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The small details of my logo disappear when printed?
Short answer: Isolated elements smaller than 0.3 mm (very small separate letters, for example) may not survive the film being peeled off after transfer — especially on a fabric with a coarse weave.
Cause
In DTF printing, the logo is printed onto a film, transferred with heat, then the film is peeled off. An isolated element — one surrounded by empty space, and therefore cut out all the way round — smaller than 0.3 mm may not hold when the film comes off, and can leave with it.
The risk goes up when the fabric weave is not fine: the detail has too little material to grip onto.
This only concerns isolated elements. A thin line that belongs to a shape connected to the rest of the logo causes no trouble.
A vector file changes nothing here
This is a physical limit, not a question of resolution: the film will not hold an element that is too small, however fine the file is. A logo uploaded as an SVG is exposed to it exactly as a PNG would be.
Solution
Three approaches, which you can combine depending on what you are able to get changed.
1. Fix the artwork. Have your graphic designer thicken or connect those elements: a detail attached to the rest of the logo is no longer at risk.
2. Make the marking bigger. Increase the marking size so those details go back above 0.3 mm at the real print scale.
3. Two logos: the detailed one for large markings, a stripped-down one for small markings. This is the answer when the details cannot be taken out of the official logo — a piece of micro-text, a baseline, a founding date. Keep the full logo for large placements, where the details survive the scale: a large chest marking, the middle of the back. And have a second, stripped-down logo prepared, cleared of micro-text and isolated elements, for all the small markings: heart placement, cap, sleeve. Name them unambiguously (“Full logo”, “Stripped-down logo”) — that is what will stop you picking the wrong one when you place them.
A second logo, not a “version”
In the app, a version is a size of the same artwork: it cannot hold a different drawing — see What is a logo version and why are there several. A stripped-down logo is therefore a logo in its own right, uploaded separately under “My logos”, with its own versions. Nothing ties your logos to each other: you are free to choose which one goes on each placement — see Can I use different logos on different products.