Hello good people!!! Before we jump into the business of the week, take a minute to be thankful for what you achieved last week. You may have many things left undone and you are probably angry at yourself, your staff and where you currently are in your business.  

BUT in all the disappointments, there surely must be a blessing or a lesson you discovered. Leverage on that blessing, focus on that lesson and use that to plan your new week. I’ll give you an example. 

I discovered we had so much work left undone last week and was really angry at the speed of production. It must be really tough to see the blessing in that with all the deadlines looming but tried to. 

Through it all, I realized that I should be grateful that we had a committed team and we still had time to make amends.

Lesson learnt, get to work early, sit with the production crew and literally plan each step of the process with proper achievable deadlines as against ranting all the time about how they should know what to do.  

I am soooo looking forward to a productive week! Wishing you all the same! 

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When a customer loves her order! Thank you so much @lemodclothing for trusting a complete stranger with your labels and your funds! . . Yes people!!! We have never met many of our clients but the feedback has always been the same! They LOVE their labels! . . We deal in only quality woven labels so order yours from us today! We are affordable and we deliver! Let us help you get you that bit closer to launching your clothing line! #martwayne #powerthroughfashion #labels #fashion #clothing #readytowear #testimonial #fashiondesign #fashiondesigner #instablog #pinterest #linkedin Posted via Instagram April 19, 2018 at 09:28AM

I get this question a lot. How do you create standard sizes for the African woman seeing we don’t usually fall into the typical UK size chart? . . Well here are my suggestions. I actually used one of these methods and it actually worked after some tweaking. Either method involves a lot of research as well. . . Method 1: If you already have a made to measure business, chances are you already have a lot of customers’ measurements. Reach out to your customers to ask which sizes they buy in stores. Then group similar sizes together and run an average to get the measurements for each size. . . Method 2: Get fit models, one slim person and one plus size person. In my case, I used myself as a standard because no matter how big my hips were then (emphasis on then o), I always fit into a UK 10. So seeing I was a ‘fleshy’ 10, I graded up and down and tested the larger sizes on other people who also told me they were certain sizes. Based on feedback, I kept tweaking till I was comfortable. . . Note that I said you have to do a lot of reasearch. It’s not something you can perfect in 1 day. But at the end of the day, you are the business owner. You can even decide to use Small, Medium and Large instead of numbers and state which measurements falls into which on your website. Pretty much all sites have that. . . And that’s my tip for today. How about you? How did you come up with your sizing system? . . #martwayne #powerthroughfashion #fashion #readytowear #clothing #changingminds #changingmindsets #fashiondesign #retail #instablog #pinterest #linkedin Posted via Instagram April 17, 2018 at 08:32AM

Just wondering… I know many designers around here hate sewing for people. It’s too stressful, many are not willing to pay, the complaints are too much, etc etc etc are just a few of what I hear all the time.. So if you despise it so much and it makes you miserable, why do you keep doing it? Why not just stop it? #martwayne #powerthroughfashion #fashion #business #passion #changingminds #sewing #changingmindsets #instablog #pinterest #linkedin Posted via Instagram April 05, 2018 at 07:54AM