How To Start a Made To Order Clothing Business in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome to this video where I share how to start a made to order clothing business in 2024. This is one of a few questions I answer around running a fashion business.
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Intro 00:17
Outfit details 00:49
Is it too late to start a business in your 30s 01:57
Do you need a degree in fashion 03:26
Beginner tutorials online 05:43
When your strategy isn't working 07:56
How To Start a Made To Order Clothing Business in 2024 10:44
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Age is no barrier in anything, learnt tailoring 2yrs ago at age 34, though I have not bloomed yet but I learnt well and working on my blooming🎉
I completely agree with you on that. And you too will bloom when your time comes 👌👏
U R so brave. I kno a lady who sew such beautiful clothes, yet, one client yelled her down so badly for not being happy with the outcome of the garment. That’s what I’m most apprehensive about. You will always get one bad apple.
We get customers who are absolutely amazing. But every now and again, there would be a difficult one. It happens and it’s part of doing business.
With more experience, we learn to deal with such situations and find solutions where possible.
Thank you Kim for this piece, it's educating
Thank you for posting, these answers will help me a lot 🙏🏾❤ I want to go into the made to order business so I'm doing my research 😊
As a self taught designing still finding her feet, I absolutely love your content especially the parts where you talk about the business side of things. Thank you for taking your time to share your hard earned skills and knowledge with us. I know how much it takes just to bring out that camera so thank you❤
You're welcome. Thankful to know you enjoy these types of content. Knowing and understanding the business side of things is just as important as making the clothes
So inspiring and helpful and you are glowing, thanks for sharing with us❤🎉
Thank you so much ☺️ happy you enjoyed this video!
As always….thank you so much for sharing❤
you're welcome
Thank you Kim👏I can totally relate with this video as a startup fashion entrepreneur. Will definitely appreciate more videos like this.
You’re welcome Valerie. I’ll do my best to make more fashion entrepreneurial videos in the future along side tutorials
I love you Priscilla❤
You've been so helpful and you're super amazing!
Awwww thank you for the love 🥰
This was really helpful and good to watch 😊❤️Thank you ❤️
You are so welcome!
This was so insightful! Thank you. I do have a couple of questions tho
1. For an online made to order business, is it advisable to create a size chart or ask the customers to take their own measurements and send it over?
2. When there are a lot of orders, what's the best way to communicate that the business isn't taking orders until further notice, is that advisable? Or whats the best approach
3.how does one deal with a situation where a particular fabric isn't available anymore?
You're welcome Eucharia.
1) Most brands create their own size charts and have it readily available on their website for interested customers to see. This makes the available sizes clear for the customers to pick the size that best suits them. However you can offer an additional service of offering bespoke sizes for customers.
2) Yes it's better to take orders that you or team can handle. Especially if you care about making garments with goof finish, you want to take an amount of orders you can handle either weekly or monthly. You can inform you customers that are at capacity when orders begin to overwhelm you. Communication and transparency works most times.
3) If a particular fabric is sold-out, you can try sourcing something similar if the style you used it for it's a high performing product. Once you've found a fabric that could be a possible replacement, use it to make the same style for your customers.
@@KimDave Gosh! Thanks alot you just solved something I've been thinking about for weeks! Thank you!
Thanks for asking these questions...I've been thinking about theses things too ❤🙏🏾
I really appreciate your contents. You are very important to people who want to start their own business.
My absolute pleasure!
Girl! I saw you on threads today and i am here binge watching!
I am a beginner in the sewing / clothing space. Thank you for doing such videos.
You are so welcome!
Welcome to the channel 😃
Thank you for this queen! Very insightful & I agree; you don’t need to have everything set up yet!.
Your love for jacquard lol!
My pleasure sis. Glad you enjoyed this video.
lol, you know how I feel about jacquard 😊😻
Thanks a lot kD ,God bless🎉❤
You're welcome 😊
Hi Kim ..❤thanks so much for sharing ds with us..can u share us standard measurements for uk ready to wear size chart in details with both neck line measurements
Keep doing you! ❤
Thank you so much
Love the hairband, it's beautiful
Do you have a tutorial for it please?
Big like❤❤❤
Lovely and inspiring 🌹🌹🌹🌹💕💕💕💕💕
Thank you so much
Drop any further questions you have blow 👇
Thanks a lot sis, please I want to start an online sell but really don’t know how to go about it , how can I go about with the size of orders are bn placed .God bless
Soo beautiful ❤🎉
Thank you! Cheers!
Honestly 31 is still young and kicking... Plus the sky is big enough for everyone
I've seen that people don't understand that "made to order" means is not ready yet! 😂😂😂😂 How?Simply because they want things to be shipped and received on the same pace as an Amazon product. There's a solution for that though which is educate your customers. ❤
I studied microbiology in university of Benin too 😆
Now a fashion designer ❤
Wow I studied microbiology as well 😅what a small world we live in
Now after making your designs where exactly can you sell your product?
If you want to sell online, you can consider
- Instagram; take sales via DM. Not my best choice but it's totally free to run
- Online website hosted on Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Woocommerce, Selar e.t.c. whichever works for you.
- You can run pop ups where customers can come try on the pieces and place their orders in person
Hi Kim, I just learned how to sew. I have made a few (imperfect garments) from the sewing class. I wish to make an income or a business from the skills that I've gained, however I'm quite stuck. There are many boutiques here, where people would prefer to get ready made clothes (very well-made) and their options are endless. Would people still buy my clothes? I am thinking to do alterations for now, but my passion is in designing and sewing. However, I still need to sharpen my skills! I don't have fashion background but I have always love art and also making pretty dresses. Truly, I am very stuck now. Should I make a few pieces to showcase my designs or take custom orders (sounds scary to me 😢) . As you said make sure your business is unique, which I agree, but I still don't know where to start! And also thank you for this video! :)
I would recommend doing an internship or apprenticeship at a small to mid-sized fashion studio where well made clothing are created. From doing this, you will learn first hand some useful skills and techniques that you can apply when you feel more ready to start your own label. You will also learn the business side of things which is just as important as creating.
Helo Kim
Just want to ask if you already registered your company in Nigeria as a limited liability company do you still need to register it here in the Uk
Yes you do. Since you will be trading in the U.K. you will need to register your company here as well
Oh ok thank you so much
What sewing machine would you recommend
For beginners on a budget, Brother LS14s
For industrial, Juki DDL 8700. I've been using these for years and absolutely love them so far
@@KimDave can industrial machine sew stretch material or what machine do you advice for a stretch material
Hello :)
Hey there!
Hello ma do you have a fashion house in Nigeria where you can employ me?
You are beautiful 🎉
thank ypu Joy for the love!
why don't you show us the dress how it fits on your body ?