SPARTANBURG, SC — Milliken & Company announced that Fabian Couture Group International, a leader within the formal wear industry in the U.S. and Canada, has chosen Milliken’s StainSmart® fabrics for its polyester tuxedo line, First Nighter Formal Wear Collection.
This specific tuxedo line is designed for school and formal band and choir uniforms, due to its easy-care and superior stain repel-and-release capabilities.
StainSmart is a major breakthrough for the school uniform market because it provides the option of machine washing the uniforms rather than dry cleaning, which tends to be expensive.
Independent testing verifies that StainSmart currently outperforms other stain-protection methods available today, according to Milliken & Co.
“In a head-to-head comparison of stain repellent products in the apparel market, Clothes Care Research Center (CCRC), an alliance of leading manufacturers and research laboratories, dedicated to improving home clothing care, found that StainSmart outperformed leading repellent technologies for water and oil repellence,” said Dr. Elizabeth P. Easter, board member of CCRC and director of the University of Kentucky’s Textile Testing Laboratory. “StainSmart also delivered unsurpassed soil release performance on tough stains.”
