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By Kathleen Fasanella on Dec 2 at 3:58 pm
Yet another overseas factory burns, killing workers. Have we learned nothing in the last hundred years? Considering the Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911), all we’ve done is push tragedy farther from us -where we can conveniently forget about it, competing as it does with a new week’s news.
I don’t know what incenses me more, here’s a partial list:
I think I’ll run with the last one because it hits closer to home.
I know how this plays out. Many of you rest easy because your offshore factory is small [you don't have the scale to hire a larger factory so you feel you've dodged a bullet]. Tragedy of this scale is unlikely to affect you because your factory has a lot fewer workers and worst case, they can jump out of the single story (ground floor) windows. What this really means is that the innumerable small factory fires that occur each year, killing however many workers annually far in excess of this most recent one, don’t get the same air time. Five here, seven there, who is counting?
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By Kathleen Fasanella on Oct 28 at 5:26 pm
With the storm of the century pending along the east coast of the US, I imagine things will be a bit off kilter this week. Deliveries, customers, orders… those are all very minor issues; we are very concerned and hope that everyone will be safe with minimal damage to property and infrastructure.
Maybe this week will be best suited to levity? I’ll have to think of something equal parts silly and educational. In the meantime, maybe this would be a good time to catch up on some of your reading? Toward that end, below includes a sampling of content published on Fashion-Incubator over the past seven years. It would also be useful to scan the archives or even tutorials pages to find useful reading material. See you next week!
October 19, through October 25, 2005
Apparel manufacturing in Canada pt 2 and pt 3
Copying processes
Building a glossary
Copying processes #2
October 19, through October 25, 2006
Pattern String Codes pt.3
How to fix a camel toe
Berlei and history of sizing
Checking a pattern pt.2
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By Kathleen Fasanella on Aug 19 at 3:30 pm
Rumor has it that school has started up again; how did I miss that? Regular school I mean, not my school although I’ve been doing quite a bit of that lately. Anyway, I’m looking forward to a productive week and hope yours will be too. Until then and to tide you over, here are the entries published on this site for this period over the last seven years with still more listed on the archives page. Have a great weekend!
August 3, through August 16, 2005
Management Software
May I suggest FedEx?
Marriage by Movable Type
Couture Pattern Puzzles
Why We Buy
Alternatives in women’s sizing
Bariatric patients for sizing surveys?
Interfacing: 10 tips
What is a line sheet?
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By on May 15 at 3:47 pm
Now for what I didn’t tell you on Saturday, I’m out of town again. I will be back on Saturday so I appreciate your patience if you’re awaiting a response. I hope to catch up upon my return because I don’t have any pending travel plans.
The next day after I get back (May 20th), Mr. Fashion-Incubator is riding in the 27th Annual Santa Fe Century (his first!) so we’re very excited about that.
As ever, there are more entries listed on the archives page. Have a great week!
May 4, through May 10, 2005
WOATS
Boy’s B-day
May 4, through May 10, 2006
How to issue style numbers pt.129
How to start a clothing line
Verbal Croquis: new blog author
Producing a catalog
Goverment agencies raid sewing charity
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By on May 12 at 11:58 am
With all the comings and goings over the past few weeks, I was unable to post the usual archives entry. Today’s entry contains two weeks worth; come Monday I’ll post what should have been posted for this week.
If you’re a new visitor to Fashion-Incubator, the archives entry is a round up of posts published on the site for the given time period over the past eight years. I do this as a service because the site is so dense and lengthy (nearly 3,000 posts), it becomes difficult to survey the material.
It would be useful to bookmark the archives page which is a master list of posts published here. Instructions on how to search the list for topics you hope to find, appear at the top of that page. I’m always amazed at how few use the archives master list of entries page. Of all the pages on this site, I use that one more than any other and by a wide margin.
April 21, through May 3, 2005
Non-disclosure agreements
How to get sizing and grading standards
April 21, through May 3, 2006
Anatomy of a Camel Toe pt.2
Twelve acres
Freelance designing
How to hire a fashion illustrator
Intruder
Silence lends consent
Quality quiz
Working as a freelance fashion designer
Why I Love Cotton Incorporated
April 21, through May 3, 2007
Evaluating the Pattern Grading Process pt.2
Jeans Sizing, Problems and Recommendations
News from you 4/27/07
Apparel manufacturing in California
Training sewing machine operators pt 1
Training sewing machine operators pt 2
Training sewing machine operators pt 3
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By on Apr 7 at 4:41 pm
I’m heartened by the news that a bonafide sewing contractor is now in Albuquerque. After years of turning away work for the lack of one, I’m not quite sure how to manage my good fortune. Suffice to say, if you’re interested in small quality lot production, let me know. He even sews leather handbags and garments. Yay us!
And as if you didn’t already know what was coming next, here are the entries posted on this site over the past seven years for this time period. As ever, there are still more on the archives page. Hope your weekend is grand.
March 30, through April 5, 2005
Brief notes
Vintage pattern design update
The legalities of labeling
Materials testing #17659/17801
Re-inventing Vionnet & 24001 draft
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By on Jan 22 at 3:46 pm
Two tidbits of interest to my fashion friends. First is word of Valentino’s archives. With respect to that there’s a plus and a minus and another minus. The plus is you can download it (site plays an annoying midi all the while). Minus is that the archive is software driven (that you download). Second minus is that it seems to be buggy (v.1). I use two monitors; after installation, clicking anything in my second monitor minimized Valentino in the other one. Also, my shipping program and Adobe Pro commenced wildcat strikes so I had to uninstall. I hope your experience is better, lots of folks are raving about it.
Second item of interest: the most expensive tee shirt in the world (as depicted at right) Yep, $400,000.00 worth. As befitting such a discriminating item, allow 28 days for delivery -’cause it’s bespoke ya know- for the firm to “exceed your expectations”. On the other hand, shipping is free!
Below you’ll find the usual sampling of content that’s been published this week in history over the past six -soon to be seven- years. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, keep the archives page handy; it lists every entry ever published.
January 13, through January 19, 2006
How to issue style numbers pt.127
Interview with a buyer
How to issue style numbers pt.128
The post office is closed
Yet another pet peeve: Waistbands
Getting a quote for cutting
More cutting and grading questions
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By on Jan 6 at 4:28 pm
I thought of amending the first post I wrote about this but reasoned too few would see it.
Background: if you make products for children aged 12 and under, you’re required to comply with a law known as CPSIA -it’s been so onerous that F-I has a separate category set up for it. If you didn’t know about it, you have a lot of reading to do. This isn’t something to sweep under the rug because penalties are substantive and small companies are not exempt nor protected by the aura of good intentions.
Last week I’d mentioned you needed to register before the end of the year to qualify for certain testing exemptions. [Again note this is a testing exemption, not a compliance exemption. It matters because testing was the thing that was going to put a lot of people out of business (it actually did before the law was amended). ] I have it on good authority, specifically CPSC ombudsman Neal Cohen, who called me today to say there is no deadline. Yes, no deadline. This is good news. Now obviously you need to have your exemption in hand before selling anything but the deadline is not 12/31/11 and Mr. Cohen agrees the communication was problematic.
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By on Dec 31 at 6:09 am
My my, another year has come and gone, it’ll be a new year the next time we meet. I have to be away this weekend on family business but I look forward to catching up with you all soon. Until then, if you have time to read amid the New Year’s festivities, here’s another edition of the weekly archives post listing the entries published on this site, for this week, over the past six years. I hope your holiday is enjoyable and loving, surrounded by friends and family to welcome in the new year.
December 21, through December 29, 2005
Design review tutorial 1
Importance of Product Identification
A post about nothing
Somebody likes me
Decisions decisions…
If I were to produce a line
Design Creep
Batch product development 3
Tyranny of tiny sizes?
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By on Dec 30 at 1:06 pm
Amended 1/6/2012: Please see the most recent post on this topic for updated information, particularly if you experienced difficulty after complying with these instructions.
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This is important stuff. First of all, as much as it pains me to repeat myself, today is not the day to wrangle with semantics or diction. The term “manufacturer” is a legal designation. A Federal Legal Designation. Regardless of how you prefer to describe your business entity, you are a manufacturer even if you pay somebody else to sew things up for you.
Okay, with that out of the way, if you are a manufacturer of children’s products and produce in small batches, it is critical that you register for a small batch exemption if your sales are less than 1 million dollars from the previous calender year and you have manufactured less than 7,500 qualifying (children’s products) units. Registering for an exemption will exempt you from third party testing requirements under CPSIA. I realize that most apparel products were granted broad exemptions already but this will help you in the event your items include non-exempt components. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is just a testing exemption, you are still required to comply with standards defined under the CPSIA law.
What a minute -if you have no idea what I’m talking about, see the CPSIA category on this site. There is also a publicly accessible CPSIA section in our forum. However, since you have a lot of catching up to do, I suggest you register first (today!) and figure out what it means later.
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