Contents
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A Newcomer’s Guide to the Trade
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Introduction |
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What Your Name
Says About You |
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What is
Manufacturing? |
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Free-lance
Design |
18 |
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Reality 101 |
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Licensing |
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Be Afraid. Be
Very Afraid |
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Small Service
Provider Tips |
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Weird Things
that No One Ever Tells You |
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How to Protect
Your Work |
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How to Plan A Line
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Manufacturing
101 |
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Numbers Are
Your Friends |
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Job
Descriptions in the Industry |
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What Are
Blocks? |
62 |
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Developing
Product Concepts |
39 |
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Do You Need a
Pattern Maker? |
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Determine
Market Entry |
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How to Hire a
Pattern Maker |
67 |
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Production
Scheduling 101 |
44 |
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Troubleshooting
Product Development |
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Troubleshooting Concept Development
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Why You Need a
Fit Model |
74 |
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The Art of
Ordering Fabrics |
50 |
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Design Process
Organization |
75 |
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Go Broke Quick!
(don’t read this) |
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Allocation |
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Design Process
Tools |
54 |
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13 Best
Business Sins |
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What are Style
Numbers? |
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Market
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What is
Quality…Really? |
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Feed-Store
Pete: A Retailer’s View |
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A Boutique
Owner Tells All |
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Sales Policies:
A DE’s View |
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Sales Reps 101
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Market Samples,
Permission to be Paranoid |
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Contracts and
Conditions |
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Scout a Market
(and the Competition) |
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A Rep Rats on
Reps |
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Market Trends;
What Consumers Want |
105 |
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Production
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Product
Costing; CM&T |
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Industrial
Sewing Theory |
129 |
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Production
Cutting; Making Markers |
114 |
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How to Hire a
Sewing Contractor |
133 |
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How to Hire a
Grading Service |
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Troubleshooting Sewing Contractors
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Production
Sewing 101 |
125 |
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Product Costing
and Pricing |
142 |
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Practice Sewing
Organization |
126 |
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Setting Up Shop |
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Improving Product Quality
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How to Make
Guides and Templates |
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Fundamentals of
Fitting: Torso |
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Lining Drafts;
Vests, Jackets and Sleeves |
154 |
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A Practical
Guide to Grading |
170 |
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Textile Testing |
158 |
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Production
Pattern Making 101 |
176 |
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How to Test and
Measure Shrinkage |
159 |
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Advanced Guides and Templates
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Cutting a Pattern for Shrinkage
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Management and Trends
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Financing for
Manufacturing |
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How to Go Broke
(slowly) |
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One Reason
Corporations Succeed |
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Theory of
Manufacturing Management |
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Why People Quit |
189 |
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The Industry Model Won’t Work for You
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Troubleshooting
Project Management |
191 |
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The Big Dirty
Secret |
205 |
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How to Go Broke
(quickly) |
195 |
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Why DEs are
Destined to Succeed |
209 |
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Resources
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Bibliography |
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Market Show
Contact Information |
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References |
214 |
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Index
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Glossary |
215 |
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Test Your
Knowledge |
227 |
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Trade
Suppliers, Magazines & Resources |
217 |
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Small Business
Survey |
228 |
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A List of Sample Forms,
Charts and Tables
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Define Your
Target Customer |
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Salesman-Manufacturer Sales Contract |
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Production Schedule
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46 |
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CM&T Worksheet |
113 |
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Sketch Sheet |
57 |
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Product
Specifications Sheet |
139 |
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Style Meeting
Checklist |
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Contractor
Evaluation Form |
141 |
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Direction Card |
79 |
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Product Costing
Sheet |
144 |
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Input Control
Form |
80 |
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Basic Tool List |
146 |
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Allocation
Table |
81 |
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Master Schedule
Checklist |
199 |
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Manufacturing
Rules |
82 |
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