The "Change" of Accessories: The Hidden Trouble in the Quality of Textile and Apparel Products

In fact, in the textile and garment industry, all materials used in textile and apparel products, except for fabrics, can be referred to as textile and garment accessories. It includes all kinds of linings, spacers, fillers, sewing threads, fastening materials, and decorative materials. , logo materials, packaging materials and so on. All of these accessories have a very important influence on the intrinsic quality of the product and its external quality. Undoubtedly, no matter what kind of textile and garment accessories belong to the details of the product. But details can often determine the fate of a textile and apparel product. A set of (piece) textile and apparel product design, quality is good or bad, accessories often play a big role, and its role sometimes even exceeds the fabric itself. Although the accessories are small, once the quality is unqualified, it is the entire product and even the entire textile and clothing brand.

Representing creativity and highlighting fashion At the beginning of 2010, animated cartoon “Ghost Mother” adapted from the American novel Neal Gaiman’s “Coraline” has caused a stir in China. Although the domestic poor translation gave it a nondescript, similar to Hong Kong's ghostly film. However, it still did not affect the audience’s assessment of it as “creepy but full of wisdom”. The most important prop in this cartoon is the button. The black eyes made by the buttons in the film have brought the strange Gothic style and won many praises from the audience.

With the rapid development of the textile and garment industry, consumers are constantly pursuing their individuality and fashion. Textile and garment accessories including buttons have long been extra paid for decoration and embellishment. The proper use of textile and garment accessories by designers can definitely bring about the finishing touch and a multiplier effect.

In the fall of 2011, Chengdu University Student Weekly went to the mall to purchase a long white knee-length windbreaker. White represents pureness. This tone is irrelevant to college students whose work and life are in a "white" state. Therefore, Zhou Wei wearing this trench coat feels particularly comfortable both in the classroom and in the cafeteria, and is particularly confident.

However, suddenly one day she had an argument with the little girl in the bedroom because of trivialities. It is also normal for young people to experience friction and disputes. However, the other person’s words gave her an opinion on her favorite trench coat. During the quarrel, the classmates of Zhou Xun did not intend to say "What do you mean? Why don't you wear a white coat and pretend to be a nurse ...?". The speaker did not intend to hear the listener. Later, how did Zhou X look at this white trench coat?

How to do it? Although the price of this windbreaker is not very expensive, it is considered worthy for the poor students. After several reflections, she finally felt that she had to "remake" this pure white trench coat. During the weekend, Zhouyue purchased several royal-style large metal buttons at the nearby small commodity wholesale market. After returning, she divided the buttons into two rows of neat windbreakers. Suddenly a royal style double-breasted coat appeared before her eyes. After wearing, compared to the former pure white windbreaker week ** feels more noble, reflecting the big style, put on a lot of handsome.

In fact, the inadvertent exchange of buttons on the clothing used by Zhouyue coincides with the current concept of some branded clothing using buttons to guide fashion. In the fashion industry, small buttons as clothing accessories can often play a crucial role by matching the right buttons. On the domestic market, good clothing brands pay great attention to the small details of the buttons. Generally New York deducts the design style of clothing, but also exquisite and unique, even unique, so that their clothing products can instantly "hyun" up.

On November 9, 2011, the 11th Guangzhou International Textile Fabric Accessories and Yarn Exhibition kicked off. Careful people are not difficult to find that the functionality of accessories products has undergone great changes in today's market conditions.

In retrospect, zippers, buttons, and linings in apparel accessories were applied to apparel products with their functionality and practicality. For example, the zipper is used as a link in the textile and apparel products to play a role in the connection; the liner is only used for the inner layer of clothing products play a reinforcing, stiff role. However, after many years of development since the reform and opening up, China's clothing accessories industry has a considerable regulatory touch, higher and higher levels of specialization, product types are also more and more. With changes in consumer demand, textile and apparel accessories are moving from "practical functions" to "fashionable decorative functions." The design of accessories has also begun to integrate into the overall design of clothing, becoming a key element of fashion and popularity.

Nowadays, it is difficult to find clothes that are decorated with accessories that are particularly dazzling, whether it is in the scene of high-fashion events or in malls or stores where people are throbbing. Color zippers, diamond zippers, and flash zippers have long been commonplace in the apparel industry. In fact, at present, the decorative and artistic zipper even surpasses its practicality, becoming a new direction for the development of zipper products in the clothing and apparel industry. In addition, according to relevant survey data, only 30% of the buttons on clothing products are currently connected, and the other 70% are responsible for decoration. A mediocre garment is often distinguished by a clever embellishment of buttons.

Even those accessories that were originally most practical, such as linings, have begun to assume some decorative effects today. In some well-known brand clothing, the most prominent means of expression is the collar and the threshold, using a very colorful liner. For example, a lady's autumn and winter coat, they mix the pink and the relatively dull gray fabric, and immediately they have a striking decoration and embellishment effect. Let consumers go shopping in the eyes of a bright spot, evoke the desire to buy.

In addition, in the category of accessories, the appearance of products such as metal fasteners, cords, and laces, etc., bears important decorative functions and adds a lot of elements that were not originally available to apparel design. At the same time, taking a close look at the development trend of China's garment industry, it can be said that in the future, regardless of the kind of clothing accessories, the decoration and embellishment of apparel products will be further strengthened. Although it is still not possible to “win the spoils”, textile and garment accessories will inevitably draw a heavy brush in the pursuit of fashion and personalization.

Toxic substances exceed the standard, it is worth attention With the continuous development of human science and technology, all kinds of advanced production processes and technologies have been applied to the textile and garment industry. However, science and technology are a double-edged sword. The rapid development of science and technology since the last hundred years has promoted economic development and improved people’s living standards. At the same time, however, mankind has also paid a heavy price. Excessive standards such as heavy metals, toxic chemical residues, etc., and a series of environmental issues, accidents, and repeated incidents can not help but make us feel sad.

In May 2011, a children's wear enterprise in Dongguan, Guangdong received an order for a baby cotton knitted sweater from the United States. The United States has very high demands on the fabrics, colors, and processes of its products. However, it has not made any specific requests for the accessories of these sweaters, but it only requires compliance with the relevant laws and regulations in the country. At this time, the number of export orders in China's textile and apparel industry declined. The children’s clothing factory was naturally overjoyed when it received this business, so it began to organize production without stopping.

More than a month later, the well-produced baby cotton knitted sweaters were shipped to the United States. However, soon after the shipment arrived, the United States sent them back. At the same time, they were informed that after testing, they found that the total lead content of the buttons in this batch of clothing exceeded the value of the “Consumer Goods Improvement Act of the United States” and this was handled accordingly.

After hearing this news, the children's clothing factory in Dongguan was temporarily screwed up. Obviously after they received the order, their attention was placed on the production of the garments, and they themselves neglected the quality inspection of the accessories. Later, after a detailed internal investigation, it was discovered that in order to make the button have a pearl-like luster effect, the accessories manufacturer had arbitrarily added a small amount of pearlescent pulp with a composition of basic lead carbonate in the production process, resulting in the buttoning of the clothing. Lead content is seriously exceeded.

Basic lead carbonate, commonly known as white lead or white lead powder is white heavy powder, toxic. It is mainly used in paints in China and is especially suitable for anti-rust paints and outdoor paints. When it is heated, it is decomposed into lead oxide, water, and carbon dioxide.

The Dongguan children's wear business is the result of ignoring or even not taking into account the problem of excessive heavy metal content in garment accessories, which will result in the entire batch of apparel products being returned by the United States. A small button, while bringing great trouble to the clothing company, also directly caused the company's huge economic losses.

If the economic losses suffered by this company in Dongguan are still within its scope, the result of the quality problem of the clothing company in Zhejiang is that they cannot afford it.

It was also in early 2011 that Zhejiang's garment company received an order from the EU for a number of children's nylon jackets. This company is small in scale, but it has been engaged in the export of textile and apparel products since the mid-1990s. It has a long history and rich experience. Prior to the production of a batch of products, whether it is fabric or zipper, buttons and other small parts must be checked according to customer requirements. In fact, it is because of a certain sense of product quality that the apparel company's reputation in the industry is still relatively good.

After receiving the order, the company is still in step-by-step arrangement as before. However, the export of these children's nylon jackets has brought the extermination to this clothing company. The relevant European Union found 69.9ppm of tetraaminoazobenzene in the gray sewing thread of these jackets and immediately notified the clothing company in Zhejiang of exceeding the EU's ban on the limit of azodyesin dyes.

It is understood that tetraaminoazobenzene is a harmful aromatic amine. The tetraaminoazobenzenes produced by decomposition in textiles are generally derived from dyes synthesized with it as intermediates. These dyes are mainly acid dyes and disperse dyes. The decomposable aromatic amine dyes are banned by the state compulsory standards. After textiles use azo dyes containing carcinogenic aromatic amines, in the long-term contact with the human body, the dyes may be absorbed by the skin and spread in the human body. Subsequently, under the conditions of biochemical reactions that occur in the human body's normal metabolism, a reduction reaction may occur to decompose carcinogenic aromatic amines, and after activation, changes in the structure of human DNA, causing human lesions and inducing cancer. In 2009, the European Union included tetraaminoazobenzene dyes on the list of banned azo dyes.

Next, EU customers who placed orders with the company also offered huge compensation to them. The apparel company, which was originally of such a small size, simply cannot afford such a huge amount of compensation and can only be bankrupt. In fact, even if this garment company did not go bankrupt in the end, it has not been given the opportunity to receive foreign trade orders from the European Union because it has been notified by relevant parties in the EU. On the surface, this company in Zhejiang is due to the neglect of a very "easy" neglected examination of the sewing thread. In fact, due to the slow recovery of foreign finances, China's exports of textile and apparel products have low profits. Some garment factories have adopted clothing accessories that are cheap and not guaranteed to reduce production costs. The final result is that the Zhejiang garment company went bankrupt, and it can be said that doing a bad job is not conducive to foolishness.

Excessive heavy metal content and residual chemical substances in textile and garment accessories have not attracted the attention of relevant parties in the industry for a long time. Thus it has caused a series of export of textile and apparel products that have been returned in recent years, or have encountered customer claims many times. Considering the long-term development of the entire industry, textile and garment companies must strengthen the inspection of auxiliary materials.

The physical "accidents" of accessories have been hard to prevent. When it comes to physical accidents of textile and garment accessories, it is by no means confined to the phenomenon of zipper breaks, zipper bursts, and lace breaks. The accidents caused by textile and garment accessories far exceeded our imagination.

At about 6:30 p.m. on January 4, 2012, a temporary escalator at Guangzhou Railway Station on Guangzhou Metro Line 2 suddenly broke down. Fortunately, the fracture site was located at the end of the escalator, and the accident did not cause any casualties. Now that our urban construction is getting better and better, public facilities are getting more and more, it is reasonable to say that there is an accident. However, the investigation of the cause of the accident almost surprised all the people. According to the Guangzhou Metro, the cause of the accident was that the escalator comb plate was jammed by a zipper head of a suitcase when the escalator comb plate was subjected to excessive force, causing the comb plate to tilt until it broke. Although a small zipper hasn’t dealt with a “money case”, the lesson is worth pondering.

Of course, the Guangzhou Metro accident is only an incident caused by accessories. However, accidental accessories on the flight suits that we often see on TV are the inevitable events. The flight suits of all countries in the world now use a zipper connection, but in the early flight suits, all buttons were used. Why does such a change occur? Things have to start from scratch.

In 1931, the world's fighter jets and bombers all used piston engines. At the same time, the engine compartment is just below the cockpit, subject to objective technical conditions. Some transmission control mechanisms make the cabin and cockpit not completely blocked. In May of this year, France held a massive joint air, navy and air force exercise. During the exercise, the button on the pilot’s flight suit accidentally fell. Although in the end it was not able to determine where it slipped into the plane along the gap, the consequence was that it caused the plane to crash. Fortunately, pilots were able to survive the parachuting in time.

After the accident, the flight suits of all countries in the world were replaced by zippers from the French Air Force. This small button was also written into the textbook of world aviation history because of this incident. It can be said that the quality of garment accessories has brought about a revolutionary change in human flight suits.

In fact, certain textile and apparel products are more likely to cause greater harm to consumers because of the quality of the accessories because of their specific use population. For example, children's clothing, infants and young children's safety has always been the focus of attention of all parties. However, due to the quality of garment accessories, or the lack of sewing fastness between accessories and fabrics and unreasonable design, buttons, sequins, hot drilling and rivets and other small accessories do not meet the requirements of tests such as tension or bite diagnosis. Form small parts. There are hidden dangers such as suffocation caused by swallowing by children. In addition, there is also a risk of injury to children due to the formation of a pointed or sharp edge of a clothing accessory. Due to the poor processing quality of accessories or the damage after use, various plastics and metal fasteners and zippers are extremely prone to sharp or sharp edges, causing children to be stabbed or cut.

In the quality of textile and garment accessories, our companies, especially export-oriented trade and manufacturing companies, have suffered a lot. Although there is no specific statistical data on the economic losses suffered as a result, it is certainly huge. And there are some textile and garment companies that went bankrupt for this reason. However, the quality of textile and apparel accessories as a whole has not received enough attention from our companies.

Needless to say, Europe and other developed countries and regions will continue to be the major markets for textile and apparel products for export for a long time to come. The various types of technology and trade barriers that they promulgate will, to some extent, indicate the direction of the development of related industries in the future. In order to further enhance the international reputation of our export garments, we will enhance the competitiveness of our textile and apparel products. On the one hand, relevant trade and production enterprises should strengthen their understanding of foreign technical regulations, and on the other hand, they should strengthen the quality control of apparel accessories from the level of self-discipline, deepen the standards for product quality requirements, and then be able to gradually reverse our textile and apparel exports. Product testing and quality assurance are relatively passive.

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