This design belongs to the Secret Garden range, a botanical family built on foliage rather than single blooms, and it is the blue one. Dense leaf work on a small panel is a harder ask than it sounds, because green and blue tones sit close together and a weak print collapses the difference between them. Why Botanical Detail Needs Space Close tones need a full color range. Sublimation dyes the fiber and reproduces the gradient between adjacent shades, where a surface layer tends to flatten them into one. No ridge across the foliage. Flat seams and no sewn-in label, so a dense pattern is not interrupted by the construction holding it. Four-way stretch so the knit gives in both directions and leaf shapes are not pulled long across the hip. A 95% cotton gusset under the printed outer, which puts breathability where it is needed rather than everywhere. How Blue Holds Through Washing Blue is the shade people expect to lose first, and on a surface print they usually do, because the printed layer thins before it disappears. Color driven into the yarn behaves differently: nothing rests on the surface to wear away, so the tone stays where the design put it. What changes with time is the knit rather than the shade, so the care routine protects the fit. Washing a dark or saturated pair with pale items is worth avoiding for the first few cycles regardless of print method. Where a Blue Print Goes A dense botanical in blue is the quiet member of a printed drawer, and that makes it the one that gets worn most. It disappears under denim, under black, under anything with texture, which covers most of an ordinary week. It is also the easier choice if bright prints are not usually your register but plain feels like a waste of a drawer. Deep blue against a light skirt is the one situation where this design announces itself, and that is contrast doing it rather than the fabric being thin. Nothing here is seasonal despite the subject, and nothing is reserved for anything. It is the plainest kind of garment with a garden printed across it. Fabric, Sizes and Care Outer fabric: 83% polyester, 17% elastane. Gusset: 95% cotton, 5% elastane, which is the breathable part of the garment. Stretch: four-way, so the knit gives across the body as well as along it. Styles: slip and thong. Sizes: Small, Medium, Large, X-Large. How to measure: run the tape around the widest part of the hip. Hip measurement: Small 87 to 93 cm, Medium 94 to 99, Large 100 to 106, X-Large 106 to 116. Brand: Memème, a label that describes itself as Ukrainian and states its underwear is made in Ukraine. Finish: flat seams, no elastic bands, no sewn-in labels. Care: gentle wash, hand ironing, no dry cleaning. Before You Order Does the blue run in the wash? The pigment is bonded to the thread rather than resting on it, so it does not bleed. Keeping it away from pale laundry at the start is still sensible with anything this saturated. Which cut shows more of the print? The slip, because it carries a full rear panel. A thong leaves only the front and waist printed, so the botanical reads as tone rather than as leaves.
