standard GB18401-2003 "National Basic Safety Technical Specifications for Textile Products" stipulates that products are not allowed to have musty smell, high boiling range petroleum smell, fishy smell, One or more aromatic hydrocarbon odors. When consumers buy T-shirts, they can open the package and smell carefully whether the product contains the above smell. If so, it means the product is defective.
6. Pick-up collar type
Round collar: It makes you look easy-going, not suitable for people with round faces.
V-neck: It makes people look thinner and is not suitable for people with pointed chins
Square-neck: It is suitable for round faces and is generally not suitable for wearing square-neck clothing.
One-word collar: People with rectangular faces can visually reduce their sense of length and have the effect of shortening their faces.
Big U collar: People with square faces can soften excessive edges and corners. Suitable for women, the large neckline can expose the collarbone, which is very sexy.
Lapel: the most popular, suitable for all ages.
7. Customize the model
Wear a loose-fitting T-shirt. When choosing a model, if you are fatter, be sure to size it appropriately.
8. Clever matching
T-shirts are the easiest to match with various clothing. Long-sleeved T-shirts are suitable for spring and autumn. They are suitable with casual pants, jeans, and suit pants. Thin people can tie the hem inside their trousers, while fat people can hang it outside their trousers. Short-sleeved T-shirts are the lightest tops in summer, and they can also be paired with shorts. Women wear T-shirts, which allow for more freedom in matching. Regardless of length, as long as you have imagination, you can definitely combine it with pants, skirts, scarves, shawls, hats, etc. to create a unique scenery.