What is LYCRA® fiber

What is LYCRA® fiber?

Since its invention over sixty years ago, LYCRA® fiber set the standard as the world’s best-known spandex fiber brand. Lightweight and nearly invisible, LYCRA® fiber became the active ingredient in our clothes and revolutionized the way we wore them. Whenever it’s used in fabrics, LYCRA® fiber transforms garments into better fitting, durable clothes that move with our bodies, delivering fit, shape and comfort that lasts. Day after day. Wash after wash. Run after run. Swim after swim.

Why choose LYCRA® fiber?

‎The LYCRA® brand has over 60 years’ experience innovating unique fibers for the clothes you love to wear.

In that time, LYCRA® fiber has become renowned for its quality and durability, and has become the most recognized brand of spandex fiber in the world today. People choose it for its exceptional elasticity, lasting shape, and the comfortable fit it delivers to all types of apparel.

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What’s the difference between LYCRA® fiber, spandex and elastane?

LYCRA® fiber is the trademarked brand name of a class of synthetic elastic fibers known as spandex in the U.S, and elastane in the rest of the world.

Spandex and elastane are interchangeable terms that mean the same thing, but only The LYCRA Company,  produces authentic LYCRA® brand spandex fibers.

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Look for LYCRA® fiber

Not every garment that stretches contains LYCRA® fiber, so when you shop for apparel, be sure to look for the LYCRA® brand name on the label or hang tag.

Only then you’ll know you’re buying a garment made with the dependable brand name fiber you know and trust.

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