Navy Stretch Corduroy Pleated Mini Skirt - OEM

The Garrett Mini Skirt from Sea New York in navy, made from a stretch cotton cord with crisp box pleats, a mid rise and a leather belt, listed at 385 GBP with two of three sizes left. Its chart is two lines long and both of them are worth setting out. The waist reads 34, 35 and 36 centimetres, so the skirt grades one centimetre per size, while the body's waist grades about five. Against bodies of 25, 27 and 29 inches, the ease is about 1.77, 0.56 and then minus 0.65 inches, so it falls by more than an inch at every size and goes negative at the top. And the total length reads 38, 38 and 38: the skirt is the same length at all three sizes. Now, the largest size this skirt is made in is the one that, on the brand's own chart, is smaller than the body it is labelled for, and there is no size above it. A customer at the top of this range is buying a skirt that does not fit by the numbers printed beside it, and there is nothing to step up to. And this is the second garment from this brand in the same batch to do exactly that, so it is a pattern and not a slip. The other thing worth setting out is the care label, because this run can now settle a question it has been carrying. A corduroy trouser from another brand in this run is machine washable at thirty. This corduroy skirt is dry clean only. Same fibre family, opposite instruction, and the reason is visible on this page: crisp box pleats pressed into cotton come out in water. The reference is the Garrett Corduroy Mini Skirt in Navy. Dongguan Bafinasa Garments Co., Ltd. develops comparable corduroy and skirts on OEM and ODM terms, from cloth sourcing by wale and weight to retail or FBA ready packing. We publish this as a development reference and build your own version of it, and we do not supply the branded original or reproduce anyone else's label.

Key Features

• Waist 34, 35 and 36 cm, grading 1 cm per size against a body that grades about 5. See the note below
• Ease of about 1.77, 0.56 and minus 0.65 in, so negative at the largest size, which is also the largest size made. See the note below
• Total length 38 cm at all three sizes, so the skirt does not lengthen at all. See the note below
• Crisp box pleats as stated, with no pleat depth, no pleat count, no pleat width and no hem circumference. See the note below
• A leather belt, not mentioned in the composition panel and with no specification and nothing about removing it before cleaning. See the note below
• Dry clean only as stated, and the reason is visible on the page in the pleats but never given. See the note below
• Mid rise waist as stated, with no rise measurement and no hip measurement anywhere in the chart. See the note below

Customisable Options

• Cloth: stretch cotton corduroy to the reference, with the wale count and the weight stated, or a fine wale cord, or a wide wale cord, or a plain cotton twill, each quoted separately
• Pleats: box pleats to the reference, with the pleat depth, the count and the hem circumference stated, or knife pleats, or a gathered waist, each quoted separately
• Fit: slimmer to the reference, with the ease at every size published and held steady, or a regular fit, or a straighter fit, each quoted separately
• Grading: a grade that holds the ease steady across the range, or grading to the reference, or a custom grade to your own block, each quoted separately
• Waist: mid rise to the reference, with the rise measurement given, or a high rise, or a low rise, each quoted separately
• Belt: leather belt with a buckled tab to the reference, with the leather type, the width and the buckle stated, or a fabric belt, or no belt, each quoted separately
• Wale count and cloth weight, pleat depth and count, hem circumference, rise measurement, hip and hem measurements for every size, leather type and origin, pocket count, type and depth, zip brand and length, size set, colour development, private label and care labelling

Specifications

Size Chart as Published by the Reference

The waist figures are flat half measures taken with the skirt laid down, doubling to 68, 70 and 72 cm around, or 26.77, 27.56 and 28.35 in. Against a body waist of 25, 27 and 29 in across 2 US to 6 US, the ease is about 1.77, 0.56 and minus 0.65 in, so it falls by more than an inch at every size and is negative at the largest. The waist grades a clean one centimetre per size, which is about a fifth of the body's rate. The total length is 38 cm at all three sizes.

Our Proposed Body Chart

Occasions and Styling

Suits autumn and winter and smart casual. A navy corduroy mini with box pleats and a belt is a tailored piece that works with a knit and boots, and the belt makes it the kind of skirt worn with something tucked in.

Production and Quality Control

The reference publishes two columns for all three sizes, states the fibre to the percentage, gives a size conversion for every size, names the pleats, the rise, the closure, the pockets and the belt, gives a fit word, gives a care instruction, names the country of production and carries six photographs. It gives no cloth weight, no wale count or direction, no pleat specification, no rise measurement, no hip or hem measurement, no pocket specification and no belt specification, and the belt does not appear in the composition panel at all. Three things follow: the range whose largest size does not fit, the length that does not move, and the pleats that explain the care label.

One centimetre against five, and that is the first thing, and it is worth doing slowly because the consequence is not obvious from the chart alone. The waist reads 34, 35 and 36 centimetres flat, which doubles to 68, 70 and 72 centimetres around, or 26.77, 27.56 and 28.35 inches. The sizes are labelled for bodies of 25, 27 and 29 inches. So the ease, the room over the body, is about 1.77 inches on the 2 US, about 0.56 on the 4 US, and about minus 0.65 on the 6 US. It loses more than an inch at every size and it is negative at the top. And the cause is visible in one line: the skirt grades one centimetre of flat measure per size, which is two centimetres of circumference, or about 0.79 inches, while the body's waist gains two inches at every size. So the skirt is grading at roughly a fifth of the body's rate, and the shortfall has to come out of the ease, and after three sizes the ease has run out and gone past zero. Now here is what makes this more than a chart curiosity, and it is the reason this run is putting it first. The 6 US is the largest size this skirt is made in. The range stops there. So the customer at the top of this range is being offered a skirt that, by the numbers printed directly beside it, is smaller than she is, and there is no size above it to go to. A customer who is too big for the largest size has nowhere to go, and a customer who fits the largest size is buying a skirt its own chart says will not meet. And this is the second garment from this brand in this same batch to do precisely this. The Leda dress has ease running down to minus 0.42 inches at its largest size, the 10 US. Two garments, one brand, one batch, and in both cases the ease crosses zero at the top of the range, which means it is a property of how this brand grades rather than an accident on one page. It is worth adding what the fit word is doing while all this happens. The bullet says designed for a slimmer fit. At 1.77 inches of ease on the smallest size, slimmer is fair and this run will credit it. But the same two words are being asked to cover 0.56 inches, where the skirt is close, and minus 0.65 inches, where it is too small. Slimmer is one word for three different fits, and the customer cannot see the difference because the ease is not published. It is worth ending this on what is not measured at all, because the chart is two lines. There is no hip. There is no hem circumference. There is no rise, despite the rise being named in the description as a mid rise waist. So a customer is told the skirt is a mid rise and given no number for how high that is, and given a length of 38 centimetres measured from a point that is never stated.

Thirty eight, thirty eight, thirty eight, and that is the second thing, and it is the fourth frozen dimension this run has found. The skirt is the same length at the smallest, the middle and the largest size. Not nearly the same: exactly the same, 38 centimetres, three times. This run has met frozen figures before and has said each time that a number repeated across sizes is a fact about the pattern rather than a slip of the keyboard, and three sizes at exactly 38 settles it here as it settled 122 centimetres on the dress from this same brand in this same batch. So what follows is not that the chart is wrong, but that the skirt genuinely does not lengthen as it widens. And the consequence is worth spelling out, because it is not a neutral fact. A mini skirt is defined by how short it is, and how short it is depends on how long it is relative to the body wearing it. The 2 US and the 6 US are the same 38 centimetres on bodies four inches apart in the waist, and in every other dimension too. So the skirt is effectively shorter the larger the size. A customer who is a 2 US and a customer who is a 6 US are not buying the same skirt in anything but the name, and the hem will not fall at the same point on them. Nothing on the page says so, and there is no model height to let anyone work it out. It is worth adding that 38 centimetres is short by any standard, and the page does not say where it is measured from. Given the skirt is a mid rise, the length presumably includes the rise, but the rise is not given a number, so even the one dimension that is published cannot be placed on a body. It is worth putting this beside the pleats, because the two together are the garment. Crisp box pleats are named in the description and there is no specification of them at all: no pleat depth, no pleat count, no pleat width, and no hem circumference. And the hem circumference is not a decorative detail here, it is arithmetic: pleat depth times pleat count is what sets how much cloth is in the hem and therefore how the skirt swings and how much it costs. This run has been asking for the wale count on every corduroy it has met and has been refused every time, and this garment adds a second structural claim, the pleats, specified no better than the first.

Corduroy, washable there and not here, and that is the third thing, and it answers a question this run has been carrying for several batches. Earlier in this run there was a corduroy trouser from another brand, 100% cotton, and it was machine washable at thirty with no tumble drying. This skirt is 98% cotton corduroy and it is dry clean only. Same fibre family, same cloth family, opposite instruction. And the reason is visible on this page, which is what makes it worth reporting rather than just noting the inconsistency. The description says crisp box pleats and a structured shape. Pleats pressed into cotton are set with heat and usually with a resin finish, and water relaxes them. That is the whole explanation. The skirt is dry clean only because washing would take the pleats out of it, and the page states the pleats and states the instruction and never connects the two. So this run can now say that corduroy is not what decides the care of a corduroy garment: the finishing is. And it can add that the same connection was missing on the velvet dress in this batch, where dry clean only is correct because water crushes velvet pile, and that reason too was visible in the cloth and never given. Two garments, one brand, both dry clean only, both with a reason a customer could understand, neither stating it. It is worth closing on the belt, which is the sharpest single omission on this page. The skirt has a leather belt securing the waist, and the composition panel reads 98% cotton and 2% spandex. The leather is not in it. Now, leather is a non textile material of animal origin, and in most markets a garment containing one is required to declare it separately rather than fold it into a fibre panel, so this is not a nicety, it is a labelling requirement. And there is a practical instruction missing alongside it that is easy to state and genuinely useful: if a garment has a leather belt, the customer needs to know whether to remove it before cleaning, because dry cleaning solvent is hard on leather. Nothing says. The belt is also given no specification of its own: no leather type, no width, no buckle material, and nothing about where the leather comes from or how it was tanned. And it is worth noting the page uses two words for it, calling it a leather belt in one place and a buckled tab in another, which is the same looseness that put two different fit words on the dress. One last thing belongs here and it is small but it tells you how these pages are made. The second sentence of the description contains a spelling error, Constructued for Constructed. Nobody proofread a page selling a skirt at 385 GBP, and the same absence of checking produced a chart whose top size does not fit. Every bulk shipment gets a measurement report against your approved chart.

Optional upgrades include quoting the wale count and the cloth weight, giving the pleat depth, the pleat count and the hem circumference, giving the rise measurement and adding hip and hem measurements for every size, grading the length across the sizes instead of holding it at 38, holding the ease steady across the range and publishing it at every size, declaring the leather separately in the composition panel and giving its type, width, buckle and origin, saying whether the belt should be removed before cleaning, stating the reason for dry clean only, adding the pocket count, type and depth, giving the zip brand, type and length, adding fit guidance and a model height, a fine wale and a wide wale cord and a cotton twill, knife pleats and a gathered waist, high and low rise options, a fabric belt and no belt, regular and straighter fit options, a fourth and fifth size, size set, colour development, private label, hangtag and care labelling.

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.

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