Most of the back-and-forth in a first quotation is not about price. It is about a missing spec. When a tech pack arrives without a size break or a fabric construction, the only honest answer is a range – and ranges are what buyers end up planning against.
We review every incoming pack against the same checklist. It takes our pattern room about twenty minutes and it removes roughly two rounds of email from the sampling phase.
The six fields we check first
- Style number and a flat sketch or reference photo with front and back views.
- Fabric construction: composition, GSM, weave or knit structure, and finish.
- Size range plus the size break – the quantity split per size, not just the range.
- Colourways and the quantity per colour; lab-dip approval responsibility.
- Trim list with nominated suppliers, including labels, packaging and hangtags.
- Target incoterm and the required ship date, not just the order date.
The three that move the number
Fabric consumption changes with the size break. A run weighted toward XL uses more cloth per piece than a run weighted toward S, and on a 5,000-piece order that difference is material. Second, nominated trims with a long lead time push the production slot. Third, a requested ship date that lands inside Chinese New Year or Golden Week needs the fabric booked several weeks earlier.
A tech pack is not paperwork. It is the contract between what the designer imagined and what the cutting table can actually produce.
What we send back
Within one business day you get a costed proposal, a written spec with any assumptions flagged, and a sampling plan with dates for proto, fit and seal samples. If something in your pack is ambiguous, we ask before costing rather than quietly choosing for you.
No list prices are published on this site for exactly this reason: the number belongs to your specification, not to a catalogue.