Apparel Quality

This user-friendly guide to evaluating apparel quality to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations highlights the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods. In Apparel Quality: A Guide to Evaluating Sewn Products, Bubonia provides an overview of apparel production, emphasizing quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences and motivations impacting purchasing decisions. Also covered is the relationship between apparel manufacturing and production processes, cost, price point, and quality level of an apparel product. The text is highly illustrated to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products skillfully. The roles of industry professional are discussed throughout the book to show application to various positions within the field.

New in this Edition:
- Incorporation of new fabric technology including E-Textiles (electronically integrated textiles), sew bots, and automation
- Includes international common size equivalents to accompany U.S. size classifications by sex, height, and age
- New material on sustainability considerations for raw materials, design development, and apparel production
- Covers new legislation and regulations

STUDIO Features:
- Watch Videos of factories and testing facilities to gain real world knowledge of how apparel quality is assessed
- Test yourself with Self-Assessment Quizzes on key concepts
- Review Flashcards to enhance your comprehension of key terms

Instructor's Resources:
- PowerPoint slides provided for each chapter
- A Text Bank offering exams for each chapter
- From the first edition lab manual, a collection of Lab and In-class Activities to help with hands on learning and overall comprehension
- Sample Syllabus to show how to use this text in your course
- Project Sheets and Guidelines for further learning