“How do I find a sewing contractor?” “How do I find wholesale fabric?” “How do I find a sales rep?” “How do I find stores to buy my clothes?” These are questions I get every single day. The garment industry is no different from any other, you get this information from your friends.…
This is the 1,000th entry published on this site and as such, it seems fitting that it should be written by you. This is a guest entry written by two different people. The first is from a visitor who has become exasperated.…
Perhaps it would surprise you that I don’t have a magic list of sewing contractors. While I have a leg up in many respects, it’s still a challenge. I’m curious as to how people go about searching for contractors in the first place.…
Just a quick refresher on borrowing money to start a clothing -or sewn products- line. This is inspired after a phone discussion yesterday and from reading Why I don’t want financing this morning. First an excerpt from the computing industry:
……if you’re just building a regular old dynamic web site with no wild engineering issues, then you can, and in my opinion should, go it alone.
From my mail:
…I am gearing up to design my fall 2007 line to be shown at various trade shows in January. I love the scheduling sheet that you included in the book. My question has to do with fabric and production.
