New to industry, looking for books and articles which explain clothing from design to sale

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Permalink Reply by Jaime Serna on April 1, 2013 at 12:20am

Hi Dave,

Kathleen Fasanella's book "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing" is a great source of information on the processes and timetables for apparel manufacturing. You can also check out her website for more great info.  http://fashion-incubator.com/

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Permalink Reply by Dave J. Desmarais on April 1, 2013 at 10:52am

Jaime,

Thank you for the input, we'll check it out, and we greatly appreciate it! 

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Permalink Reply by SteveRobs1 on April 2, 2013 at 12:55pm

hmm nice you if you want any kind of help just ask me with out any hazitation.. i`ll be glat to help..

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Permalink Reply by Mindy Martell on June 18, 2013 at 11:03pm

Hi Dave, 

There is also another great book out there called "Over-dressed The shockingly high cost of fast fashion". It does not so much describe the life cycle but I think it is a supplement to Kathleen Fasanella's book listed below with updated information. Also Clothier Design Source (my company) offers a 4 step simple layout to understand the entire process from beginning to end. This 1 minute video below pretty much sums it up too. Please contact me mindy@clothierdesignsource.com as we offer free consults should you need more information. thanks and best of luck!

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Permalink Reply by Apparel1 on June 20, 2013 at 6:54am

Dave - you may want to check the Fashiondex book selections.  I have a list on Apparel Search at the fashiondex book store page. 

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Permalink Reply by Tech Pack Designer - Paromita on July 22, 2013 at 3:18am

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Greetings to you, Hope this mail finds you in good health and sprite. I am Sashikant Co-Owner of Urban Purple. I came to know that you are in look for some vendors to outsource your apparel production requirements. I have a Job Working unit which is having the capacity to produce High end garments in Small Quantity up to 500 pcs / style/ color . Kindly let us know if you have any requirement that you can outsource to us.

Looking forward to your reply on this.

Urban Purple – Company Profile

Fashion Studio and Garment Manufacturing Unit

Address: Urban Purple

2^nd Floor, Kapilan Orchid, # 25

7^th Main 80 Feet Road, Subana Palya Extn

Bangalore – 560043

 

We are a Garment Manufacturing Unit and Exporter and Job worker with 10 Machines and have been working with clients across USA and UK. Established in the year 2010 we have been working solely with importers from USA and EU region.

 

WE have In house Pattern Designer, Fabric Expert, Sample Tailors and 10 Batch Tailors capable of Producing both Knitted and Woven Garments. Also we have our in-house cutting section.

 

We provide end to end solution to our buyers from Design, Sample Development, and Apparel Production.

 

Monthly Capacity to produce is up to 1000 PCs of Garments.

 

Machines:

 

8 – Single needle Machines (Juki)

2 – Over Lock Machines (Siruba)

1- Flat Lock Machine (Juki)

1 – Boiler Iron and Finishing Table (orbito)

1 - Layer Cutting Machine (orbito)

Contact Person: Saravana V. (Pattern Master and Production Manager )

Contact Number:  9880549978

Sashikant - 9035001810

 

Sashikant

Marketing Head

Urban Purple Design Studio

# 33 , 2nd A Cross , Vijaya Bank Colony Extn

Horamavu , Bangalore - 560043 ( India )

Tel : 9035001810 / 9880549978 ( V.Saravana - Production Manager )

info@urbanpurple.in/

http://www.urbanpurple.in

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Permalink Reply by Jen on January 3, 2014 at 3:31pm

this company could have useful tips  on startup fashion, they helped me out a lot when I was just starting out, www.fashionmanufacturerfinder.com

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Permalink Reply by Dave J. Desmarais on January 10, 2014 at 12:43pm

Jen, Thank you for your information.  My company is now looking for examples of Tech Pack's and a Spec Sheets.  Do you have any for a pair of pants or shorts that you could send to us?  You can black out any information you don't want us to see, much appreciated. 

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Permalink Reply by Dave J. Desmarais on January 10, 2014 at 12:46pm

We are also looking for examples of tech packs and spec sheets for a pair of pants or shorts.  We are not interested in any proprietary information, just the basic layout and what type of information is included in those documents.  My company is developing a mobile application that deals in the apparel industry and this information is helping us with our development.  Thank you to any and all who help.  You can email me personally at dave.j.desmarais@gmail.com. 

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Permalink Reply by Bretta Brennt on July 8, 2020 at 4:22am

I know that there are a lot of books on the history of fashion, on design, textbooks on sewing clothes, but in order to choose the best ones and those that will really be interesting to you, it’s quite difficult, so you can spend a lot of time searching for the books you need and money, because not all of these books are free. I can advise you to look here https://summarystory.com/ for a description of these books and their abridged version. This will help you choose what is interesting and useful to you faster. I often use this method to compile a list of books from college, because I definitely don’t have enough time to read all the books on a topic that interests me

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