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Garment Defects

The document discusses various types of defects that can occur in garments during inspection. It lists numerous sewing defects, fabric defects, presentation defects, and more. Defects include issues with stitching, materials, measurements, labeling, packaging, and other workmanship problems. The document also provides a standard operating procedure for killed garments - those with defects that cannot be rectified. They are segregated, reviewed to identify causes and ensure corrective actions, recorded, and ultimately disposed of after cutting into bits and removing labels.

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Garment Defects

The document discusses various types of defects that can occur in garments during inspection. It lists numerous sewing defects, fabric defects, presentation defects, and more. Defects include issues with stitching, materials, measurements, labeling, packaging, and other workmanship problems. The document also provides a standard operating procedure for killed garments - those with defects that cannot be rectified. They are segregated, reviewed to identify causes and ensure corrective actions, recorded, and ultimately disposed of after cutting into bits and removing labels.

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Garment Defects:

There are different types of garments defects identified during inspection e.g. sewing defects in
garments, stitching defects in garments, Stitching defects, Broken stc at any part, Skipped stc /
floating, Open stc, Slip of stc, Some defects, Raw edge , Two front hi-low, Poor shape at noise/ btm,
Foreign yarn, Stain mark / oil stain, Irregular width at btm, cuff rolling , Looseness inside cuff,
Without bartack at pkt, hole, Body btn displaced, Half stc at btn, Broken btn, Slip of stc at side
seam , Projection at cuff, collar , Pkt displaced attached , Pkt slanted attached, Two pkt hi-low etc.

Other Sewing Defects in Garments:

 Pkt flap slanted attached


 Glue stain mark
 Iron shining mark
 sewing defects in garments
 Fabric off shading / various shades at SLV
 Main label slanted attached
 Shoulder drop uneven
 Needle mark at collar, band
 Rejection by snap/ metal accessories / wash
 Collar point uneven
 Bubble at collar
 Collar band inside loose
 Fraying at body front
 Gathering stc at arm hole
 Improper back stc at cuff, btm
 Bad tension at btm stc / jam stc at slv seam
 Reverse loop attached
 Body btn hole broken
 Two slv uneven ( for short slv)
 Yoke loose Garment Defects
 Pleat at side seam
 Intersection point up-down
 Crease mark at upper
 Hiking at front upper, lower
 sewing defects in garments

Presentation defects for standard and flat pack good’s

 B/D Button up down (over 4 cm)


 Collar spread uneven (over 1 cm)
 Tie gap plus or minus (over 3 mm)
 Wrong method folding size
 In proper clip & pin attached
 Pocket slanted
 Folding side (over 1 cm)
 Wrong barcode attached
 Defective printed poly & paper band
 Wrong tie & poly attached
 sewing defects in garments
 Looseness attach poly
 Without punch poly
 Stitching defects in garments
 Wrong neck board attached
 Bad looking collar pull
 Skew collar
 Neck button / Hole displaced
 Main label shrinkage
 Slanted main label / Main label bias
 Improper cuff / Sleeve show
 Back board show
 Back tail show
 Pleat near neck
 Loose folding / crushed folding
 Bulge at top center
 Pulling near B/D button
 Yoke loose
 Top center & Main label not straight / Top center not straight
 Micro dust / Stain mark / Oil stain
 Shoulder side / Double fold at shoulder
 Collar slip un even
 Two fly / rever un even
 Un – even rever width
 Skew rever
 Bad shape nose
 stitching defects in garments
 Over lapping collar
 Folding side at back

FABRIC DEFECTS
 SLUB
 SPOT
 SUNDRY FAULTS
 FOREIGN YARN
 NAPS
 WEFT BAR
 SHADE BAR
 HOLE
 CHECK MISSING
 MISSING YARN
 THICK YARN
 KNOT
 SEWING DEFECTS IN GARMENTS
 WAVING FAULT
More Defects
 FABRIC DEFECTS
 Burn marks, holes tears
 Permanent folding
 Weaving and knitting defects: holes, skipped stitches, double stitches, broken stitches,
foreign particles etc
 CLEANLINESS 
 Un-washable spots and stains
 Washable spots and stains
 Un-cutting stitches
 STITCHING AND SEAMS
 SPI (stitches per inch) not respected
 Unfinished stitches unless wanted
 Irregular stitches unless wanted
 Twisted stitches unless wanted
 COLOURS
 Irregular dyeing
 Different shading on the same garment
 HANGTAGS & LABELLING
 Missing
 Incomplete 
 Improperly fixed
 Misplaced
 POCKETS Garment Defects
 Un symmetric left / right unless wanted
 Badly cut, wrong dimensions and deformed
 Wrong positioning of more than 3cm
 ACCESSORIES
 Zipper different from specified
 Zipper defect, unable to zip / unzip 
 Different size than specified
 Snaps pop off
 Rivets /eyelets badly fixed or fall off
 Quality of snaps/rivets/eyelets different than specified
 IRONING
 Burn marks
 Shiny marks
 Deformed shape/fabric
 BUTTONS & BUTTONHOLES
 Unlined 
 Not equidistant unless wanted
 Broken or missing
 Badly sewn or pop off
 Different from specified
 Badly sewn or cut buttonholes
 Buttonhole too small for button
 Buttonhole stitches broken or forgotten
 EMBROIDERY
 Thread colour and quality different from specified
 Quality and quantity of stitches
 PRINTING
 Colour and quality different from specified
 Placement different from specified
 Missing print
 MEASUREMENTS
 Out of tolerance
 Non symmetric left and right side
 PACKAGING
 Bad quality cartons
 Wrong dimensions of cartons/polybag
 Wrong carton labelling
 Wrong packing (carton and polybag)

Standard Operating Procedure for Killed Garments

 All the defective garments having fabric faults, washing damages, sewing damages and
damaged due to improper handling, and those can not be rectified are non-confirmed goods.
These are classified as Killed Garments and are sent to common platform for management
review.
 The garments are segregated under various categories by the respective factory Quality
Manager before sending for review of Management.
 During review, the management observes the causes which led the garments as killed.
Accordingly, corrective steps are taken to avoid these defects.
 Record is maintained to keep proper accountability of the Killed Garments.
 Dedicated team is assigned to do follow up of corrective action. Management by means of
reports, accesses the effectiveness of system.
 After Review and accountability is done, these garments are cut into bits and disposed off.
 Before disposing off the garments into bits, the labels are being taken out. Surplus and extra
labels are burnt.

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