Streetwear Manufacturing

Tees come in 180–240 gsm combed cotton from stock, or anywhere from 160 to 280 gsm on Made to Order.

Hoodie fleece runs 350 to 500 gsm with a loopback or brushed back. Sweatsuit sets use the same cloth as the hoodies, and their zip-up styles come in a lighter French terry of around 220–280 gsm.

FashionMe can garment-dye streetwear or give it a stone wash, an acid wash or a vintage sun-fade. On hoodies, the wash you choose is guaranteed from Made to Order volume up. A garment-dyed or vintage piece bought through Stock Match has to come from what a factory is already producing.

Because washing changes a hoodie’s shade and measurements, the sample you approve is the washed one. Garment dyeing usually adds a week or two to production.

Every cargo pocket on the spec needs its size and a position measured from a fixed point, such as the side seam or the waistband. Pocket height and knee placement only show properly when someone wears the sample.

Stock jeans are sold in the sizes and washes a factory has at the time. A change to the garment itself, from the rise to the wash, makes them a Made to Order style.

Wide-leg and flared jeans are shaped by the thigh and knee measurements relative to the leg opening.

How much the finished jeans shrink depends on the cloth: sanforized denim, which has been pre-shrunk, loses about 2–3% in the wash, and unsanforized denim as much as 10%. Custom hardware, a denim lot woven to order or a special finishing process may bring a separate supplier or process minimum.

Printing is done in-house by screen or DTF. All-over designs need Made to Order volumes.

Screen printing uses one screen per color per print location: a five-color back graphic needs five. Across the industry a screen typically costs $30–40 in labor and materials. DTF skips that setup, and on large solid prints in particular you can feel the thin film it leaves on the fabric.

Check every graphic’s finished size against the back of your smallest size. Mark the zipper line on zip-hoodie artwork.

FashionMe does flat and 3D puff embroidery in-house. In 3D puff, the stitches go over a layer of foam that lifts the design off the garment. Puff holds up best with satin stitches at least 3 mm wide; at 2 mm it works on some designs and flattens the foam on others.

Include thread colors and placement with the embroidery artwork. A large back piece is worth sampling at full size on the bulk fabric.

You get one or two rounds of revisions on the sample, and nothing goes into production until you approve it. Grading across your size range is part of Made to Order.

Put tolerances on the measurements before the sample arrives. A tolerance sets how far bulk can drift from the approved sample; on a knit chest, ±0.75–1.5 cm is common.

If you already buy your own fabric, FashionMe can cut and sew it for you as CMT production. Whatever you supply has to match the approved sample and the production spec.

Stock Match charges for relabeling and branded packaging at the prices below; Made to Order includes them.

Every order includes a Launch Kit: six images made from your batch’s QC photos (five for listings, one creative) and a video of about 10 seconds.

One FashionMe case study covers a streetwear label that sold more than 5,000 units a season and found defects in over 4% of what it received. Most were misregistered prints, and nobody caught them until the shipments had reached the US. Once every unit was checked at the factory for print registration and stitch quality, the defect rate across the next three runs fell to 0.4%.

Before shipment, FashionMe sends photos of the goods from your batch for you to approve.