small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) are vital components of global economy. identifying the factors affecting the business growth can influence the policies that support entrepreneurship development. the main objective of this study is to identify the factors affecting the growth of small and medium-sized garment-producing businesses owned by women entrepreneurs. one of the innovations of...

The street garment vendors are playing a significant role in the fields of the economic development through protecting resources (garment products) from such a position where they are treated as wastes; very much less valued products and creating the opportunity for self-employment. This study aimed at showing the economic contribution and the impact of the street vendors to the local community...

Pattern making is the art of designing patterns by making templates from which clothing and craft items can be sewn. A pattern making process actually help to come out with the imagination of designer from the sketching till real product. Pattern makers are also called ‘Technical Designers’. When Fashion Designers complete their garment designing, Technical Designers starts their work to prepar...

We propose a garment fitting system for an online retail model, which uses a consumer’s 3Dbody data for garment fitting. The front and back images of a garment is modeled as a garment to be fitted and the 3D laser scanned body data is modeled as the body. This system was made to imitate the way how human fits a garment, such as fitting a top from his neck to downwards and fits pants upwards. In...

Background: Garment factories in India contribute to the economic growth and it is the second largest sector for employment. Many unskilled laborers from rural location work in this sector. The common jobs handled by them are sewing, ironing, packing and lifting heavy loads which are monotonous, continuous and prolonged. Working for a long period of time without rest, absence of personal protec...

Despite numerous methods available for cloth simulation, virtual garment prototyping has yet to find its way toward the garment industry, the main issues being simulation accuracy and the potentiality for reproducing the complex behavior of complex garment models. These goals can only be reached through an optimal combination of modeling techniques and numerical methods that combines high compu...

This paper describes the design of a smart rehabilitation garment (SRG) to support posture correction during rehabilitation training. The garment is equipped with accelerometers in various positions and is controlled by an Arduino processor. It connects with Bluetooth to a smartphones or a personal computer in order to provide feedback to patients. The garment provides reminders to users by vib...

background: occupational exposure to cotton dust, fibers, metal fumes and different chemicals used in the apparel manufacturing industries cause a wide range of physical and psychological health problems in the garment workers that may also affect their immune function. objective: to assess the immune system function in garment workers. methods: a total of 45 workers of a garment factory, and 4...

This paper presents a new method which can create the virtual garment from a single photograph of a real garment put on to the mannequin. In solving this problem, we obtain the insight from the pattern drafting theory in the clothing field. We abstract the drafting process into a computer module, which takes the garment type and primary body sizes then produces the draft as the output. Then the...

This paper presents current approaches for robotic garment foldingoriented 3D deformable object perception and manipulation. A major portion of these approaches are based on 3D perception algorithms that match garments to a model, and are thus model-based. They require a full view of an extended garment, in order to then apply a preprogrammed folding sequence. Other approaches are based on 3D m...