But they hope to increase their profit with a higher volume of orders.
But she had not realized that the operation did not have the capacity to handle the overwhelming volume of orders.
The volume of orders placed with suppliers fell in November -255 percentage points), at the fastest rate since March 2009 -477).
Its volume of orders also indicated steady worldwide demand for its products.
"All of these problems are exacerbated during the holiday season, because the volume of orders is 25to50percentent higher," Ms. Litan of Gartner said.
The volume of orders directly attributable to Fashion Week is likely to rise from $360 million a year ago to $400 million, calculated in retail dollars, said Marshal Cohen, a senior analyst at NPD.
One analyst predicted that the volume of orders attributable to Fashion Week could rise to $400 million in retail sales value this year from $360 million spent a year ago.
A computerized cutting machine creates the fabric pattern, and the pants are sewn and shipped to customers two to four weeks later, depending on the volume of orders.
The volume of orders "has to come down, partly because of the constraint of supply," said Nick Cunningham, an aerospace analyst at Agency Partners in London.
More interesting, though, was that Slice found that, leggings are not just on a growth tear: The volume of orders for these items actually surpassed orders of denim in each of the last three months.
It allows women to do voluntary night work and permits factory managers to vary the length of the workweek according to the volume of orders, provided that over a year each employee averages 39 hours of work a week.
