In this dictionary you will find the most popular terms used in the apparel industry today.

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- # - 1x1 Rib/2x2 Rib Knit Trim 2-way Zipper 4-Needle Stitched 50/50 - A - Abrasion Resistance Acrylic Air Jet Spinning All Weather Micro Fiber Allen Solly Placket Anti-Pill Antron Nylon Argyle - B - Baby Pique Back Pleats Back Yoke Backing Yarn Banded Banded Self Collar Bartacked Basket Weave Baseball Shirt Berber Binder Binding Bird's Eye Bi-swing Back Blanket Stitch Bleach Wash Blend Blends Boatneck Bonded Fleece Bound Side Seam Box Pleat Brim Broadcloth Brushed Cotton Brushed Napping Brushing Buckram Backing Burguntal Cloth Butterfly Collar Buttons     Dyed-To-Match Buttons     Etched Tone Buttons     Horn Tone Buttons     Iridescent Buttons     Mother of Pearl Buttons     Pearlized Buttons     Pewter Buttons     Wood Tone Buttons Button Through Sleeve Placket Byron Collar - C - Canvas Cami Strap Cap Button Cap Sleeve Carding Carded Cotton Cargo Pockets Casual Micro-Fiber Cavalry Twill Center Line/Center Crease Chambray Chamios Twill Chevron Cire Nylon Clean Finished Placket Clean Finished Self-Shell Clean Finished Vents Closures Coating Collaret Color Blocking Colorfast Colorfastness Combed Cotton Combed Compacting Compaction Constructed Cool Max Cool Mesh Cool Weave Cord Locks Cordura® Corduroy Core Vents Cotton Course Cover Cover Seaming/Cover Stitching Cover Stitched Armhole Seam Crepe Crew Collar Crocking Crop Top Cross Stitch Buttons Cross Winds Crown Cuff Cut - D - Delrin Zipper Denier Denim Digitizing Dobby Double Knit Double Needle Hem Double Needle Stitched Double Needle Safety Stitched Double Sided Fleece Drapability Drop-Tail Hem Duck Cloth Dry-Fiber DryPoint™ Dyeing - E - EcoSpun Elasticity End On End Engineered Enzyme Wash Epaulet Extended Tail Eyelets

- F - Face Face Yarn Fastness Feeder Stripe Fiber-Reactive Dyes Filament Finish Finishing Flannel Fleece Football Jersey Four Needle Stitching Front Panel Full Cut Full-Fashioned Fully Taped Neck Seam - G - Garment Dyed Garment Washed Glen Plaid Graded Collar Greige (Gray) Goods Grommet Gussett - H - Hand Heather Henley Herringbone High Crew High Profile Hyvent Micro Faille Weave Hollofil Hound's-Tooth - I - Interlock Insulation Intarsia - J - Jacquard Jersey Knit Johnny Collar - K - Kangaroo Pocket Kasha Lining Knapping Knits Knit Fabric Kodel - L - Lamborder Lamination Lap Shirt Lisle (Yarn) Locker Loop Locker Patch Low Profile Lyocell Lycra - M - MCR (Champion Bras) Man Made Fibers Marled Yarn Matte Taslan Medium Weight Mélange Melton Wool Mercerization Mesh Micro Fleece Micro Fiber Micro Cord Micro-Stripe Mid Profile Mock Turtleneck Mullens - N - Nail Head Design Nap Nappa Neck Tape Needle-Up Pique Neoprene Non-Woven Fibers Nylon Oxford Weave Nylon Zipper NuBlend (Jerzees) - O - Omni Dry™ Open End Spinning Open End Yarn Optical Brightener Ounces Per Square Yard Overdyed Oxford Oxford Weave - P - Patch Pocket Peach Wash Finish PFD Pig Split Leather Pigment Dye Piece Dyed Pile Fabric Pill Pill Free® Pilling Pima Cotton Pin Point Pique™ Pinwale Pique Pique Knit Placket     Allen Solley Placket     French Placket     Inset/Set-In Placket     "J" Placket     Reinforced Placket (X-Box)     Reverse Placket Placket Shirt Plain Weave Plied Yarn Ply Pointelle Poly-Filled Polyester Polyester Thread Construction Polynostic Popcorn Pique Poplin Print Pro™ Printed Fabric Private Label Pullover PVC

- Q - Quarter Turning Quilted (Jacket) - R - Raglan Raglan Sleeves Rapid Dry Reactive Dyes Reactive Printed Fabric Recovery Resign Rib Knit Ring Spun Ring Spun Yarn Ringer Ring Spinning Ripstop Running Stitch - S - Saddle Shoulder Safety Stitched Sailcloth Sand Wash Scoop Neck Scouring Sculpted Hem Seamless Collar Seam Sealing Self Collar Self Fabric Collar Self Trim Serge Stitch Set-in Sleeves Set-on Placket Sheeting, cotton Shepra Shirt-Tail Bottom Shoulder To Shoulder Taping Shrinkage Shrinkage Rate Side Vents Silicone Washed Single Knit Single Needle Singles Sitka Slash Pockets Space Dye Spandex Fiber Sport Fleece Sportex Spun Yarn Stand-up Collar/Mandarin Staple Staple Fibers Stone Washed Storm Flap Structured Sueded Cotton Sueded Nylon Supplex Sweatband Sweep - T - Tactel® Taffeta Tape Taped Neck Taped Seams Taping Taslan Teflon Coating Talkeetna Teklon Tencel® Terra-Tek™ Terrain Cloth Terry Velour Texturing Three End Fleece Tie In Yarn Tie Dye Tipped Collar Toddler Sizes Tone-on-Tone Top Stitching Tricot Lining Tubular Collar Tubular Garments Tubular Knit Tuck-In Tails Tuck Stitch Twill Twill Tape Placket Lining - U - Un-constructed/Unstructured Underarm Grommets Under Layer Under Visor Unstructured Urethane Coated - V - V-Notch V-Patch Velcro® Vents Vents, Front & Back Visor (Peak) - W - Waffle Wales Warp Washer Nylon Water Repellent Waterproof Weathered Twill Weight Welt Welt-Knit Welted Sleeve Cuffs Wicking Windproof Woven - X - - Y - Yarn Yarn Dyeing Yarn Dye Jacquard Yarn Size Yoke - Z -