From Lingerie to Activewear: Understanding Women’s Intimate Apparel

Whether you are an established intimate apparel entrepreneur or just a start-up, you are aware of the fact that a lot of customers face difficulties buying good fitting intimate apparel such as lingerie, swimwear, leisurewear, activewear etc. So, if your trade can come up with good fitting garments, it is not unimaginable what can happen next. But finding success in getting good fitting intimate apparel, that too in case of manufacturing based overseas, can only be possible with a strong understanding of the garment families and their manufacturing processes.

In this article, we have sought to introduce you with women’s intimate apparel in technical viewpoints and how you can find good fitting garments for your customer even by manufacturing in overseas. Women intimate apparel is often synonymous with underwear or lingerie and refers to garments that are worn near the skin. The naming of the intimate apparel solely depends on their intended usage as follows:

Lingerie:
Lingerie refers to racy and flattering garments that people wear either as undergarments or sexy intimate apparel. Unlike other garments, women are more conscious with lingerie and always consider the fittings and materials comfortability, the looks and what the care advice involves.

Swimwear:
Women swimwear, also worn as intimate apparel, is an item of garment families designed for water-based activities. Women choose to buy swimwear depending on their body type, looks and good fittings.

Leisurewear:
Leisurewear is an item of garments families designed to be worn by women during their leisure time. They are more informal and relaxing intimate apparel nothing like racy, flattering or fitted garments.

Activewear:
Manufacturers produce women’s activewear as a distinct intimate garment for customers engaged in fitness and sports activities. It helps improve activities performance offering advantages such as wicking function, enhanced grip and bi-stretchable features.

Aside from that there is other intimate apparel but not limited to camisole, garter, corset, baby doll, bustier etc. No matter what lingerie a woman chooses regardless of whatever the usages are; one thing is obvious that women wear intimate apparel in everyday life for comfort, safety and support between the outerwear and body.

There is a lot of information on the web regarding choosing the right lingerie for you. But when it comes to sourcing good ones for customers the options are limited. Isn’t it more profitable to develop your own designs and manufacture them directly from a factory rather than sourcing from wholesalers? Surely you will agree but may come up with a big query that how to do?

First you need to understand the body types of women. Click here to visit another article where we have given briefs on women body types and their effect on design and prototype development. 

Then you need to know about design processes such as tech pack development, rounds of fittings samples, sourcing the right fabrics and other materials, finding a good factory for manufacturing and so on. One can clearly see that this process involves a lot of steps, but without carefully handling all of them, can anyone expect to source quality garments for customers?

The more you know about the design process to prototype development and all the way through production of intimate apparel, the more you will be able to source the right factory for your production. We are not going to end here without showing you paths. Kindly visit the following posts where we have briefed more on the following topics:

• The Difference Between Lingerie Design and Product Development & Manufacturing
• Lingerie Manufacturers in Different Regions of the World: Asia vs. Europe vs. USA
• How Long Does It (Really) Take to Develop a Lingerie Line?
• How Many Sets Should I Design for My Initial Lingerie Line?
• How to Differentiate Your Lingerie Line from the Competition?

If you have any further queries, don’t hesitate to leave a comment.