Materials
Fabric & care
- Last updated
- 11 August 2026
- Applies to
- JBM APPAREL LLC, trading as Repset, at shopjbmapparel.shop
- Governing law
- State of Florida, USA
The three labels on every piece
Federal law requires three things on a textile product, and we publish all three online too:
- Fibre content — every fibre present at 5% or more, by percentage, in descending order. Where a piece has a separate lining or gusset, we break that out separately rather than averaging it.
- Care instructions — a full set covering washing, bleaching, drying, ironing and dry cleaning.
- Country of origin — where the garment was manufactured.
This is enforced in code as well as in process: a piece missing any of the three is dropped from the storefront by a render guard and simply does not appear. There is no path by which a product page can go live without them.
The fibres we use
| Fibre | Why it is there | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| Recycled nylon | Strength and recovery in leg pieces; holds opacity under stretch | Heavier than polyester at the same handle |
| Recycled polyester | Light, dries fast, holds colour | Less soft next to skin than nylon or modal |
| Elastane | Stretch and recovery — the reason a legging comes back to shape | Degrades with heat; why every care label says tumble low |
| Cotton | Handle and breathability in tees, fleece and hoods | Slow to dry; not used where drying time matters |
| Modal and TENCEL™ Lyocell | Drape and softness in flow pieces | Lower abrasion resistance than a synthetic |
Where a fabric is recycled, it is post-consumer or post-industrial content certified by the mill. Where a piece has a silicone grip print, that is stated in the fibre line too, because it changes how the piece must be dried.
Country of origin
Our range is currently manufactured in:
- China
- Portugal
- Portugal and Vietnam. See each piece for its own country of origin.
- Sri Lanka
- Türkiye
- Vietnam
- Vietnam and Sri Lanka. See each piece for its own country of origin.
- Vietnam, Portugal and Sri Lanka. See each piece for its own country of origin.
Each product page names the country for that specific piece. Kits list every country involved, because the pieces in a kit are not all made in the same place.
We do not label anything “Made in USA”. That claim has a strict legal standard — effectively all significant processing and effectively all components have to be domestic — and we do not have documentation that would support it for any piece in this range. So we do not say it. If that changes, and we hold the certificates to prove it, we will say it then.
Care symbol reference
| Symbol | Means | In practice |
|---|---|---|
| Tub with a number | Maximum wash temperature in °C | 30 °C on everything we sell. Cold works; hot destroys elastane. |
| Tub with one bar underneath | Gentle or synthetics cycle | Lower agitation. Less abrasion, less pilling. |
| Crossed-out triangle | Do not bleach | Includes oxygen bleach and most stain removers. |
| Circle in a square with one dot | Tumble dry low | The only tumble setting that is safe for elastane. |
| Crossed-out circle in a square | Do not tumble dry | Applies to the grip socks — heat lifts the silicone print. |
| Iron with dots | Maximum iron temperature | Never iron elastic, waistbands, bonded seams or reflective trim. |
| Crossed-out circle | Do not dry clean | Solvents break down elastane and water-repellent finishes. |
Washing technical knits
- Cold, gentle, inside out. The outside of the fabric is the side you see; turning it inside out puts the abrasion on the face you do not.
- Wash with like fabrics. A zip or a Velcro tab in the same load will pull a fine knit. Close every zip before it goes in.
- Half the detergent you think. Excess detergent does not rinse fully out of a dense knit, and the residue is what makes technical fabric feel stiff and hold smell.
- No fabric softener, ever. It coats the fibre, which flattens the knit structure the fabric relies on to breathe.
- Wash soon after training. Leaving a damp piece balled up in a bag is the single biggest cause of a knit that never smells clean again.
- Tumble low or line dry. Heat is what kills elastane. A legging that has gone baggy at the knee has usually been dried hot, not worn out.
Looking after a water-repellent finish
Our shells use a non-fluorinated durable water repellent finish. It wears off with use and with dirt, and it is not permanent.
- Wash the shell when water stops beading — a dirty face fabric wets out faster than a clean one.
- Tumble dry on low for 20 minutes after washing. The heat reactivates the finish, and a shell that has been line dried will often repel worse until it has been through a dryer.
- When reactivation stops working, reproof with a wash-in or spray-on non-fluorinated product.
None of this makes a shell waterproof. Our shells have no membrane and untaped seams, and they will wet through in sustained rain. See how we test — water resistance.
Treatments we do not apply
No antibacterial, antimicrobial or anti-odour treatment is applied to any piece we sell. Not silver, not zinc, not a branded finish. We make no claim of that kind anywhere on this site.
What we do instead is structural: open knit constructions in the pieces meant for hard sessions, and fibre blends that release soil in a cold wash. If a garment smells, it needs washing — that is the honest answer, and it is the only one we will give you.
We also do not apply flame retardants, wrinkle-resist resins or formaldehyde-based finishes to anything in this range.
Pilling and how to slow it
Every piece has a pilling grade on its product page, assessed to ASTM D3512 with a 30-minute tumble on a 1 to 5 scale where 5 is no change. Nothing we sell grades below 3–4.
Pilling is abrasion, so what slows it is less abrasion: wash inside out, use a gentle cycle, keep zips and Velcro out of the load, and do not overfill the drum. A pill that does appear can be removed with a fabric shaver without damaging the knit — do not pull it, which takes the fibre with it.
Fabric weight and pilling grade for every piece are listed on its product page and are filterable in the shop.
Questions about this policy
Write to support@jbmapparel.shop or call +1 818 731 8640, Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:00 Eastern Time. Post reaches us at JBM APPAREL LLC, 2439 Chateau Loop, Kissimmee, FL 34741, USA. There is also a contact form.