Clothing Manufacturer for Startups

150 pieces per style and per colour, and it applies from your very first order. It is set low on purpose, because the common industry floor of five hundred or a thousand stops most new brands before they start. Plan around colour rather than size: two colourways of one tee means 300 pieces, while sizes can be divided however you like within each colour's hundred and fifty. For a first range, two or three styles adding up to between 300 and 600 pieces is usually the right shape: enough to photograph, sell through a launch and learn about demand without tying up capital in stock you cannot move. Five styles at a hundred and fifty pieces each cost considerably more per unit than the same 750 pieces spread across two styles, and they leave you with five weak signals instead of two strong ones at reorder time. Try your range in our MOQ calculator.

You send a sketch, a reference garment or a tech pack, plus your fabric and quantity thoughts. We quote, and if it works you pay a sampling fee. We make a first sample in roughly ten days and courier it to you. You fit it, comment, and we revise — most brands need one or two rounds. When you approve a pre-production sample, that physical garment becomes the reference for everything after. You pay a deposit, we buy fabric and trims, and bulk production begins, with photos sent to you at each stage. Before shipping we inspect against the agreed AQL standard and send you the report. You pay the balance, we ship DDP and handle customs and duty, and the goods arrive at your address. Reorders skip the sampling and are faster.

No: a sketch, a reference photo of a garment you like or a paragraph describing it is enough to start, and we build the tech pack with you. The most useful thing you can add is a physical garment whose fit you like, because measurements taken from it beat any description. Tell us too how the fabric should feel: that is the brief we pass upstream on your behalf, so you never have to contact a mill, negotiate a fabric minimum or chase a dye house. From that starting point we recommend a fabric weight and composition and give you an indicative price before you spend anything on sampling. The finished tech pack is yours to keep, updated to match the approved sample at no charge, so you can take it to any supplier later. Our free tech pack template shows what a complete one contains.

Fabric, then approvals, in that order. Knit fabric is produced and dyed in lots, so if your colour needs a fresh dye run nothing can be cut until it lands and passes shade approval — that is the single most common cause and it sits upstream of everything else. Second is sample sign-off: every day a brand spends deciding on a fit sample is a day production cannot begin, and that time rarely appears in anyone's plan. After those, trims arriving late, since elastic, zips and custom labels are bought in their own minimums from separate suppliers. Peak-season shipping congestion adds the rest. We build realistic dates into the quote rather than optimistic ones, and tell you early if something slips rather than at the point it becomes your problem.

A first range with us need not be a five-figure order, but the exact figure depends on the garment, so we quote each order individually and keep no fixed price list. Fabric is the largest single cost, at 40 to 60 per cent of the factory price, and a 180 GSM tee and a 400 GSM hoodie are different products. You pay in two stages, after a free indicative price that arrives before you spend anything: first a sampling fee, budgeted separately, then production, with a deposit before we buy fabric and trims and the balance before shipment. Because we ship DDP, the quote is one landed cost with freight, customs and duty inside it, not a factory price with bills arriving later. Reorders cost less, because pattern, sample and screens are already paid for. For labels, photography and the rest of your budget, read our guide to what it costs to start a clothing brand.

You can, and the more useful question is whether you should. The minimum is a hundred and fifty pieces per style per colour, so four styles in one colour is a six-hundred-piece order, which is achievable. But each style needs its own pattern, its own sample round and its own fabric allocation, so four styles cost meaningfully more per piece than one style at six hundred. For a first order we would usually push you toward two strong styles rather than five hesitant ones — you learn more from selling three hundred of something than from selling sixty of five things, and the reorder is cheaper because the setup is already paid. If you have a range you are committed to, we will make it. We would just rather tell you the trade-off first.

Yes. Many founders hesitate to send a first sketch to a factory abroad, so we sign a non-disclosure agreement before you share detailed files if you would like one, and it costs you nothing. It helps to know what an NDA does and does not do. It sets out in writing that your drawings, patterns and samples are yours and must not be used for anyone else, which matters most at the start, when your idea exists mostly on paper. It cannot protect your brand name; that comes from registering a trademark in the countries where you plan to sell, which is worth doing before you launch. Your own records help too: keep dated tech packs and sample approvals. Your garments are cut and sewn on our own floor in Narayanganj, not passed to another factory, so you always know who holds your patterns. Our guide Will my manufacturer steal my design? explains the real risks.

Yes. For a new brand this is often the part that makes a first run feel finished rather than generic, and we handle it alongside the garments. We sew in your woven or printed neck labels and care labels, attach your hang tags, and fold and bag each piece the way you want it to arrive. Each of those items comes from its own supplier with its own minimum, so for a first order we usually suggest a printed neck label and a simple swing tag, adding woven labels or custom polybags once a design has sold. Send us your logo and any artwork; we will tell you which formats suit 150 pieces. What the care label must say depends on where you sell, so you confirm that wording and we show every label on the pre-production sample before bulk starts. Our guide to labels, hang tags and packaging covers costs and options.