Apparel Quality

Apparel Quality: A Guide to Evaluating Sewn Products, Second Edition is a user-friendly guide for evaluating apparel quality to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations. This book provides an overview of apparel production, emphasizing quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences, and motivations impacting purchasing decisions, and highlights the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods. The text is highly illustrated to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products skillfully. New to this Edition:- New fabric technology including e-textiles, sew bots, and automation- International common size equivalents to accompany U.S. size classifications by sex, height, and age- Sustainability considerations for raw materials, design development, and apparel production- Expanded international labelin