Should I wash my swimwear in fabric softener? Hi Edward! I recommend just washing them in cool clean water and letting them hang dry. Is there a rubber or elastic material for around legs and waist that resist chlorine? The polyester and PBT swimsuits are good for resisting chlorine doing pool swimming but then the rubber or elastic around the legs and waist goes bad.
What do you suggest? Thanks Jerry. Hi Jerry, the best advice I can give is to rinse in cool clean water and make sure to dry your suits thoroughly.
The rot that occurs to straps on female suits and waistbands on male suits can be accelerated when we leave them all bunched up in a towel. I am a repeat offender for that particular bad habit.
Have you come across any bathing suits that are more friendly for the feminine parts? Polyester, nylon, Lycra, spandex, etc all cause so many problems for the average woman. Hi there Gaby! Those you have listed are the most commonly used because of their functionality.
I really only see neoprene missing. Other materials, lets use cotton for example, will absorb water and make swimming much harder. This absorbency also affects the life of the suit. I wear board shorts in swimming pool do you Recommend going to wear Jammers or briefs under board shorts mode of Polyester fabric because resistant to chlorine. However if you were to wear jammers or briefs in the place of board shorts they are likely to last longer and drag less in the water.
Gaby, I think the only solution is to change out of the wet suit as soon as you can. No need to buy the brand name Lotrimin. Even the dollar store brands are legit. It works for red rashes due to staying wet on any area of the body, but do not apply wholesale to large areas, simpy as a precaution. Have used it safely almost daily for over a decade. As there is a numbers of resident wearing beachwear attire and boardshort and jump into the pool.
Hi Jerica! Poolside leisure wear is where I would classify them. If you are a casual pool person, lycra is common and pretty standard. If you are looking for a material that is a little sturdier and longer lasting I would look into polyester blends.
With a duafast fabric training suit, do you need to size up one size? Hi Barbara! Hi Sam. Poly blends are your best bet for a long lasting swim suit. Spandex will work, but overtime they will loose their elasticity and color.
Hi Emily, I need a jammer-style swimsuit to wear under a wetsuit, for surfing. My two considerations are comfort and slipperiness I want the wetsuit to be able to easily slide on and off over the swimsuit.
Would you recommend sticking with nylon, or going to polyester? In general I notice more of a stiff feeling with poly suits, but it either softens over time or I stop noticing. Fabric is a little bit thicker too.
I imagine it would be helpful for sliding your wetsuit on and off. I hope that helps a little, let me know if there is anything else I can do! I swim about 25 hours a month, in a temperate pool.
They use salt and chlorine among other chemicals. The problem is that I have been buying Lycra T-shirts, for 1 year, and always in the third month, It start to cut the Lycra, and I have to throw them.
It appears that dust and that smell so characteristic of lycra. So I assume after seeing your important information, that what I must buy is a polyester swimming shirt and spandex. O PBT? To have a longer duration? What brand or models do you recommend? I have seen some t-shirts on the internet but they are very loose, I do not want it for the beach, or outdoor activities, just a tempered pool.
Is it advisable to always rinse the polish with cold water after each use? To extend its useful life? Use talc or any element? I never put the clothes to the dryer, because that is terrible, just put them with the rest of the clothes on the clotheslinein my backyard, even in cold days or in winter…. Polyester is definitely your friend in chlorinated water. My poly suits typical last 18 months or longer. If you are looking for a shirt of this material you want to search for a rash guard type shirt.
They are tight fitting and made for surfers or kayakers. They come in different thickness, so there are some that are made for beach wear and other for warmth.
Perhaps something in the middle would help you with swimming. Linzy yes, that is a good blend for chlorine exposure. Polyester will outlast lycra hands down and is becoming the most common material found in swimwear. Hello, which material or its composition should I look for to achieve an excellent, tight and strong tummy control. If you are looking for a water aerobics suit you want a suit with panels perhaps, if you are lap swimming most suits should fit tightly enough that you are feeling moderate compression wherever the fabric contacts your skin.
If you are looking for something more compressive than standard training suits maybe look into an aquatic fitness style suit with front panels or neoprene construction. What type of water activities are you participating in? Not lycra! But honestly some kind of polyester or polyester blend will resist the chlorine the most.
I have a very hard time finding websites that sell polyester, nylon, neoprene and lycra. Do you where I can find it?
I need something that dries quick and is light-weight. Any recommendations on what fabric would be best and where to get it?? As far as light weight and quick drying a polyester type blend microfiber would be a good jumping off point. Thank you for the response. All feedback is appreciated. Hard part is finding the right texture or microfiber qualities.
Please let me know if you think of anything cool for triathlete apparel. My company is Hyper Sportswear out of Austin. Maybe you can check us out. Should be up and running in a few months.
Swimsuit fabrics kind of top out at polyester and blends, but neoprene is thick and used for tri suits and wet suits. What kind of water activity are you participating in? I may be better able to assist you. No fabric will dry in an airless car trunk. Sunshine is very helpful, as Emily points out, but what all fabrics need in order to dry is AIR. When you get home, take your suit out of the trunk and hang it up — preferably somewhere dry, but even if the bathroom is the only area you have for hanging things, a polyester suit hung up in the evening should be dry by morning.
I am using a Nike PBT suit but it retains too much water and does not dry fast enough for me. I leave my suit in the car after spinning them at the gym.
Car trunk smells of chlorine and suit is still damp the next day. Anything retain less water and dry faster? Any difference? I tried a suit made of mesh like material that is almost dry by end of spinning but it is not appropriate for the gym. Dan if you live in a humid area leaving any suit in the trunk of your car will likely still be wet 24 hours or more later.
I personally have lived all over and the climate has much to do with it. In Arizona for example your suit will dry in a matter of hours even if its sopping wet. Houston, not so much, they never dry out unless you hang them in the house, locker, or from the hanger hook in a car. Now Wisconsin I often end up with frozen suits in the winter!
Hang is up from your car hanger hook if you can. Can you recommend a hypoallergenic swimsuit material — and a manufacturer? Would polymide which I think is nylon be any better? Hi Julie determining what you are having a reaction to is key.
I am unaware of any hypoallergenic training suits. Are you certain it is not from the suit rubbing your skin? Sometimes due to the roughness of the material poly suits can sometimes chafe the skin more than its blend or lycra counterparts. Possibly made out of swimsuit material. Any suggestions? Something like this? Or something like a shirt you pull over your suit? Rash guards that surfers use can hold up to chlorine and come with long sleeves in a variety of sizes.
Hi Emily. I am looking for a technical suit for my high school freshman daughter, reasonably priced. This will be her first kneeskin and we are really clueless as to what to look for. She is a freestyle swimmer, competing in sectionals this weekend.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. As a first time shopper I highly recommend going to a swim shop and trying a few on if at all possible.
Sometimes sizing kits are available to make finding the perfect fit easier, it is less of a guessing game and you get to feel all the different materials. Personally I am a fan of TYR Fusion as a starter suit, its the best bargain and the least compressive easiest to fit.
However, that being said, the technology of it is older, still a good suit, but less bells and whistles. Kiefer also carries a tech suit that combines value with up to date tech. All four use the compressive water repelling fabric and flat seam stitching. Hazel could you elaborate a little more on what you mean by breathable?
Most swim wear, minus neoprene, would be what I consider breathable fabric. You can get close! If you can find a brick and mortar store that carries competitive swim wear go in and compare how different all the blends can feel. Do you know if viscose could be used as swimwear?
Any idea? Seeing how it is most like cotton absorbent and silk not water safe I would say probably not. Something that nips and tucks. I want it fashionable but sturdy.
They are used for wetsuits and can handle zippers. But I am sure for the right price manufacturers will attempt anything. Best of luck in your endeavors, and I hope you find what you are looking for.
Hi, Can someone please tell me whih material would be the warmest, for a year child taking swimming lessons in an unheated pool?? Hi Ahmed, sometimes neoprene suits help with cooler water. Our Kiefer Kids Thermal suits might be worth looking into. Dima polyamide is a fancy term for a nylon blend. It is more resistant than straight up nylon but not as durable as polyester or poly-blends. Thank you.. Though the companies producing them will tell you they are comparable to lycra blends, so they fall between poly and lycra.
It appears some of the manufacturers have a rough breakdown of what is post-consumer percentages within material descriptions.
Thanks Emily. If an Eco suit is using recyclable fibers, but you wear it out faster than a polyester suit, that is only part of the solution. The waste is still high. Am I missing something? Thanks for your time.
I see more environmentally conscious swimsuits in your selection from a few different brands. It is soft and comfortable. It gives a good stretch, and it hugs your body really well. Same thing. Nylon can also go under other names, such as Polyamide PA which is essentially the same. Nylon is the group name of some particular Polyamides. Nylons are not to be printed on, the result is blurry and the print will bleed.
Polyester blends also have the benefit of being able to absorb dye. This means that you can dye and print it with rich and crisp results. You can also ask the supplier for more details, as the content description might not give you the full story. Traditionally swimwear has used fabrics that are heavy on environment. However as consumer awareness and demand has evolved — fabric options have with them. Rescue — Finding waste like fishing nets, fabric scraps, carpet flooring and industrial plastic from landfills and oceans around the world.
Regenerate — Regeneration and purification process. Recycled back to original purity, exactly like virgin, or new, nylon. Remake — The nylon is processed into the swimwear yarn.
Reimagine — The regenerated yarn is used in new swimwear products, until they are no longer useful and can go back into step one: Rescue.
You can read more about them here. Further shifts in consumer demands will put further pressure not only the fabrics suppliers but also manufacturers in their methods. As a manufacturer, this is something that we take seriously. Its not too light an d slinky meaning it could be see-through if it s light weight , and its not heavy and stiff either.
Now I've made heavy weight work, but I prefer a nice thick medium weight. Some heavy weights are great for little girls who are rough on their suits. Being around rocks and concrete, having a fun in the sun, these little girls can snag up their suits pretty easily. But the heavy weight stuff doesn't snag You can even try to snag it. I have to tell you, its really durable stuff! I've found the value of it in a girl's suit. Its awesome! Another characteristic of the fabric is that its got a tighter stretch to it.
Think of it like a spring It will still stretch, possibly just as much. But its a stronger ela sticity in the fabric. It may not want to stretch as easily as a medium or a light weight.
Hope that hel ps you understand the fabric better. I can't tell from a photo whether its a heavy weight or not. You h ave to ask the s eller. Even if you don't have a piece of fabric that stretches 4 ways, you can still have a suc cessful suit. If it stretches only one way, say up and down.. If it stretches from s ide to si de, it is something you can work with.
This one isn't a floral and I just had a feeling about it, that it would be a good quality. Stretched the wrong way. Was also slinky and light weight. So, so..
I had a suit from it but it was rather light weight. Light weight and slinky. Usually the light weight fabrics snag easier, it was so with this one. The black and white dot has a white background, and isn't the best quality. The blue wavy lines is something I've not seen before.
The texture is totally different. At first glance I thought "no" but it could work okay. Might need a lining. The red was really bad. Stretch it just a bit one way and you saw it turn mostly white.
Stretch it the other way, and it was see-through! The only way this could work is if you lined the whole thing with RED. This one is a bit thicker like the ones I like to use, but the back is all white and when stretched you see the lines through it. This pink dots on black is the only one I thought would be okay for swimwear.
My mom thought not because the back is a bit white. It stretches both ways. One way, you do see white, but the other way, you don't. I liked it, it was thick enough, smooth, and I believe it would work just fine.
I have found though.. The red with black dots was really thin. I wouldn't use it. If someone wanted to use it, this one also would need to be fully lined in RED. Some people may say "Well, duh! Of course you have to line the suit!! My family and I have up to this point, never lined our suits. We wear either a bikini or regular undergarments under the suit.
I am starting to line the front bodices of girls suits and am putting a shelf lining in the women's suits. So many people had asked for it, that I figured I would just start doing it
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