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How many ducks’ down do you need for a down jacket?

The Sijiqing Women’s Clothing Market in Jianggan District, Hangzhou City is the largest distribution center for brand clothing in the Yangtze River Delta. The merchants here have amazing shipments throughout the year. Every winter here, Hangpai fashion down jackets are sold all over the country. We talked about some brand down jackets. They said that they have been operating here for six or seven years. The main reason for opening this stall is that Hangzhou is an important base for the fashion down jacket industry, and there are many down jacket manufacturers gathered here.

At present, whether it is domestic or foreign down jackets, the main fillings are duck down and goose down. Duck down has two colors, white and gray. Although the colors are different, there is not much difference between the two raw materials in terms of price and warmth retention. Goose down has better warmth retention and is more expensive. Goose down is more expensive than duck down, because goose has a longer growth cycle and less output, because it may take four to five months before slaughtering, although the amount is small, the wool is stronger.

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According to national standards, if the down content is 90%, a down jacket generally needs to be filled with 120g of down, then at least 13 ducks are needed, and a down quilt needs at least 160 ducks to make a 1.5kg down quilt .

Usually the standard for down jackets is 90% of the national standard, so its down content must be 90%, up to about 95%.

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The core value of the bulkiness is to measure the ability of the down to store still air, because the warmth of our down is achieved by the amount of still air stored in the down. Because air is a very good carrier with a very small heat transfer coefficient in nature.

In order to test the bulkiness of down, Manager Li explained: Take down with the same quality and weight and put it in a measuring cylinder, add a cover to the top of the measuring cylinder, and check the scale where the cover falls at the end. The higher the value, the better the loft, and the lower the scale, the lower the quality of the down.

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After more than ten years of vigorous development of down jackets, the continuous innovation of down jackets, in fact, the industry itself should have reached a peak stage from the second half of 2013, and then it is greatly affected by the external environment. First, the e-commerce platform The impact of another down jacket, the overall market saturation of the down jacket, in the past two years, the down jacket clothing brand is in a process of reshuffling.


Post time: Apr-26-2023