Fleece, refers to clothes mainly made of polyester (Polyester) (in the domestic custom called it fleece), it is the main winter outdoor sportswear insulation fabric.
With the continuous development of science and technology in the textile industry, large number of chemical fiber products have entered the clothing field, solving the shortcomings of traditional fabrics such as cotton and wool.
First, the use of polypropylene (Polypropylene) fabric, its non-hydrophobicity (hydrophobic) makes the sweat vapor pass quite smoothly, but Polypropylene generates static electricity to absorb the skin, and easy to pilling, so polyester fiber (Polyester) replaced Polypropylene.

Polyester is currently a widely used chemical fiber sports suit clothing fabric. It is light and warm, not easy to pilling, has good breathability and moisture removal, and has strong resistance to acid and alkali and ultraviolet rays,but it is easy to generate static electricity and easy to contaminate dust. The problem has not been completely resolved.

The disadvantages of fleece fabrics are that they are not windproof, wear-resistant, and not resistant to hooks.Therefore, at present, many fleece hoodies and joggers products are based on fleece fabrics, composite waterproof and breathable film, windproof, wear-resistant and durable woven fabrics, so that the fabric functions of sport clothing are more balanced and the uses are more extensive. It is mostly used on the outer layer, which is fashionable and reduces the number of layers worn in outdoor clothing. For example, GAMMA MX can be said to be soft shell or fleece.

Since the fleece was not windproof in the early days, it needed to be used in conjunction with the outer layer, which limited the use of fleece to a certain extent. Some manufacturers have improved the windproof performance while maintaining the original performance through improvements. At the same time, other comprehensive performances have also been greatly improved. We call it windproof fleece, which is actually not accurate, but the improvement of windproof performance is the key point. There are two forms of this kind of fleece, one is dense fleece; the other is compound.
The so-called dense fleece is to increase the fleece density of the fabric and increase the windproof performance of the fabric. The composite form is indeed much more complicated. It is basically a three-layer sandwich structure. The windproof performance of the fabric is greatly improved through the middle film. Different materials, the changes of this kind of fabric can be imagined.
Generally speaking, windproof fleece with the same thickness and similar thermal insulation performance of fleece material is better than warm fleece. It should be noted that the thickness is still the main factor that determines the thermal performance. The windproof fleece has a layer of film, which improves the thermal performance.

Brands include Polartec and Marmot. In addition, there are MountainEquipment’s Ultrafleece, LoweAlpine, DuPont’s WarmZone and Columbia’s Omni-Stop and other products, which can be windproof, warm and breathable.

Fleece fabrics are mainly used for sportswear, activewear,hoodies, sweatshirts, sweatpants,sweat shorts etc.

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