Apparel Quality: A Guide to Evaluating Sewn Products, Second Edition is a user-friendly guide for evaluating apparel quality to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations. This book provides an overview of apparel production, emphasizing quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences, and motivations impacting purchasing decisions, and highlights the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods. The text is highly illustrated to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products skillfully.
New to this Edition:
- New fabric technology including e-textiles, sew bots, and automation
- International common size equivalents to accompany U.S. size classifications by sex, height, and age
- Sustainability considerations for raw materials, design development, and apparel production
- Expanded international labeling and safety regulations and compliance for the United States, Canada, EU, and Japan
Instructor Resources
- The Instructor’s Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, including sample syllabi, in-class activities, lab activities, and projects.
- The Test Bank includes sample test questions for each chapter
- PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion
Instructor’s Resources may be accessed through www.fairchildbooks.com.
STUDIO Features:
- Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips
- Review concepts with flashcards of essential vocabulary and image identification
- Watch Videos that take you behind the scenes of factories and testing facilities, to see how concepts covered in the text are applied in the real world
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Janace E. Bubonia, PhD, is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Fine Arts at Texas Christian University. She currently teaches courses in digital design, product development, and trend forecasting and has taught fashion illustration, fashion show production, promotion, and textile testing among others. She is a member of the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA), the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), ASTM International, and Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA).
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Condition: Very Good. Apparel Quality: A Guide to Evaluating Sewn Products, Second Edition is a user-friendly guide for evaluating apparel quality to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations. This book provides an overview of apparel production, emphasizing quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences, and motivations impacting purchasing decisions, and highlights the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods. The text is highly illustrated to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products skillfully. New to this Edition:- New fabric technology including e-textiles, sew bots, and automation- International common size equivalents to accompany U.S. size classifications by sex, height, and age- Sustainability considerations for raw materials, design development, and apparel production- Expanded international labeling and safety regulations and compliance for the United States, Canada, EU, and JapanInstructor Resources- The Instructor?s Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, including sample syllabi, in-class activities, lab activities, and projects.- The Test Bank includes sample test questions for each chapter- PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussionInstructor?s Resources may be accessed through www.fairchildbooks.com.STUDIO Features:- Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips- Review concepts with flashcards of essential vocabulary and image identification- Watch Videos that take you behind the scenes of factories and testing facilities, to see how concepts covered in the text are applied in the real world. Seller Inventory # CIN1501359622VG
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