What is sports quick-drying clothing

Sports quick-drying clothes are clothes that dry faster. Compared with wool and cotton clothes, under the same conditions, they can evaporate the moisture on the clothes faster. Its advantage is that it is easier to dry and helps air circulation during exercise, which can make the sweat of the exerciser evaporate quickly. It is a kind of clothes that is more suitable for wearing during exercise. Let us learn more about this aspect.

Key Features

Quick-drying clothing is produced in response to the requirements of outdoor use environments. Generally speaking, you can wear quick-drying clothes at the turn of spring and summer. At this time, they are much more convenient and practical than heavy jackets. The main function of quick-drying clothes is to quickly wick away sweat, that is, to quickly absorb and diffuse sweat from the skin, and speed up evaporation by expanding the area as much as possible. If you wear ordinary sportswear and immediately go into a resting state after sweating during exercise, you will get sick due to the change in body temperature. Quick-drying clothes can dissipate moisture and retain warmth, which helps keep the skin dry and refreshed. It is particularly important to mention that when doing outdoor sports, quick-drying clothes can play a better role in protecting against wind, rain and moisture.

Design Concept

The design concept of quick-drying clothing is closely related to its quick-drying principle and the usage environment. The original design concept of quick-drying clothing was mainly based on two considerations:

1. Internal factors

Because people who engage in outdoor activities are more likely to sweat. If you exercise a lot, your whole body will sweat profusely. If you are wearing ordinary clothes at this time, they will stick tightly to your skin and be very uncomfortable. But quick-drying clothes can quickly evaporate sweat from the body.

2. External factors

When walking in the wild, the morning dew or drizzle will wet your clothes, and if your trouser legs stick to your legs, it will cause discomfort. If they are quick-drying clothes, their quick-drying and water-repellent properties will save you from these unnecessary troubles.

The principle of quick-drying is a very professional issue. Different fabrics use different principles. Some use the characteristic principles of shape memory polymers; some use the principle of microporous films; some use the difference between the diameter of water droplets and water molecules and air molecules, etc. Here, we will focus on the principle of using microporous films.

Quick-drying fabrics using the principle of microporous films are extremely common in the market. The quick-drying principle is to use a thin film with a microporous pore size between the maximum diameter of water molecules, air molecules and the minimum diameter of water droplets, and then compound the film with the outer fabric, so that the fabric has the effect of waterproof and breathable. This is somewhat similar to the principle of GORE-TEX. The fabric using this principle is the film with micropores, which plays a role in both water repellency and breathability. Regardless of whether it uses the principle of microporous film or any other principle, it is actually a chemical fiber fabric with different fibers.