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Spec Sheets, Schmeck Sheets.

Posted by Melody Wilson on April 7, 2009 at 8:41am
As much as I love Mary Gelhar's The Fashion Designer Survival Guide, there is one area in which it hasn't tallied with my experience.

Tech sheets. Spec sheets. Whatever you want to call them. The fact of the matter is, I have rarely ever been able to get a manufacturing quote for my little girls' clothing line with one.

When I first started looking for a factory, I made beautiful tech sheets. By the book. One production manager even went out of her way to compliment my flats. But the response I in
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WAHMs in Fashion: an Age-Old Tradition

Posted by Melody Wilson on April 10, 2009 at 11:00am
If you are one, you know what it stands for: Work-At-Home Mom. (As if moms who stay home with their children without pursuing a career are not working??) At any rate, as Pixyworld's designer, I am one.

Now, it's interesting to me that we have a term for this now, as if being a mom pursuing a career from home were a brand new phenomenon. As far as I can see, most moms throughout the centuries have been WAHMs.

Take the biblical ideal woman, described in Proverbs 31: "She sees that her trading is pro
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Inventory in the Bedroom

Posted by Melody Wilson on March 31, 2009 at 9:23am
I take comfort form the story Mary Gelhar tells in The Fashion Designer Survival Guide about a young designer who's apartment was so full of inventory, her husband had to take refuge at Starbucks to find a place to sit down. At least we're not that crowded!!

But it can't be denied that we do have Pixyworld inventory stacked in our bedroom. It's neatly stacked, and securely packed, but the fact remains that it's there.

Right where our next baby's crib should be, should there be a next. (Would Freud
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Sun Dry Swimsuit : A Summer Swim Wear Which Dries Within A Blink

Posted by Dexter James on April 3, 2009 at 4:16am
Tired of your beach pants and bikinis which take an unending period to get dried? And force you to stand under the hot sun to see the dripping water turning into vapor? Definitely, it is really irritating to invite sunburns to damage your skin instead of hitting the sun bed under the colorful beach umbrella as soon as you come out of sea waves. Read More
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Fashion Guide For The Sexiest Womens Tights

Posted by Dexter James on March 26, 2009 at 3:15am
Planning to wear only skirts this spring? But can't dare do this because you own a pair of oh-not-so-beautiful-legs. Nothing to be worried about. Here are the solutions in form of womens tights exclusively for spring. Read More
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I see London, I See France...

Posted by Melody Wilson on April 3, 2009 at 10:07am
homepageWhit1.jpgI volunteer occasionally to work in the preschool class at church, and as much as I love the age, being a preschool girl does come with its fashion dilemmas.

In fact, I began designing children's clothes with just these dilemmas in mind. These little girlies are at the prime dress-wearing age, and they look as pretty as posies in their twirly dresses and piggy-tales.

But, they do tend to expose themselves for all the world to see. Parents tend to either ignore this problem -- fair enough, I guess
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Puppy Love

Posted by Melody Wilson on March 30, 2009 at 8:35am
P9134164_2.jpgMy little girls have never been super into dolls, but they LOVE stuffed animals. (They love real animals too, only we can't have cats or dogs because of allergies.) So it seemed natural to do a Pixyworld collection with a pet animal theme, which I had to call Puppy Love.

The color combination really pops on this one. I did a design with these colors when I was selling customs on eBay, after a customer asked me to do something with puppies and kittens. I got a lot of enthusiastic comments on the c
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Little Kid/Big Kid -- and in beTween

Posted by Melody Wilson on March 25, 2009 at 8:17am
If I've heard it once, I've heard it 100 times -- Pixyworld needs to add bigger sizes. Moms want it, girls want it. So this season we're adding sizes 6 and 7.

There is an age, though, where kids stop wearing matched sets. Not that all kids wore them before that age -- but they definitely go from cool to uncool somewhere around age 7. Funny, isn't it?

My two boys, 9 and 7, have made the transition. Now they don't just not match -- they usually clash. Boys' athletic clothes are sold as separates, fo
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Choosing Best Spring/Summer Kids Clothing: Let Your Little Girl Choose Her Way

Posted by Dexter James on March 13, 2009 at 1:30am
Probably, the most fashionable person in your family, with a curious and detailed sense of fashion, is none but your own and very very special little-and-school-going daughter. Being a mother you very easily notice that she is carries no less quantum of fashion instincts than her mother does in terms of spring/summer kids clothing. Read More
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Photography Services for the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles

Posted by Chuck Goodenough on March 4, 2009 at 2:45pm
Photographer with 20 years experience shooting fashion, beauty and product in Los Angeles. Pricing is by unit or by time and all info including tons of samples are on the website! Thanks for having a look! Chuck 213-624-1600Apparel & Accessories Photography in Los AngelesSoon! Appareltools.com - we'll walk you through the process from Photos to eCom or CatalogApparel ToolsAlso! Apparelsales.net - Post your online sales code or coupon or announce your brick & mortar sale - Free! - Fashion Blog li
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Four Fashionable Tips For Your Corporate Interview (Suits)

Posted by Dexter James on March 4, 2009 at 12:24am
Gone are the days of 70s, 80s and 90s when choosing an interview suit was as easy as buying a train ticket to the interview place. People say that there were no hard and fast rules, during those older days, dictating what to wear and what not. Sincerely, the interviewers only looked at the hidden talent of the potential employee, rather than noticing the quality of the textures only.But in the current scenario, the person at the hot seat has to face not only the chilling questions regarding the
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Photography Services for the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles

Posted by Chuck Goodenough on December 5, 2008 at 1:07pm
Photographer with 20 years experience shooting fashion, beauty and product in Los Angeles. Pricing is by unit or by time and all info including tons of samples are on the website! http://www.chuckgoodenough.com Thanks for having a look! Chuck 213-624-1600Soon! Appareltools.com - we'll walk you through the process from Photos to eCom or CatalogAlso! Apparelsales.net - Post your online sales code or coupon or announce your brick & mortar sale - Free! - Fashion Blog links too!
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Wearing Apparel Flammability : 16 C.F.R. Part 1610

Posted by Apparel1 - on December 20, 2008 at 7:00am
We all know that consumer safety is very important to the fashion industry. One of the safety concerns is in regard to flammability of clothing and textiles. An important safety regulations set forth by the Consumer Products Safety Commision is 16 C.F.R. Part 1610. Below is a summary that I wanted to share with you that is on the CPSC.org website as of November 18th, 2008. If you are reading this message after that time, please check their official site to determine the most current requirements
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Thanks to Social Marketing, Public Relations will Never be the Same

Posted by Buzzflikr on November 9, 2008 at 12:30pm
"The landscape on the web is undergoing a deep and vast transformation because of social media, and it is affecting the way we market what we do, says Web Worker Daily blogger Aliza Sherman. "Public relations will never be the same." (read more...)And we couldn't agree more! For this reason, Buzzflikr has launched a new web friendly agency with a robust online platform and trend hub that is the fashion industry's first "online publicist."We conceived Buzzflikr as an invaluable resource for the m
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BUZZFLIKR LAUNCHES THE FASHION INDUSTRY’S FIRST “ONLINE PUBLICIST”

Posted by Buzzflikr on November 8, 2008 at 12:10pm
Until recently, traditional PR has been out of reach for young, startup brands but is now a reality with Buzzflikr’s affordable “online publicist” concept.The LA-based team of young professionals behind Buzzflikr has launched what is possibly the first “online publicist” in the fashion industry. Their mission is simple: revolutionize the public relations role with web 2.0 technology, up-to-the-minute trend insight and targeted editorial expertise.Just at a time when apparel firms are cutting bud
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Glad to be in Fashion Industry Network

Posted by Jessie Yang on November 15, 2008 at 2:24am
I am happy to be in here. Hope we can learn sth. from each other:)Fashion is not a simple word, it is a life style. Fashion is not only belong to the designer, it is belong to all of us, who is loving his/her life.I changed my job this July and now I am doing fabric for apparel, I like my job very much, but sometimes I feel a little confused. I am not sure if this job is fit for me though I like it very much...And because of the bad year, the global crisis, there is some influences about my job.
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Apparel Magazine

Posted by Apparel1 - on January 7, 2009 at 7:00am
When searching for news and information regarding the Apparel Industry, I would obviously prefer that everyone turn first to Apparel Search. The reason that I select Apparel Search as the first choice is clearly because I have developed that site and it would be foolish of me to suggest another site above my own... Those of you that have been in the industry for many years, may have memory of an apparel and textile industry magazine called Bobbin. They went by this title for for a very long tim
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