When we develop a chiffon dress, the fabric can look right on the swatch and still behave differently once we start cutting and sewing. We have seen this with both polyester and silk chiffon. The difference may only become obvious around a curved neckline, gathered sleeve or narrow hem. That

When we develop a chiffon dress as a custom chiffon dress manufacturer, the hem can look fine on the sample table and still give us trouble later in production. The fabric may stretch during sewing, a curved edge may ripple after pressing, or the finished width may change around the

When we develop a jersey dress, we rarely approve the fabric from the fiber content alone. A 200 GSM cotton jersey and a 200 GSM polyester jersey can behave quite differently once they are cut and sewn. In the factory, we normally check stretch, recovery, shrinkage and GSM first. As

When you develop a fitted dress, the measurements on the tech pack are not the whole story. The fabric can change how those measurements behave once the dress is on the body. A waist that looks correct during fitting may relax later, while a bodycon dress can gradually lose some

When a knit dress is still at the fabric selection stage, GSM is one of the numbers we usually check first. But it is not the number we use to approve the fabric by itself. A 180 GSM jersey, a 220 GSM rib and a 280 GSM ponte can all