Documents

Plain explanations of how making and selling a product actually works, and 9 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.

The glossary

Every word these articles use, and the ones the app itself uses, are defined in the glossary — 9 terms across tech packs, samples, costing, quality, planning, merchandising, pricing, trading, stock and customers.