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Sourcing guides — page 2
Page 2 of the Luxudress knowledge centre: practical guides for fashion buyers on manufacturing, sourcing, cost structure, sampling and production planning.
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Womenswear Sourcing and Production Guides
Explore practical articles on choosing manufacturers, defining specifications, managing costs, developing samples and planning production.
How Hand Embellishment Is Done on Womenswear
Hand embellishment as a production stage: how the techniques differ, how an embellishment artwork is specified, attachment testing, and why handwork competes with itself.
How Size Grading Works From One Approved Sample
Garment size grading from a single approved sample: where grade rules come from, grade breaks, petite/tall/plus ranges, pattern truing, and which sizes to actually sample.
Pleats and Draping: Engineering and Cost for B2B Buyers
A factory-floor guide to pleats and draping: machine, heat-set and hand methods, how fabric decides if a pleat holds, and how to write it in a tech pack.
Satin vs crepe vs chiffon for womenswear manufacturing
How satin, crepe and chiffon actually differ in weave, drape, opacity and pressing behaviour, and what each one does to lining, sampling and production cost.
How Color Matching Works in Clothing Manufacturing
Colour matching in garment production: how a lab dip becomes an approval, what CIELAB and dE actually tell you, shade bands, and why print is a different approval.
What Is AQL Inspection in Clothing Manufacturing?
AQL in apparel, decoded: what "acceptance quality limit" actually defines, inspection level vs severity, and how a sampling decision is reached on garments.
What Should Be Included in a Clothing Manufacturing Quote?
A clothing manufacturing quote read line by line: what each line must state, the seven that are usually missing, and why a factory quote is not a landed-cost estimate.
How Much Should a New Fashion Brand Order From a Factory?
Order size is a cash arithmetic problem, not a courage problem. See cash-occupation tables for testers, boutiques and DTC brands, the real price curve, and how a 100-piece MOQ is set.
How to choose fabric for a dress design
Fabric selection by function rather than by name: the four properties that decide whether a cloth works, why substrate and finish are separate decisions, and what the choice does to cost and minimums.
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Fashion Manufacturing
How garments are actually made, and where the risk sits in a production run.
OEM & ODM
The two engagement models, what each one shifts onto whom, and how to choose.
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