Active Sportswear Market in Japan.

Major Japanese sportswear manufacturers have been reporting significant declinis in recent sales. Golf and ski apparel sales have declined dramatically. Soccer and other outdoor sports apparel sales have been extremely vigorous, however. Sales of golf apparel and related goods decreased 12.2 percent in the first half of 1993. In the socce..

Price Now Big Part of Fashion Jeans Biz.

Because of a slump in sales, fashion jeans manufacturers plant to lower prices to bring them more in line with coustomer demands. They will also offer new designs, finishes, and fabrics for summer and fall 1994. Executives at marithe && Francios Girbaud emphasize the need to understand what the customer is willing to pay for the value tha..

Dress Shirt Firms Move into Mostly Cotton.

Dress shirt manufacturers will emphasize mostly cotton blend fabric for the fall 1994 season because the lower cost of shirts made with these fabrics appeals to a borader range of consumers. Dress shirt manufacturers are increasing their lines of wrinkle resistant, costly cotton blended fabric shirts and decreasing the emphasis on all cot..

Yamato's New Machine Eliminates Seam Puckering in Athletic Wear.

Yamato Sewing Machine has introduced a machine that eliminates seam puckering in athletic wear. Model AZFR8500/K1 has a variable front/rear top feeder designed especially to process sportswear fabrics coated for sweat absorption and waterproofing. Two top feeders at the front and rear of the needle hold faric securely in place and ensure ..

Singer Buttonholer Model 299U for Waist Bands.

The Singer 299U series of sewing machines is suitable for making buttonloles in jeans. A specially designed work clamp facilitates the loading and unloading of the front portion of jeans waistband, which is extremely thick on one side (about 12 plies) and extremely thin on the other side (2-4 plies). The Work Clamp Opening Lever Locking P..

Juki Markets New Feed Off The Arm Double Chainstitcher.

Juki's MS-1190 series of feed-off-the -arm, double chainstitch sewing machines allows for low tension sewing without puckering and stitch skipping. The machine has a folder that securely fits the pressure foot and ensures highly consistent sewing. Maximum sewing speed is 4,000 stitches per minute. The needle bar strode is 28 millimeters. ..

Cinematic Bobbin Thread Guard for Sewing Machines.

Cinematic control is a computerized method for monitioring the amount of sewing thread on the bobbin and for controlling the operation of a bobbin thread guard. Optical sensors check the turing speed of the main shaft and of the bobbin. Such parameters as stitch length, material thickness, and spool geometry allow calculation of bobbin fu..

Ascolit Markets Button shank Whipping Machines.

Ascolit Schaerer AG offers the Mark III 1992 and Mark V 1993 button shank whipping machines. The whipped button shanks are held tightly, but remain flexible on the button hole. The size of the shank is adjustable to accommodate small or large buttons. The machines can be used on all types of fabrics, including acetate, fur, and silk. The ..

Automated Shirt Collar Manufacturing. Part 2. Collar Band Folding and Fixing.

Engineers at the clemson Apparel Research Facility designed and fabricated two experimental pressing mechanisms for the folding and fixing of woven fabric during the manufacture of collar bancs for dress shirts and blouses. The first device employed superheated steam and the second device employed conductive heating and cooling. During te..

Development of an Inexpensive Spread Guiding System for Air Flotation Spreading Tables.

Automated systems convert fabric rolls inot precision cut parts. The system unrolls, spreads, and cuts the fabrics. The first two operations are separate to the third operation, but linked. The fabric is susceptible to damage during transit from the unrolling and spreading zone to the cutting zone. This damage can seriously affect output ..