This document provides sample interview questions and answers for a merchandising job in the garment industry. It begins by explaining the importance of having a strong basic knowledge of the textile and garment industry before a job interview. It then lists 26 common interview questions about apparel merchandising topics like fabric properties, garment measurements, sewing techniques, and textile terms. The questions cover topics such as grain line, handle, hip and waist measurements, pleats, color bleeding, crocking, stitching techniques, and more. Sample answers are provided for some of the questions to help applicants prepare for an interview.

1. Important Interview Question and Answer for
Merchandising Job
Interview Question for Garment Merchandiser:
An interview board consists of various types of specialized person in diferent felds of
apparel sector. You have to face so many interview question from those specialists.
Mainly you have to ask some basic interview question at frst. From my all job interview
experiences, I want to suggest you one thing that, before facing any interview
in readymade garments sector or textile sector you should increase your basic
knowledge from all the diferent section of textile or garments industry. This article has
presented some important basic interview question from apparel section. Hope these
interview question will help you to achieve your dream job.
Interview Question and Answer for Apparel Merchandiser:
The below interview question and answer are very important to get garments
merchandising job.
1. What is grain line?
Patern pieces normally carry a line is called grain line. When patern pieces are laid
down during marker making over the cloth, the grain line should be parallel to the
warp if the fabric is woven and wales in case of knited fabric. Only the exception is
seen for bias cut.
2. What is handle?
It is a characteristic of fabrics that is perceived by touching, squeezing or rubbing them.

2. 3. What is hip?
It is a specifed level down from the waist seam and garment closed measure straight
across garment, from one edge to the other.
4. What is waist?
Regular waistband or elastic relaxed, garment closed and with front and back waistband
edges even at the top, measure across the middle of waistband or along elastic relaxed
from one edge to other.
5. What is sleeve length?
It is the measurement from center back neck seam or edge straight across to shoulder
or armhole point, along sleeves fold line down to botom edge of sleeve opening.
6. What is sleeve inseam?
Measurement from under armhole seam to botom edge of sleeve opening (cuf
included) with vent closed (if applicable).
7. What is pleat?
It is used to increase the fullness of the garments. It is generally made by folding
the fabric. Dart and pleat both are used in the back part of the Men’s shirt usually.
8. What is inseam length?
Along inside seam of leg, measurement from crotch seam down to botom edge of leg
opening. Rib or elastic bands included in this measurement.
9. What is drape?
It is a character of fabric which indicates flexibility and suppleness of fabric.

3. 10. What is durable press (DP)?
The name given to a special fnish that provides the garments with shape retention,
durable pleats and pressed creases, durably smooth seams and wrinkle resistance during
use and after laundering or dry cleaning. Durable press also can be added to the stretch
fabrics to produce garments that stretch yet hold their shape and their creases.
11. What is double faced fabric?
Cloth with both ends similar is termed as double faced fabric.
12. What is basic block?
Assimilating of diagram of net dimension on papers each and individual part without
any allowance which is called patern and it is called also basic block.
13. What is crease?
Crease is any kinds of folding in cloths.
14. What is color bleeding?
It is the pigment or dye or color of a cloth that is partially gone into the water if such
colored cloth is soaked in water or solvent. Pigment dye come out from one place to
another and is stuck place near by suck characteristics is called color bleeding.
15. What is crocking?
Crocking is the act of taking out color from the dry and wet cloth by rubbing or
scouring.
16. What is back length or HPS?
HPS stands for high point of shoulder. Normally it is known as back length which is
measured from high point of shoulder down to botom edge of garment.

4. 17. What is back rise?
It is the measure from crotch intersection point, along center back seam following curve
up to waistband top edge.
18. What is CBN?
CBN stands for center back neck. It is the measure from center back neck seam or edge
down to botom edge of garment.
19. What is blind stitch?
It is a special type of stitch that cannot see from the face side of the fabric but can easily
see from the back side.
20. What is back stitch?
It is one kinds of hand stitch for sewing the apparels, which could also do by
using sewing machine.
21. What is CF Line?
The straight line botom to up vertically along the middle point of the body front of
a shirt or jacket.
22. What is bar tack?
Re-stitching over a very short length to give and increase the area of a high load bearing
strength (E.g. belt loops and pocket corner are bar tacked).
23. What is back tacking?
Approximately 1cm or small stitch backward at the beginning and fnishing of sewing,
which is used securing of the sewn end so that the thread could not be loosed easily.

5. 24. What is allowance?
When garment is made by adding extra dimension with the net dimension of the
garment is called allowance.
25. What is back rise?
The distance from the crotch back waist line is called back rise.
26. What is across back?
It is the measure of straight across back of garment at the midpoint of arm
hole seam or edge from one side to other.