A Revolutionary Yarn Technology Designed for High-sweat Athletes
There is nothing more exciting than Lululemon's new announcement. Last week, they launched a revolutionary performance yarn technology on sweats by concealing them in a second. While vanishing sweat stains visually, it also comes with more professional moisture management and provides a lightweight feel. This technology was developed by the platform under Lululemon, ShowZero, who had created a golf collection in 2024, as well as the famous tennis athlete Frances Tiafoe, the Lululemon Ambassador. In their phenomenal advertising video, the tennis star Frances was waving his rackets with Lululemon’s latest burgundy ShowZero jersey on. Unlike others, this jersey actually showed nothing even after a long-time playing. "I'm sweating and you really can't see it." said Frances when he tested his new tennis jersey by playing tennis on the court.
This yarn technology has rapidly caught people's attention, especially in the activewear market. Actually, Arabella Clothing team noticed it earlier. Last year, we happened to come across similar new fabrics and shared them with our clients. What truly surprised us is that, in conventional sweat-wicking fabrics, no matter how quickly the textiles can wick away sweats, there will be more or less traces on them. However, ShowZero, as well as the similar fabrics we had seen doesn't have this issue; it actually solves the problem of sweat concealment.
This has refreshed our recognition on moisture-wicking fabrics completely. With Lululemon’s video as well as what we have learned from our fabric developing team, it is finally the time we can reveal its answer to the riddle: How Does Sweat-wicking fabric upgrade to sweat-concealing fabric?
How Does Fabric Conceal Sweats?
Actually, Lululemon has revealed part of it. Yuki Aihara, Lululemon's Senior Director in Product Innovation, said this ShowZero fabric changes the interaction ways of light and textiles and eliminates the light when it is humid. "Conventional yarn is a bit translucent, so when light goes through it, you can see the color change. And because of our technology, light isn't able to penetrate yarns. That's how we conceal the visibility of sweats. "
This technology is also relevant to yarn production. By adding high-concentration polymers into yarns, the textiles can absorb visual light that exists in nature, which makes this fabric look visually fresh even when it has been saturated by sweats.
Another secret is about fabric craftsmanship. Most of the fabrics that come with sweat-wicking are made of matte synthetic fibers to reduce the color changes on fabrics when humans sweat. In the production of matte fibers, it requires delustrant containing titanium dioxide, a basic composition that can eliminate glosses on fabrics. For example, matte polyester contains 2%-5% titanium dioxide normally. However, for sweat-concealing fabrics, it contains about 10%, which makes it able to conceal the color changes faster during sweating. At the same time, it reflects ultraviolet and infrared rays, which makes it anti-UV and meet the demand of long-time outdoor activities.
As a professional clothing manufacturer, even this sweat-vanishing technology has provided a solution on sweat management, it comes with characteristics that affect your clothing designs due to the technology. Here are 2 notices when you using this kind of fabrics.
Dyeing: As high-polymers have been added into fibers, the fabrics might easily appear horizontal streaks during dyeing and might vary in different batches.
Color Differences: The fabrics might appear different colors on both sides on fabrics. It might show a lighter color on the sweat-wicking side.
What Kind of Products Are Suitable for Sweat-vanishing Fabrics?
We have already learned more traits of sweat-concealing fabrics. They can be applied to several types of athletic wear. Actually, for running and intense cardio activities, they are the best choice for activewear brand startups to utilize.
Arabella Clothing has listed some ready fabric choices for you as below. We have divided them into two product categories: Jersey and Interlock, to help you select the most suitable fabrics for your active apparel.
Non-sweat Stain Jersey Collection: For Workout T-shirts and Tanks
These collection is selected particularly by Arabella Clothing's fabric developing team for athletic wear. For example, running t-shirts, powerlifting singlets, hyrox or CrossFit clothing.
They all feature with weightless, ultra breathable while the most important is that, they can conceal sweats in one second after testing-you almost can't see any sweat stains or traces on the surface.
ARA-1184 Men’s Perforated Running Marathon Racing Tank
MSL014 Pilates Wear Apparel Weightlifting Sweat-Wicking T Shirt
WT008 High Neck Side-slit Cropped Training Tank Top
Here are the selected sweat-free jerseys that capable of utilizing on products above.
OT10462F Non-sweat Stain Poly Jacquard Fabric
Composition:
100% Polyester
Full Width: 155 cm
Weight Gram: 145 gsm
OT10741A Non-sweat Stain Poly Jacquard Mesh
Composition:
100% Polyester
Full Width: 148 cm
Weight Gram: 155 gsm
OT10812A Non-sweat Stain Poly Mesh
Composition:
58.2% Non-Sweat Stain Poly 41.8% FD Poly
Full Width: 180 cm
Weight Gram: 155 gsm
OT10846 Non-sweat Stain Elastomultiester Polyester Single Jersey
Composition:
50% Elastomultiester 50% Non-sweat stain polyester
Full Width: 174 cm
Weight Gram: 150 gsm
OT10905 Non-sweat Stain &Water-repellent Polyester Mesh
Composition:
55% Non-sweat stain polyester
45% Water-repellent polyester
Full Width: 155 cm
Weight Gram: 155 gsm
Sweat-concealing Interlock Collection: For Sports Bras, Tights, Slim Fit Jackets
Sweat-concealing fabrics also include interlock types. Although they may not wick moisture as quickly as jerseys, they successfully hide sweat stains in testing. We have listed some sweat-concealing interlock fabrics that much suitable for common athletic wear products like tights, sports bras, crops or slim fit jackets.
Here are the selected non-sweat-stain interlocks that capable of utilizing on products above.
FHY-1 Sweat Stain-proof Matte Nylon-SP Interlock
Composition:
80% Polyamide 20% Elastane
Full Width: 150 cm
Weight Gram: 220 gsm
FHY-WDS3 Non-sweat Stain Nylon-SP Interlock
Composition:
70% Polyamide 30% Elastane
Full Width: 150 cm
Weight Gram: 210 gsm
N4048 Sweat-free Nylon-SP Interlock
Composition:
82% Polyamide 18% Elastane
Full Width: 145 cm
Weight Gram: 230 gsm
T5072 Sweat-free Polyester-SP Interlock
Composition:
82% Polyamide 18% Elastane
Full Width: 150 cm
Weight Gram: 260 gsm
Here are the selected non-sweat-stain interlocks that capable of utilizing on products above.
Sweat-reducing & Sweat-collecting Lycra® Collection: For Premium Athletic Wear
Arabella Clothing also has summarized a Lycra®blend interlock fabrics for crafting luxury activewear products. Since sweat-free fabric technology is still developing, we have another sweat-reducing Lycra® fabrics collection for you to utilize in athletic wear. They can reduce sweat stains more than 85%-90% visually.
LXF-ST4429L Sweat-reducing Lycra® Interlock
Composition:
81% Polyester 19% Lycra®
Full Width: 155(±3) cm
Weight Gram: 300 gsm
LXF-ST4434L(M2) Sweat-reducing Lycra® Interlock
Composition:
86% Polyester 14% Lycra®
Full Width: 125(±3) cm
Weight Gram: 265 gsm
LXF-STS4805LJ Sweat-reducing Tencel® Modal Lycra® Interlock
Composition:
61% Tencel® Modal 20% Nylon 19% Lycra®
Full Width: 160(±3) cm
Weight Gram: 250 gsm
"For someone who sweats as much as I do, it's amazing to have a kit that keeps me looking fresh from start to finish. ShowZero is a must-have for those hot days on the court." Said Frances after the release of ShowZero.
When sport nowadays has become people's daily essentials, they care more about what they look like when training. A fresh look can make them perform better. That’s why sweat-vanishing fabric was born. And Arabella Clothing can help you create a performance wear athletic clothing line not only for performing better, but also building your brand confidence.
If you would like to learn more about sweat vanishing fabrics, contact us for more details as below:
Post time: Mar-09-2026