What does grammage or the term "gsm" mean for clothing?
This refers to the weight of the fabric in grams per square meter (abbreviated to gsm). The value tells you how heavy one square meter of the material is. However, this information alone does not say anything about the quality of a garment. Nevertheless, heavier fabrics are often more resistant, durable, and at least appear to be of higher quality.
T-shirts usually have a grammage of 140-200gsm. 140gsm is considered a thin and very light shirt, while 200gsm can be described as a medium-weight T-shirt. For our premium blank T-shirts, we use 200gsm fabric (medium weight) . Our oversized T-shirts are a slightly heavier quality at 250gsm . For most of our hoodies and sweaters, we use a heavier Italian fleece fabric with 420-500gsm. This fabric has the advantage of being very robust and durable. Furthermore, it is heavy and thick enough that it can be used without the usual fluffy inner fleece (unbrushed). If you have any further questions, please contact us by email ( team@dirts.eu ).