Category Manufacturing

There are two clocks in a clothing order, and they are separate. Sampling is one; bulk production is the other. Confusing them is the most common reason a first programme misses its launch date, because a figure that sounds like…

First orders go wrong for predictable reasons. The fabric arrives a different weight from the one in the sample, the timeline quoted turns out to cover only part of the work, or a detail that was agreed in a message…

Starting a clothing line is mostly a sequencing problem. The brands that get to a first bulk order smoothly are not the ones with the most ambitious designs; they are the ones who settled the fabric, the size chart and…

If you are sourcing custom clothing from China for the first time, the number you want most is the minimum order quantity. Ours is 100 pieces per style, per colour. That is a fixed figure rather than a starting point…