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Customization & Private Label
OEM/ODM, printing, embroidery, labels, hangtags and packaging design.
Seamless Comfort: How Unitex’s Innovative Stitching Reduces Underwear Friction
Friction shows up at four points: the waistband, the side seams, the leg openings and the crotch. Each one is a construction decision rather than a marketing feature. Flatter seams, a wider and softer waistband elastic, bound leg openings and a double-layer cotton gusset all reduce rubbing, and they are checked on the finished garment, not on the pattern. Unitex Underwear sets these as measurable points in the specification.
How to Create an Effective Underwear Tech Pack: Template and Best Practices
An underwear tech pack is the document that makes a specification checkable: it names the materials with their blend ratio and weight, the measurements and the grade, the construction detail for each stress point, the labelling content and the pack format. Without it, a quotation prices no particular garment.
Customization & Private Label · Aug 2025 · 2 min read
Digital Textile Printing for Underwear: Custom Designs Without MOQ Penalties
Digital textile printing applies the pattern without a screen, which changes the economics of a print programme: the cost sits in the per-piece rate rather than in a setup, so small runs and multiple colourways become viable where analogue printing would require volume to justify the screens.
How to Reduce Underwear Sampling Time: Digital Prototyping and Fast-Track OEM
Sampling time is reduced by changing the sequence rather than by rushing the sample: a base pattern reused across styles, digital prototyping for the first round, and parallel processing of the fabric development alongside the fit development. That combination takes out rounds rather than days.
Customization & Private Label · Apr 2025 · 2 min read
The Economics of Private Label Underwear: Margins, Pricing, and Profitability
Private label economics come down to three layers rather than one price: the FOB cost, the landed cost and the retail margin. The FOB figure covers the garment and the branding tooling; the landed cost adds freight, duty and destination charges; and the margin is what the retail or marketplace price leaves after both.
Customization & Private Label · Apr 2025 · 2 min read
The Underwear Production Process: From Design Concept to Container Shipment
A complete OEM underwear order runs about 16 weeks across five stages: pre-production covering design, sampling and material booking, production preparation, mass production, finishing and packing, then shipping quoted separately. Material procurement is the stage carrying the highest delay risk, and the choice between sea and air freight moves the promised delivery date more than any step inside the factory. Unitex Underwear manages those stages from Xiamen with dated outputs at each one.
The Complete Guide to Underwear Packaging: Private Label and Retail-Ready Solutions
The Complete Guide to Underwear Packaging: Private Label and Retail-Ready Solutions Underwear packaging options by cost: standard poly bag ($0.05-0.10/pc), printed cardboard band ($0.20-0.40/pc), and premium…
How to Start an Underwear Brand: OEM Manufacturing Guide for New Brands
Starting a custom underwear brand runs through four phases: define the range, write a tech pack, approve samples, then place a production order. A reliable supplier quotes from measurements and fabric weight rather than from a style photograph, so the tech pack is the first deliverable. Men's and women's underwear starts at 2,000 pieces per style per colour, kids' at 3,600, and OEM sampling takes 12 to 18 days.
Is Knitted Yarn-Dyed Underwear More Expensive Than Printed Underwear?
Is Knitted Yarn-Dyed Underwear More Expensive Than Printed Underwear? Yarn-dyed underwear costs 15-25% more than printed at the fabric level but requires no additional printing cost.…
Popular Elements of Underwear
Popular Elements of Underwear Four elements dominate underwear design in 2024-2025: sustainable materials (organic cotton, recycled polyester growing 28% YoY), seamless construction (25%+ market share), bold…
Reactive Printing and Digital Printing in High-end Underwear Customization
Reactive printing bonds dye into the fibre, so the colour sits in the cloth rather than on top of it: soft hand, good fastness, no azo or formaldehyde, and it survives repeated washing. Digital direct printing skips plate making entirely, which is what makes short runs and many colourways viable. Unitex Underwear recommends one or the other from your artwork and order size.
How to Customize Underwear From Chinese Manufacturers?
Customising underwear from China runs in eight steps: pick the factory type, send a sample or drawing for quoting, approve a fit sample, confirm sizes and colours, pay the deposit, wait for fabrics and trims, approve pre-production samples, then bulk and final inspection. The two traps are pre-production samples and trim colour matching — Unitex Underwear builds both into the schedule so bulk starts once, not twice.