Apparel quality
Subtitle: a guide to evaluating sewn products
By: Janace E. Bubonia, PH.D., Texas Christian University
Publisher: Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781609015121
Subjects: Clothing trade; Quality control; Textile fabrics; Clothing and dress; DESIGN / Textile & Costume; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry
Description: "This user-friendly guide to evaluating apparel quality presents the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods, to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations. Bubonia provides an overview of apparel production, with emphasis on quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences and motivations impacting purchasing decisions, and the relationship of apparel manufacturing and production processes, cost, price point and the quality level of an apparel product. A key aspect of the book is the focus on both U.S. and international standards and regulations required for apparel analysis, performance, labeling requirements and safety regulations. Heavily illustrated with images of stitch and seam types plus photos of their uses in actual garments, students will have the tools needed to skillfully evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of Apparel Quality and the Consumer; title: Integrating Quality into the Development of Apparel Products; title: Raw Materials Selection and Performance; title: Garment Construction Details; title: Apparel Sizing and Fit Strategies; title: ASTM and ISO Stitch Classifications; title: ASTM and ISO Seam Classifications; title: Sourcing and Mass Production of Sewn Products; title: Labeling Regulations and Guidelines for Manufactured Apparel; title: Safety Regulations and Guidelines for Wearing Apparel; title: Measuring Product Quality through Testing; title: Raw Materials and Sewn Products Testing; title: Quality Assurance Along the Supply Chain; title: Appendices; title: Glossary.