¶ … career in the fashion industry knows, there is a lot more to designing clothes than simply having and executing a vision in fabric. There is a lot of paperwork involved in getting a design made in the professional world, and not just drawing paper. There are specific expectations that manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and others have in regards to what they will receive from designers and design companies, and if these expectations aren't met it will be clear both that the designer does not understand how to conduct themselves professionally, and that they do not full understand the needs of the others they are dealing with. Two things that designers must be able to prepare (and must know the difference between) are line sheets and spec sheets, which are similar in certain ways but are ultimately vastly different documents. This paper will describe the two sheets and their...
In other words, they show the specifications of a given article of clothing, thus the term specification (or spec) sheet. Other pieces of information that are included on a spec sheet include season, designer, collection, production number, size, fabric contents, and trim -- basically anything that might need to be quickly referenced during production or patternmaking, which are common practical uses for a spec sheet (Rubina 2011). Most essentially, it should be easy to tell exactly what is needed to make a garment by looking at its spec sheet.
A line sheet also contains many specifications regarding a designer's clothes, but line sheets deal with entire lines of clothing rather than single garments…
