Experience Selling T-Shirts/Clothing?
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- microkorg1
About 12 years ago now a friend and I both started t-shirt lines after getting a grant from the government.
We got a wad of cash, did some designs, got loads of stuff screenprinted and labels sewn on, got a online shop built ... and sold less than a dozen t-shirts.
A couple of years ago I threw out a few big boxes full of tshirts and sweatshirts that never sold - actually i donated them to charity.
If this was 'my own' money i'd have been pissed.It's a lot easier to make a name/brand these days and to get followers with the likes of good promo shots on instagram and an interesting social feed in general.
I'm doing tshirts again now but using a threadless artist shop. they deal with all the printing, online shop, sending out etc - all I have to do is upload new designs every now and then, promote the url and keep social up to date.
I've sold more £$ worth of tees than I ever did with previous business and have made more money.Threadless are pretty good because they now do prints on duvets and bags etc. Their prints are decent quality but to be truthful I wasnt hugely impressed with the tshirt quality.
I recently got a hoody and two tshirts ran through Spreadshirt to see what their service/quality was like. The tee and hoody (think it was american apparel) was REALLY nice quality. The tees, dunno what they were, are awesome quality. Probbaly a couple of the nicest tees ive owned.
I'm thinking of shifting my online shop over to Spreadshirt.
Spreadshirt do the digital printing like threadless but they also to like a screenprint quality but its only up to 3 colours and it cant be crazy detailed as a lot of the process is by hand.If you are wanting to do this as a creative release, make some money on the side and be happy in the knowledge that people are cutting about somewhere around the world wearing your designs then i'd thoroughly recommend the spreadshirt/threadless route.
You wont have to worry about any logistics, you dont have to build and maintain an online shop.
If your brand then takes off then yeah maybe you could look at doing your own screenprinting etc
Simples!