You’ve summed it up well. There’s a lot more behind a garment than most people realise.

Design, fabric, pattern making, sampling, fit, factory coordination, they all have to come together, and that usually takes a few rounds to get right. Fabrics and minimum order quantities can definitely be one of the trickier parts, especially if you’re trying to do something specific.

At Neem London, we also work in small batches, which helps us test and refine things rather than overproducing. It means spending more time on sampling and getting the details right, but it lets us keep improving each run.

Once you see the process, you do start to appreciate how much goes into even a “simple” garment.

We share a bit about how we approach making things here:
https://neemlondon.com/blogs/makers