Discuss the process of getting your t-shirt line into brick and mortar stores and selling offline. Topics include industry tradeshows, events, line sheets, sales reps and other retailing tips and advice.
Once I saw a T-shirt vendor, with limited space, use a metal sogi screen type of set up. This allowed him to zig zag the screen behind his table. He then used those hangers with the swivel hooks and hung his shirts on the screen.
But, I have no idea where you can get those screens. It was like a wire trellis almost. It had hinged pannels so it could alternate the swing direction to stand unsupported, yet stable, so long as no one bumped into it.
I am going to try that myself because I have the same constraints.
I took white wire shelves (Like closet shelves) from lowes. i ziptyed 2 together and stood them up and hung shiirts from them. I hope You understand my description. Good luck ... JB
The rails are simple to build. 1x2" pine 8' long. A screw eye in each end. A simple small chain about 5.5' long attached to the tent rail on either end. Use S hooks to add the rails at any interval you need. Lght weight, simple and portable. The shirts just drape over the rail and are held in place by friction. In an outdoor environment with wind you will need either to run a strip of double sided tape along the top of the rail or just tack the shirts to the rail.
I got inspired on the way to our first event over the weekend. Stopped at Lowe's and bought some furring strips. Drove a hook onto either end and tied them to our ez-up similarly to how you did in the pics. Worked out GREAT! Thanks for the idea.
I'm going to hit ikea this weekend -- I think their curtain rods will work marvelously and collapse to a more manegable size.
If you dont need to display the entire t-shirt and just the design you could consider a slatwall with the t-shirt on a t-shirt box. Such as the one from trio T-Shirt Display - TRIO Display
If you dont need to display the entire t-shirt and just the design you could consider a slatwall with the t-shirt on a t-shirt box. Such as the one from trio T-Shirt Display - TRIO Display
That seems kind of hight to dispaly t-shirts, and I don't know how portable that would be since it sounds like they want it to be portable. I was just thinking if you don't want to display the whole shirt maybe you cold take pressed shirts and fold them or cut them so only the image shows and then create a "quilt" out of the designs. You could hang it up as a display and when you're done just fold it up and put it away in one of those portable plastic bins. Just a thought.
I like the boxes but wont pay that kind of cash for them. We will eventually go with the designs printed on fabric as suggested because you can get more designs shown compared with showing the actual shirts. The benefit right now for displaying the shirts is many times they can take the display and we just make a new one for the wall.
I know when people buy something they want to touch/feel the thing thier buying... If we just hand them or show them some fabric with a print on it they might be turn off.... What do you think?
I know when people buy something they want to touch/feel the thing thier buying... If we just hand them or show them some fabric with a print on it they might be turn off.... What do you think?
In that case have your display and have a few samples tucked away and if someone wishes to feel it you can then hand it to them.
Best ways to display t-shirts 
