Women's All Season Damask Bazin African Slit Dress

Searches for “women's all season damask bazin african slit dress” rarely come from someone browsing a single piece. They come from buyers building a range: a boutique testing a new line, a wholesaler filling a container, or an established brand that needs a second source for a style it already sells.

In practical terms this is a dress in bazin riche built for women, scheduled against all-season programmes. Bazin is a damask-finished cotton with a dry, papery hand and a strong sheen. It takes embroidery and stone-work beautifully but creases hard, so it is usually shipped folded with tissue rather than hung. A dress is the anchor of this category: one garment, one fit decision, and a silhouette that has to hold from the bust line to the hem without a waist seam to hide behind.

The size run is the first commercial decision: a four-size run sells a test order, a ten-size run sells a container. An all-season programme only holds together if the shell is a stable, repeatable base cloth rather than a seasonal novelty.

What Has To Be Specified

• Shell: bazin riche, weight and hand approved on a physical swatch, not on a screen.
• Block: dress, fitted on a real model at the middle size before grading.
• Detail: a slit.
• Colour: name the colourway and give a reference swatch. “African print” is not a colour; a lab dip checked under D65 and TL84 is.
• Lining: state unlined, half-lined or fully lined. This single line changes the hand, the packing and the cost.
• Closure: name the type and the position. “Back zip” is not a specification; “invisible zip, CB, 55 cm, self-fabric guard” is.
• Sizing: give the size run, the grade rule and the target fit model. A four-size test and a ten-size container run are two different projects.
• Trim and hardware: bead, cord, eyelet or feather, with a colour reference and a pull-strength requirement for anything on a children's style.

Suggested Starting Specification

Where This Style Goes Wrong In Production

Bazin is a damask-finished cotton with a dry, papery hand and a strong sheen. It takes embroidery and stone-work beautifully but creases hard, so it is usually shipped folded with tissue rather than hung.

A dress is the anchor of this category: one garment, one fit decision, and a silhouette that has to hold from the bust line to the hem without a waist seam to hide behind.

Trims are quoted per piece and bought per roll. A 15% trim allowance sounds generous until the third size run lands.

Grading is where the money disappears. Every detail that is placed by eye on the sample has to be measured on the pattern, or the size run drifts.

The first sample usually passes on the mannequin and fails on a body: the waist sits high, the armhole cuts, or the sweep is 4 cm short. Fit on a real model before you approve anything.

Options We Can Build To

• Closure: invisible zip, exposed zip, button placket or lace-up, each with its own sample requirement.
• Detail variations on the a slit: scaled up, scaled down, or replaced with a plain panel at a lower price point.
• Closure: invisible zip, exposed zip, button placket or lace-up, each with its own sample requirement.
• Lining: unlined, half-lined or fully lined — the last one changes the hand and the cost together.
• Closure: invisible zip, exposed zip, button placket or lace-up, each with its own sample requirement.

Pre-production sample approval, in-line inspection during cutting and sewing, and a final AQL inspection before packing, with measurement reports and photos shared before shipment.

If you are developing this style, send us a tech pack, a photo or a reference garment and we will quote within 24 hours. Contact bafinasa@bafinasa.com or WhatsApp +86 13827222469.