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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 clothing manufacturing works, from design to finished garment
Every stage between your design and a packed carton, what each one actually decides, and where the calendar and the money are usually lost.
How private label clothing manufacturing works
Private label manufacturing explained: how a proven construction becomes your own product through fabric, finish and branding, and when to develop instead.
What should a fashion tech pack include?
The sections a working tech pack needs, in the order a factory reads them, and which fields are genuinely optional on a first style.
What is the difference between a garment factory and a clothing manufacturer?
The two terms describe different levels of responsibility. What each supplies, what you must supply instead, and how to tell which one you are talking to.
Private label vs OEM clothing: which is right for your brand?
A decision framework for choosing between private label and OEM, based on differentiation needs, development capability, speed and technical risk.
How to create a tech pack for a dress
Building a dress tech pack step by step: the measurements that matter most, how to describe structure and drape, and what decides whether fit repeats.
How Much Does Womenswear Manufacturing Cost?
How a womenswear manufacturing price is actually built: the twelve inputs that set it, why a sample costs more per piece than bulk, why MOQ moves unit cost, and how to read a quote so you know what you are comparing.
How to start a private label womenswear brand
A practical sequence for launching a private label womenswear brand: choosing a lane, specifying the product, finding a manufacturer and planning the reorder.
Tech pack vs reference sample: what does a factory need?
What a reference sample tells a manufacturer that a tech pack cannot, what the pack carries that a garment cannot, and why the best brief uses both.
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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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