Color Retention Test

Whether the dyed and camouflage-printed fabrics we supply hold their shade differently when laundered and exposed under identical conditions, and whether any gap is large enough to matter for a uniform programme where panels from different lots or different suppliers must match. The comparison is between fabrics we use, tested against each other under one method; it is not a certification of any fabric against an external standard. It is intended to make shade risk visible before a buyer commits to a bulk order.

Colour is the specification a buyer's end user notices first and forgives last. A uniform programme that delivers trousers and shirts that no longer match, or a camouflage print whose contrast has flattened after a season of wear, is judged as poor quality regardless of how well the garment is built. Colour failure also creates real cost: mixed lots cannot be issued as sets, replacement items ordered later will not match the items already in service, and a programme can be forced into re-dyeing or re-cutting decisions it did not budget for. Where a buyer accepts a shade by visual approval of a sample and never tracks it through laundering and exposure, the risk sits entirely on the buyer's side of the order, and it surfaces only after the garments are already in the field.