Bella + Canvas 8816 - Women's Slouchy T-Shirt - Gray Triblend

The Bella + Canvas 8816 is the Women's Slouchy Tee, a loose, drapey fashion body that Bella runs across an unusually wide fabrication range, where every colour family is a different poly-rich blend rather than one fabric in many colours. It is the blank a decorator reaches for when a women's line wants a relaxed, lived-in drape rather than a fitted retail crew, and is willing to print to a poly-rich substrate to get that hand. It suits women's fashion programs, boutique reorders, soft drape merch lines and any decorated women's order built around a slouchy silhouette rather than a body-skimming fit. The slouchy fit hangs away from the body, the scoop neckline sits wide, the subtle curved hem finishes the front, and the side-seamed construction shapes the drape. What makes the 8816 unusual is the fabrication map: triblend colours run a 3.8 oz 50/25/25 poly/cotton/rayon at 40 singles, solid colours run a 3.7 oz 65% polyester / 35% viscose at 32 singles, marble colours run a 4.0 oz 91% polyester / 9% Airlume cotton, speckled colours run a 4.0 oz 50/25/25, slub colours run a 4.0 oz 50/37.5/12.5 poly/cotton/rayon, and the athletic heathers run a 52% polyester / 48% viscose. The size range runs S through 2XL, in the full spread of triblend, marble, speckled, slub and solid fashion colours.

The 8816 decorates as a poly-rich fashion tee, so the polyester sets the rule for every method and dye migration is the constant to manage, on a marble colour the body is 91% polyester. For DTF, the transfer bonds at standard heat-press settings across every colourway, which makes it the universal route and the only safe choice for a mixed-fabrication order that combines triblend, marble, slub and solid colours in one run. For DTG, none of the colourways are cotton-dominant, the most cotton in the range is the slub at 37.5%, so the ink reads soft, tonal and faded rather than fully opaque, needs a white underbase and a poly-ready pretreat on the dark grounds, and lands most muted on the poly/viscose solids and the marbles, which on a fashion tee is the intended drapey hand. For screen printing with plastisol, run a poly-blocking, low-bleed underbase and a reduced cure on every colourway so the disperse dye does not migrate up and ghost the print, and treat the marbles as the worst case since they carry the highest polyester load. For water-based inks, a pigment print can sit on top for a soft hand, but a true discharge barely lifts because the solids are poly and viscose with no cotton and the triblend and speckled grounds are only about a quarter cotton, so reserve any discharge effect for the higher-cotton slubs. For embroidery, the slouchy body is soft and lightweight, so back it with a cut-away stabiliser and keep the design light so the drape does not pucker, with small left-chest logos holding best. For vinyl, a soft flexible HTV presses cleanly on the smooth poly-rich face and keeps the drapey hand. Sublimation does not apply, since the tee is piece-dyed in fashion colours and the cotton and rayon content will not hold disperse dye reliably.

• Brand: Bella + Canvas
• Style: 8816 (Women's Slouchy Tee)
• Fabric: varies by colourway, triblend 50/25/25 poly/cotton/rayon; solid 65% polyester / 35% viscose; marble 91% polyester / 9% Airlume cotton; speckled 50/25/25; slub 50/37.5/12.5; athletic heather 52% polyester / 48% viscose
• Weight: 3.7 to 4.0 oz/yd2 depending on colourway
• Construction: Poly-rich fashion jersey, women's slouchy fit, scoop neckline, subtle curved hem, side-seamed.
• Fit: Women's slouchy, drapey
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL
• Colors available: 30 fashion colours across triblend, marble, speckled, slub and solid families (check current availability on the product page)
• Ordering: available by the piece or by the case; confirm current packing per case for your colour and size before a large order
• Care: Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low.

The reorder note specific to this style: treat it as a poly-rich fashion tee, not a cotton crew, so route a mixed-colour order to DTF, run a poly-blocking low-bleed underbase with a reduced cure on plastisol with the marbles as the worst case, lay a white underbase under DTG and expect a soft faded hand, skip discharge except a faint lift on the slubs, and keep embroidery light so the drape does not pucker. Because the fabrication changes by colour, sample your art on the exact colour family you plan to run before a large order, since a triblend, a marble and a solid will each carry a print differently. Cross-shop the Bella + Canvas 8815 Women's Slouchy V-Neck Tee to run the same drapey fashion fabrication with a V-neckline, and step across to the Bella + Canvas 6004 Women's The Favorite Tee for a fitted, clean-printing 100% Airlume cotton women's tee when a job needs crisp opaque prints rather than the poly-rich drape. TheClothingSpace stocks the 8816 at wholesale pricing with bulk discounts that increase as case and unit quantities rise, among the lowest prices online for this style, with fast US shipping on stocked colours.

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