This document discusses different types of garment defects categorized into 3 groups: 1) fabric defects found in the material itself, 2) workmanship and handling defects caused during production, and 3) defects related to trims, accessories, and embellishments. Workmanship defects include seam puckering, shading variations, open or broken seams, broken stitches, dropped stitches, wavy stitching, and loose threads. Defects are further classified as critical, major, or minor depending on their severity. Typical defects from each category are provided as examples.

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3. Garment Defects
Garment defects can be separated into 3 categories:
1. Fabric defects:
These are defects that are found in the fabric, mostly these
are not caused by the sewing lines. e.g. running shade,
selvedge to selvedge shade, holes, staining mark, missing
yarn, foreign yarn, slub, hairiness etc.
2. Workmanship and handling defects:
These are defects that are directly caused by production
section, this would include both the cutting and sewing
section. Buyer’s approved samples must be referred to
maintain perfect workmanship.
Note: Workmanship means all the details such as
measurement, outlook, ways of attaching trims, packing etc.

4. Garments Defects(Contd.)
3. Trims, accessories and embellishment defects:
These defects include color, size and placement of trims such
as labels, sewing thread, screen print , embroidery
designs, zipper, hangtag, lining , button and any kind of
trims.
Defects are also classified (as per extent of defect) into
Critical, Major and Minor defects.
1.Critical defects are defects that are not allowed to be
shipped and are the most serious of defects (0%).
2. Major defects are serious defects that are not allowed over
a certain percentage (3%) depending on buyers
requirements
3. Minor defects are serious defects that are not allowed over
a certain percentage (5%) depending on buyers
requirements

5. Garments Defects (Contd.)
Typical Defects:
1. Fabric defects:
Fabric inspection method.
2.Workmanship defect:
a) Seam Puckering: refers to the gathering of a seam either just after
sewing or after laundering causing an unacceptable seam
appearance.
This problem arises due to uneven stretching on to plies of fabric
during sewing , improper thread tension , wrong sewing thread
selection , dimensional instability of the plies of fabric etc.
b) Shading Variations within different parts: arises due to improper
cutting , bundling and numbering .

6. Garments Defects (Contd.)
c) Open seam or broken seam: Portion of the garment that
has not been covered by sewing thread.
This happens due to improper handling of the parts of
garments , improper setting and timing between needle
and looper or hook etc.
d) Broken Stitch: Non-continuous sewing thread.
It appears due to improper trimming or machine usage.
e) Drop stitch/Skipped stitch: Irregular stitching along the
seam. It appears due to improper handling of cut pieces or
machine usage.

7. Garment Defects (Contd.)
f)Wavy/staggered stitching:
Stitches are not straight. It appears due to improper
handling of cut pieces , faulty feed mechanism , needle
deflection or wrong needle.
g) Uncut/ loose thread :
Extra thread or loose thread on seam line. It appears due
to improper trimming or finishing.
h) Sizing defects (Difference in measurement of various parts
of garments), wrong placement of pocket, buttonhole,
embroidery and prints , measurement discrepancy- all
these problems come from pattern section.

8. Garments Defect(Contd.)
I) Poor ironing- if not sufficient, there might be creases and
crinkles on garment surface and if ironing is too heavy,
there might be shining mark on garment.
j) misaligned buttons and holes ,unfinished buttonhole,
missing buttons, wrong placement of labels, hang tag,
wrong folding or poor folding , improper packing into
cartons – all these defects come from finishing section.
3. Trims, accessories and embellishment defects:
Unmatched color of thread, button and zipper tape, short
zippers, faulty zippers, wrong labels, improper size of the
labels, printing mistake of labels and cartons, broken poly
bag , wrong hanger, improper embroideries and prints etc.