What does 'yarn-dyed' mean in the shirt description?
When looking at a striped shirt and seeing the word 'yarn-dyed' in the material description, it is not clear whether it refers to a way of creating patterns or a way of coloring. It makes one want to know what difference it makes, even for the same stripes.
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Yarn-dyed means a fabric where stripes are woven directly with the yarn itself, making the stripes appear sharp and deep.
Ways of adding stripes to cloth largely fall into two categories: preparing yarns of different colors in advance and creating stripes while weaving, or adding color later onto fully woven white cloth to make it look like stripes.
The yarn-dyed method used in Asymmetric oversized pucker shirts #5 [stripe] is the former. Because the stripe lines are woven from the yarn itself, the stripes come out clear and deep[1]. Woven with color penetrating all the way into the core of the yarn, it starts from a different point compared to fabrics where color is merely applied to the surface.
The difference becomes even wider after wearing it for a long time. RYOO explains that unlike materials where stripe effects are produced by piece dyeing, this fabric develops aging changes when used for a long time[2]. Aging change refers to changes that accumulate as color and texture gradually shift while repeatedly wearing and washing it.
In other words, the single term yarn-dyed is a notation that points to both how the stripes look now and how those stripes will look years later[3].
The blend ratio and yarn thickness of this fabric, as well as over what period of time and in what appearance the aging change manifests, have not been confirmed yet.