Skinnylaminxenstein: Quality Control

One of the ongoing tasks in the Skinny laMinx production studio is quality control. This is a stockroom process of item-by-item inspection of every single things stitched by our dynamite seamstress team in the studio upstairs.

We test zips (YKK, of course), check for fabric and print flaws, grubby marks, wonky stitches and mark them all with a red dot.  Standards are high. Sometimes they’re so high, they’re beyond me! I occasionally paw through the Red Dot box and often find it quite difficult to figure out what is actually wrong with this thing, now sent to purgatory.

But even if I’m occasionally baffled, my heart is warmed by these high standards, because really, although the job of quality control is one of the most tedious in our studio, it really is one of the bedrocks of our business, because we’re committed to only sending out the very best of what we do.

The job of quality control is not just a stockroom chore, actually. It’s something our whole team participates in daily, and includes things like the weeks our production manager Sarah spends in the colour kitchen, doggedly working to get our screenprinted colours to be an exact match; the attention to detail paid by our biz manager Pearl, who checks and re-checks our calculations and costs; the way that the whole team makes sure that the emails we send (even internally) are courteous, properly spelled and well thought through; and the constant efforts by our communications team to come up with content that interests and enriches the people who read it.

I read a quote by Theodore Roosevelt this weekend, which I hope resonates with everyone in our team:  “…far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”.

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