Items Tagged ‘fleece’
Engage Soft Shell Training Top
The Engage Soft Shell Training Top is perfect for all weather training. Made from 260 GSM of 100% poly bonded fleece/soft shell fabric it will keep you comfortably warm whilst being fully breathable. The top has an open waist hem with adjustable toggles and features reflective piped cuffs with Velcro fastenings. This top is ideal for training worn on its own, or with the matching Engage Soft Shell Training Jacket.
Tags: fleece, shell fabric
Engage Soft Shell Jacket
Designed to match the Engage Soft Shell Training Top, this jacket is slightly heavier, made from 340GSM of 100% poly bonded fleece / softshell fabric. The hem is fully adjustable with a drawcord and toggles and it has two useful pockets with zip. With its reflective piping around the arms and cuffs and its overall stylish design, football training gear doesn’t get much smarter than this.
Tags: fleece, shell fabric
Glossary
Bespoke
Made-to-order – e.g. hand made by a tailor to your exact measurements, or, in this case, specially made to the exact colour combinations you want, so you can specify the colour of every single panel in the shirt.
Colourways
Colour combinations available, e.g. if a shirt is available in red with white stripes, or black with blue stripes, that’s two colourways.
Denier
A measure of the thickness and weight of a fibre. Whatever 9000m of the fibre weighs, in grams, is its denier. So 9000m of one denier fibre weighs 1 gram.
Fleece
is a high-tech knitted fabric that provides insulation while staying light. Fleeces dry quickly and are breathable.
Handle
is a term used in the textile industry to describe the way a fabric feels. For example, …
Tags: Bespoke, Colourways, Denier, fleece, glossary, Handle, Overlocking, Technical
Fleece
Fleece is a modern hi-tech knitted fabric designed to provide insulation for very little weight. Fleeces dry quickly and are breathable.
How can I judge the quality of a fleece?
Good quality fleece has a plush, soft and silky handle and if you hold it up to the light you’ll see that light does not pass through it. Cheap fleece feels less plush, and it’s thinner.
Cheap fleece will also quickly ‘pill’ with washing (i.e. the fibres start to stick together and the surface becomes clumpy, ‘bobbly’ and not so soft feeling). To tell if a fleece will pill, look carefully at the surface of the fabric. Do the fibres lie along the surface, like felt, or do they stand up, away from …
Tags: fleece, insulation, pill, Technical