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Still looking for supreme quality wholesale blanks
Still looking for supreme quality wholesale blanks
Alright so I have now received samples from both Article1 and American Apparel. The fitting is pretty good, but the fabric still feels cheap and thin. They aren't very soft. Is there some sort of wash that should be used to soften these up? Is it not possible to find wholesale blanks that feel similar to say abercrombie's T's? Is it just a necessary evil to give up supreme quality and hand when going the wholesale blank route?
Alright so I have now received samples from both Article1 and American Apparel. The fitting is pretty good, but the fabric still feels cheap and thin. They aren't very soft. Is there some sort of wash that should be used to soften these up? Is it not possible to find wholesale blanks that feel similar to say abercrombie's T's? Is it just a necessary evil to give up supreme quality and hand when going the wholesale blank route?
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Alright so I have now received samples from both Article1 and American Apparel. The fitting is pretty good, but the fabric still feels cheap and thin.
Which blanks did you try from Article1? The Euro fit blanks are VERY soft.
The "thin" feel that you're describing is probably going to be a matter of preference. You just need to find a heaver weight t-shirt if the lighter vintage weights aren't what you're looking for.
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Is it not possible to find wholesale blanks that feel similar to say abercrombie's T's?
I've never felt an ambercrombie tee, but I doubt you'll find a blank exactly like it since they are custom made.
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Is it just a necessary evil to give up supreme quality and hand when going the wholesale blank route?
Depends on your idea of "supreme quality". I've seen blanks that I think are very high quality on the wholesale market. But your idea and my idea (and my customers idea and your customers idea) of supreme quality may be very different.
If you want a heavier weight t-shirt that is soft, I would suggest trying maybe an Alstyle 1701 or the Gaziani 5301.
If you want really premium shirts, you may want to try some bamboo shirts from HTNaturals.com or BambooClothes.com. They are thicker than the americanapparel style tees and super soft.
It really sounds like you are looking for something very specific. You can either keep trying samples to find one that fits the idea shirt you have in mind, or you can get some shirts custom made to your specifications from places like variantart.com or contracting an overseas factory through alibaba.com. How many blanks are you looking for?
American Apparel are pretty soft, but if you want softer you can try Alternative Apparel, or for softer still bamboo blanks. Both are still thin like American Apparel though (which doesn't mean they're poor quality, just lightweight).
You can have a silicone-wash finish added to most any blank to achieve the desired "silky" soft feel...The only other option is sourcing a blank similar to that which you're looking.
Adam
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Originally Posted by Clockwise
Alright so I have now received samples from both Article1 and American Apparel. The fitting is pretty good, but the fabric still feels cheap and thin. They aren't very soft. Is there some sort of wash that should be used to soften these up? Is it not possible to find wholesale blanks that feel similar to say abercrombie's T's? Is it just a necessary evil to give up supreme quality and hand when going the wholesale blank route?
Nothing compares to the softness of bamboo IMHO. Maybe you should considered it as long as you're not doing heat press?
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I don't see how cheap and thin go together. I did a surbey once and most people who shop at abercrombie said they prefer thinner. However, I don't understand how softer a shirt can get for the price of American Apparel.
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Originally Posted by jelias
Nothing compares to the softness of bamboo IMHO. Maybe you should considered it as long as you're not doing heat press?
did some Bambo/Spandex 95/5 (extremely thin and supa-soft fabric) test printing with plastisol heat transfers using a HotTronix auto heat press not long ago and it turned out marvelous. ...forgot about that.
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I have some shirts with 4% lycra so maybe heat transfer will work on them? The other shirts I have are 70 bamboo 30 cotton. I should get around to actually trying heat transfer.
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