Buying cycles, costing, vendor development, critical path tracking, and shipment coordination. Focus on risk control and margin protection. This section explains practical decision criteria, typical test methods, and failure modes that matter in real production. Readers get checklists, calculation steps, and case examples connecting specifications to cost, reliability, and compliance. Links map core concepts to upstream inputs and downstream processes so choices remain consistent across sourcing, manufacturing, and end-use performance. Each article includes definitions, diagrams where helpful, and plain-language notes to help newcomers ramp quickly while giving experienced professionals the depth needed to troubleshoot and optimize. Standards references are cited with context, and whenever trade-offs exist, we make them explicit so you can defend decisions.
Pre-Production
In order to achieve perfect garment costing, one must know about all the activities including purchase of fabrics, sewing, packing, transport, overheads, etc and also about their costs, procedures, advantages and risk factor. There are two types of garments, namely woven and knitted garments. Shirt, trouser, sarees, bedspreads, blankets, towels and made-ups are woven. T-shirts, sweaters, undergarments, pyjamas, and socks are knit.
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Apparel
Apart from acting as a mediator between buyer and the production unit, merchandiser also has the responsibility to advise and assist other departments right from sampling to final shipping.
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Apparel
A lab dip is a swatch of fabric test dyed to hit a color standard. There are different matching systems followed in Labs such as Tube light matching, Sunlight matching, Ultra Violet matching, Sodium light matching etc.
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Apparel
Merchandising is the department which mediates marketing and production departments. It is Space optimization through effective Brand/Package allocation, focusing on gaining first position, providing greatest exposure of brands to all consumers, creating a consistent, orderly and clean appearance for the products, maximizing the use of POS to increase consumer awareness of brand and promotions.
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Pre-Production
Costing is a very complex procedure, with set patterns and guidelines followed by the industry, and it is difficult to find out costs for every process there are some inbuilt costs while costing.Garment costing includes all the activities like purchase of raw materials and accessories, knitting fabrics, processing and finishing of fabrics, sewing, and packing of garments, transport, and conveyance, shipping, overheads, banking charges and commissions, etc.
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Post-Production
Textile products used for clothing is broadly termed as Apparel or Garments. Garment making is one of the basic content of fashion designing. Proficiency in the art of sewing is an essential pre-requisite in garment making. There are Woven garments and Knitted garments. Shirts, trousers, sarees, bedspreads, blankets, towels and made-ups are Woven. T-Shirts, sweatshirts, undergarments, pajamas, and socks are Knits.
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