It has also inspired me to take some excellent classes, at LVS online, (yes, this can be considered a plug) and they have proven to be a very valuable resource to uncover some of the mysteries of blogging, etc. for someone who never expected to have to do this kind of stuff!

I am now in the process of getting up to some sort of speed with Twitter and Facebook, migrating all my blogs to Wordpress, and onto my site and overall getting the whole shebang tied together to make even better use of all these valuable tools. & I heartily encourage any DE or aspiring DE to take the plunge.

(And sorry, I have broken the music rule on my blog- I gave in to heavy bugging.)

I think using twitter has helped me to cozy up to the idea of social media in a slow and steady way. It’s nice to start off with just a sentence or two instead of whole posts. It’s a great way to make friends and learn the ropes a bit. When I got to the point where I felt like I had more to share, I knew that a blog was the next step. I don’t think anybody reads it right now but it’s nice to be able to make regular updates to my website and hopefully it will build a personal connection with customers.

And thanks for the compliment

As a customer, I recommend that you describe Mister Pants (they’re adorable!) as pants with a stitched crease (or stitched-creased pants.) That’s how uniform and scrubs pants with this feature are generally described, so it’s a term that is likely to be clear to your customers.

The term “top stitched crease” is confusing. It could mean that there is a line of topstitching along the crease purely for decoration, or there is a seam at the front of each pant leg which is reinforced with topstitching.

There you’ll find free tutorials on setting up a blog, some great and inexpensive e-books to help you along, plus extremely reasonable consulting.

The best thing I did for my business – just opened this year – was start a blog. I don’t even call it my blog. It’s just my site – the products (I do more retail than wholesale) are on their own pages, but it’s the blog posts that get the search engine interested, and which grab readers’ attention. I highly recommend it – I have sold over two-thirds of my stock since April and am sure that wouldn’t have happened without the blog.

And, BTW, no, I do not get any money from recommending that site. I just know him from his tutorials and from Twitter, and think he knows his stuff. Super approachable guy, too – which is a huge plus.

I’m not aware of a hard-and-fast sewing term for what you’re asking.