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Starting a clothing line

Advice to Inventors
Canadian Apparel Federation
Chicago Fashion Incubator
Designer-Entrepreneurs
EDI Bootcamp (selling to department stores)
Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing
The Fashion Center NY
Fashion Chamber of Commerce (Washington DC Incubator)
Fashion-Incubator (this site)
Fashion Incubator (Canada)
GIDC.org (New York)
NYC Fashion Info

Reference Sites

Women’s Wear Daily
Apparel Magazine
Apparel News
Auburn Univ Resources
Garmento.org
RN & Labeling Requirements
TC-2
ASTM D-13
Institute of Textile Technology
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Manufacturing.gov (NIST)
National Association of Manufacturers
Overseas Publishers Representatives
Pattern School (great pattern making site!)

Pattern Services

COSewn
Kathleen Fasanella
Heather Menzies
Palaza Designs
Patternworks Inc
The Sewing Factory School
Unlimited Design Services
Xochil Herrera

Sustainability

Care What You Wear
Economic Policy Institute
Eco Textile
Green America (formerly Co-op America)
My Vegan Cookbook
National Green Pages
Savvy Vegetarian
Timbuktu Chronicles
Treehugger
World Changing
Zero Fabric Waste Fashion

Related Sites & Blogs

Advanced Style
The Clothing Broker (selling off price)
Counterfeit Chic (Intellectual property)
Design Loft (technical: pattern making)
Fashion Mission.NL (design forum)
Final Fashion (fashion illustration)
Julian’s Pattern School (patterns & design)
The Lingerie Journal (independent lingerie retailers)
Not Enough Thursdays (technical: pattern making)
On the Runway (NY Times)
Pattern School (great pattern making site!)
Project Rungay
Retail-Sucks
Show Studio (design)
Style Bites (Stylist & photographer)
Textilita
Verbal Croquis (Fashion designer)
Suggest a site

My Sewing Friends

Bad Mom Good Mom
Behind the Seams
A Dress a Day
La Bricoleuse
MondoMode
Pattern School (great pattern making site!)
The Sewing Divas
Specialty Outdoors
The Stitchery

Discussion Forums

DIY Tactical
Fashion Incubator
Fashion Era
The Fashion Spot
Japanese Patterns & Sewing
PatternReview
Stitcher’s Guild
T-Shirt Forums (start a t-shirt line)

Lean Manufacturing

Change the Perception: Building respect for manufacturing
Curious Cat
W. Edwards Deming
Lean Tutorials
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Training Within Industry Service
Training Within Industry Blog
Gemba Panta Rei
Lean Manufacturing Blog
Lean Six Sigma Academy
Evolving Excellence
Factory Ergonomics
Lean Reflections
Project Management (great site!)

Cogent

Paul Graham (a must read site)
Eyeteeth: A journal of …
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Friends, Lovers & Humor

Appliance Repair Samurai
Best Page in the Universe (NSFW)
Care and feeding of an Introvert
Improbable Research
Neurodiversity.com
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Member’s & Supporter’s Sites

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