About Garment Cost Lab
Garment Cost Lab is a practical toolkit designed to help garment manufacturers, apparel brands, sourcing teams, and product developers estimate fabric usage, production cost, pricing, break-even volume, and MOQ with more clarity and consistency.
Why Garment Cost Lab exists
Costing decisions in apparel often depend on spreadsheets, scattered assumptions, and manual calculations that are difficult to review and easy to misinterpret. Garment Cost Lab was created to make these decisions more structured, transparent, and easier to reuse across the full costing workflow.
Instead of treating each calculation as an isolated task, the platform connects fabric consumption, production cost, pricing, break-even, and MOQ so that one result can support the next step in the decision process.
What the toolkit includes
Fabric Consumption
Estimate fabric usage and fabric cost per garment using either a direct input method or a more detailed production-based approach.
Production Cost
Build total garment production cost by combining fabric, labor, trims, packaging, and factory overhead.
Pricing / Profit
Estimate selling price, realized margin, markup, and profit using production cost and commercial deductions.
Break-even and MOQ
Evaluate minimum viable volume, contribution margin, and order quantity targets under economic and operational constraints.
Who it is for
Garment Cost Lab is built for apparel professionals who need practical estimates rather than abstract financial models. It is especially useful for small and mid-sized factories, private-label manufacturers, sourcing offices, technical designers, merchandisers, and emerging brands that want faster costing decisions with a more organized workflow.
Design principles
The toolkit is designed around a few simple principles: calculations should be understandable, results should be reusable, assumptions should stay visible, and the workflow should remain practical for real garment costing scenarios.
That is why the calculators use a consistent per-garment language, support both quick and advanced modes, and allow results to flow from one step to the next.
Current stage
Garment Cost Lab is evolving as a focused decision-support tool for apparel costing and planning. The goal is to keep improving accuracy, usability, and workflow continuity while maintaining a clean and practical user experience.