Fashion Factories: The Questions Behind Every Garment

Can you do this?

Most frequently it is one of the questions-a misfurled fashion factory have to face.

Sometimes it is straightforward. Sometimes the reference item would spark an extensive conversation.

Because the same garment can be seen so very differently by both a designer and a factory.

The designer feels and sees the outline, the fabric, the ambiance and all of the elements.

The factory sees the pattern, the construction, the material, the measurement, and is just doing the pattern,construction, material, measurement over and over again.

Where the real interesting work starts.

“Make It Oversized”

A designer could state that they want it to be an over-sized T-shirt.

That seems pretty clear until someone has to do it.

How oversized?

Drop shoulders?

Would the body become broader or only longer?

If the sleeves also would have widened?

What if the neckline remained unchanged?

No standard for “oversized” exists.

It happens the same with words such as relaxed, vintage, heavyweight, soft or premium.

They really make a lot of sense if you are talking about an idea,

They are less precision when someone has to cut fabric based on them.

And this is why an experienced fashion factory would often ask a lot of questions.

Not as the system is vague but as they are trying to grasp what the designer actually means.

Then the Fabric Arrives

This is where the fun begins.

A design may look just right on a monitor.

Then the real fabric arrives and all of a sudden the garment is behaving differently.

It could be a little heavy.

It is possible that it might also fall in a different manner.

2. Potential color bias. colors may appear warmer

The fabric appears to possibly have more stretch than I expected.

Sometimes, the fabric improves the original design.

Sometimes it can also mean that the design has to be altered.

That is to be expected.

Clothes are not a still image. Muslin has weight, movement, texture and behaviour.

Most of it, you only really know when you have a real physical thing in your hands.

The First Sample Has a Job

The first sample does not necessarily have to be perfect.

It is concerned with showing what the ultimate design will appear like in practice.

The sleeve might just be a little at the ends.

Are not tucking in slightly too low.

There are indications that thebody may need more volume.

A join can be biased, i.e. not fall in the same way as the drawing.

But none of this (or most of it) is a reason to say the design was unsuccessful.

It signifies it has been design it into something suitable to be judge properly.

Where sampling gets very useful is when you don‘t get to see what works.

It‘s discovering what isn‘t.

Then Comes the Question Nobody Asks at the Beginning

Or can we make it like this all the time?

One thing is to produce one extraordinary piece of clothing.

But a finding of 2,000 of them is another matter.

A detail that photograph looks great on one mock-up is very hard to repeat consistently.

A specific wash may be inconsistent from batch to batch.

However when many hundreds are compared, this minor variance in size pattern, which is less than the eye, is easily apparent on similar garments.

At this stage the role of a fashion factory ups a gear.

We are no longer only talking about the production of the garment.

Laying the same garent time after time.

Design Has to Survive Reality

This doesn‘t imply that the productions should restrict innovation.

Nope, quite the opposite.

Sometimes an experienced production team can enable a designer to explore an idea further because they understand the technical implications.

This led to experimenting with a different fabric; this tried to make the correct shape.

Perhaps a construction variation will find a more effective method of constructing a complex detail.

Perhaps a specific has to be addressed in a different way.

The best conversations between brands and factories are not simply:

Is where you use.

“Yes.”

They are more often:

“Thinking you will not get the result you are desiring until you know exactly what you are trying to accomplish.”

This is what we are after.

“Then this might be a better way to get to the destination.”

That conversation alone can save a lot of time.

The Customer Never Sees Any of This

An individual who is purchasing a jacket does not enquire about the factory.

They are not concerned with the cutting table, or the pattern, or the sewing sequence, or how many samples were made before the real thing.

They just leave it.

Does it fit? The header and the waste bag are suitable for my coat and for the wastes.

Is it acceptable?

Is the product what they were expecting?

That, surely, is the final permutation.

And the past all disappear.

And maybe that‘s how it should be.

Once the manufacturing has been done correctly, they customer is only able to view the finished garment.

Where JiuvelWear Fits In

We are the proud new working partner of clothing brands at JiuvelWear, the brands who approach us usually have a somewhat incomplete production specification.

It could be that this is the reference garment.

A design.

Write a tech pack.

Or an idea for a product they would like to make.

It is not only to ask how much and begin doing it, 3.2.4. So we really The responsibility is our must:

There is typically a discussion at the beginning.

What should the product feel like?

Exactly as designed what aspects must be retained in their original form?

Where is there opportunity for modification?

What kind of fabric is reasonable?

And, later on, will the agreed version be replication?

We produce denim, streetwear, t-shirts, hoodies and a range of other custom clothing items, and specialize in providing brands with everything from product development and sampling to branding and manufacturing.

A Fashion Factory Should Know When to Ask Questions

You might be tempted to think that the best factory is the one that gives you what you ask for all the time.

No, it does not.

Sometimes saying “yes” can be quite something.

The tricky part is what to get clarified before that yes becomes a tangible product.

Clothing is not just design that an outfit has the equipment to make in a factory.

It becomes clothing when the concept, fabrication, construction, fit and manufacturing all come together.

And that is probably the most important thing to understand about fashion factories:

The factory is not theend of the design. It is where the design has to comeinto being.