100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
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100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
Hey,
Currently I'm running my line on 50/50 Jerzees t-shirts, but I've been asked by the stores that want to carry my shirts to switch over to better quality makes like American Apparel. Does anyone have a good reccomendation on where to purchase 100% t-shirts (I'd be buying in quantitys of 100-500), and also, what price should I pay?
Re: 100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
in the case of American Apparel, you can open a wholesale account with them pretty easily. also, since you're in Maryland, I would maybe recommend looking into Atlantic Coast Cotton and Alpha Shirt Company. I don't have an account with them, myself, but the printer I work for does, and you can get pretty good prices, but don't have to have things shipped all the way from California (like with American Apparel). I don't know how difficult it is to set up an account with them.
Alternative is good, too, and is down in Georgia, but their shirts cost a little bit more than Americans, if memory serves. Setting up a wholesale account with them took minutes as well.
If you're buying 100-500 at a time, directly from American Apparel, you'd probably be looking at $4 per shirt or less.
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Originally Posted by seibei
in the case of American Apparel, you can open a wholesale account with them pretty easily. also, since you're in Maryland, I would maybe recommend looking into Atlantic Coast Cotton and Alpha Shirt Company. I don't have an account with them, myself, but the printer I work for does, and you can get pretty good prices, but don't have to have things shipped all the way from California (like with American Apparel). I don't know how difficult it is to set up an account with them.
Alternative is good, too, and is down in Georgia, but their shirts cost a little bit more than Americans, if memory serves. Setting up a wholesale account with them took minutes as well.
If you're buying 100-500 at a time, directly from American Apparel, you'd probably be looking at $4 per shirt or less.
Thanks for your advice. I'll look into it tomorrow.
-Dan
Re: 100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
Hmm. Article.1 seems promising. I know wholesalers don't usually release pricing to the public, but does anybody have a per-piece price for the minimum order?
Re: 100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
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Originally Posted by seibei
I don't know how difficult it is to set up an account with [Alpha Shirt and Atlantic Coast Cotton].
Alpha are easy, Atlantic I don't know.
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Originally Posted by seibei
Alternative is good, too, and is down in Georgia, but their shirts cost a little bit more than Americans, if memory serves.
I know they changed their pricing recently, but I don't really remember the outcome. It's comparable anyway.
(personally I prefer Alternative, but their colour range isn't as good, and their style range is mostly not as good (but they do some nice styles AA doesn't do))
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Originally Posted by seibei
If you're buying 100-500 at a time, directly from American Apparel, you'd probably be looking at $4 per shirt or less.
$5.90/piece $3.90/dozen $3.65/case (plus shipping I guess)
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I had the exact same issue with Alternative - their stuff is great, and I'm going to start using some of their shirts, but they don't have the color/style range that American does, which is important. Alternative, however, does some insane stuff that no one else does, as far as I know - they have some great stuff in patterns (houndstooth, argyle) and stripes.
I think the prices Lewis gave are for colors - whites run a bit less.
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Re: 100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost?
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I had the exact same issue with Alternative - their stuff is great, and I'm going to start using some of their shirts, but they don't have the color/style range that American does, which is important.
I'm hoping Alternative take off and can expand their colour range. That is something that American Apparel seems to do so much better than anyone else.
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Alternative, however, does some insane stuff that no one else does, as far as I know - they have some great stuff in patterns (houndstooth, argyle) and stripes.
Exactly. There are other companies in similar territory in terms of original styles (Continental Clothing for example), but not a whole lot. And I personally haven't seen any that are doing the pattern stuff like Alternative do.
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Originally Posted by seibei
I think the prices Lewis gave are for colors - whites run a bit less.
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I know wholesalers don't usually release pricing to the public, but does anybody have a per-piece price for the minimum order?
If you contact them, they will give you the pricing. They just have to make sure that they are giving out the pricing to companies and not individuals. It's basically around the same price range as AmericanApparel ($3-$5 depending on the style)
100% cotton t-shirts: where should I buy them and how much should they cost? 
