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Why You Should Be Paying for Patterns and Development (and What it Means if You’re Not)

Costing, Industry Basics, Patternmaking, Product Development

You may think you just got lucky finding a factory that would develop your patterns and make you samples for free as part of your production order. What you might not realize is that those “free” samples and development will cost you in other ways.

My Top Resource Recommendations to Help You Grow Your Apparel Brand This Year

Fashion Resources

Around New Year’s there is always a focus on dreaming of what’s next and making goals to get there. If one of your goals this year is to launch or grow your apparel brand, here are my top resource recommendations that will help you make it happen.

The Question I Ask Every Factory: What Do You Specialize In?

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Whether I’m meeting a new factory at a trade show or interviewing a factory for a client project, the one question that I always ask is ”What do you specialize in?” How they answer tells me what type of work I should send them and whether I want to work with them at all.

Important Steps in Product Development You Are Tempted to Skip (and What Can Go Wrong if You Do)

Fit, Industry Basics, Product Development, Sizing, Tech Design

When deadlines are approaching or budgets get tight, it is tempting to skip over some steps to get to the production stage quicker. In the long run, though, skipping steps can really cost you. Here are five steps that are tempting to skip, but are actually critical to the success of your end product.

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