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Sourcing guides — page 5
Page 5 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 to Read a Garment Costing Sheet Line by Line
Garment costing sheet anatomy: what each line means — fabric, trims, labour, overhead and margin — and which lines a buyer can actually influence.
Fabric Testing Before Bulk: Shrinkage, Colourfastness and Dimensional Stability
Fabric shrinkage test clothing guide: what to test before cutting — dimensional change, colourfastness, seam slippage and recovery — and how to specify it.
How to Verify a Clothing Factory's Certificates and Audit Reports
Verify clothing factory certification: how to check a certificate number, scope and expiry, what each audit covers, and what no certificate can prove.
Ready Stock or Custom Development? Choosing Your First Production Route
Ready stock vs custom clothing manufacturing: what each route actually buys, what each proves about demand, and how to sequence them without wasting a season.
How to Start an Occasionwear Brand
Practical B2B guide for fashion brands and buyers: how to start an occasionwear brand. Covers choosing one buying occasion, building a coherent first range, writing a factory-ready brief, sampling as a decision process and planning the season backward from the selling date.
How to Build a Prom Dress Collection
Practical B2B guide for fashion brands and buyers: how to build a prom dress collection. Covers assortment architecture, silhouette families, a colour plan that can be bought, engineered price bands and a season calendar built back from the delivery date.
How to Source Evening Dresses from China
Practical B2B guide for fashion brands and buyers: how to source evening dresses from China. Covers screening suppliers by construction, a sourcing brief that can be quoted, comparing samples like a buyer, normalising quotes and controlling bulk with checkpoints.
How to Choose an Evening Dress Manufacturer
Practical B2B guide for fashion brands and buyers: how to choose an evening dress manufacturer. Covers sample-room strength, materials and hidden structure, grading and bulk consistency, quality systems, and commercial fit.
How to Launch a Bridesmaid Dress Collection
Practical B2B guide for fashion brands and buyers: how to launch a bridesmaid dress collection. Covers the coordination model, fabric for group photography, a shared fit philosophy, merchandising for real bridal behaviour and production around event deadlines.
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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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