When buying underwear in a shopping mall, you will always encounter a salesperson recommending Lycra cotton, so what exactly is Lycra cotton? Let’s open Baidu Encyclopedia. The so-called Lycra cotton (LYCRA) content is 95 or 97 percent cotton plus 5 or 3 percent Lycra. It is the former wholly-owned subsidiary of DuPont in the United States—Invista (Koch Industries Group in 2004 for 4.4 billion Due to the company’s monopoly on the market in the spandex field, Lycra has become almost synonymous with all spandex yarns.
Let me explain. Fabric components are generally marked by percentages. Lycra is produced by DuPont in the United States. A kind of elastic fiber, the brand name is Lycra, and the textile industry is collectively called spandex yarn or stretch frame. Lycra generally accounts for 5%-8% of the fabric ingredients, and the remaining ingredients are mostly cotton, so Lycra cotton is just used in the name of Lycra to fool consumers. What role does Lycra play? In fact, the quality of domestic spandex yarn and Lycra is not inferior at all. Spandex yarn only serves the purpose of increasing the elasticity and stability of the fabric and has basically no effect on the human body. So don’t be fooled by salespeople. !
Spandex yarn is widely used in knitted fabrics, and only those authorized by DuPont and Lycra of the United States can be used. Call it “Lycra cotton”! You can’t call it arbitrarily, it’s an infringement!
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