Outerwear, Down and Technical Assembly
You follow one down parka from the fill-power certificate to the final inspection. You see why the most expensive material in the garment is bought by weight and moves with the weather. You see why a five-millimetre wall costs USD 45,998. And why the one thing you cannot see is the one thing you are paying for.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can cost, plan, and inspect a garment by the rules of its own category, and recognise when a technique you learned on one product will quietly fail on another.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a working file for one technical outerwear order. You cost a fill-power ladder at equal loft. You build a chamber-by-chamber fill schedule and price its dosing tolerance. You cost a baffle decision against the down bill. You read a seam-taping plan in machine-days rather than money. You build a standard minute value and the line-days it really needs. And you write an inspection plan for a filled garment.
Learning format
6 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Lessons
- 01Down is bought by weight and specified by volume🔒20 min
- 02Filling the garment: the dose, the drift and the tolerance🔒20 min
- 03The baffle is a cost decision before it is a warmth decision🔒22 min
- 04Seam sealing is a machine, not a step🔒20 min
- 05The labour multiplier, and the calendar it breaks🔒20 min
- 06Inspecting what you cannot see🔒18 min