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Ode To The Techpack
By admins | April 24, 2009
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As most of you are aware an item of clothing begins as an idea, a concept, a sketch. All the steps and people required to take that design from concept to wearable garment is the real business of fashion. So how does a drawing become an actual garment? The answer is, the techpack. The techpack is the fashion bible for every style. A techpack is comprised of several elements and throughout its development it is often worked on by many different people. Basically a techpack is: a detailed sketch, a spec, a construction page, graphics/artwork, trimming info, costing information and more. Depending on the company, a techpack will contain every detail from thread color and supplier, to button price, to hanger style number, to wash labeling, just to name a few. We were going to explain the technical details in creating a techpack or maybe the best software for efficient techpacking, but instead we got caught up in the emotion of techpacking. (Also it’s been a long week of techpacking until 11 at night!) So after a several cocktails, two of us each came up with our own, Ode to the Techpack. So have a laugh(yes, they are ridiculous, but hey we’re designers not poets) and enjoy, and hopefully we’ll pull ourselves together in time for a more informative techpack post shortly.
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There once was a techpack named SP101.
Who needed to finally be finished and done.
But the designer was so tired,
And wished she’d never been hired.
She was sad that her work had only just begun.
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Techpacks
Detailed, Sketches, Tedious, Specs
Giving the direction
Creating the product
Sucking the creativity out of me
Techpacks
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Topics: designers, fashion industry | 6 Comments » 
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April 24th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Hilarious! If you ever do another article on tech packs that includes a tech pack “musical number,” feel free to contact me… many have been written. lol ;) (Tech packs = Soul Sucking… but why does it have to be this way??? ha ha)
April 24th, 2009 at 10:16 am
OMG thats so perfect! ha ha! I tried to explain to a non fashion friend how clothes get made, the techpack, and got stresssed just thing about techpacks! FYI last week I alone techpacked 47 styles!
April 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Priceless:This is my life right now….my average tech pack is 19-27 pages for one garment and it’s painful.
***Ode to Techpack by Richard Lowe***
Pages Pages Pages
How you fly by so slowly
Pages Pages Pages
How you make me feel so lowly
Measurements, buttonholes, details galore
How I wish you didn’t make me feel like your whore
Inseams, outseams, pleats, and flanges
Papercuts that require large bandages
Oh pages pages pages
How you fly by so slow
Damn pages pages pages
Fuck this time to blow…:)
April 26th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Ooh so glad you guys liked it! Okay so next techpack post if any of you want to contribute (musical number or not) let us know! It seems we aren’t the only ones with something to say on the matter.
Richard that has to be comment of the month, we looove it!
June 26th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
[...] difficult aspects in fashion is getting that very first sample made, which is done by creating a techpack. The techpack in and of itself can be a mind melding task, but once sending it to the factory, [...]
July 31st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi guys,
If you are looking for a tech pack designer Please visit http://www.justdzine.com or http://www.techpackdesign.com
The prices are unbelievable