Lady Ease Limited

Lady Ease Limited, doing business as Ease Collection, is a complete apparel manufacturing contractor operating fully in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company describes itself as technology driven, striving to constantly improve its manufacturing processes while closely adhering to its tradition of quality and excellent customer service, and it can handle total garment manufacturing or any single phase of the process a client needs.

As a full-service contractor, Ease Collection works through pattern making and digitizing, sample making, cutting, sewing and pressing in-house. Its own line is a fashion particulate face mask, and its contract production has diversified across a wider selection of sewn products in bamboo and cotton fabrics.

Company Profile

Ease Collection is a fully engineered apparel contractor, using garment analysis and Standard Allowed Minutes (SAMs) for complete contract apparel manufacturing coverage from cutting and sewing through finishing. Its staff can complete a client's clothing and apparel manufacturing requirements in-house, and its production capacity is flexible, able to accommodate growth and shrinkage as a program requires — a useful trait for contractors whose clients' order volumes rise and fall by season.

The facility uses computer systems to coordinate garment production and quality control, giving supervisory and quality staff better management of style, cut, color and production. All garments are accounted for, along with inventories of all cut styles, so a client's work in progress stays traceable through the plant.

Products and Fabrics

The contractor produces a variety of sewn articles in bamboo and cotton fabrics. Its specialty is its own line of fashion particulate face mask, and around that core the cutting and sewing operation has diversified: uniforms, golf shirts, activewear, loungewear, sunvisors, bedding, pet protection products and a full line of accessories are among the products it has contracted to produce for clients.

That product spread — apparel, soft home goods and accessories from the same cutting and sewing base — is the practical shape of a generalist contractor: the same pattern, cutting and sewing departments that make a golf shirt can turn to bedding or a pet protection product without a different factory.

How Production Runs: Development, Markers, Cutting, Sewing and Finishing

The process begins with product development and continues through apparel pattern making and grading, marker making and plotting. Garments are then constructed in the cutting and sewing departments, carefully examined for defects, and finally sent to finishing, where each garment is pressed, examined again, hung, tagged and shipped to the client's specifications.

Marker making is treated as a yield discipline: experienced staff lay markers for optimal fabric utilization, so waste is kept low and markers deliver the highest yields possible, in single or multiple sizes, with experience handling knit fabric. The cutting department uses automatic spreading equipment and a computerized cutting system, adheres closely to pattern specifications, and has experience with military patterns and with bamboo, jute and cotton as well as blended fabrics — always aiming at the highest yield per yard so the client incurs as little textile waste as possible.