Archives
Certification for service providers
Starting a home sewing pattern company
The Skorpions are coming
Art Thread
Computational Couture 2008
What is Private Label Branded Apparel?
Archives 4/25-5/1/2005-2007
Naming a product line pt.69
Pop Quiz #472 pt.2
Apparel Manufacturing in New Jersey
Mostly about sustainable architecture
Marker questions and costs
Jeans fit lousy these days 2
Archives 4/18-4/24 2005-2007
Pop Quiz #472
Trend News: JC Report
Lost and Found (and a quiz)
News From You: Earth Day 2008
Jeans fit lousy these days
News From You 4/18/08
Archives 4/11-4/17 2005-2007
Why I don't write about apparel manufacturing overseas
How to start a clothing line pt 2
Apparel Manufacturing in New York
Niche: plush toys
Archives 4/4-4/10 2005-2007
California Garment License for Out of State Companies
Why 5% shrinkage is fatal to a start up clothing line
It all starts here 9
Pattern corrections you should pay for 2
Archives 3/28-4/3 2005-2007
How to create grade rules 3
Stalking
39 tips to preventing credit fraud
How to create grade rules 2
April Fools
The difference between price and cost
Georgie World goes to Bubble (again)
Poll of the day: grainline stability 2
Archives 3/21-3/27 2005-2007
Poll of the day: grainline stability
How to create grade rules 1
Sizing information: who needs it?
Grading children's clothes pt.2
The evils of mass production 2
Pattern puzzle: fix this
Grading children's clothes pt.1
The evils of mass production
Archives 3/14-3/20 2005-2007
Launch report: Children’s Club 3/08
News from you 3/19/08
Ethical dilemma: hiring sewing subcontractors
How to walk a pattern (collar)
My first plot
Fabric Weight and Conversions
Archives 3/7-3/12 2005-2007
Report: NEAC (New England Apparel Club) show
Report: Moda Manhattan 1/2008
Trip to LA
What is a tech pack?
Review: Dress Shirt Design
New: Knit wear pattern making book
A three minute post
Archives 3/1-3/6 2005-2007
Style File!
Teaching an old dog new tricks
Mistakes designers make pt.87
Spanish sizing study
Pattern puzzle: Hussein Chalayan
News from you 3/1/08
Archives 2/22-2/28 2005-2007
Third Anniversary!
Trudy's adventures in Las Vegas pt.3
Trudy's adventures in Las Vegas pt.2
Trudy's adventures in Las Vegas pt.1
Showing a line at MAGIC: Rene Geneva
NY travel bleg
5 reasons patents are worthless and more
Sales Rep Horror Story
Insurance coverage for designers
Global ECO Show review: Naturally Bamboo
Global ECO Show review: Ellaroo
Archives 2/15-2/21 2005-2007
Design sketch analysis 2
Seminar review: Top Five Problems You Should Avoid When Importing
This could only happen in Vegas: Kimberly
Important pattern and grading book news
Project trade show review 2/08
Magic, WWIN, Project & Pool review: Lameka
Eco Seminar review
Las Vegas trade show season 2/08
How to promote your line at a trade show
Showing at KIDShow 2/08: Bethany
Sourcing at Magic 2/08: David Sorg
How to promote yourself before a show
Archives 2/8-2/14 2005-2007
Swag or sweetheart?
Archives 2/1-2/7 2006-2007
Design sketch analysis
How to hire a pattern maker pt.47
The Impending Crisis pt.2
The Impending Crisis
NY fabric shows: Printsource, Direction, TexWorld & Premiere Vision
Archives 1/25-1/31 2006-2007
Old school grading method?
Japanese Vionnet book
2008 Fabbie Awards
Pattern puzzle: Parrot jacket 2
Problem sewing contractor
Archives 1/18-1/24 2006-2007
News from you 1/24/08
Finding the right needle size in the Haystack pt.2
Trip report: Seattle Trend Show
Mexico city architecture
Finding the right needle size in the Haystack pt.1
Mexico City costumes
Mexico City trash
Thread sizes
Archives 1/11-1/17 2006-2007
Training new sewing operator pt.3
Maybe I can still drape
How to hire a pattern maker pt.46
Pattern puzzle: Parrot jacket
Archives 1/4-1/10 2006-2007
Comments from the sewing trainee
Confusing terminology 2
Every day is Monday
Confusing terminology 1
Training green sewing operators
Archives 12/28-31 2005, 2006 - 2007
Reading 1/3/08 (IP & sizing)
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Happy 2008!
Japanese pattern books 2
Archives 12/21-12/27 2005-2006
Easing out of the holidays
Pop Quiz #471 pt.2
News from you: Holiday edition
Industrial sewing machines differential feed
Archives 12/14-12/20 2005-2006
Pop Quiz #471
5 Questions all designers must answer
Sock wars and Handmade
Leather pattern making and sewing class
I bought a dress form
Archives 12/7-12/13 2005-2006
Drawstrings and Child Safety
Pattern corrections you should pay for 1
Pattern corrections you shouldn't pay for 1
News from you 12/6/07
Archives 11/30-12/6 2005-2006
Investing in a clothing line
Tradeshow Calender 12/05/07
Reading 12/4/07
Marketing Trends 2008
A shameless solicitation
Why fashion colleges don't teach entrepreneurship
Overcoming fear of exposure
Sage Journals
Archives 11/23-11/29 2005-2006
Visiting a sewing contractor
Starting a ecommerce boutique
Textile manufacturing
Holiday shopping guide
Pop Quiz #470
Pop Quiz #468 pt.3
Nelly Don
Pop Quiz #469 pt.2
Archives 11/16-11/22 2005-2006
Thanksgiving 2007
Manufacturer vs. subcontractor
News from you 11/20/07
Fashion blog haikus
Pop Quiz #469
Clothing manufacturer Fit Couture trip reports 2
How to do a Shrinkage Test
Archives 11/9-11/15 2005-2006
How to go broke slowly
How to calculate demin shrinkage
Pop Quiz #468 pt.2
Fashion Bullies
Clothing manufacturer Fit Couture trip reports
Theatre de la Mode
Pop Quiz #468
News from you 11/9/07
Archives 11/2-11/8 2005-2006
How to hire a production facilitator
Made to measure manufacturing
Pattern Puzzle: Mark Liu
Zero fabric waste fashion design
Back from Houston
Archives 10/26-11/1 2005-2006
Trip report: Paris
Going to Houston 2
Los Angeles Fabric Show: Trip Report
Going to Houston
Wanted: freelance fashion designer
The universe is needling me today
ADHD dump: factoring 2
News from you 10/26/07
Archives 10/19-10/25 2005-2006
ADHD dump via Italy & Russia
Japanese pattern books
ADHD dump: factoring
Pattern puzzle: Danielle 2
Pattern puzzle: Danielle
How to learn from artisans and mentors
News from you 10/22/07
Interning with Christian Lacroix
Archives 10/12-10/18 2005-2006
Launching a line in Italy
Sewing Puzzle: skirt detail
Marketing budget for a start up
It all starts here 8
Pattern puzzle: collar 2
How to review a line
LA textile show meet up
WWIN show report: Georgina Estefania
Launch report: Butterfly & Company
What to do with scrap pt.2
Buying wholesale fabric at Material World
Archives 10/5-10/11 2005-2006
Indie designer goes to Hong Kong 4
10 sales mistakes designers make
Two questions
Implementing the Toyota Sewing System at Fit Couture
News from you 10/8/07
Blogging Story Corps
Indie designer goes to Hong Kong 3
Archives 9/28-10/4 2005-2006
Naming a product line pt.68
Indie designer goes to Hong Kong 2
Why I went to Hong Kong to buy fabric
Indie designer goes to Hong Kong 1
Asia Pacific Leather Fair Fashion Access Show Recap
Reading 10/2/07
Lean Laundry 2
Miracle in Hong Kong 2
Three nifty hand tools
News from you 9/28/07
Archives 9/21-9/27 2005-2006
Vendor Compliance Handbook 2
Lies designers tell 1
Vendor Compliance Handbook 1
Miracle in Hong Kong
Launching at Moda
Outsourcing production: Birnbaum
Sales rep problem
Archives 9/14-9/20 2005-2006
Reading 9/20/07
Launching at Pool pt.7b
Fit Couture: Lean manufacturing implementation
Launching at Pool pt.7
Revising history: Haute couture
Sizing standards USSR
Launching at Pool pt.6
Sewing but not for the squeamish
Another stupid quiz
Launching at Pool pt.5
Archives 9/7-9/13 2005-2006
News from you 9/14/07
Pattern puzzle: collar
Launching at Pool pt.4
Sweet new year
Fluffy book reviews
Launching at Pool pt.3
Launching at Pool pt.2
Coffin clothes
Launching at Pool pt.1
Out of sorts
Archives 8/31 -9/6 2005-2006
Catgriculture
F-I Fashion Week: Vintage Lane Bryant
Saks: Excessive chargebacks
Returns policies
F-I Fashion Week: Vogue 9/07
Design Week on F-I
Trade show success and expectations
Children's wear design
It all starts here 7
Sourcing at Magic
Archives 8/24 -8/30 2005-2006
News from you 8/31/2007
Open letter to POOL Tradeshow
Made in L.A.
#1 mistake of new designers
How to become a sales rep?
Pop quiz #467 pt.2
Just couldn't resist...
Obesity and prognosticating scarcity
Pop quiz #467
Pattern Puzzle: Bog shoes
Muslin never looked so good
Designer's advice on starting a clothing line
Archives 8/17 -8/23 2005-2006
How to solve any problem 2
Microsofting your product
Sizing for the Eco market 2
Vanity sizing shoes
Fashion piracy law update
How many lines sheets?
Slow Fashion
My first trade show: Marguerite Swope
News from you 8/17/2007
The birth of size 10?
Archives 8/10 -8/16 2005-2006
Sizing for the Eco market
Poll of the day: True Bias 2
Recalled Chinese products
Poll of the day: True Bias
Out of the office 8/14/07
Poll of the day: darts 2
Showing a children's wear line
Notice: search bots
News from you 8/11/2007
Archives 8/4 -8/9 2005-2006
Poll of the day: darts
A sense of professional decency
Trade secrets and sewing contractors
Who's going to Magic?
History of apparel manufacturing
Gestation of consumer culture
Handbag product review
Japanese Ink
How to organize books
Archives 7/27-8/3 2005-2006
How to solve any problem
Pop quiz #464 pt.3
Growth or dilution? Adding another label pt.2
Pop quiz #464 pt.2
Growth or dilution? Adding another label
Managing sample fabrics
Pop quiz #464
News from you 7/27/2007
Archives 7/20-7/26 2005-2006
Innovation & Technology of Women's Intimate Apparel
Gynametry
Fashion copyright: the death of us all
Batch, UPS and Modular (Modular pt.1)
It all starts here 6
Batch, UPS and Modular (UPS pt.1)
News from you 7/20/2007
Archives 7/13-7/19 2005-2006
How to write an email
Ethics in clothing design 2
Batch, UPS and Modular (Batch pt.2)
Illustration software
CAD: PAD or TukaTech?
Vintage pattern book summary
Ethics in clothing design
News from you 7/13/2007
Archives 7/6-7/12 2005-2006
Pop quiz #466 pt.2
Pop quiz #466
Overzealous spam filter
Geek Holiday day 4
Geek Holiday day 2/3
I am not evil
Geek Holiday day 1
Archives 6/29-7/5 2005-2006
Library of Congress
Pop quiz #463
Batch, UPS and Modular (Batch pt.1)
News from you 6/29/2007
Archives 6/22-6/28 2005-2006
Selfishness, secrecy and jealousy
Sponsors
Pop quiz #465 pt.2
How to find sewing contractors
Liz Claiborne dies
Shopping carts pt.2
Pop quiz #465
Are designers, designers? Dedicated to the incompetent
News from you 6/22/2007
Archives 6/15-6/21 2005-2006
Pop quiz #462 pt.2
Roundup: The birds and bees
Pop quiz #462
Price fixing
There's More to Green than Money
Radial grading
Comments problem
News from you 6/15/2007
Archives 6/8-6/14 2005-2006
Who do you hang with? pt.3
Who do you hang with? pt.2
Happy Birthday Kathleen
What will become of us? pt.2
Who do you hang with?
How to engage buyers at trade shows
Archives 6/1-6/7 2005-2006
Swim Lessons report pt.1
What will become of us?
Hiring a virtual assistant
Nag Nag Nag (EN 13402)
Prevent sewing defects
Archives 5/25-5/31 2005-2006
News from you 6/1/07
Don't borrow money to start a clothing line
DEs: an internationally endangered species?
Designer's website design pt.2
It all starts here 5
Marketing misbehavior
Swimming Lessons: Pool Tradeshow
SPESA Trip Report: JC Sprowls
News from you 5/25/07
Archives 5/18-5/24 2005-2006
Blogging is easy!
Protecting Fashion Ideas Law
How to get people to change
SPESA Trip Report: Kathleen pt.4
How to buy an electronic bar tack machine pt 2
How to buy an electronic bar tack machine pt 1
News from you 5/18/07
Archives 5/11-5/17 2005-2006
SPESA Trip Report: Kathleen pt.3
SPESA Trip Report: Kathleen pt.2
SPESA Trip Report: Kathleen pt.1
SPESA Trip Report: Eric Husman
Energy and the future of the apparel industry
Obligatory Mother's Day post
Back from SPESA & Material World
Archives 5/04-5/10 2005-2006
Notes from Network Tuesdays
Miami Beach day 1A
Miami Beach day 1
Archives 4/27-5/03 2005-2006
News from you 5/4/07
Training sewing machine operators pt 3
Training sewing machine operators pt 2
Training sewing machine operators pt 1
Apparel manufacturing in California
News from you 4/27/07
What does Fashion-Incubator mean to you?
Archives 4/20-4/26 2005-2006
Jeans Sizing, Problems and Recommendations
Evaluating the Pattern Grading Process pt.2
Verbal Croquis' L.A. Adventures
Technical Journal pt.1
Evaluating the Pattern Grading Process
News from you 4/20/07
Archives 4/13-4/19 2005-2006
MAGIC Trip Report: Todd Hudson
Apparel Manufacturer, technical journal
My friend Trish
Grieve
Commercial vs Industrial space
Archives 4/6-4/12 2005-2006
News from you 4/11/07
Benetton gets Lean(er)
Emerging Textiles
Next Week in L.A.
Is fast fashion sustainable?
100 mile clothing
Beyond obvious
I am the high priestess
Archives 3/30-4/5 2005-2006
Summer Rayne Oakes: Slave to sludge
Pattern Puzzle: Pattern Magic
China Blue
Reusable bag contest #1
How to pitch me
On becoming a jewelry designer
Reusable Bag Contest Sponsor
Do you follow trends?
Archives 3/23-3/29 2005-2006
Excuse me while I vent
Another dopey contest
Labor shortage?
Shipping patterns
MAGIC Trip Report: Vicki Clairborne
2 of 2: IP and contractors
1 of 2: IP & contractors
Archives 3/16-3/22 2005-2006
Lean or Lame?
This and that
How ebay can kill you pt.2
How ebay can kill you
Apparel industry jobs (recruiters & agencies)
HR testing in the apparel industry
Wine fashion and contests
Archives 3/9-3/15, 2005-2006
What it's like to exhibit at MAGIC
Pi Day!
How do you grow before you grow?
Jews and the garment industry pt.2
Blogland news 3/12/07
How to Get Answers to Your Questions
Proverbs for entrepreneurs
Archives 2/24-3/8, 2005-2006
International Women's Day
Fix this: mitten contest pt 6
Fix this: mitten contest pt 5
I'm not Verbal Croquis
Recent media hodge podge
News from Verbal Croquis
Recycled materials
Partnerships
MAGIC Show: Publications
Notes Eco Trade Show
Fit Couture in Apparel Magazine
Do you have patterns for sale?
Why pattern makers resist learning CAD
MAGIC Interview: Sales Rep Leah Wiley
MAGIC Interview: Allay California
Second Anniversary!
MAGIC Interview: Bo Bo Bags
MAGIC Trip Report: Kathleen pt.3
MAGIC Trip Report: Malia Premi
MAGIC Interview: Bungalow 360
MAGIC Trip Report: Kathleen pt.2
MAGIC Trip Report: Sally Beers
MAGIC Trip Report: Kathleen pt.1
MAGIC Trip Report: Meghan Bachman
SPESA Material World Expo 2007
Home again, home again, jiggety jig
When good employees quit
How To Get Out of a Rut
Magic show interim report
How I (kind of) organize my fabric
Off to MAGIC
What we expect from designers
Pattern maker vents about clients
Espionage for better sizing pt.2
Espionage for better sizing
Trip Report: Denver craft show
A question about fabric libraries
Organic vs sustainability
Setting up a small shop
Pet Peeve: Cutters and Mixed Markers
Patternworks Inc
Fix this: mitten contest pt 4
MAGIC Show February 2007
Citizen Fashion: Shop & Contest
Express Your Style Design Contest
Does the devil really wear Prada?
The power of a good (or bad) review
What to do with scrap?
If your contractor competes with you
Back from LA
Sample Sales from a Designer's POV
CAD 101 part two
Tips for styling "flats"
Going to Phoenix pt 2 and going to LA
CAD 101 part one
Jeans fitting problem pt.2
Going to Phoenix
Good photographs sell products pt.2
A problem with sizing studies
Good photographs sell products
Joseph Abboud: Lean Manufacturer
New blog author: Mike Cerny
MAGIC Show February 13-16, 2007
Fashion internships and mentoring
CMT vs Package sourcing
Test message
Grave breach of trust: sales rep
Five questions
Happy New Year!
Jeans fitting problem
Infovore links 12.28.2006
Partially, in defense of high fashion
Weary
Optimize your name for the internet
Product storage problems pt.2
Kathleen in French Vogue!
How to select commercial pressing equipment pt.2
Workplace Management
Marena Group: All Star Lean manufacturer
Shorten a separating zipper
Express Your Style Design Competition
Problem pattern maker
Product storage problems
NASA's sizing problem
Fix this: mitten contest pt 3
10 reasons for skipped stitches pt.2
Apparel Manufacturing Handbook
The Evans Group
10 reasons for skipped stitches
CAD collar drafting videos
Production planning: girls denim line
Fashion contests and full service manufacturing
Fix this: mitten contest pt 2
Pattern Puzzle: Bert Simons
Fix this: mitten contest
Infovore (and amusing) links 12.01.2006
How not to copy a pattern
Wacoal Style #65547
Advertising 101: Part 3
Plenty of poultry
Contract for a clothing sales rep pt. 2
It all starts here 4
Contract for a clothing sales rep
What is a Block?
What is a sloper?
Nurture people, not products
Unemployed But Keeping Busy As Usual
How to select commercial pressing equipment
It all starts here 3
Jeans, corduroy, ironing & bras
Better factories in .......
Quality Control for the Apparel Industry
Fabric for the birds?
Classes and maybe a DE conference
The cathartic twisted ouroboros torus
Chicago vs NY sewing contractor
Muslin, "muslins" & protos
Like mother, like son
Trick or Treat
This week in blog history 10
Another lovely Sunday
Too many sizes!
Grading is not morphing
A fun little quiz pt.3
Site problems
Checking a pattern pt.2
Chicago Fabric and Trim Show and a rant
Berlei and history of sizing
How to fix a camel toe
Pattern String Codes pt.3
Do Sales Reps Do Anything? pt. 4
Pattern String Codes pt.2
Higher prices for niche labels
A dyeing conversation
65 Bras
Checking a pattern pt.1
Quality Assurance for Retailers
An illustration program?
Books are in
Pattern String Codes
A fun little quiz pt.2
Pattern puzzle: pivot sleeve
Lean Louis Vuitton
A fun little quiz
Submarining
Business plan template
Adventures in overseas manufacturing pt.2
Non disclosure agreements, myths and patents
Why contractors won't partner with you
This week in blog history 9
It all starts here 2
Ida, 5S, chile and the whole enchilada
Advertising 101: Part 2
Technical designer qualifications
Selling wholesale to foreign buyers
Logo design contest
Wholesale vs consumer marketing
Consignment policies
Shopping carts
Paper patterns, soft or hard?
I'm out of books
Advertising 101: Part 1
Adventures in overseas manufacturing pt.1
Do sales reps do anything? pt.3
Buyer's timing calender
Misc Sunday photos
Bunny punch
Swipe files and what's cheating?
Do sales reps do anything? pt.2
When are markets held?
Finding a rep in the classifieds
Analyzing business plans pt.6
Spring/Summer 2007 runway fashions
It all starts here
Do sales reps do anything?
Do not ship samples to anyone who wants them!
Birth of a citizen
Zip code stats
Bizarre pattern maker
Naming a product line
Getting into your first trade show
How many collections to produce the first year?
Timing of seasons
Knock yourself off
Buttocks bras, caffeine lingerie and sizing surveys
Labor Day 2006
Rain rain go away pt 2
Interview with an inventor
Tradeshow Season
Net 30 and getting deposits for orders
Who sets delivery dates?
This week in blog history 8
Farmer's market
What does "self" mean?
What are Look Books?
What is a bridge line?
Analyzing business plans pt.5
How to buy wholesale fabric
What are jobbers?
How to design packaging
Leadership and implementing change
Sizing is a variety problem
Analyzing business plans pt.4
Rain rain go away
Analyzing business plans pt.3
Freight and warehouse chargebacks
Question on freelance design
How to get publicity pt.2
How to format comments
Trunk show at Bendel's
The Importance of Follow-Up
Analyzing business plans pt.2
How to manufacture shoes
Domain names
Analyzing business plans pt.1
Infovore links: 8/8/2006
This week in blog history 7
How to find investors for a clothing line pt.1
3D pattern CAD software
Industrial coverstitch machines
How to get publicity
People watching
Invitation to Isaac Mizrahi's show
Talbot's sizing study
Entwinements, a shibori blog
Sewing robots
Infovore links: 7/28/2006
Why do hems roll up?
Why no one will help you
How I lost 150 pounds
Reducing production costs: Mobius scarf
Petite models question
A woman scorned?
This week in blog history 6
Carnivale of Couture: Kathleen
The Learning Annex
Information addicts
San Francisco Fashion Week
Carnivale of Couture: Gigi, Linda & Ella
Umbrella design
Carnivale of Couture: Danielle Meder
Carnivale of Couture: Andy Chang & board shorts
Site upgrade
Premiere Vision 2007/2008 Trend Forecast
Carnival of Couture: Jinjer Markley
Carnivale of Couture: Technical complexity
Pool
I couldn't make this up if I tried
Vote for president
Industrial sewing machine attachments
How much can you spend the first year?
More on apparel industry sustainability
This week in blog history 5
Miracle's off the hook
Machine washing
Correction on couture carnivale
Retail beef
The devil wore Prada
Freudian slip
Hot working bras
H&M Is Taking Over the World
This week in blog history 4
Process and Progress
Anybody working today?
Taos Solar Music Festival
Ingeo & Top 10 online retailers
Millicent Rogers Museum
How much can you make the first year?
700 lb Gorilla
3Free
Sales rep training
Camping pt.2
Line sheets revisited
Camping
How I Got Started
Pleating
Plant organization pt. 2
Plant organization
Latest is greatest?
This week in blog history 3
Shirt making tips
Guilt Cloth
Bluff pockets
Sell through guarantees?
Fit model's blog
20 Questions
Smug
Management Software pt.2
Constructing Sparkle
This week in blog history 2
Canada: Bras and meetings
Sewing Divas
Style Bites
The influence of authority
Sleeve cap ease is bogus pt.2
Literary women quiz
This week in blog history 1
A rock and a hard place
Hats UK
3D body scanning question
Relabeling garments
Announcements
Questions about CAD?
Who needs a sewing contractor?
The influence of scarcity
Interviewing tips for pattern makers
Fiber artists
Another Sunday in NM
Littering squatters
Fashion Education Options
Shopping Quiz
Training Within Industry (TWI)
A perfect fit model
Financing fashion: 10 mistakes designers make
Pattern maker's employment question
Sewing blogs
Factoring invoices: Financing a fashion line
Where is ease permissible? pt.2
Gwen Stefani breaks finger
Gussets and collars pt. 2
Selling clothes to stores
Zoe wins!
Shaping the underbust
Ken needs a penis
Sewing machines on NPR
Where is ease permissible?
Gussets and collars
Ungaro style #11350
Lazy pattern making
NYC meet-up May 18th
A question of thoracic shaping pt.2
Goverment agencies raid sewing charity
Producing a catalog
Verbal Croquis: new blog author
Sally, Amy and me
Thanks Kate!
How to start a clothing line
How to issue style numbers pt.129
Made by Magpie
Why I Love Cotton Incorporated
Working as a freelance fashion designer
Quality quiz
Silence lends consent
Intruder
How to hire a fashion illustrator
Nothings, news and links 1
Look what I bought
Chinese bras and sizing
History of women's sizing pt.3
Freelance designing
Twelve acres
Anatomy of a Camel Toe pt.2
Anatomy of a Camel Toe pt.1
Manufacturer's blogs
History of women's sizing pt.2
History of women's sizing pt.1
My lap is small
Speaking of bras...
Fulfillment centers pt.2
A question of thoracic shaping
How to be creative
Self-reporting one's size
Conphorm's pattern puzzle
Air-bag motorcycle jackets
Line sheet cover letters
Archaic anthropometry
Fulfillment centers pt.1
I'm not a sheep
New Canadian guides
Shop cat
Decline of drawing skills
Not a knock off
Reverse engineering standard work pt.5.1
ABC Retailing pt. 4
A failed experiment pt. 3
ABC Retailing pt. 3
Dilettantes and competition
Fashion meet ups
Rosa's Apparel has moved pt.2
ABC Retailing pt. 2
A failed experiment pt. 2
Fitting logic pt. 2
Straw into gold
A failed experiment
Size is a matter of opinion?
Jeans to pray for
ABC Retailing
Grading Management pt.1
Why Barbie dumped Ken
Subscription service is changing
Patently silly
Japanese pattern magazines
The 13th most important tool
Now this is hand sewing
Spring and swallows
Drafting and anthropometry
Sustainable fabric suppliers
Fitting System™ of the week
Oleg Cassini dead at 92
Rosa's Apparel has moved
On reviewing pattern books
Snippets
Legislating fashion protection
Improves with age
Reverse engineering standard work pt.9
Field trip to a cotton gin
Gemba Keiei chapter 14
My kingdom for a tie
Gap's continual decline
Yet another fitting "system"
Reverse engineering standard work pt.8
Retail-sucks
Problems with small sewing contractors
How to order labels pt.1
Is the customer always right?
They can't make what I designed
Reverse engineering standard work pt.7
On drafting and European Cut
Good Logo Design
Lies and body weight
Wooden Porch Books
Reverse engineering standard work pt.6
Home-sewing manufacturers pt 2
Domestic manufacturing is up
Designer's website design
Home-sewing manufacturers
Meet Henry Hibbard
The Fashion Piracy Paradox pt.2
Pimp my style
A Sunday in Las Cruces
The Fashion Piracy Paradox
Reverse engineering standard work pt.5
Definitely off topic
Reverse engineering standard work pt.4
Reviewing pattern scissors
Grading machines and rulers
Profits aren't cash
Paranoid and peremptory
Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont
Fashion books close out
Pattern puzzle: Vionnet
Reverse engineering standard work pt.3
Reverse engineering standard work pt.2
Color psychology
Reverse engineering standard work pt.1
Ergonomics in apparel manufacturing
First Anniversary!
Knit cutting questions
Nominate favorite posts
Standard Work
The real value of couture
Inflatable sewn products
Vivisection: Project Runway
Don't tell me what to buy
Lowering wholesale prices
Designing for extreme body types
Costs of intellectual property protection
Thomas and Eleanore pt. 2
Budget Marketing Materials: Large Format Postcards
Analyzing sales by size pt.2
Analyzing sales by size
How to make a line sheet pt.2
Organic clothing blog
Sending patterns off for correction
Piece rate is good
Bias match-stripe
Thomas and Eleanore pt. 1
Designer's guide to a business plan
Button sewing problems?
Manufacturing organic home furnishings
Suffering Unappreciated Inventor
Nameless Tutorial #9
Importance of Product Identification pt. 2
Color numbers
How to make a line sheet
Fashion design isn't glamorous
What do fashion designers earn?
More cutting and grading questions
Getting a quote for cutting
Yet another pet peeve: Waistbands
The post office is closed
How to issue style numbers pt.128
Interview with a buyer
How to issue style numbers pt.127
Fix my pants
Who's copying whom?
Top 10 lies of designer-entrepreneurs
If I were to produce a line pt 2
I need advice on advertising
Paper wedding gown
A question of line size
Article on SME
Sewing patterns for geeks
Hot air designers
Push Manufacturing Bras
Speaking of forecasts
Men' s Wear Trend Fall/Winter 2006
Nameless Tutorial #8
Nameless Tutorial #7
Counterfeit Chic
WWD: Leather and Launches
Dress Kathleen
Production pattern tutorial 2
Thread consumption formulas
Tyranny of tiny sizes?
I wish I'd said that
Batch product development 3
Design Creep
Comments ARE working
If I were to produce a line
Decisions decisions...
Somebody likes me
A post about nothing
Chicago is Red Hot 2006
Searching this site
Importance of Product Identification
Design review tutorial 1
Production pattern tutorial 1
Last minute gift?
Get off your lazy butt
Batch product development 2
Engineers gone wild
Which fashion school is best?
How to get from a 7 to a 10
Marketing only gets you so far
The eight deadly sins of waste
Slavery or Bravery. Pick one.
Batch product development
You have got to see this
Pattern puzzle: Julian & Sophie
Knits are evil
Discussion Topics
A question of men and women
Bra pattern making
Hiring a PR firm pt 2
Delicious is good
Project Kaizen: Summary
Hiring a PR firm
Cotton prices to rise
Jews and the garment industry
Project Kaizen: Friday
PN numbers
Project Kaizen: Thursday
How blocks work
A cutter's must pt 2
Project Kaizen: Wednesday
Industrial sewing machines pt 2
Manufacturing in Canada pt 4
Project Kaizen: Tuesday
A cutter's must
12 Manage & VBM
Infomat Trends
Project Kaizen: Monday
Evidently, I'm still mean
Crashing the (lean) party
The crisis of Kaizen
What is Kaizen?
Dress forms
Gemba Keiei on Panta Rei
Industrial sewing machines
On becoming a pattern maker
Stock size update
Saran wrap pattern making method #2
Sleeve cap ease is bogus
Compromising with Retailers
So, what did you do on thanksgiving?
Pattern makers know best
Selling your company
Again, not ignoring anyone
Utterly shamel