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“!Dios mio! We need tri-lingual labels!”

“!Dios mio! We need tri-lingual labels!”

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An online retailer planned to sell 7,000 baseball caps, at $35 each, to residents in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. To comply with international laws, all information on the labels must be in three languages: English, French, and Spanish.
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Whoa, snap!

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Imagine being the distribution center manager and finding this: Boxes of Navy rain jackets sporting bright-yellow snaps instead of matching Navy snaps. With such an outlandish color scheme, this jacket would NEVER fly off the shelves. In fact, the only place the jacket would sell like hot cakes would be the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, this retailer was based in Seattle.
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Don’t Slip into Fall like Jeff Did

Don’t Slip into Fall like Jeff Did…It Will hurt!

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Our President and Owner, Jeff Glassman, did slip and fall this summer and broke his wrist. After successful surgery, and two months of physical therapy, he should have full use of his arm and wrist. It’s just going to be a painful recovery. These types of situations are always unfortunate and unexpected. Unexpected issues pop up every day in the retail and wholesale world. Especially during peak inbound season which is upon us. There are ways to minimize the pain and shorten the recovery period. Look below at ways to protect yourself as fall is approaching.
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Disappearing Ink Still on Your Shirts?

Disappearing Ink Still on Your Shirts?

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Unless an apparel manufacturer is completely automated, the only way to set a pocket or mark for new buttons, or to sew any item onto a specific place on a garment is with a disappearing marking pen or pencil. They have used them for years and years.
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Apparel Inspection: Bugs In Your Sweater?

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We know that it is a very gross subject to write about and to even think about, but weren’t surprised when one of our customers called and asked us to inspect 12,000 sweaters due to some lovely dead insects inside some of the poly bags.
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Are the Patches Falling Off of Your Jeans

Are the Patches Falling Off of Your Jeans?

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What if the patches on 3,200 jeans were coming off? What if these jeans were high fashion (i.e. “cool”) jeans with very trendy patches that were peeling off? And to top it off, what if these jeans were on the home page of your website starting in two weeks?
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Apparel Refurbisher: The Vital Link!

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A Refurbisher partnership is the Vital Link to any supply chain. You may ask, what is An Apparel Refurbisher and is there such as word as Refurbisher? As discussed in the latest Blog in “Supply Chain Matters”, our CEO, Jeff Glassman, talks about why all retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers and importers should partner with a Refurbishment Company and how important it is to the supply chain of any company.
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Apparel Crisis Management

Apparel Repair: Apparel Crisis Management

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HEAD GAMES…What goes through our customer’s heads when faced with an issue with a shipment of apparel that they can’t put on the shelves or ship out to the consumer. They find that they are dealing with a major quality issue. Many words come to mind that we can’t put into print. The phrase that all of us hope comes to mind first is Darn It!
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Apparel Repair: Is Your Clothing Bleeding

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Have you ever received a shipment of garments where the white is discolored and looks very pink or blue? Or have your customers complained that your red sweaters are staining their other garments? If this occurs, call the Darn It Apparel Repair Team right away! We have many first aid remedies for these issues.
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Apparel Repair Tis the Season for Smelly Garments

Apparel Repair: “Tis the Season for Smelly Garments!

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Have you ever received a shipment of goods with a strong odor? Do the garments or other items have a mold or mildew smell. Do they smell like oil or gas? What do you do with it? What if the musty smelling goods represented $1.6 million dollars at retail and you can’t put them on the shelves as they would stink up the whole store? Darn It’s Apparel Repair team can help.
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Apparel Repair--Examine Your Zipper!

Apparel Repair: Examine Your Zipper!

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What happens when your zipper gets stuck? Hopefully nothing got stuck in the process. But I guess you would get very frustrated. You would try and try to zip it up and down with no avail. You pull at the fabric, you pull at the zipper pull. Nothing.
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Garment Inspection – Are Your Measurements out of Whack??

Garment Inspection – Are Your Measurements out of Whack??

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Has your quality control department ever brought to your attention that certain measurements in one of your shipments isn’t matching up with the original factory specifications? Is it that far off that you have to hold back the shipment and not send it off to the stores?
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Apparel Warehousing

Apparel Warehousing Gives Back (Pack)

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What an incredible feeling it was when some of the Darn It! Warehouse and Distribution team members joined forces with its customer, STATE Bags, to give back to the South Coast community.
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20 Years of Garment Inspection and Repair!!

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We are very excited to announce the 20th anniversary of Darn It! Inc. It's hard to believe that it has been 20 years since we started a new venture Inspecting and Repairing Garments. Over the years, we have evolved from a cut and sew manufacturing operation into a full service Quality Inspection and Warehouse / Distribution business.
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Apparel Inspection: It’s OK to Wet your Pants!!

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We got a frantic call from one of our customers last year asking us for help. The cartons were crushed and the pants were soaked in two containers. We requested samples immediately and once we reviewed them, it was determined that we could help.
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Darn It! featured in SGR Magazine

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Family-owned Darn It! Inc., located south of Boston in a 300,000 square foot facility, has announced that it’s now offering warehousing, distribution, refurbishment and quality control services for both large and small suppliers across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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