Yoga clothing nowadays is not just the sports wear in gym, it’s tight fitting, quick dry and soft give the most comfort while in exercise. Now they become more and more popular in daily dressing, people are looking for more personalized design, not only solid black basic design, more color and functional design is needed.
Yoga wear is a good category for those small business start up want to start their own clothing line, you don’t need to think much on matching, fabric is not complicated as other fashion clothing lines. What’s more, they are in trends, all seasons are selling, no need to worry about miss the time on launch date.
How can you custom your own brand yoga wear for business?
Many people want to come into this field, but mostly stop on thinking because they think too hard,even don’t know how and where to start. With imily clothing. It’s quite easy and simple, just follow the steps you will get what you want.
1 Choose the design
Yoga wear is not many things need to think on the designs, they just come with more or less seams. You can choose the design from the yoga factory, also can custom your own design and colors.
Full range of yoga clothes include: bra, tank top, singlet, t shirt, legging(full length, short, midi length, 3/4 length,
You can get a design idea from google, draw a sketch/illustration by your own or someone else, you can even buy a piece of the design as a sample, Also you can choose from factory catalog.
2 Choose the fabric and color
Yoga clothing all are knit fabric, they are strong stretch, skin-friendly, quick-drying, smooth and soft hand feeling, fabric with Lycra/spandex is mostly used in the market, let me introduce below 4 types of fabric mostly use for yoga clothing.
A. Viscose/spandex
If you are looking for something cheaper, then viscose/spandex fabric is the best choice. They are Very comfortable, smooth hand feel, sweat absorption, but stretch is not as strong as others.
Suitable for tops, pants are suitable for basic designs, not for plus size with fat belly women.
B. Polyester/spandex
They are smooth, have many bright colors, the most colorful yarn than other compositions. The polyester also easy go with print, usually there is a MOQ for the digital print, since the digital print is widely use, many print factory only ask for 1 roll of fabric. You can make custom yoga clothing with your own print easily with Polyester/spandex, this can do something really different than other competitors, clients will buy for the print you did. There are many different yarn count and weight, price range is big difference, you can choose the right one due to your budget.
C. Nylon/spandex
Generally, many high-end swimsuits use Nylon/spandex, also many fitness and sports clothing choose this fabric. They looks high quality and have strong stretch, fabric is shiny. They can back to size after many times of wash and wear, not stretch out and loose.
This type of fabric is specially good for custom yoga pants. Style make with this fabric: Slim fit, more tight-fitting clothing use. The relative comfort is inferior to the first two.
D. Cotton/Spandex AND Rib/Spandex
Cotton is good to your health and skin, can give more natural feeling than others. But it can not keep good shaping after times of washing, also the stretch is not strong as others. Also cotton colors are not as bright as others.
Rib is a good choice to make the yoga, but the surface is not smooth, they have different ribs combine together give us the heavy impression. Some composition maybe easy get pilling.
Suggestion: for tank tops use fabric weight from 180-250 gsm, for pants/leggings use fabric weight from 250-320 gsm.
Some people like the contrast fabric, the most can use on them are the mesh and lace. They all in strong stretch as well.
3 Select size and quantity to make
Usually the size S, M, L, XL are enough, you can custom your size and measurements that is fit your market and end customers. Because it’s tight fitting the size is usually smaller than other casual clothing, due to strong stretch fabric, they can fit well.
The quantity you order will affect how the factory cutting. MOQ usually from 300 pieces per design depending on the design and factory.
How to measure top size(garment size)?
For the tops, you can visit another article about how to measure t shirt if interested.
Lay flat on the table, we will get the garment size measurement.
Chest: under armhole seam to seam
Shoulder width: shoulder seam to seam
HPS(High point shoulder) length: High point shoulder to bottom edge
Waist: 17- 20 cm from armhole
Bottom width: the bottom edge seam to seam
Neck width: inseam to inseam
Front neck drop: HPS(High point shoulder) to the front neck edge
Armhole: sleeve head seam to bottom sleeve seam, usually measure in curve
Sleeve length: from sleeve head to cuff
How can you get your body measurement?
Bust: use the measure tape, Stand straight, upper body forward around 45 degrees and circle the highest point of the bust. You will get your body bust measurement.
Waist: the most slim part at your upper body
Don’t worry about other parts usually you fit the waist and bust others OK.
Note: garment measurement is bigger than body measurement, otherwise you can not get in.
For the bottoms
Lay flat on the floor
Waist: the top edge of the pant
Out seam length: top waist edge to bottom leg edge
Hip: 20 cm from the waist
Thigh: width under crotch
Knee: 1/2 of the leg length
Cuff: the width of the bottom opening
Front rise: front top waist to bottom crotch
Back rise: back top waist to bottom crotch
How can you get your bottom measurement?
Stand straight, above Pelvis around 5 cm is the waist part, the biggest part of the hip is the hip measurement.
Note: the pant have high waist, middle waist and low waist, if the waist and hip match then they usually fit all.
4 Cut and sew manufacturing
Factory will doing the rest, they will cut and sew into the ready wear garment. Due to different workmanship the yoga wear mostly use 4 needles 6 threads for seams.
While making other kinds of garments, nylon thread without stretch is widely use on stitching, but for custom yoga clothes and fitness and sports wears nylon thread without stretch do not work, they need the high spandex silk thread.
5 Quality inspection and pack and delivery
Once the garments sew, there will be a quality check, if everything is good then will pack. They will fold goods then pack into a poly bag. You can check the goods by yourself or other 3rd party. For clothing, most important is the sizing. They will send to your address by express, courier, sea or air. Then the orders are completed.
In recent years, People are paying more attention to a more healthy way on eating and living. Eating green and organic food, doing exercise everyday. Sports wear demand are increasing, more and more brand custom sports wear on their own. Yoga pants are not just sportswear in the gym, but this kind of yoga pants has become popular on the street in recent years, leggings are very easy to match, you can wear a t shirt, a sweatshirt, a yoga top or just a singlet.
You may ask do you have any yoga wear template or design for reference.
Yes we do have some basic legging design template you can use.
The style(template) of yoga pants and leggings.
Style 1: legging with pocket and mesh contrast
People are looking for sports wear with pocket for many years. As they can put the mobile phone, key or other necessary things inside without another extra bags.
Mesh contrast is mostly use as mention before, sexy, breathable, high stretch, easy color match also cheap so mesh become the NO.1 popular contrast fabric for leggings.
Style 2: Tie-dye yoga pants
Tie dye is popular in recent years, the color is light and dark mixed, they can use on cotton, rayon, bamboo, viscose, modal, not strict on the fabric composition.
Rayon, bamboo and modal is mostly use on tie dye leggings.sure this cost will be more than plain color leggings.
Style 3: Printed fabric tights
Custom print pattern on the fabric, it can be the flowers, animals, people, logos or anything you want to print.
Simply a waist, right leg and left leg and a crotch 4 pieces.
Style 4: Seamless yoga pants
This is totally different workmanship, they are knit by the knitting machine, just like making socks and stocking. Usually this need a higher MOQ like 500 pcs per design,they can need the pattern directly on the machine.
Tops template
There are many tapes front and back go across, We can divide them into 2 parts:
With bra padding
Without bra padding
If you want to custom your own yoga wear, please feel free to talk to us.