Walk into any showroom and you’ll see it: two sweaters, same colour, same silhouette, same weight in the hand, yet one costs noticeably more. To the untrained eye, it feels like a mystery. To those of us in knitwear production, it’s anything but. The truth is simple: in knitwear, what you see is only half the story. What you don’t see, the yarn grade, the spinning quality, the gauge, the finishing, the machine time, is what determines the real cost. The yarn may look the same