An interview is a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers. In common parlance, the word "interview" refers to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee.
Interview Question and Answer for Apparel Quality Inspector & Quality Assurance:
The below interview question and answers are very important
to get garments QI/ QA/ buying QA job.
1. What is the grainline?
Answer: Pattern pieces normally carry a line is called a grain line.
When pattern pieces are laid down during marker making over the cloth, the
grainline should be parallel to the warp if the fabric is woven and wales in
the case of knitted fabric. Only the exception is seen for bias cut.
2. What is the handle?
Answer: It is a characteristic of fabrics that are perceived by
touching, squeezing, or rubbing them.
3. What is hip?
Answer: It is a specified level down from the waist seam and garment
closed measure straight across the garment, from one edge to the other.
4. What is the waist?
Answer: Regular waistband or elastic relaxed, garment closed and
with front and back waistband edges even at the top, measure across the middle
of waistband or along with elastic relaxed from one edge to other.
5. What is sleeve length?
Answer: It is the measurement from the center back neck seam or
edges straight across to shoulder or armhole point, along sleeves fold line
down to the bottom edge of the sleeve opening.
6. What is the sleeve inseam?
Answer: The measurement from under armhole seam to the bottom edge
of sleeve opening (cuff included) with vent closed (if applicable).
7. What is pleat?
Answer: It is used to increase the fullness of the garments. It is
generally made by folding the fabric. Dart and pleat are used in the back part
of the Men’s shirt usually.
8. What is the inseam length?
Answer: Along the inside seam of the leg, the measurement from the
crotch seam down to the bottom edge of the leg opening. Rib or elastic bands
included in this measurement.
9. What is drape?
Answer: It is a character of fabric that indicates flexibility and
suppleness of fabric.
10. What is the durable press (DP)?
Answer: The name was given to a special finish that provides the
garments with shape retention, durable pleats and pressed creases, durably
smooth seams, and wrinkle resistance during use and after laundering or dry
cleaning. The durable press also can be added to the stretch fabrics to produce
garments that stretch yet hold their shape and their creases.
11. What is the double-faced fabric?
Answer: Cloth with both ends similar is termed as double-faced
fabric.
12. What is a basic block?
Answer: Assimilating of diagram of net dimension on papers each and
individual part without any allowance which is called a pattern and it is
called also basic block.
13. What is crease?
Answer: The crease is any kind of folding in clothes.
14. What is color bleeding?
Answer: It is the pigment or dye or color of a cloth that is
partially gone into the water if such colored cloth is soaked in water or
solvent. Pigment dye comes out from one place to another and is a stuck place
nearby suck characteristics are called color bleeding.
15. What is crocking?
Answer: Crocking is the act of taking out color from the dry and wet
cloth by rubbing or scouring.
16. What is back length or HPS?
Answer: HPS stands for the high point of the shoulder. Normally it
is known as the back length which is measured from the high point of the
shoulder down to the bottom edge of the garment.
17. What is the back rise?
Answer: It is the measure from crotch intersection point, along
center back seam following curve up to waistband top edge.
18. What is CBN?
Answer: CBN stands for center back neck. It is the measure from the
center back neck seam or edges down to the bottom edge of a garment.
19. What is blind stitch?
Answer: It is a special type of stitch that cannot see from the face
side of the fabric but can easily see from the backside.
20. What is a backstitch?
Answer: It is one kind of hand stitch for sewing the apparel, which
could also do by using a sewing machine.
21. What is CF Line?
Answer: The straight line bottom to up vertically along the middle
point of the body in front of a shirt or jacket.
22. What is bar tack?
Answer: Re-stitching over a very short length to give and increase
the area of high load-bearing strength (Example: belt loops and pocket corners are
bar-tacked).
23. What is back tacking?
Answer: Approximately 1cm or small stitch backward at the beginning
and finishing of sewing, which is used securing of the sewn end so that the
thread could not be loosed easily.
24. What is allowance?
Answer: When the garment is made by adding extra dimension with the
net dimension of the garment is called allowance.
25. What is a back rise?
26. What is across back?
Answer: It is the measure of straight across the back of garment at
the midpoint of armhole seam or edge from one side to other.
