Trims & notes
• 20 L rubber buttons x3 (+2 spare per garment)
• Light woven fusible (collar outer, placket)
• 1.2 cm twill neck tape (~60 cm)
• Woven label (inside back neck)
• Care label (side seam)
• Say on the pack that the stripe is yarn-dyed. If the factory quotes a printed stripe to hit the price, the print cracks along the shoulder and armhole seams within a season, and it is the most visible failure this garment has.
• Stripe matching is a cutting cost, not a sewing one. Give the repeat (7 cm) and a tolerance (0.3 cm across the side seam) or the quote will assume no matching and the sample will arrive stepped.
• Fuse the collar outer ply only. Both plies fused gives a collar that stands like card and will not roll, which is the opposite of the garment.
• The placket bar-tack is structural. It takes the whole load when the shirt is pulled over the head — a plain backstitch there splits the jersey.
• Rubber buttons are a sourcing item with their own lead time, often 3-4 weeks. Order them before the sample, not after.
• The 4 cm side vent keeps a 62 cm chest from reading as a sack when worn. Do not let it be dropped as a simplification.