The garment processing industry has grown leaps and bounds from its humble beginings of depending on neigbourhood laundries to do the basic washes for shrinkage. Cotton garments were primarily washed to preshrink the fabric so that customer will retain the sizes he has bought after repeated laundering.
slowly things began to evolve and along with shrinkage Garments were given soft finishes.
The advent of denim totally changed the face of the fledgeling industry. The rigid denims needed to be made softer and the available softners could not do the job. Denims were washed with stones to get the soft, washed grainy look.Denims were bleached after stoning to get numerous shades from mid blue to the ice/snow washed look. As the stones used were damaging the garments and Machinery Enzymes began to replace the stones to get the same grainy effects.These same Enzymes were used on nondenims also to get a clean,bright surface and washed effect. Enzymes were engineered to do various functions on cotton like fading,Biopolishing.
Slowly cotton was replacing the synthetics in Mens everyday wear. Cotton is a natural, breathable fibre having many advantages over synthetics. But it had one huge drawback its crease recovery was nowhere near the synthetics resulting in the crumpled look even after only a few hours of wearing. The ease of ironability was also poor compared to the synthetics.
The wrinkle free Process has eliminated all these shortcomings of cotton . This process has added superior crease recovery to the natural goodness of Cotton.
Day by day new functional finishes are invented to make cotton a intelligent fabric.
Denim has arrived in the fashion world and is going to stay due to its versatility.
So many finshes, fashion statements can be written on it.
Hence Garment Processing once relegated to the basements and run by Masters has become major source of value addition.
