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  <title><![CDATA[Silk & Seam]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Silk & Seam is a Tokyo boutique designing swimwear and lingerie from European fabrics, hand-finished in our Daikanyama atelier. Shop the summer collection.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to care for recycled polyamide swimwear]]></title>
    <link>https://techcorenexwave.com/notes/how-to-care-for-recycled-polyamide-swimwear.html</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Recycled polyamide is a better fabric than virgin nylon in almost every respect: it holds its shape longer, takes dye more evenly, and uses significantly less water to produce. But it has the same vulnerabilities as any stretch fabric. Chlorine, heat, and mechanical stress will degrade it over time. The question is how quickly, and what you can do about it.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Choosing between silk and microfibre for everyday lingerie]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The question comes up in almost every fitting appointment: should I choose silk or microfibre? The honest answer is that they are not competing for the same role. Silk and microfibre behave differently against the body, wear differently over time, and require different levels of attention. Which one suits you depends on how you live, not on which one sounds more luxurious.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How swimwear sizing works in Japan, and why it matters]]></title>
    <link>https://techcorenexwave.com/notes/how-swimwear-is-sized-in-japan.html</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sizing in swimwear is less standardised than in ready-to-wear clothing, and the gap between Japanese, European, and US conventions is wide enough to cause real problems. If you have ever ordered swimwear from a Japanese brand and found it smaller than expected, or from a European brand and found it larger, the sizing system is usually the reason.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What actually makes a bandeau bikini top stay in place]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The bandeau bikini top has a reputation for being unreliable. It slips, it gaps, it requires constant adjustment. That reputation is earned by most of the bandeaus on the market, which are constructed as a simple tube of fabric with elastic at the top and bottom. A bandeau that actually works is a different garment, and the difference is in the structure.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why we source fabric from Lyon and Porto, not closer to home]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We are asked, fairly often, why we do not source our fabrics in Japan. Japan has excellent textile mills. Nishijin for silk, Enshu for cotton, Kiryu for synthetic weaves. The honest answer is that we looked, and we could not find what we needed for swimwear and lingerie specifically. The European mills had been developing performance stretch fabrics for the swimwear and lingerie market for decades longer, and the difference in the finished fabric is real.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-22</pubDate>
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