Garments are like a project, including design and manufacturer. The most important part in the manufacturing process is choosing materials, which can be divided into lining and other accessories. Garment accessory is made up of lining, sewing thread, padding, decorative material, zipper, button, hanger, leather, logo,metal labels, barcode labels, etc and indispensable in playing the role as decorating garments and expanding garments’ function.

No matter what kind of materials it is made of, accessory largely affects both the garments’ inner and exterior quality. For example, lining and sewing thread mainly have an influence on garments’ longer functional use. But from other prospective, they are also considered as decoration. Garment accessory is always related to apparel design, which may be further more crucial than the material itself. Proper accessory adds a finishing touch to clothes, making them more remarkable and unique than any other. Take metal labels for example.

With the development of technology, metal is no longer the flavor of heavy industry, instead garment industry draw greater attention to it. Metal is applied as a material of labels, namely metal labels, to have brand’s name or logo printed or debossed on, reinforcing the brand and helping in the enhancement of brand image. Metal labels nowadays are widely used on bags, jeans, shoes and cases to deliver brand information and add a finishing touch. Due to durability, firmness, and abrasion resistance, they are a good way to develop the class of products and strike customers. But unmatched labels cannot leave without advanced technique. Today plenty of varied techniques can be adopted on metal labels, such as debossing and electric plating. Debossing is a process of pressing a recess image by using an un-inked blocks or die on paper or board. And electric plating is a process of putting a metal velar on metal to increase abrasion and beauty. All these techniques are to make labels even garments delicate enough to stand out from the rest.