Documents

Plain explanations of how making and selling a product actually works, and 61 words the trade uses.

The apparel trade has a vocabulary of its own, and most of it is learned by getting something wrong first. These pages are written for the person meeting it for the first time: what a document is for, who reads it, and what it costs when it is thin.

Costing

• What a product really costs Why the factory's price is not the cost, and how the pieces between the quote and your warehouse add up.

Specifications

• What's in a tech pack The document a factory builds and quotes from, section by section — and what goes wrong when a section is missing.

The glossary

Every word these articles use, and the ones the app itself uses, are defined in the glossary — 61 terms across tech packs, samples, costing, quality, planning, merchandising, pricing, trading, stock and customers.