Apperal Manufacturing and Technology

Bangladesh, a country of approximately twenty crores people where the economy is rapidly growing because of the ready-made garments sector since few decades. There are more than 5000 garment factories in Bangladesh which helps us to earn a big amount of foreign currency. On the other hand, it also increases the disposal behavior of consumers. Especially the young consumers dispose a lot. This study aims to investigate the reason why young consumers dispose of their clothing frequently. A huge number of textiles are being produced every year, purchased & disposed of in landfill sites, which is extremely affecting our environment. This research has identified the reason for increasing purchase behavior & the propensity to keep clothing for a shorter time. Qualitative method is adopted to identify the main themes relating to clothing consumption & disposition. This study also identifies consumers ignorant of how this behavior affects our environment.

Bangladesh, a country of approximately twenty crores people where the economy is rapidly growing because of the ready-made garments sector since few decades. There are more than 5000 garment factories in Bangladesh which helps us to earn a big amount of foreign currency. On the other hand, it also increases the disposal behavior of consumers. Especially the young consumers dispose a lot. This study aims to investigate the reason why young consumers dispose of their clothing frequently. A huge number of textiles are being produced every year, purchased & disposed of in landfill sites, which is extremely affecting our environment. This research has identified the reason for increasing purchase behavior & the propensity to keep clothing for a shorter time. Qualitative method is adopted to identify the main themes relating to clothing consumption & disposition. This study also identifies consumers ignorant of how this behavior affects our environment.

In this study, it was observed that the effect of soda ash on fastness properties of reactive dyed cotton fabric was compared with the varying concentration of soda ash. Here, five different concentration of soda ash (10g/l, 15g/l, 20g/l, 25g/land 30g/l) were used to compare the fastness. Different fastness properties of cotton dyed fabric were investigated such as washing fastness, perspiration fastness, rubbing fastness, and light fastness. Most of the cases, the fabric fastness properties such as washing, rubbing, perspiration, and light were improved at soda 20gm/L after further increasing the amount of soda, the fastness properties were same. So, the result of fastness properties at 20gm/L concentration of soda ash was excellent.

In present day, the apparel industries should be very versatile and should capable of processing any kinds of design as per buyer demand. Better quality in every sense of the word warrants a better price point, but the idea and real trend are to mitigate risk and maximize net profits. During order taking, we need to make fabric consumption using mathematical estimates before actual marker making consumption. Two types of mathematical methods of fabric consumption are widely used by many factories. But due to lack of knowledge, what type of formula is suitable for which type of garments, it is not clear to all. So, the objective is to find out the accurate method of consumption when sleeve type varies. For this experiment, six garments having three different sleeve types; set-in, raglan & kimono for both short & long sleeve have been used.