There are three main categories of garment defects: 1) Fabric defects related to the material itself, 2) Workmanship and handling defects caused during the production process such as cutting and sewing, and 3) Defects related to trims, accessories, and embellishments like colors, sizing, and placement. Defects are further classified as critical, major, or minor depending on their severity, with critical defects not being shipped and major defects limited to 3% or less depending on buyer requirements. Typical defects include seam puckering, shading variations, open or broken seams, dropped stitches, wavy stitching, loose threads, sizing issues, ironing problems, misaligned buttons/holes, and issues with

1. 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.