Compression garments require a controlled balance of stretch, recovery, opacity, surface smoothness and garment comfort.
Specify four-way or directional stretch requirements rather than relying on fibre content alone.
State target GSM and opacity expectations for the finished garment.
Include any elongation, recovery, pilling or colour-fastness test targets in the brief.
Four-way stretch, opacity and recovery are more important than fibre percentage alone.
Ranking is deterministic and uses only current catalogue data: exact end-use tags, construction, stretch, GSM fit, family and listed properties. It is a sourcing shortlist, not a claim that one fabric is universally best.
Send the garment, GSM, width, stretch, finish, volume and testing requirements.