Product Breakdown
These product breakdowns list all the different costs that make up the price of each product. The difference between the total cost and the price of the product is the only profit made, and most of that is reinvested directly in the development of further products and ideas.
Every product breakdown includes the following elements:
Design: This represent a part of the cost for this garment that covers the many, many hours spent doing research, drawing original ideas, creating the original design, creating the pattern that will be used to make it, grading the pattern into a full range of sizes, choosing and sourcing materials, creating the sample and doing fittings and adjustments. This can easily represent anywhere from 30 to 80 hours of work for each design.
Material: This represents the cost of the materials used in making the piece of clothing. It includes fabric, trims and thread, and things like zippers, buttons, linings and elastics. Sometime is might seem like there isn't that much fabric used, but the positioning of pattern pieces on fabric sometimes just isn't possible without using more fabric. You might not know this, but pattern pieces cannot be placed in any direction on fabric. For the clothes to fit correctly, the pieces have to be put in a very specific direction along the grain of the fabric. This sometimes creates more waste than we would like, but we use the larger cutoffs to make accessories and send the smaller cutoffs to a fabric recycling plant that makes new recycled fabric with them!
Work: This represents the time that was spent by an actual human being making the piece of clothing. It covers the time it takes to cut out the pattern pieces from fabric, to assemble them on multiple different sewing machines and to apply trims and finish hems. It also covers the time taken to hand-knot every seam-end thread, to do a final quality inspection of the finished piece and to carfully package things before sending them out. This time is valued at $15 to $20 an hour depending on how qualified one needs to be to complete the work with the desired quality.
Operation: This represents the other costs that come with actually making the clothes and sending them to you. This includes the cost of the equipment and its maintenance, the electricity used, the business registration fees, the payment system fees, the insurance, the office space costs, the office supplies, the packing supplies and the website costs.
All Else: This represents the other expenses that come with keeping Lygophilim afloat. A big part of this is advertising costs and photoshoot costs, including paying the photographer, models, makeup artist and assistant, the photo studio, the photo editing. It also includes the cost of labels, print materials, accounting fees, computer software and the occasional troubleshooting unplanned costs.
Just find the product you'd like to know more about in the list below:
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Ashi Hooded Top Astarte Cropped Tank Ayao Burnout Bells Banshee Armbands Branwen Shorts w/Lace Brigid Turtleneck Dress Ceres Sweatshirt Dress Circe Halter Crop Top Coatlicue Bodycon Dress Cybele Off-Shoulder Top Danu Cropped Tube Top Devana Ruffle Skirt Dione Basic Sleeves Dione Trimmed Sleeves Epona Pencil Skirt Eris Cold-Shoulder Top Frigg Mesh Sleeve Top |
Haumea Velvet Bralette Hekate High Low Skirt Hestia Babydoll Dress Ishtar Angel Sleeve Top Isis Mesh Pencil Skirt Ixchel Mini Skirt Kalma Unlined Tiered Skirt Kalma Lined Tiered Skirt Lamia Bat Hem Skirt Macha Lace Mini Skirt Magdalene Cathedral Skirt Manat Dropcrotch Joggers Melusine Cache-Coeur Minerva Oversized Tank Morrighan Maxi Skirt Nephthys Flounce Skirt Ninlil Maxi Overdress |
Ninti Sweater w/Lace Nuwa T-shirt w/Chiffon Nyx Mermaid Skirt Sedna Velvet Leggings Selena Insert Skirt Long Selena Insert Skirt Short Shapash Net Skirt Shapash Lined Net Skirt Sif Skater Skirt Mini Sif Skater Skirt Knee Svartalf Armbands Undine Thigh Highs Uzza Maxi Robe Var Giant Hood Top Venus Booty Short Wadjet Zipped Vest Zorya Raglan Mesh Top |
