Hanes RS160 - Perfect Fleece Crewneck Sweatshirt - White

The Hanes RS160, sold as the Perfect Fleece (also called Perfect Sweats), is an 8 oz 80/20 cotton-polyester crewneck sweatshirt built around what Hanes calls a "clean canvas" fleece face, a construction designed specifically for direct-to-garment printing. That 80% cotton face is the RS160's defining difference from 50/50 crewnecks like the Gildan G180 or Hanes P1607: it absorbs pretreatment more evenly, holds white ink underbase better on dark grounds, and produces brighter, sharper DTG output than any 50/50 fleece in the same price tier. If your shop runs DTG on fleece regularly, the RS160 is the blank that was engineered for that workflow from the fibre up.

The 80/20 cotton-majority blend also opens decoration methods that 50/50 fleece locks out. Water-based inks and discharge printing work on the solid-colour RS160s because the cotton face accepts the chemistry, so a shop running soft-hand water-based prints on tees can carry the same ink system onto this fleece without switching to plastisol. For screen printing with plastisol, the 80% cotton face gives excellent ink holdout and the lower polyester content reduces dye migration risk compared to 50/50 fleece, so you can cure at standard temps on solids without needing a poly-block underbase. For DTF, the cotton-majority face bonds cleanly with transfer adhesives and the 8 oz body stays stable through the press cycle. Embroidery runs well on the dense 8 oz fleece with a cut-away backing for left-chest and full-back placements. There are two blend exceptions to track across the colour card. Charcoal Heather is 50/50 cotton-polyester, which raises dye migration and requires poly-block treatment identical to any standard 50/50 fleece. Light Steel is 78/22, close to the standard but with slightly more polyester. Treat Charcoal Heather as a different substrate from the rest of the RS160 line when setting your underbase and cure parameters.

• Brand: Hanes
• Style: RS160 (Perfect Fleece Crewneck Sweatshirt, also sold as Perfect Sweats)
• Fabric: 80% cotton / 20% polyester fleece (Charcoal Heather: 50/50 cotton/poly; Light Steel: 78/22 cotton/poly). Made with sustainably sourced USA grown cotton
• Weight: 8 oz/yd2
• Construction: Crewneck. 1x1 ribbed collar, cuffs, and waistband. Twill back neck tape. Double-needle stitching throughout. Locker patch. Tear-away label.
• Fit: Unisex, standard fit
• Sizes: S-5XL
• Colors available: 10 colours including White, Black, Navy, Deep Royal, Sand, Light Steel, Charcoal Heather, Smoke Grey, Athletic Red, Fatigue Green
• Ordering: available by the piece or by the dozen/case with no rigid minimum; fleece sweatshirts pack fewer units per case than tees, so confirm current case packing for your colour and size before a large order
• Care: Machine wash cold. Tumble dry low.

The RS160 holds sizing consistently across production runs, which matters for reorder programs where fit has to match between batches. The reorder note for this style: confirm whether your colourway is the standard 80/20 or the Charcoal Heather 50/50 before a repeat run, because the underbase, ink system, and cure window differ between them and a heather run printed with solid-colour settings will migrate. TheClothingSpace stocks the Hanes RS160 at wholesale pricing with bulk discounts that increase with case and unit quantity, among the lowest prices online for this style, with fast US shipping on stocked colours.

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