Hoods can make bathrobes more attractive while creating a warm and relaxed look. However, uneven hood proportions may cause the collar to pull back, making the bathrobe uncomfortable to wear. If the hood is relatively small, it will lose its practicality and design effect, and even its proportion may not match the bathrobe. If you don’t know how to handle it, you will find the answer in this article.

Why Hooded Bathrobes Are Popular

The hooded design of the bathrobe offers excellent warmth retention. After a shower or a swim, when your hair is still damp, the hood helps minimize heat loss from your head and keeps you warm.

The hooded style is also more youthful. The hood adds a casual feel, making the bathrobe suitable for slow mornings, relaxing at home while watching TV, or enjoying a vacation. It is a versatile garment suitable for a wide range of occasions.

Best Fabrics for Hooded Bathrobes

For brands and wholesalers, there is no single best fabric for hooded bathrobes. The right choice depends on the purpose of the hooded bathrobe, the season, and your target market.

You are ordering 500 hooded bathrobes for a seaside resort hotel. The hotel wants guests to wear the bathrobes after showering or while relaxing by the pool. You may think that softer fabrics are more high-end, so you chose a 300gsm flannel fleece robe.

After receiving the sample, it feels very soft to the touch. The quoted price also seems reasonable. However, flannel bathrobes have limited water absorption and may not be suitable for year-round hotel use. Although it feels good to the touch, its water absorption is not as good as the cotton terry bathrobe.

In this case, 300-450gsm cotton terry fabric may be more suitable. A flannel hooded bathrobe would be more suitable for the bedroom or living room.

Popular Hood Designs for Custom Bathrobes

Hoods not only affect the warmth and comfort of bathrobes, but also the overall style of bathrobes. Hooded bathrobe suppliers can customize the hood style you need according to your target market. Different hood styles have different characteristics.

How to Customize Hooded Bathrobes for Your Brand

Customizing a hooded bathrobe is not just about adding a hood to it. But it is necessary to adjust the hood depth, hood width, hood opening shape, and the position of the hood-to-neckline seam according to the weight and actual use of the bathrobe fabric. If guests mainly wear the bathrobe after showering, you should give the hood enough depth to cover wet hair comfortably. You can’t just pursue the appearance of the bathrobe itself.

When you want to make a matching adult and children’s bathrobes, the hood style cannot be directly reduced from adult to children’s style. Different sizes of bathrobes require adjusting the coverage and proportion of the hood separately. A truly good hooded bathrobe is not the bigger the hood, the better, but the overall beauty when worn on the body, and the natural shape when taken off.

Autumn is coming soon, and you plan to customize a hooded bathrobe with animal ear style. On the design of the bathrobe, the ears look very three-dimensional, but after the first sample, it was discovered that the ears were too far back. When the bathrobe is hung up, it looks fine, but when the customer is wearing it, their ears are almost invisible from the front.

At this point, you can’t just enlarge the ears, but adjust the curvature of the animal’s ears and change the stitching position at the bottom of the ears. For brand owners and wholesalers, these details directly affect the purchasing desire of your customers.

What to Confirm Before Ordering Custom Hooded Bathrobes

When you confirm the order for a hooded bathrobe, you cannot just look at the flat rendering shown by the bathrobe supplier or the rendering on the model. Because many problems only become visible after wearing or washing on the body.

You also need to focus on confirming these points:

Confirm the fit and comfort of the hooded after wearing it:

After receiving the sample of a customized hooded bathrobe, you need to actually try it on and check if the hood covers your line of sight, and if the hood is prone to slipping off when you turn your head.

Check if the back collar will be pulled backwards when not wearing a hood:

When your customers purchase hooded bathrobes, most of the time, they won’t be wearing hoods all the time. But if the hood is too bulky, it will pull the collar back, causing the front collar to move up. This issue is not visible on hangers or product images.

Check whether the weight of the hooded bathrobe after absorbing water is acceptable to you:

A hooded bathrobe may be lighter in weight when dry, but after the hood absorbs water, its weight noticeably increases. If your market is aimed at hotels or spas, you need to test the wet state of bathrobes.

You have customized a batch of hooded bathrobes for sale in winter, and there are no issues with the samples. But due to the high shipping cost of bulk goods, you have to ask the factory to save packing space and compress the robes to reduce carton volume.

After a long period of transportation, when you receive the bathrobe, there is a noticeable crease in the middle of the hood. A regular bathrobe has no problem when unfolded, but when hanging a hooded bathrobe in a store or taking product photos, the deformation of the hood is very obvious. You have to increase the labor cost in the warehouse, which will also affect the planned launch or shelf date for your bathrobe.

Why Choose Renree for Hooded Bathrobe Production

RENREE has over 150 workers and a monthly output of over 82,000 pieces, capable of handling bulk orders for bathrobes from brand owners, wholesalers, and hotel customers. We have been focusing on producing different bathrobe fabrics and can provide you with one-stop service from samples to bulk packaging.

For hooded bathrobes, we will check the hood proportions, seam fastness, and stability after washing for you when producing samples. A good bathrobe supplier can save you a lot of time and communication costs during the process of customizing bathrobes.

FAQ

1. How can I avoid the bathrobe hood pulling the bathrobe back?

The size of the bathrobe hood, the fabric GSM, and the neckline construction must be balanced. Before mass production, confirm the proportions at the junction of the hood and the collar.

2. Does the hood need to use the same fabric as the bathrobe body?

Not necessarily. Some buyers use contrasting colors for the hood to enhance the appearance. However, regardless of the fabric used, the shrinkage rates of the hood lining and the body of the bathrobe must be similar.

3. Does the hood of a terry cloth bathrobe become very heavy after absorbing water?

That is certainly possible, especially with heavy-weight terry cloth or double-layered hoods; the bathrobe becomes significantly heavier overall when wet.

4. Can manufacturers use one hood pattern for every bathrobe size?

We do not recommend doing this. The same hood style may appear larger on a small size hooded bathrobe, but the size may be smaller on a large size hooded bathrobe. It is prone to issues with disproportionate scaling.

5. Will animal ears on a bathrobe hood retain their three-dimensional shape after shipping?

Not always. Before transporting the bathrobe, we will fold it up and pack the hood and ears as completely as possible.

6. What should you check after receiving a hooded bathrobe sample?

Put on the hooded bathrobe and test how it behaves when turning your head and how the neckline withstands tension, as well as how the robe changes after washing. Also, check whether the shape of the hood is symmetrical.

7. Can you order multiple hood styles in one custom bathrobe order?

Your order quantity will determine how many hood styles you can customize. In general, the more hood styles there are, the more processes involved in sampling, cutting, and production will be.

Final Thoughts

The hooded bathrobe order not only includes soft fabrics and attractive samples, but also the hood must be balanced with the bathrobe when worn. Please share your preferred bathrobe fabric, GSM, size range, and order quantity with RENREE，and we will help you confirm key details before mass production.