Day 7 NYC: Not as Hectic

Today was not as hectic as yesterday, the day started of slow with me organizing hangers for the design room which actually has a purpose. The three types of hangers in the design room are for three types of sizes the smallest hanger is the junior hanger which actually has a number on it is 484. Then there is the Missy hanger that is of course one step up that number is 485. Finally there are the Plus size hangers. After I organized 3 boxes of hangers they did not really have much in the design room for me to do so I went to corporate and helped the technical designers. I went over there and helped to spec garments. Which for those of you who do not know is when you take the measurement’s that a garment is supposed to be which are in detail on a Specification sheet in a teck pack and cross reference it to a garment that is sent to you from the manufacture to make sure that the measurements are close usually they have to be with in a fourth of an inch to a half inch. Now did you know that there are three kinds of samples? There are the samples I talked about from yesterday the ones they show from other companies to give the buyers an idea of where they are headed, there are prototype samples which are the samples you cross reference to the technical pack, and there are ad samples that go and hanging the showroom so that buyers can see what they are buying and usually what it will look like when it gets to the store. I mostly did the AD samples today which consist of measuring 4 things and then sending them off to the show room. These measurement’s consist of: the bottom width measurement, the length of the garment which is measured from HPS or high point shoulder (where the neck seam and the shoulder seam connect), the sleeve length and the chest width which is found by measuring down 1 inch from the arm hole and then across. After you are done measuring these you place a pin tag in the center back and fold them then you place a copy of the original Specification sheet in with it and send it to the showroom. I pretty much did that until the end of the day and then went back to Stephanie and Joes house where we celebrated the fact that it was Friday.