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How to Design the Best Sports Bra - Top 10 Tips.

How to Design the Best Sports Bra - Top 10 Tips.

By Ted Stanford Nov 12, 2025

Designing a great, supportive sports bra involves more than just combining supportive materials and stylish shapes. 

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How to Make Lululemon’s Famous Leggings - 8 Top Tips

How to Make Lululemon’s Famous Leggings - 8 Top Tips

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Lululemon’s famous leggings are designed to be the best on the market, using high quality fabrics and manufacturing techniques that we can replicate for you.

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How to Source the Best Ethical Sportswear Factory

How to Source the Best Ethical Sportswear Factory

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Sourcing the best, ethical sportswear factory is an essential step for brands that value the quality of their products and the impact they have.

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How to Find the Best Gymwear Legging Factory

How to Find the Best Gymwear Legging Factory

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

The best gym and fitness manufacturers are hard to find. These sportswear factories tend not to advertise. Our database of over 50 factories are among the best

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What Is Bamboo Fabric? Is it One of the Best Fabrics for Sportswear?

What Is Bamboo Fabric? Is it One of the Best Fabrics for Sportswear?

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Bamboo fabric has gained attention as a sustainable and innovative alternative to traditional sportswear fabrics. Renowned for its softness, eco-friendliness, and versatility, bamboo fabric is increasingly used in sports and activewear...

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How to Make Merino Wool Sportswear – An Amazing Fabric

How to Make Merino Wool Sportswear – An Amazing Fabric

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Merino wool is often hailed as one of nature’s greatest gifts to the textile industry, offering a unique blend of comfort, performance, functionality, and sustainability.

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How to Start a Fashion Business - Top 10 tips

How to Start a Fashion Business - Top 10 tips

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Our Ultimate guide to starting a business helps entrepreneurs understand the process and develop strong foundations for a prosperous future.

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Gorpcore - How to Get the Look and Understanding the Trend

Gorpcore - How to Get the Look and Understanding the Trend

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Gorpcore. Not a common term, however it has been adopted by consumers across the globe, potentially without understand it had a name associated with it’s look.

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Why Many Startup Fashion Brands Fail and How to Make Yours a Success

Why Many Startup Fashion Brands Fail and How to Make Yours a Success

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

With a market size valued at over $2.5 trillion, it’s no surprise that many entrepreneurs are eager to launch their own fashion brands.

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How to Design Sportswear Using AI and Why It’s Not a Good Idea

How to Design Sportswear Using AI and Why It’s Not a Good Idea

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Looking to use AI to design sportswear or fashion garments? AI or Artificial intelligence is starting to become the mainstream within the future of business.

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Merch Or Bespoke Activewear? How To Build A Good Brand.

Merch Or Bespoke Activewear? How To Build A Good Brand.

By Ted Stanford Nov 4, 2025

Merch is no way to build a brand if you want to retain customers and get repeat orders. Product is King and therefore creating bespoke product is the way to...

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How to Write the Best Business Plan for a Start-Up

How to Write the Best Business Plan for a Start-Up

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Stage by stage description on how to write a business plan for start-ups. Looking to start a sportswear business? You will need to write a business plan.

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How to Research the Size of the Market Within Activewear

How to Research the Size of the Market Within Activewear

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

How sportswear start-ups research the market and analyse the size of their gap in the market to make sure they have a credible business and concept.

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How To Reduce Garment Unit Costs? Simple, Order More…

How To Reduce Garment Unit Costs? Simple, Order More…

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Many start-ups are cautious about how much they order as they want to de-risk their investment and make sure they don’t order too much stock and end up in sale.

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Who Makes the Lululemon Legging Fabric? How To Find It?

Who Makes the Lululemon Legging Fabric? How To Find It?

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Looking for the supplier of the Lululemon fabric? what to find the same fabric and factory that LuluLemon uses, Then read this blog now to find out.

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It’s Time The UK Built a Great Global Sportswear Brand.

It’s Time The UK Built a Great Global Sportswear Brand.

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

The UK falls short when it comes to dominant global sportswear brands. The US on the other hand leads the race with them occupying top spot for decades.

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How to Best Fund Your Start-Up Sportswear Brand?

How to Best Fund Your Start-Up Sportswear Brand?

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Starting a sportswear brand is an exciting venture, combining the passion for athleticism and fitness with creativity and business acumen.

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The Rise of “On Running” How to Build a Successful Brand in 6 Steps.

The Rise of “On Running” How to Build a Successful Brand in 6 Steps.

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Founded in 2010 in Switzerland, On Running has grown from a niche startup into a global competitor, challenging industry giants like Nike, Adidas, and ASICS.

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How to Become a Sportswear Designer

How to Become a Sportswear Designer

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

If you’re passionate about designing functional sportswear, this guide will help you navigate the journey to becoming a professional in the sportswear field.

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What’s Pantone? How to Use Pantone in Fashion Design.

What’s Pantone? How to Use Pantone in Fashion Design.

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Ensuring consistency in colour across different fabrics, production batches, and materials can be challenging. This is where Pantone comes in.

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China Tariffs to the USA. How to Navigate These.

China Tariffs to the USA. How to Navigate These.

By Ted Stanford Nov 3, 2025

Chinese goods with big tariffs entering the United States have forced brands to rethink their supply chain strategies.

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What are Trump’s Tariffs from China and Vietnam and How to Source Alternatives?

What are Trump’s Tariffs from China and Vietnam and How to Source Alternatives?

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

In April 2025, President Donald Trump announced a series of sweeping tariffs targeting imports from key U.S. trading partners, including China and Vietnam. 

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How to Build a Community Around your Sportswear Brand

How to Build a Community Around your Sportswear Brand

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

The activewear industry is booming, and competition is fierce. To stand out, brands must go beyond selling high-performance gear and cultivate a loyal community

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The Rise of SKIMS. How It’s Now Influencing Sportswear

The Rise of SKIMS. How It’s Now Influencing Sportswear

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

SKIMS, Co-founded by Kim Kardashian in 2019 started as a solution-oriented shapewear brand and quickly expanded into loungewear, underwear, and now activewear

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How to Import Sportswear Apparel Into Your Country?

How to Import Sportswear Apparel Into Your Country?

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

Importing sports apparel is necessary when your source your products from overseas. It’s important you understand the costs and procedure 

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How to Shoot an Amazing Fashion Campaign?

How to Shoot an Amazing Fashion Campaign?

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

Creating a fashion campaign is much more than just beautiful looking clothes, a fabulous model and good lighting—it’s a narrative that brings a brand’s identity to life

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How to Create Patterns for Sportswear: A Comprehensive Guide

How to Create Patterns for Sportswear: A Comprehensive Guide

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

Creating patterns for your sportswear is a key part of the process that needs to be completed before you produce the 1st prototype. 

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How a Great Tech Pack Can Save You Money and Time

How a Great Tech Pack Can Save You Money and Time

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

Any sportswear or fashion brand that wants to develop new styles need to create a design and tech pack to present to their manufacturer. 

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How to Design a Logo Using AI – (Artificial Intelligence)

How to Design a Logo Using AI – (Artificial Intelligence)

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

Your brand logo is one of the most important assets your company owns. It’s not just a graphic—it’s the face of your business, the first impression customers have

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How to Sell a Fashion Brand Online – Best 5 Tips

How to Sell a Fashion Brand Online – Best 5 Tips

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

At Blue Associates Sportswear we work with over 50 start-ups around the world, and they all need to launch their brands to the world via a website. 

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What is Circular Fashion? How to Create Sustainable Clothes

What is Circular Fashion? How to Create Sustainable Clothes

By Ted Stanford Oct 31, 2025

As the global climate crisis intensifies and environmental awareness grows, the fashion and sportswear industry is undergoing a critical transformation.

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USA Tariffs from China. How to Calculate the Difference

USA Tariffs from China. How to Calculate the Difference

By Ted Stanford Oct 30, 2025

At Blue Associates Sportswear, we work with clients all over the world, producing sportswear in our partner factories in China, Vietnam and across Europe. 

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Who Makes the Lululemon Legging? How to Replicate Them

Who Makes the Lululemon Legging? How to Replicate Them

By Ted Stanford Oct 30, 2025

Who makes Lululemon leggings? We know. We work with a network of quality fabric mills and factories that produce for premium brands like Lulu and Alo

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Sportswear Trends 2025: What Startups Need to Know Now

Sportswear Trends 2025: What Startups Need to Know Now

By Ted Stanford Oct 30, 2025

The sportswear market is evolving at a remarkable pace, and sportswear trends 2025 are already shaping how brands design, produce, and sell activewear in the future

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How to Find a Good Quality Sportswear Factory with Low MOQ’s

How to Find a Good Quality Sportswear Factory with Low MOQ’s

By Ted Stanford Oct 30, 2025

If you’re launching a new activewear brand or expanding your sportswear line, one of your biggest hurdles is finding a quality factory that offers low MOQ

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How to Find the Best Plus Size Sportswear Supplier?

How to Find the Best Plus Size Sportswear Supplier?

By Ted Stanford Oct 30, 2025

Finding the right plus size sportswear supplier is a critical step for any sportswear brand aiming to serve the rapidly growing and underserved plus size market

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