This was a fun project I got to help with graphics on and do the tech design for last year. Stop by the Seattle Center Armory building on...

I'm here sourcing (touching all the fabrics!) at the Functional Fabric Fair and Texworld at the Javits Center in NYC. Please let me know...

A lot of folks reach out to us because they want to create ethical and sustainable products. We have had three introductory calls in the...

The founder of Little Neni, Y’Buena, first reached out for development services in the summer of 2019. She was 100% committed and ready...

The moment you've all been waiting for... tech packs à la carte! What's a tech pack? Here's a short post I wrote up describing one -...

One of our newest clients recently asked, “What have you seen that has not worked for other brands you’ve developed original product...

Can't make it to the LA Textile show? I'll be there this March. While I don't usually offer à la carte fabric sourcing, I will be this time

In the Fall of 2018, Alex & Natalie had an idea for a brand of better apparel for medical professionals and set forth to bring it to life.

While there are several ways to go about launching your own apparel brand, such as printing on or altering existing blanks, you may have...

These pics are from two different South American factories that have a 3000 piece per style MOQ (minimum order quantity). The set-up is...

2021 Update - Things have changed! Pantone now has something called 'Pantone Connect' that is a paid service. It's worth it if you work with color all day. For a free alternative to this, I've found icolorpalette.com to be helpful. Searching by hex codes works here too. Original post - 6/28/2019 Pantone is the color standard for many product-based industries, ranging from plastics to ceramics to paper to textiles. The fashion industry specifically uses the TCX (stands for '

I always ask people what they want their retail price to be when developing new product and the answer is usually something along the...

Since greenwashing (being misleading about sustainability) is sadly a thing now, I wanted to share the terms around sustainable fashion...

The cost of starting a line might come as a surprise to anyone who hasn’t worked in the fashion industry. Many people I meet with think...

Happy Monday everyone! I'm getting caught back up from visiting almost 10 different manufacturers, moving a client's product into...

This past week, I was working at a local coffee shop with one of my clients who was a bit overwhelmed and needed to work through some...

There are lots of different terms you'll hear for price point category when working on clothing. I was about to write this list out myself and had a quick google, only to find lots of other sites have spelled this out already. The below list is from weconnectfashion.com A garment rail in a store window, looking somewhere between Moderate and Bridge. Off-Price Low priced merchandise. This price range includes samples, close-outs, discontinued, previous season and irregulars.

I wrote a post while back for Maker's Row about lab dips - https://www.developapparel.com/post/it-s-lab-dip-time . The process of lab...

All the cotton tee shirts There seems to be a bit of misinformation out there that somehow cotton is good because it's natural and synthetics are bad. It's not quite that simple and there are a whole lot of shades of grey involved in fabric production no matter what the fiber is. Conventionally grown cotton is actually one of the worst sources of pollution due to global pesticide use and water contamination. This 6 minute video from a TED-Ed talk sums it up pretty well. Watch

Knit - Photo from pexels-enginakyurt-10992767 Woven - Photo from pexels-teona-swift-6851141 What is the difference and why does it matter? It helps to know the difference between knit and woven fabrics because they each have their own ‘world’ when it comes to making the fabric and then making garments with them. Many fabric suppliers often specialize in one category or the other. If your fabric is a knit, you can’t source it from a wovens only supplier, and vice versa. When