About Us

Empowering the Apparel Industry

Whether it’s hands-on mentorship, consulting, education, or contracted full service production, you will get the full power of our expertise as we make the focus all about YOU and your pre-production process challenges, with our on-site evaluation or customized skill development.

At Global Garment Engineering we take pride in our unique ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve even the most complex issues with laser precision, at any stage of the process.

We have the expertise and skill sets to support you, whether it be in factories, with retailers or studios, or with individuals. We specialize in sample issues and pattern corrections and can nimbly preserve design integrity and fit intent at all sizes throughout production.

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Global Garment Engineering
Global Garment Engineering
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Global Garment Engineering

Get to Know

Dr. Pat Trautman

As Founder and President of Global Garment Engineering, Dr. Pat Trautman has performed in depth consultations in the pre-production technical design process for the apparel complex worldwide. She has been well established globally as a highly acclaimed and recognized apparel sizing and fit expert and has traveled to dozens of countries troubleshooting pre-production technical design issues in factories and mentoring pre-production staff.

Dr. Trautman is also renowned for her work as a technical director at factories in several countries in South America, as well as in Sri Lanka. Recently, and working with several major studios, she has shifted her focus to replicate film character costumes from big screen for uses including promotion, museum exhibits, and retail partnerships world-wide.

If you want to maintain, recover, or boost your competitive edge then look no further than Dr. Trautman and her synergy of experience and cutting-edge thinking.

"I REACH OUT AND WANT TO HELP PEOPLEWHO WANT TO KNOW MORE! WITH ALL THESE YEARS MENTORING AND ACQUIRING EXPERIENCE, I WANT TO SHARE AND TRANSFER MY EXPERTISE. THAT'S WHY I STARTED GLOBAL GARMENT ENGINEERING."

- DR. PAT TRAUTMAN

Global Garment Engineering

Global Garment Engineering
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Our History

With degrees in clothing and textiles, theatrical costume design, and history Dr. Trautman has decades of experience teaching in universities, while helping countless brands, factories and film and TV studios bring their designs to life flawlessly.

Dr. Trautman has been able to share her technical design and creative problem-solving gifts with multiple clients on four continents, with astounding results.

Global Garment Engineering

Our Mission

To successfully execute design and fit intent through quick and unequivocal sample approval, runway accolades, stage and film costumes, with global recognition.

We help your business to recapture your technical, creative, and competitive edge from conception to completion, so you can realize on time production results with fewer samples, with success at each stage.

You know how to be average; I’ll teach you to be exceptional. You will begin to understand the why behind the how-to.

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