Tech Pack vs Spec Sheet

Tech Pack vs Spec Sheet

A spec sheet and a tech pack are essential documents in fashion production, but they serve different purposes.

Mastering Quality Control in Apparel Manufacturing: Insider Secrets for Emerging Fashion Designers

Mastering Quality Control in Apparel Manufacturing: Insider Secrets for Emerging Fashion Designers

Quality Control (QC) isn't just about ensuring your garments look good; it's your ticket to exceeding customer expectations, minimizing issues and setbacks, and optimizing production efficiency. By maintaining stringent QC standards, you deliver exceptional products and establish your brand as a reliable force in the industry.

When done right, it will make your life easier, decrease your stress level, increase your profit, and reduce waste.

The Different Types of Cotton

The Different Types of Cotton

Cotton is one of the textile industry's most widely used natural fibers. However, conventional cotton production methods have raised concerns about sustainability, environmental impact, and worker welfare. 

In response, various alternatives have emerged, including organic cotton, recycled cotton, cotton produced under the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), as well as a few other specialized types of cotton.

Let's dive into the different types of cotton and shed light on their differences and contributions to a more sustainable future.

5 Signs of a Bad Clothing Manufacturer

5 Signs of a Bad Clothing Manufacturer

Clothing manufacturing is not for the faint-hearted. Working with the wrong manufacturer can end your business, especially if you are a new brand.

You can take steps to find the right factory. However, some signs will only be noticed once you work with the factory.

So what are the symptoms that should make you run away from a factory?

Natural Dyes vs. Fiber-Reactive Dyes, Unveiling the Differences

Natural Dyes vs. Fiber-Reactive Dyes, Unveiling the Differences

Natural dyes and fiber-reactive dyes are two different dyes used for coloring fabrics or fibers. While they both bring hues and vibrancy to textiles, their origins, chemical compositions, application processes, colorfastness, color range, and environmental impact set them apart.

3 Tips For Grading Apparel Products

3 Tips For Grading Apparel Products

If you are developing a new apparel product for the first time, you’ll find yourself asking these questions:

At what stage should you grade your pattern?

What grading rules should you follow?

What range of sizes can you grade using one pattern?

Why Is Producing A Small Production Run Expensive?

Why Is Producing A Small Production Run Expensive?

Producing small batches has many advantages on many levels…but it has one major challenge - It’s expensive.

Prices in production are a factor of quantities, which is why most factories don’t want to work with small batches . It’s not economical for them.

Here is why.

3 Tips For Working With a Patternmaker

3 Tips For Working With a Patternmaker

Finding the right patternmaker for your product and knowing how to work with them and what to provide them is critical for the success of your product development and the production of your fashion product.

These 3 tips will help you get better and quicker results from your patternmaker.

What Is The Most Profitable Category In Apparel?

What Is The Most Profitable Category In Apparel?

The answer is one of these industry "secrets" that if you are new to the industry, and especially if you do sew or never produced apparel before, you simply wouldn't know it...

Yet once you hear the answer, I bet you'll go, "oh yes, that makes a lot of sense."

In this video, I also share info about the cost of labor and why certain categories are assumed to cost less than others...

What Are The Different Types of Samples And Their Purpose?

What Are The Different Types of Samples And Their Purpose?

If you are new to the fashion industry and especially the development and production processes this is something you need to know of.

There are different types of samples that are made in the process, each has its own name and its own purpose.

How Many Styles Should You Launch Your Fashion Brand With?

How Many Styles Should You Launch Your Fashion Brand With?

What is the ideal number of styles that you should offer when launching your fashion brand?

On one hand, you don’t want to invest in a big line until you get your proof of concept, but on the other hand, you want your line to look big enough so it will be taken seriously.

Is there a magic number you should be aware of?

How Many Rounds of Fitting Should I Have When Developing a Fashion Product?

How Many Rounds of Fitting Should I Have When Developing a Fashion Product?

Developing a new apparel product is complex and requires numerous rounds of samples and fitting before you can get it right.

If you are new to this process, and since each round is an additional cost and time, the question becomes how many fittings rounds is reasonable to have? And how many rounds are too many?

How To Become A more Sustainable Fashion Brand

How To Become A more Sustainable Fashion Brand

The fashion industry is in major need of a change and needs to adopt sustainable practices. We’ve been getting questions from fashion designers and brands who are asking how can they become more sustainable in their business? Here are tips on what you can do to integrate more sustainable practices into your business.

How to Build Long Term Relationships With Your Manufacturers

How to Build Long Term Relationships With Your Manufacturers

COVID 19 exposed an unethicz22p3al fashion industry where brands and retailers treat their manufacturers with little to no respect. Those same factories that they depended on for years to produce their products are now being ignored, left with canceled orders to fend themselves.

The Future of The Fashion Industry Post Covid-19

The Future of The Fashion Industry Post Covid-19

We’ve been polluting the environment, mistreating people, and disrespecting human lives for years now. Could the COVID-19 pandemic be the BEST THING that ever happened to the fashion industry? Is this our wake-up call? Check out this video to find out.

Solving Inventory Challenges in a Consumer-Led Marketplace

Solving Inventory Challenges in a Consumer-Led Marketplace

The apparel industry is still largely playing a guessing game when it comes to merchandising, pinning their hopes on goods with commitments that were made months in advance with only an inkling of what tastes will be in the future.

It’s a high-stakes venture that many are losing.

How to Source Fabrics for Your Fashion Product

How to Source Fabrics for Your Fashion Product

Sourcing the right fabrics for your fashion products is half of the battle in developing the perfect garment.

However, the process can be overwhelming, long and frustrating, especially for a new brand that is new to the industry and can't yet commit to high volume.

How can you make this process more effective and less complicated?

Below I've put a checklist of the steps and actions that you should take to help you with that.

Design with Production In Mind

Design with Production In Mind

“We are experiencing many issues with our production, can you help us with this?”

If I had a cent for every time that I heard that sentence I would probably be retired by now.

Most fashion brands (especially if they are new or small), assume that since production is the last part in the process they’ll just worry about it when they get to it, and rather choose to focus mainly on designing and making the perfect samples.

NEWS FLASH - that is the wrong approach.

4 Misconceptions About Launching a Fashion Kickstarter

4 Misconceptions About Launching a Fashion Kickstarter

If you’re one of those entrepreneurs currently weighing your options about how to launch your company or a new collection, keep reading.

Today I want to go over four of the major misconceptions about launching a crowdfunding campaign.

MISCONCEPTION #1: Kickstarter = “donations.”

The Future of Our Fashion Industry

The Future of Our Fashion Industry

Where do we go from here?

The fashion industry is challenged with this question for a few years now, with no answer just yet.

Here is where we are now:

  • Globalization and technology changed the supply chain.
  • Fast fashion companies disrupted the market and created new standards of speed to market.