Men’s Briefs — Cotton, Yarn-Dyed Stripe

How to choose

For supermarket and volume retail, combed cotton at 160–180 g/m² is the sweet spot between landed cost and perceived quality. If your customer wants a cooler, faster-drying brief, specify a cotton/elastane blend with a moisture-wicking finish. On private-label programmes, the printed waistband logo and the woven label are the two details buyers notice first.

Men’s Briefs — Cotton, Yarn-Dyed Stripe — catalogue reference UT-M2F553. Cloth, sizing and packing below come from the sample we already run for this article.

Unitex operates as a supply-chain manager rather than a factory. Based in Xiamen, Fujian Province, we develop the sample in-house, place production with audited partner workshops across the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear corridor, and stay accountable for specification, inspection and shipment dates. We do not run our own production facility.

Fabric and construction

Yarn-dyed, not printed, and that distinction is the whole article: black and ecru alternate in even bands of about the same width, with the ecru carried by its own yarn so the light stripe cannot crack, fade or thin out the way a white print on black eventually does. The stripe runs straight across the body, then turns on the bias through the pouch so the lines converge at centre front instead of fighting the seam. The band is self fabric over a tunnel elastic, so the stripe simply continues and there is no separate branded band to interrupt the waist. Brief cut, high leg, dark binding at the openings. A heritage nautical look that holds up in a wash-heavy basics programme, at 175 gsm and 60 grams per piece.

UT-M2F553 — 95% cotton 5% spandex single jersey 175GSM; other fabric compositions available to your specification

Construction highlights

UT-M2F553 — construction highlights

• Cotton/spandex yarn dyed fabric for super soft and comfort
• Tunnel elastic super stretching
• OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certified materials
• Eco-Friendly

Buyer questions on this style

What fabric does UT-M2F553 use? 95% cotton 5% spandex single jersey 175GSM; other fabric compositions available to your specification.

Which sizes are available on UT-M2F553? S-2XL or as customer’s size specification.

What is the MOQ for UT-M2F553, and can I start smaller? 3,000 pcs per style and colour; 1,000 pc trials negotiable.

How is UT-M2F553 packed for retail? 1 piece per polybag or as per customer’s request.

How long do sampling and bulk take on UT-M2F553? Sampling 7–10 days; bulk 45–60 days, FOB Xiamen.

Is the stripe printed or woven in, and why does it matter on black and ecru? Woven in. Yarn-dyed means the black and the ecru are two different yarns knitted together, not ink sitting on black cloth. On a high-contrast pair like this that is the difference between a stripe that stays crisp for the life of the garment and a white print that thins and greys along the fold lines. The trade-off happens at the yarn stage: the ecru is dyed before knitting, so the colourway is fixed earlier and minimums are set per stripe sequence.

The band shows the same stripe — is there a separate elastic? There is an elastic, but it is tunnelled inside a self-fabric band, so from outside you see the stripe continuing over the waist. That means no branded band on this style: the brand goes on a woven label instead. The QC point is stripe alignment where the band meets the side seam, because a tunnel band is sewn from the same cloth and a half-repeat shift is visible.

Customisation: print

Print can come from our standing artwork library — florals, geometrics, stripes, checks and kids’ motifs — or from your own file in AI, PDF or high-resolution image. On the production side we run all-over print, placement print, reactive, pigment, direct digital and sublimation, so the same artwork holds register on cotton and on cotton/elastane alike.

Process choice moves the price. Direct digital skips screens and suits short runs; reactive and sublimation pay off at volume with flat colours. If the artwork is yours, we review it before sampling and flag register limits, minimum detail size and how the colour will behave on each base cloth.

Export and packing data

UT-M2F553 — export and packing data

• HTS Code: 6107.11.00 00
• Weight Per Unit: 60 Grams
• Units Per Export Carton: As to required instruction
• Export Carton Dimensions L/W/H: As to required instruction
• Export Carton Weight: No more than 15KGS
• Size range: S-2XL (or to the customer’s own size chart)
• Retail packing: 1 piece per polybag or as per customer’s request

UT-M2F553 — already shipping to Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, Central/South America, Mid East/Africa, Asia, Australia.

UT-M2F553 — the Men’s Underwear range, plus specification control behind it.

Specifications

Unitex Underwear (Xiamen Unitex Trade Co., Ltd.) — OEM/ODM underwear sourcing and supply-chain partner in Xiamen, China; in the trade since 2009, incorporated in 2013. Based in the Xiamen–Quanzhou–Jinjiang knitwear cluster, Fujian Province, south-east China.