10 Small Business Ideas in Garment Industry

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I always write for garment industry professionals. And this one is not an exception. There is a tendency in young professionals to move out from day job and start something their own.

Having work experience in garment industry, we primarily look for business opportunities within this industry. Keeping this thing in mind, I have shared some small business ideas that are related to garment as product and some business ideas are services for the garment industry. 

Each business can be started in small scale. If you are on same the board you may be interested to hear something on small business ideas those are garment industry based. 

1. Small Factory Set up: You can set up a small garment factory with your own tailoring or manufacturing experience. You have to hire few tailors. Make garments and sale finished garments to retailers or whole sellers in your city. You may select products such as school uniforms, ladies kurtis, salwar-kamiz, men’s shirt or make ladies blouses. 

How to Calculate Size Wise Cut Quantity from the Size Ratio in an Order

Question:
How to calculate size wise cutting quantity for 10000 pieces? For example, suppose we have received a production order of 10000 pieces and the order size ratio is S:M:L:XL = 1:2:2:1. Please help me with the formula. ... asked by Mala SN 

Mostly when apparel buyers place an order with suppliers, they provide total order quantity and what sizes to be made and in which ratio garments to be made for different sizes. Later when cut order plan is made size wise quantity is calculated.

Mathematical calculation is used to convert ratios into quantity. You can use following steps to find size wise quantity.

Step#1. Calculate sum of all ratios. Here size ratio (1:2:2:1), 1+2+2+1 =6 

Step#2. Divide total order quantity by sum of ratio (here 6)

Step#3. Multiply the result by ratio of a particular size

If we consider above data for example, size wise cutting quantity will be

Quantity in S = (10000 /6) *1 = 1666.66 = 1667

Quantity in M = (10000 /6) *2 = 3333.33 = 3333

Quantity in L = (10000 /6) *2 = 3333.33 = 3333

Quantity in XL = (10000 /6) *1 = 1666.66 = 1667

Standard Measuring Positions for Apparel Products and Measurements Inspection Procedure

This guest post is by Todor Stojanov

The usage of Standard Measuring Positions is very important during the measurements inspection procedure because it will ensure avoiding of many mistakes and misunderstandings between suppliers and customers (buyers)
The most of the faults that appear in the measurements inspection process are result of the suppliers and customers using different measuring positions, which will implicate giving different measuring results at both sides. In order to avoid this kind of problems, suppliers and customers need to use same standard measuring positions.
The Standard Measuring Positions are graphically presented on figures 1, 2 and 3. The measuring positions are marked with letter symbols and every symbol is additionally explained.

Figure 1. Sketch of standard measuring positions for a. blazer men/boys, b. waistcoat men/boys