Underwear Sourcing & OEM Insights

Fabrics & Materials · Sep 2023 · 7 min read

How to See “How Many Counts of Fabrics”?

Count tells you how fine the yarn is, not how good the garment is. Underwear and pyjamas are usually built on 32S or 40S cotton; finer counts give a softer, thinner hand but cost more and need better raw cotton, while coarser counts are heavier and tougher. Unitex Underwear agrees the count and the fabric weight with you, because the two together decide hand-feel and price.

Women's Underwear · Aug 2023 · 5 min read

Do You Know How to Choose Low-waist, Mid-waist and High-waist Underwear in Women’s Underwear?

Low, mid and high-waist describe the rise rather than the size, so the same nominal size sits completely differently across the three. The back rise matters as much as the front, since it decides whether the garment rides, and each rise variant carries its own pattern cost and often its own graded set.

Fabrics & Materials · Aug 2023 · 5 min read

What Kind of Fabric Is Woven Cotton? Will It Be Comfortable to Wear Next to Your Body?

Woven cotton is pure cotton built on a warp-and-weft loom rather than knitted, so it holds its shape and resists distortion but gives almost no stretch unless a stretch yarn is added. It is light and breathable but stiffer against skin than a knit. For underwear that means woven cotton suits structured pieces; knitted cotton stays the better choice for close-fitting styles. Unitex Underwear specifies which one a style needs.

Women's Underwear · Aug 2023 · 4 min read

Should You Sleep in Underwear?

Whether to wear underwear while sleeping is a comfort preference rather than a requirement, and the useful variables are airflow, fabric, fit and climate. A loose construction moves more air than a fitted one, and what suits a humid market differs from what suits a cold one.

Fabrics & Materials · Jul 2023 · 5 min read

What Are the Health Benefits of Wearing Cotton Underwear?

For a buyer, cotton's value is not the comfort claim but the behaviour behind it: it takes up eight to ten per cent moisture, tolerates washing and dyeing to about 110 degrees, resists alkali and causes almost no skin reaction. The trade-offs are real too. It shrinks two to five per cent, creases and dries slowly. Unitex Underwear specifies pre-shrunk cotton or a blend when your market cannot accept that movement.

Fabrics & Materials · Jul 2023 · 6 min read

6 Best Breathable Underwear Fabrics for Summer

Summer programmes come down to six fabric families. Cotton is the breathable baseline; modal absorbs roughly 50% more moisture and holds shape; bamboo fades faster and wears shorter; polyester is durable but warm; nylon mesh is the strongest airflow option; hemp wicks three times more than cotton. Unitex Underwear maps the choice to your price band and wash-care story rather than one 'best' fabric.

Product & Consumer Insights · Jul 2023 · 8 min read

Sleepwear Sets: Specification and the Retail Format

Sleepwear is specified as a set rather than as a garment: the top and bottom are graded together, the fabric weight is chosen for warmth rather than for wear, and the pack format is usually the retail unit. That makes set-level specification the difference between a programme that ships complete and one that does not.

Fabrics & Materials · Jul 2023 · 5 min read

Four Key Points to Determine the Quality of Underwear

Underwear quality is settled by four variables, and price only reflects them. Fabric comes first: fibre content and yarn decide moisture handling and how the piece wears. Then inner lining, where breathable cotton separates a durable garment from one that cracks after a few washes. Then workmanship, measured in stitch density and seam neatness. Then function, from support to shape retention. Unitex Underwear sources against those four, not against a price point.

Men's Underwear · Jun 2023 · 4 min read

Detergent, Residue and What the Care Label Should Say

Detergent choice and rinsing affect how a garment performs over its life, and both are care-label questions rather than consumer habits. Residue left in the fabric affects skin comfort and colour over time, which makes the rinse instruction as much a specification item as the wash temperature.

Men's Underwear · Jun 2023 · 4 min read

Men’s Underwear Styles: Which Silhouette Fits Which Market

The four men's silhouettes map onto different consumer groups rather than onto different personalities: boxers for markets that buy comfort, briefs for those that buy support, trunks for younger fashion-led buyers, and boxer briefs for the mainstream. Which one leads a range is a market question, and the pattern cost follows from the answer.

Women's Underwear · Jun 2023 · 5 min read

A Brief Introduction to The Difference Between Women’s Underwear and Bikini Swimwear

Women's underwear styles differ in three measurable figures rather than in styling: coverage, rise and leg opening. Style names are not standardised between suppliers — a cheeky and a high-cut bikini can be the same garment — which is why describing a style by those three figures is what makes two quotations comparable.