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I have been working on starting my own clothing line now for 2.5 years. I have been to score, and my local SBA office. I took a class on building a business plan. I am an artist and have several designs that are ready to be applied to various styles of clothing. I do not wish to use someone elses clothing to put my art on. I am looking for USA clothing manufacturers for he following items:
shirts (s/s and sleeveless
Jeans
Polo's
Button-down shirts
thermal shirts
hoodies
hats (trucker and fitted)
tanks (men and women styles
2fes (thermal with tshirt attached
sunglasses
the manufacturers need to be local to the USA. I am not looking to waste my time with customs and language barriers. I need the manufacturers to be able to do runs of 500 - 1000 pieces. I am looking for unique styles and I feel it would be an insult to my art to place it on stuff from hanes, altstyle, and other major pre-made products.
I want to have input from square one of the design process. I know I am looking to spend some money on this so that is fine, I already understand this.
I recently got a few shirts printed with my designs and luckily it was a small run. I ended up having to sell them for $10 each becasue of the quality. They looked like shirts you would buy at wal-mart(no offense). I have looked at American apparel and article 1's stuff but i would rather have them custom made.
Please if you have any info on clothing manufacturers that would be great, remember USA only.
I have been working on starting my own clothing line now for 2.5 years. I have been to score, and my local SBA office. I took a class on building a business plan. I am an artist and have several designs that are ready to be applied to various styles of clothing. I do not wish to use someone elses clothing to put my art on. I am looking for USA clothing manufacturers for he following items:
shirts (s/s and sleeveless
Jeans
Polo's
Button-down shirts
thermal shirts
hoodies
hats (trucker and fitted)
tanks (men and women styles
2fes (thermal with tshirt attached
sunglasses
the manufacturers need to be local to the USA. I am not looking to waste my time with customs and language barriers. I need the manufacturers to be able to do runs of 500 - 1000 pieces. I am looking for unique styles and I feel it would be an insult to my art to place it on stuff from hanes, altstyle, and other major pre-made products.
I want to have input from square one of the design process. I know I am looking to spend some money on this so that is fine, I already understand this.
I recently got a few shirts printed with my designs and luckily it was a small run. I ended up having to sell them for $10 each becasue of the quality. They looked like shirts you would buy at wal-mart(no offense). I have looked at American apparel and article 1's stuff but i would rather have them custom made.
Please if you have any info on clothing manufacturers that would be great, remember USA only.
Hi, i have no info about it but i can pray for you...May god bless you.All the best.
American Apparel is going to be your best bet if you're completely opposed to buying products from overseas; they offer bulk discounts so you won't pay an arm and a leg for the materials. It will be incredibly costly to create "custom basics" within the US unless you know someone personally who is willing to offer you a price cut. If you're devoted to creating custom clothing in the US rather than buying bulk, you may have to pound the pavement in L.A. and make some deals face-to-face.
You're looking for custom-made clothing? You're not going to find any other place in the United States with better technology than American Apparel. Your other option is to go directly to a mill to source raw material (there are few remaining mills and majority of them are in the South) and than rent out space in a factory to produce goods. How much capital are you looking to invest in your project?
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