French lace is the old original. French lace is extremely delicate and easily torn. The new mono laces are just as fine and just as hard to detect, but more durable. Some people have us to build the whole piece of lace, while others just use lace in the front, but with more durable mesh materials on the rest of the piece. If you order a custom lace front, you should tell us how wide you want the lace to be.
Some people order as little as a quarter of an inch of lace along the front.
Some order an inch. Some want the front half of the piece to be lace. A growing number of people are having the entire piece made of lace. When the whole piece is made of lace it is extremely light and airy, but delicate. I suggest that you put at least some PU area on such a piece, maybe just around the back and sides, so you'll have some stronger material for attachment purposes.