Are you a small brand or an emerging designer?
We primarily partner with labels launching 200 –1,000+ units / style and needing repeat production.
Do You Meet Our Partner Criteria?
We welcome conversations—but to ensure a smooth engagement, new clients must meet these minimums
Do you have at least $150 K in revenue or funding to cover pre-production and MOQ commitments?
Have you already sold 150–200 units of at least one style and validated your market?
Can you allocate $600–$ 2,150 for pattern development and first samples before bulk production?
Pre-Production Snapshot
Production Cost
Includes: Cut/sew, QC, bag‑&‑tag, Freight / Duties Variable
Estimated once specs & destination are set
*Ballpark only – helps brands plan cash‑flow before they enquire.
Required To Meet Our MOQs
Domestic Production:
150 pieces per style
3 different colors
and different sizes
Overseas Production:
300 pieces per style
3 different color
and different sizes
Overseas Production:
300 pieces per style
4 different colors
and different sizes
Overseas Production:
300 pieces per style
4 different color
and different sizes
We Cannot Help The Following:
As we are primarily a manufacturer, we recommend getting help from a designer and pattern maker/sample room to assist with the early stages of your development.
Early sketches and early-stage ideas.
We recommend getting your 1st pattern and sample made at a sample room.
Our focus is on established second stage brands.
Have a 1-on-1 consulting meeting with Teddy Sadaka, the CEO of Apparel Production Inc.
Some recommendations, information, and resources are below if we are not the right fit for you.
Directory of other reputable contractors & manufacturers
Our duty, tariff, and freight services ship directly to our client’s storefronts, warehouses, or offices.
All garments are properly wrapped to ensure the clothing are safe and undamaged during shipping. Shipping times depend on the scope of the project and the number of garments being sent out. Be sure to take into consideration that overseas shipping may cause longer turnaround times.
A garment sample, or pre-production garment, is essentially the proto-type of a style that covers: garment fit, size measurement, color, fabric and trims quality checking, and overall build before bulk manufacturing.
Upon creating the 1st sample, we offer fittings on-site with our pattern makers. This allows for all pattern corrections to be completed quickly and efficiently.
A fit model is a trained professional model who can critique and advise on the fit of your garment. It is not required, but it helps to make sure your apparel has the right fit. Some designers choose to create the sample in their size for fittings, or use friends to model.
An original pattern must be developed for each design. This serves as the template from which the parts of the garment are traced onto fabric before being cut and assembled. This template shows the required measurements for each piece to construct the garment. Patterns of different sizes are produced from the original master pattern.
This can be done manually or computerized. Patterns are graded according to size charts by industry standards. The grader uses these patterns for sizing and the marker uses them for the fabric layout.
The first step of any piece of clothing is the initial sketch and design. The purpose of a sketch is to give a visual representation of what direction the garment should follow. This gives a starting platform for both fashion designers as well as manufacturers. It should focus on characteristics such as color combinations, embellishments, proportions, pocket positions, accessories, etc.
Things to consider when creating the initial sketch:
We help designers turn their initial designs into a first sample garment to help them get a better visualization to help make design adjustments and revisions.
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) uses computer software to assist the process of creation, modification, development, optimization, and analysis. Computer-aided designers in the fashion industry use computer software to create sketches and other designs used to create clothes, accessories, shoes, intimate apparel, and more.
Tech packs are a complete collection of data covering all of the specifications of a garment. The tech pack essentially serves as a technical blueprint for the garment. The best tech packs include images, fabric details, accessory details, label information, positioning, and meticulous measurements. This helps reduce mistakes and improve communication, making the production process between the designer and manufacturer easier to understand and follow, resulting in less mistakes. They also tend to reduce lead times and turn arounds. They are not required, but help with product development.
There are so many variations to fabrics that it’s difficult to provide all options to the designer – it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. Instead, we ask that you bring a sample of the fabric you want to use.
Things to keep in mind are the amount of garments that will need to be produced, depending on the type of fabric can increase cost and lead time. Fabric prices are always based on the length, not the width. Laying out pattern pieces before ordering can help give an estimate on how much fabric may be needed for a single garment. It is important to have properly marked, graded, and digitized patterns to help reduce fabric yield, ultimately reducing total fabric waste.
With our extensive network, we can send fabric swatches directly to our suppliers to source and provide color options. This gives our clients more options when selecting the fabric for their lines.
The physical manufacturing process and assembly of the garments. This entails the cutting of the fabric from the finalized pattern, laying out each piece, hand-sewing each piece together, and adding any additional details/accessories.
Our factories are SGS approved, meaning that our services are compliant with national and international regulations and standards. Our New York City factory offers TWO full production floors and a pattern room with machines ranging from straight sewers & merrow machines, to jacket sleeve setters & shoulder press machines.
After the garment is completed, it undergoes extensive quality control to ensure there are no manufacturing defects before shipping. This allows brands to fully produce their garments domestically in our vertically integrated factories.
We also offer overseas production for higher quantity orders. All of our overseas facilities are SGS approved and ethnically regulated to match the highest standard of quality. We have Research and Development teams overseas to monitor the manufacturing process from start to finish.
We offer low minimums of 125 per style for domestic orders and 300 per style for overseas orders, making it flexible for medium to large-sized brands to scale their production.
Our domestic patterns and samples are completed in 1-2 weeks, and we offer a 2-3 week turnaround for domestic production once patterns and samples are made if we have fabric domestically. If we have to source fabric from overseas, you can expect a 4-week extension.
Yes, our end-to-end services are designed to streamline your costs and enhance production efficiency by consolidating multiple processes under one roof. Our vertically integrated factory drastically increases the time to complete production orders.
We have dedicated in-house and offshore teams specializing in quality control to ensure your order meets the highest standards. For more details, you can visit our Quality Control page.
Absolutely, we offer a range of additional services including pattern making, cut & sew samples, fabric & trim sourcing, spec sheets, tech packs, and even labels, tags, packaging, and shipping.
Take a look at our blog posts to learn more information about the manufacturing process and other insightful tips about apparel production.