A good product doesn’t happen by accident. During our 20 plus years in business, we’ve figured out the best ways to get your technical apparel project from design brief to production-ready. It’s a formal process, and you can see from our flow chart that we take the details seriously. We don’t expect you to read the fine print here — just know that because we stick with a process, we’re not likely to get off track. And you’ll know where you stand throughout the time you work with us.
- Project brief We meet with client to explore and define your specific wants and needs; we prepare a project brief that covers all the details.
- Preliminary costing We conduct a reality check to determine that we can meet your cost and delivery targets.
- Pattern and sample making We create patterns and clothing samples, solve technical issues and resolve costing assumptions.
- Design approval You approve the final design sample and issue a purchase order for bulk production.
- Planning for bulk production We order raw materials, grade the pattern for all required sizes and test the patterns in the actual manufacturing setting.
- Final internal review Our design and production heads meet to re-confirm all details.
- Bulk production We issue raw materials to sewing factories, manage the manufacturing schedule and perform regular on-site quality inspections.
- Packaging and pre-shipment audit We submit shipment samples to client, package the individual products, perform a quality audit and transmit the advance shipping notice.
- Bulk shipment/customs clearance We ship product according to client’s instructions.
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