WHAT'S IN STYLE

What makes the "perfect" band T-shirt? It's a question as old as music itself, and we finally have some answers. A new survey of 1,000 music fans sheds some light on band T-shirt preferences, from long people keep their shirts to what colors they prefer (and much more). Let's dive in...

To get a toehold on what customers and end-users are looking for in promotional footwear, we spoke with Chloe Ayres, marketing manager for Sock Club, Austin, Texas, and Kaydee Walter, marketing specialist for Strideline, Seattle. Here are five big things to know...

Carhartt and Tractor Supply Company collaborated on a line of T-shirts, with proceeds benefitting SkillsUSA, a nonprofit that aims to prepare American students for careers in trades and skilled labor...

Nothing can stop our constant quest to find the most fun promotional products each week. This time, our five favorite promotional products includes Nike sneakers modeled after our favorite convenience store, Netflix home decor, Drake's designer college apparel and more...

Whataburger isn’t just famous in Texas for its food. It’s also known to have some pretty killer branded merchandise. It’s so well-known for that, in fact, that people have posed as employees to get their hands on exclusive stuff. The chain’s newest merchandise venture is aimed at outdoor sports enthusiasts...

A distributor works directly with a client to determine every detail of the order and relays that to a decorator, who completes the technical aspect of the project. Decorators acknowledge the distributor’s role when creating their contract pricing. But what should distributors expect out of that relationship?...

Most music fans have a collection of concert ticket stubs. Maybe they’re in an old shoebox in their bedrooom. Maybe they’re more artfully laid out in a scrapbook or binder. Or maybe they’re forever immortalized on a T-shirt by Stub Stories Apparel, a Los Angeles-based apparel company...

Remember Warheads candies? They were, to put it simply, awesome. They had everything a kid wanted: bright colors, a very extreme name and the properties to create a playground challenge. Anyway, one of our favorite promotional products this week is Warheads-related. Check it out!...

Last week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a republican, released a T-shirt on conservative fundraising platform WinRed. The red shirt reads "Find Me At The Fair" in large, blocky, right-aligned type. But, for RAYGUN, a T-shirt company based in Des Moines, it may well have read "Shots Fired."...

Just like you have different promotional suppliers for different products, you’ll need the same for different decoration methods or geographic locations to reduce transit from your preferred supplier warehouse or to the order’s final destination. So you'll want to have solid relationships with more than one contract decorator...