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Sourcing guides — page 6
Page 6 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.
What Affects Clothing Manufacturing Costs?
Every specification decision that moves a clothing manufacturing quote, ranked by impact: fabric basis, construction, pattern complexity, trims, colourways, size range, quantity and packing — and what each change costs you in the garment.
Can a clothing manufacturer work from a reference photo?
What a manufacturer can and cannot read from a reference image, how much of a garment is genuinely visible in a photograph, and what to send alongside it.
How pattern making works in womenswear manufacturing
How a garment pattern is drafted from a block, why grading is not scaling, and why an approved pattern is a manufacturing asset rather than a drawing.
How long does it take to manufacture womenswear?
The stages behind a delivery date, where schedules actually slip, and how to build a production calendar backwards with room for the delays that always happen.
Can you manufacture clothing without a tech pack?
You can start without a finished tech pack, and many brands do. What has to be settled first, and which parts of a pack can be built during development.
What is MOQ in clothing manufacturing?
MOQ explained as an economic result rather than a policy: what the number represents, the four axes it is quoted on, and how to read a minimum you have been given.
What information should you send to an OEM clothing manufacturer?
The information a manufacturer needs to quote and develop your style properly, in the order it is needed, plus what to do when you do not have all of it yet.
How do clothing manufacturers calculate MOQ?
The arithmetic behind a minimum order quantity, worked from both directions: fixed cost per style, contribution per piece, and the per-colour multiplier that catches most small orders.
China womenswear manufacturing: what international buyers should know
How manufacturing in China actually works from the outside: who you are dealing with, what to verify, and how to run a relationship across time zones.
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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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