Women’s Clothing Manufacturer

Women's blocks, drafted in-house. This matters more than most brands realise when they are comparing quotes. Scaling a men's pattern down produces a garment that measures correctly on a size chart and fits badly on a body: the shoulder seam falls outside the shoulder, the waist suppression sits at the wrong height, and the armhole is cut low and wide because a men's armhole is drafted for a different underarm. You notice it immediately on anything fitted and only slightly less on a boxy tee. It is also very hard to fix at sample stage, because the problem is in the foundation rather than in one seam. If you are getting quotes from several factories, ask each of them this question directly. A factory that drafts womenswear properly will answer it in one sentence; one that does not will talk about something else.

With different increments for each measurement point, not one flat percentage applied to everything. Bodies do not scale uniformly. Between a size 10 and a size 16 the bust and hip grow substantially, the waist grows faster still, and the shoulder width grows barely at all. A garment graded by multiplying one pattern therefore fits whoever sits in the middle of your range and progressively fails towards both ends, which is exactly where concentrated returns come from. We set grade rules per point and send them to you before bulk so you can see what changes between each size rather than assuming something sensible happened. If you already have grade rules from a previous factory we will work to those. If you do not, we will propose a set based on your target customer and the fit of your sealed sample, and explain the reasoning rather than just sending numbers.

100 pieces per style and per colour. The per-colour part is the bit worth understanding, because it surprises people. Two colourways of the same top is 200 pieces, not 100, because each colour is a separate fabric batch with its own dye lot and its own setup. You can split those 100 across your whole size range however suits your customer — 15 in the smallest size and 30 in your best seller is fine. For a first womenswear order we usually suggest fewer styles in more sizes rather than more styles thinly spread, because you learn more about your fit and your customer that way, and because a style that sells out in the middle sizes and sits in the extremes tells you something useful for your second order.

Both, as long as they are knitted rather than tailored. Jersey dresses, ribbed dresses, slip dresses in modal or viscose, T-shirt dresses and knitted co-ord sets are all comfortably within what our floor does. What sits outside it is structured tailoring: a lined blazer, a fitted shirt with a fused collar and cuff, anything built on interfacing and canvas rather than on knitted fabric. That is a genuinely different factory with different machines and different skills, and taking that order would not serve you. Send your full range over regardless. We will tell you which pieces we should make and which you should place with a woven specialist, and we would rather do that at the quotation stage than discover it halfway through your sampling.

The answer is almost always in the fabric rather than the sewing. Bagging at the elbow, the knee and the seat is a recovery failure: the fabric stretches under load and does not return. It is caused by too little elastane, poor quality elastane, or a knit structure that was never intended to hold a fitted shape. Because that is decided at the knitting mill weeks before we cut, we specify elastane content up front rather than leaving it to whatever the fabric supplier has available. We also test recovery on your actual sample — stretched, released, and checked again after washing — instead of relying on the mill's spec sheet. If your design is fitted, expect us to ask about it early. If it is meant to drape rather than cling, the requirement is completely different and we will specify accordingly.