TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY
(Because any knowledge is good knowledge)

AESTHETIC

Wrinkle Resistance & Recovery (i.e. par for the course for every suit): A fabric’s ability to return to a flat state without wrinkles after being subjected to bending and stretching. Ever leave your wetsuit in a jumbled up pile over a period of time and then discover that it has permanent creases in it?

Shape Retention (i.e. if only everything kept its shape forever): A fabric’s ability to retain its original dimensions (not to bag) while in use.

Pilling Propensity (i.e. fur-balls are no good): The likelihood that small balls of tangled fibers will form and adhere on a fabric’s surface. Other styles of Nylon that are laminated to wetsuits have this problem in a big way. Too bad they can’t use Matuse’s HydraSilk™.

Hand (i.e. to touch or not to touch?): The overall tactile sense experienced while a textile is examined.

Body (e.g. the good, the bad, and the horrid): A fabric’s overall lightness / heaviness, firmness / looseness, and springiness / limpness.

Compression Resilience (i.e. loft): A fabric’s ability to retain pleats and creases that are intentionally placed in the fabric.