What Good Brands Expect From High Quality Clothing Vendors

High quality clothing vendors should supplyyou with far more than appealing samples. You may be able to take attractive pictures of a garment, but have issues with fabric, fit, construction, and/or consistency when you examine it more closely.

This is the reason why we should not judge a clothing vendor based on their catalog. We have to understand what is involved when a product is actually designed and manufactured.

A Good-Looking Sample Isn’t Enough

A sample can appear perfectly nicely when you open the packing.

And then you flip it inside out and you begin to notice.

Perhaps the finishing on the stitching could be better. The neckline is not sitting correctly. The fabric is not feeling as thick as you had anticipated. The measurement are slightly off from the specification you sent.

All of that may not be readily apparent from product images.

And this is the point where it would be decent to have some time to work with on garment.

Design it for the outside, check the inside (all your own work). Try it on, launder it, if you need to launder the product on a regular basis. The more significant the order, the more useful this kind of design checking becomes

Start With the Fabric

“Good quality fabric” is nowhere close to being descriptive.

Depending on what process we use, and the method/style, two fabrics can all say cotton and yet feel very different.

Examine the hand, weight, construction, flow, elasticity, resilience and the behavior of the fabric when the garment is constructed.

Design factors e.g. body type for a heavyweight T-shirt, like namely the fabric needs to have enough body to form the shape as intended; for a fitted garment, stretch & recovery might be more important.

It isn‘t always the most costly fabric that is right. It is always the one that is going to work for the product you are trying to make.

Look Inside the Garment

One simple habit can tell you quite a bit about production quality:

Turn the garment inside out.

Check the seams, ends of threads, hems, labels, pockets, and bits where garments have been stitched together.

You don‘t have to be an expert to see the glaring issues.

If something looks a little out of line, see if you can spot uneven stitching, loose threads, badly finished seams or inconsistent construction.

It‘s the inside that you should have a closer look at, to better understand the quality of the production. The outside of a garment often gets more attention.

Fit Is Part of Quality

A garment may be perfectly constructed and not be good if the fit is wrong.

Review the measurements and compare them to your specifications.

That could be shoulder, chest, sleeve, length of body, waist, hip, rise or leg opening, depending on the garment,

Don‘t just depend on the size marks such as M,L, or XL. Size names aren’t specific enough amongst brands and manufacturers.

If you have a specific fit in mind, the measurements can give the manufacturer a lot clearer target to aim for.

See What Happens When Something Needs to Change

The initial taster isn‘t, in fact, always necessary.

What matters is when you have a problem and you tell the vendor and how he reacts.

The sleeve is perhaps too long. Possibly the body needs a slightly greater width, the fabric a little heavier or the pocket slightly repositioned.

Make the submit clear comments to see how can go with the next version.

If the manufacturer interprets your instructions correctly and makes the modifications with precision, that‘s INFORMATION.

In actual fact, you‘re not just testing the garment. You‘re testing if the two sides are able to really work together.

Production Consistency Is the Real Test

There is a difference between: doing a single good experiment; and.

Another is to produce hundreds or thousands of the same garment.

If production begins, all the specifics are kept the same and are maintained once the process begins. This includes measurements, fabrics, colours, printing, embroidery, sewing and finishing.

This point is even more crucial if you try to reuse a style that has been successful for you a few months after you did it.

This second run of production should not feel like a whole new product.

A good production process provides everyone involved with a definite referance, as indicated by the approved sample and specs.

Don’t Leave “High Quality” Undefined

One of the easiest mistakes in clothing production is simply telling a vendor:

“We need high quality.”

The problem is that this can be interpreted by anyone as you want it to.

One purchaser might define quality in terms of a heavy material weight. For another it‘s all about exact measuring, stitching or fine finishing. And yet another will be more concerned with embroidery, washes or wear.

Be specific about what you care about.

Rather than simply mention quality, refer to fabric, measurements, construction, finishing, branding and approved sample.

Once those things are clarified, quality becomes something that both sides can actually monitor.

A Good Vendor Should Make Quality Easier to Control

The greatest manufacturing relationship is not one that requires the buyers to find out all the problems themselves.

A good supplier should understand the specification, be able to know about production problems, propose realistic solutions, and reproduce an approved product all the time

Best of all, there‘s that when you‘re designing your own garment rather than ordering a pre-formed one you can buy wholesale.

What you want the manufacturer to know is the goal you‘re working to rather than by simply providing a minimum specification order.

Where JiuvelWear Fits In

For brands developing custom apparel, JiuvelWear, operated by Dongguan Jiuzuo Clothing Co., Ltd., supports product development, material selection, sampling, customization, and bulk production.

Leading to the construction of the real wear for the brand‘s needs, where the sample approved and the product specification operate as an explicit guideline.

This does make the quality discussion a lot more practical. Rather than just saying a product has been “built to a high standard” or is “high quality,” the nitty-gritty can be verified during development and implemented in production.

The best high quality clothing vendor isn‘t necessarily the one who throws around the phrase “high quality” most often. It‘s the one whose samples, communication, and revisions, along with your new garments’ end results, make you want to believe in the final product.