Custom Apparel

Vantage Apparel, Avenel, N.J., has launched a new holiday pop-up webstore solution to distributors that guarantees apparel shipped and delivered before the holidays. Aptly named “the Candy Cane Store,” the e-commerce-enabled site can be live for up to three weeks, and features the top gift-giving apparel ideas for the holiday season. Distributors can purchase the…

99designs, based in Australia and backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners, boasts a network of freelancers in logo design, custom apparel, custom printed materials and a variety of other advertising and design services. The platform allows customers to hire a designer directly or open a brief and select from ideas submitted by designers...

When a parent organization at a Philadelphia charter school approached Damien Smith with a chance to provide students with T-shirts and various school supplies for an event, it gave Smith an opportunity to upsell with more promo items that fit into the school’s water park field trip and become the go-to distributor for a community...

Amazon is set to significantly expand its digital and on-demand printing capabilities with a commitment to buy $400 million in digital printing products from Kornit. Separately, Amazon plans to open a new Merch by Amazon facility in Phoenix as the company's e-commerce sales soar...

A&P Master Images pitched the idea to use a trendy screen print technique to bring a customer’s hand sketch to life. The product was such a hit it evolved into an online company store for fulfillment and future business with the client on other projects...

For the first installment of Decoration Diaries, Qais Arabo tells us how his company completed a complex jacket project for a luxury department store with its in-house screen printing and sewing capabilities, and in the process overcame a few challenges including dye migration and hand sewing...

Since the dawn of time, people have expressed themselves through their clothing and accessories. Cave people donned their best leather and fur. Queens proudly displayed their finest crown forged from the brightest gold and rarest of gems. Hippies were pretty groovy, sporting their bell bottoms in the '70s, too. While sneakerheads patiently wait to order…

The Girl Scouts of the USA is reimagining its historic uniforms with the help of three students from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. The new collection plays on themes seen in other uniform collections, such as interchangeable pieces, with 18 new items and a new vest and sash. It's the first redesign in more than 20 years...

“Soft-hand” is a relative term when it comes to screen-printed T-shirts. When you ask for soft-hand printing on two different orders, the finished print for one order can be much softer than the finished print on the other. How soft can you expect a soft-hand print to be? More importantly, how soft does your client expect the print to be?...

With the fourth quarter upon us, we assembled this quick selling guide of what you should know about Q4. Below, you’ll find some tips and advice on trends and expectations for this year, along with a hand-picked collection of products for Q4’s in-demand categories. We hope it points you in the right direction for some year-end sales...