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 labeling and safety regulations and compliance for the United States, Canada, EU, and Japan Instructor Resources - The Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, including sample syllabi, in-class activities, lab activities, and projects. - The Test Bank includes sample test questions for each chapter - PowerPoint (R) presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion Instructor's Resources may be accessed through www.fairchildbooks.com. STUDIO Features: - Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips - Review concepts with flashcards of essential vocabulary and image identification - Watch Videos that take you behind the scenes of factories and testing facilities, to see how concepts covered in the text are applied in the real world
By:
Janace E. Bubonia (Texas Christian University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Weight: 1.326kg
ISBN: 9781501359620
ISBN 10: 1501359622
Publication Date: 27 January 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Industry Scenarios List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. Overview of Apparel Quality and the Consumer 2. Integrating Quality into the Development of Apparel Products 3. Raw Materials Selection and Performance 4. Garment Construction Details 5. Apparel Sizing and Fit Strategies 6. ASTM and ISO Stitch Classifications 7. ASTM and ISO Seam Classifications 8. Sourcing, Assembly, and Mass Production of Sewn Products 9. Labeling Regulations and Guidelines for Manufactured Apparel 10. Safety Regulations and Guidelines for Wearing Apparel 11. Measuring Product Quality Through Testing 12. Raw Materials and Sewn Products Testing 13. Quality Assurance Along the Supply Chain Glossary Index
Janace E. Bubonia, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Design, Merchandising and Textiles at Texas Christian University. She has taught classes in design and product development, fashion illustration, fashion show production, promotion, and textile testing among others. She is a member of the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC).
