Business Reasons for Using a Fit Consultant
Reduce Returns
The largest single reason for returns is fit. Inconsistencies in standards and production methods contribute to unwanted variations in sizes. A Fit Consultant can work with design, production, and QC to eliminate these variations, resulting in more consistent garment sizes for the consumer.
Improve Customer Satisfaction and Increase Sales
Improved Fit Can Let Your Garments:
- Enhance the body's attributes and hide the body's faults
- Increase Comfort and Ease of Movement
- Provide Consistent Sizing Across Styles and Product Lines
Help Start-ups Develop Quality Product Quickly
A Fit Consultant can provide essential initial services including:
- Identify the customer in terms of their body type
- Generate specs, slopers and grading standards
- Source fit models, dress forms, patternmakers and drapers
- Review patternmaking methods, manual vs. computer
- Set up QC tolerance standards
Enable Small Companies to Compete with Large Concerns
By using a Fit Consultant even small firms can cost-effectively improve sizing and fit systems, proprietary specs and grading standards, providing the consistency of much larger companies.
Small companies can therefore compete with much larger firms on a fit basis.
Help Large Companies to Better Communicate Their Standards
Very often design and production have differing fit sizes. This creates the requirement for duplicate patterns and fittings. A Fit Consultant can interface effectively with the design and production departments, implementing a common fit standard and streamlining the process.
The Consultant can also develop a fit model guideline which compensates for fit model substitutes or variances.
Value-Driven Labels Can Compete with High End Labels
By using a Fit Consultant value-driven labels can gain industry knowledge of the upscale market and selectively implement it's pratices. This allows their product to have a higher perceived value.
Increase Design and Pattern Room Productivity
The Fit Consultant can develop and encourage the use of design-approved slopers, saving hours of pattern development and fitting time. Slopers can provide first and production pattern makers with templates for use as building blocks in developing styles, rather than simply basing new patterns on measurements.
Produce Better Fitting Petite and Large Sizes
Developing petite and large sizes from a base size is not a simple matter of grading. An established base size is a necessity and will yield better proportional growth but significant know-how is required beyond grading, particularly for large sizes.
Incorporate Fit as a Positive in Your Product Identity
A Fit Consultant can help you create a Signature Fit by evaluating your customer's preferences and body type. By adjusting fit and fine tuning production techniques you can incorporate unique fit solutions in your product identity.
Fit Consulting Services
- Standardize Sizing Across Product Lines and Divisions
- Enhance Design/Production Interface Through Approved Standards
- Contribute Knowledge of Fit Across the Market
- Solve Fit Issues and Problems Without Changing the Design
- Evaluate Fabrics with respect to Fit Issues
- Provide Computer-Based Patterns and Fit Standards
- Contribute Industry Expertise And Years of Direct Experience
