Product development
Bring us
your idea.
Most projects do not start with a finished tech pack. They start with a reference, a rough drawing, or a garment someone already owns. That is enough to begin.
What counts as a brief.
Any one of these is a starting point. Several is better.
- A sketch
- Hand-drawn is fine. What matters is that every seam and closure is visible.
- A tech pack
- Send it as it is. We will flag gaps rather than fill them silently.
- A photograph
- Front, back and any detail you care about. Often clearer than a drawing.
- A sample garment
- The most information-dense thing you can send. Fit, weight, hand feel and construction all arrive at once.
- Measurements
- Your points of measure, or a garment we can measure ourselves.
- Fabric requirements
- Composition and weight if you know them; the end use if you do not.
- Brand guidelines
- Artwork, colours and how the branding has to sit on the garment.
How it runs
Six stages before bulk.
Development is where cost and risk get decided. Doing it properly is slower than skipping it and considerably cheaper than getting bulk wrong.
01
We read the construction
Seam types, panel count, closures, trims, and how the branding has to sit. From a physical reference this is a measuring exercise; from a sketch it is a set of questions.
02
We come back with the gaps
Before quoting, not after. A specification with holes in it produces a quote that cannot be held, which helps nobody.
03
Fabric options, with swatches
Two or three real candidates against the end use. You decide on the material in your hand rather than on a description of it.
04
Pattern and sample
Patterns drafted and graded, then a sample made in the actual fabric and construction, not a mock-up in a substitute fabric.
05
Your comments, then a correction
Expect more than one round. The first sample shows what you actually asked for; the second is where it gets right.
06
Approval, and a specification you own
The approved sample becomes the production reference, and the specification behind it is written down so a repeat order matches.
Reference-based development
Sending a reference garment is a normal and useful part of sourcing. It establishes a construction baseline (fit, weight, seam types, hand feel) faster than any written description.
What it is not is a request to copy a brand. We develop products around your specification. We do not reproduce other companies’ trademarked designs, logos or branding, we do not claim affiliation with brands we do not work with, and we will say so plainly if a request crosses that line.
Product development
Submit your brief.
Send the sketch, the tech pack, the photographs or the sample. We will tell you what is missing, what it takes to make, and what we need in order to quote it properly.