Common Features of Apparel Rework for Retail Clients
In our last article, we wrote about the kinds of faults we look out for in our garment quality control services. Tears, missing buttons, poor seaming, and broken zips are all enough to reject a garment from the supply chain, but what can we do about them? High-volume apparel rework and repair for retail clients can rescue faulty garments from waste or recycling, amending small defects invisibly so that the garment can be sold.
Sometimes these defects are found after items are returned by the consumer. Reworking garments can help avoid contributing to landfill waste and save fashion retailers money, particularly when performed at scale.
Common Garment Repairs & Post-Manufacturing Rework Tasks
Bulk apparel rework provides a cost-effective, professional repair service for the fashion industry, rectifying a wide range of quality issues to prepare garments for retail. Here are some of the apparel rework tasks we commonly carry out.
Seam and Stitch Repairs
Loose or broken seams should be noticed during quality control, but they can go unnoticed. Loose seams can also come unstitched during unpacking and hanging. Reworking services can support retail businesses by:
- Overlocking seams
- Reinforcing weak stitching to prevent further damage
- Re-sewing loose buttons, hooks, or snaps
Our apparel rework facility has a large collection of fastenings, buttons and trim to match a wide range of designs. We can work with your suppliers to find more specialised designs to replace lost fasteners.
Tear Repairs
Our staff have decades of experience in apparel manufacturing. Working with industrial sewing machines, we can invisibly repair holes or tears in fabric to a saleable quality.
Apparel Rework: Repair Garments at High Volume
Whether the faults are consistent throughout a batch of products or in several returned items, outsourcing apparel repair brings damaged clothes to a high standard suitable for sale in a retail environment.
Repairing garments reduces textile waste and energy use in recycling. It can also save companies money on wasted stock, particularly when used at scale.
