Switching patternmakers, graders, or factories doesn’t mean starting over on your fit and sizing. You’ve worked hard to achieve your brand’s fit and sizing. There is no need to throw that away. With the right tools, open communication, and quality checks, you can find a better-fit partner without risking a worse fit for your products.
Size-inclusive fit doesn’t just begin with grading more sizes of your pattern. It starts far earlier in the design stage. Size-inclusivity starts with how you think about your customer, conceptualize your designs, and consider each detail for different bodies.
Without a good size chart, your customers will be confused and disappointed – and your return rates will show it. If you don’t have a size chart (or your current one isn’t working to help your customers find their best size), read on for a step-by-step guide to making a size chart for your fashion brand.
Have you ever wondered what the sizes on American women’s clothing labels really mean? As a brand, creating easy-to-understand, well-fitting sizing for your designs can be a challenge. Use the quick guide below to see the different sizing options, what they mean, and when it makes sense to use one sizing method over another.
3D software offers an array of tools that can help reduce physical samples, speed up design and development, and communicate designs more effectively. If you have been wanting to start using 3D in your process and are wondering how to do so, here are four of my favorite ways to use 3D for fashion.
In the fashion industry or not, it seems like the assumption is that plus sizes are harder to fit. But, is it actually true that plus sizes are harder to fit or has our society spent so much of its attention dressing thin people that it has made us wary of dressing larger bodies?
Many brands I’ve talked to want to become size-inclusive, but have had to limit their initial size range due to financial or logistic reasons in the meantime. So, when you are able to invest in extending your size range, how do you go about adding the new sizes to your existing styles?
Choosing the right size can be a difficult guessing-game as a customer. Choosing the right sizing for your brand can be even more daunting. When you are deciding what sizes to make for your new brand or product category, here are four steps to clear up the sizing confusion.
It takes a lot of knowledge of your customer, research and expertise, and sometimes trial and error to get the perfect sizing for your brand. How will you know when it might be time to improve your sizing? If any of these five things occur, you might need to give your sizing an update.
Size charts, spec charts, and grade rules are all terms that are thrown around a lot during development and pre-production. While they do sound (and sometimes look a bit) similar, their meanings are all distinct and each has a different use and purpose.