Split a production run across sizes before you place it: choose a size range and a starting curve, set your units per colourway, and see exactly how many pieces to order in each size — plus what the whole programme totals. Indicative curves; your sales data beats any default.
Heads-up: production at Kiwi Giyim is 250 per colour, per size — each size is its own 250-piece minimum, so use this to plan the ratio and keep every size at or above that floor.
⚠️ Indicative starting curves, not a rule. These splits are common US wholesale planning defaults — your customer base, fit block and channel (DTC vs boutique) all shift the curve. After your first season, replace the default with your own sell-through data. Units are rounded to whole pieces and always sum to your exact quantity.
A first order has no sales history, so a standard curve is the honest starting point. From the second order on, your own sell-through is the only curve that matters — reorder to it.
Flat knitwear is knitted to shape from a per-size machine programme — no fabric markers, no lay plans. That's why a size run with 25 units of XS is routine here, while the same split can be a problem in cut-and-sew.
Our 250 MOQ applies to each colour-and-size combination — every size is its own machine programme. So one navy colourway across XS–XL is five 250-piece programmes; this planner sets the ratio between sizes above that floor.
XS and XL sell slowest for most brands. Keeping tails lean and restocking core sizes (65–80 days on a repeat programme) beats guessing big on every size up front.
Planning the budget too? Pair this with the cost calculator, and see what a small-batch production run looks like end to end.
A size run is how the units in a production order split across sizes — e.g. 250 pieces of one colourway spread over XS to XL. The percentages behind that split are the size curve. Factories knit against the size run you give them, so getting the curve roughly right decides whether you sell out of M while sitting on unsold XS.
A common starting point for US womenswear over five sizes is roughly XS 10%, S 20%, M 30%, L 25%, XL 15% — core sizes M and L carry about half the run. It's a planning default, not a rule: replace it with your own sales data as soon as you have a season of sell-through.
At Kiwi Giyim, yes — the 250-piece minimum applies per colour and per size, because each size is knitted from its own machine programme. So one colourway across an XS–XL run is five separate 250-piece programmes. Use this planner to set the size ratio and see the total quantity once you are ordering above that per-size floor.
Yes — and you should. The first run's curve is a forecast; the reorder's is data. Restocking a winner with a corrected size split (typically 65–80 days on a repeat programme) is exactly how small first runs are meant to work.
Send your tech pack with the size split from this tool (or the CSV planner) and we'll reply within one business day with pricing, a sample timeline and an honest feasibility read.