In recent years, one of the styles that have grown the most and has undoubtedly become a trend is Athleisure. As its name suggests, this trend unifies the concepts “athletic” and “leisure” and aims to combine the qualities of sports garments with fashion garments, making them suitable for both sports and day-to-day wear. To achieve this fusion, athleisure fabrics play a fundamental role.

The growing demand for more versatile, comfortable, and stylish sportswear has led the textile industry to adapt its offer of fabrics, and pushing the majority of sports and fashion brands to create their own athleisure line.

GARMENTS AND FABRICS FOR ATHLEISURE

Athleisure fabrics are characterized by being high-quality fabrics focused on breathability, quick-drying, odor control, UV protection, and the need to create anti-wrinkle garments. Besides, when talking of leggings, these fabrics must be compressive, opaque, and resistant. All these characteristics come together to provide the comfort and technicality necessary to create an athleisure garment.

The athleisure style is clearly influenced by specific sports. In the case of women’s garments, the influence of yoga stands out. The most used garments are short tops, tracksuits in fun colors, or the key garment, leggings, also in many different colors and patterns.

Men’s athleisure is clearly influenced by running and fitness clothing. Thus, the most popular garments are joggers, windproof jackets, hoodies, and basic t-shirts in different colors, vigoré, or with specific prints.

FABRIC AND THE ATHLEISURE

At Lomartex we have suppliers that have developed our collection of high-quality athleisure fabrics from polyester fibers, cationic polyester, polyamide, and elastomer.

FOR T-SHIRTS

582901 Timon for t-shirts

We can categorize athleisure collection fabrics according to the garment we want to focus on. T-shirts are a basic piece of athleisure apparel and their main technical qualities should be breathability, odor control, and UV protection. Our fabric Timon meets all these qualities, it is a fine gauge smooth knit fabric in cationic polyester of 85g/m2. It is a vigorous fabric that gives the garment a distinctive and elegant touch. As heavy options (140g/m2) we have Belice, another polyester vigore fabric, and Dongo a double-faced fabric with microfiber, with one face in vigore and the other mini jacquard.

132601 Sócrates for t-shirts

Furthermore, the more technical athleisure shirts tend to be stretchy. We offer stretch fabrics for tight shirts. Our alternatives are the fabric Sixto, a 155g/m2 fine gauge interlock with Clean Cut technology and Socrates, a fine gauge plain knit, slightly lighter at 115g/m2, both vigore fabrics for comfortable tight shirts.

FOR INSERTS: STRUCTURES AND MESHES

Athleisure is a trend that mixes the strengths of sports with those of fashion. For this reason, it is mandatory to have fabrics with new designs, structures or meshes, to achieve a more elegant and innovative look. In the case of structures, we have fabrics such as Ander, Chaman, Albert, and Verona all of them light fabrics with different designs. When talking about meshes, fabrics as Ipanema, Kandy, Rud, Roatan or Kabul, will provide transparency and extra breathability to the garment.

FOR TRACKSUITS AND SWEATSHIRTS

130701 Lionel for tracksuits and sweatshirts

Other key garments of the athleisure style are sweatshirts and tracksuits. We offer heavy and comfortable fabrics for this type of garment. On one side, the Lionel, an elastic and reversible double-faced fabric, 260g/m2 with polyester combined with an elastane knit. One of the faces has a mini jacquard structure while the other is plain vigore. This way, with the same fabric you can get different patterns in the same garment. On the other side, the alternative fabric for sweatshirts and tracksuits is Urko, a 100% polyester vigore single jersey. In the case of needing garments that provide more warmth comfort, we offer brushed fabrics such as Rancho that will help maintain body temperature.

THE KEY GARMENT OF ATHLEISURE: THE LEGGINGS

As we have previously said, leggings are considered the key garment of athleisure. Leggings fabrics should be of high quality, with good elasticity and compression, resistant and opaque. Besides, they must be easy to print fabrics, since prints play a fundamental role in this garment.

The fabrics that our suppliers offer for the manufacture of Leggings are interlock fabrics with heavyweights, composed of polyamide and polyester fibers, or recycled fibers. All of them are compression fabrics with a high percentage of Lycra® or elastane. Its construction allows the manufacture of garments without seams and Clean cuts.

128201 Bogota Black our key fabric for cycling, also for leggings

Some of our leggings fabrics are Sonder (215g/m2) and Skinner (220g/m2), both made of polyester and high percentage of elastane. As an alternative to polyester, we offer Bogota, our key fabric for cycling shorts, also suitable for leggings. Thanks to its 26% elastane we achieve a highly compressive and compact fabric, allowing to create sculpting, comfortable leggings, without transparencies and with high abrasion resistance. Bogota is available in Bogota Black, made from Lycra Black® and black polyamide dyed yarn ensuring the deepest black and an ecological dyeing process, in Bogota, Printed with which we can print any design to create the most colorful leggings.

HEAVIER FABRICS FOR LEGGINGS: 0 TRANSPARENCIES

If more coverage is necessary, we have heavier fabrics such as Bruce, a 260g/m2 fabric with a softer touch, designed for less intense physical activities, as it has less compression, but very suitable for the manufacture of greater comfort garments.

RECYCLED FABRICS FOR LEGGINGS

Besides, because the athleisure spirit is closely linked with responsible and ethical lifestyles with the environment, we have incorporated sustainable fabrics ECOREC® into our collection. For example, the recycled polyester fabric R+Merida, a 210g/m2 fabric, not as compressive as Bogota but provides high coverage and a high degree of comfort. This is a printable fabric and it is available for custom colors.

DOUBLE FACED FABRICS: EXTRA QUALITY FOR LEGGINGS

Lastly, if what we want is to give a distinctive and quality touch to the leggings, we have developed fabrics such as Joker Black, a fabric with a black face made from polyester black dyed yarn, and another face from white polyester to sublimate or dye in any color. Thanks to this fabric we can create garments with prints or color on the outside and black on the inside, giving the legging a much more technical and quality look. We also have the inverted version, Benji, with the black face made of black polyester dyed yarn and the white or color face, made of polyamide. The white polyamide face makes it possible to create higher quality prints, both of which, thanks to their weight, provide good opacity and comfort.

Do you want to create your next athleisure garments? We can help you! Take a look at all our athleisure fabrics by entering our search menu and selecting the “Athleisure” market, or contact us and we will answer all your queries.