Discuss the various finishing services that can help showcase your brand. Topics include custom neck tag labels, hang tags, garment washes, folding, bagging and even shipment/packaging options.
Fairly new here and have been doing a lot of research, great information. Thank you to everyone.
My concern is upon starting your own clothing line. I understand finding a wholesaler, ordering the shirts, then printing them the way you want. Then for the finishing touches obviously the label, we order them ourselves and have have them stiched in after removing the exisiting label to give it that authentic look!
But is this exactly how the professionals do it? Do they buy shirts from wholesalers like we do and have to remove the tags then stich in theirs? This is where i am confused. If anyone can please help me out, oooo i would appreciate it greatly.
The REALLY big companies actually have their shirts made from scratch, so they have their original label put in from the start.
Some of the more medium companies will have their labels added to existing brands of shirts.
If you want your own labels, unless you have the time and ability to do it yourself or hire someone specifically for that purpose, you would need to find an alterations shop or seamstress to do this for you.
I've gotten wildly different quotes for this for our first foray into relabelling, from $8 per shirt to $0.15 per shirt for taking the old label out and putting your new one in.
There are also certain garment suppliers that will put your labels in the shirts when you order them as long as you have a large enough quantity. They usually refer to it as private label.
I did find someone locally that will relabel for a very reasonable price, but I haven't actually seen her work yet, so I don't know if I'd be happy with the shirts she does yet.
Looks like I need to add a new supplier.
Thanks!
I just wish they carried Hanes, too, but I only have one customer that I need Hanes for.
Prices range from 20 cents to 40 cents per label, depending upon how complex the sew-in would be.
They have three warehouses across the country, but do all of the relabeling out of their Cincinnati location.
But yep, if you send them 1 label to get put in a shirt, they will send you 1 shirt that they carry with your label in it.
Turn-around time ranges from 1 day to 2 weeks depending on how busy they are.
So you can just go to their site and see if they carry in shirts that would work for you, and you're in business!
I'm glad you posted this. I use them and did not know that. I live in Cleve. and Cin. is only 4 hrs. away. I get tees the next day every time I order. And now you tell me I can get labels too. I wasn't at that point yet, but if it's that cheap, I just might do it. Where do you guys get labels from?
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I haven't ordered any yet, but I'm prolly going to be buying mine from Lucky Label. Welcome to Lucky-Label. They're overseas, but seem to have the best prices from what I've seen.
The quote I got was for 1" woven labels up to four colors. For 1200 of them they quoted me $175 + $30 airmail shipping. Faster shipping is an extra $15. Their minimum is 1200 labels for custom designs.
The quote I got was for 1" woven labels up to four colors. For 1200 of them they quoted me $175 + $30 airmail shipping. Faster shipping is an extra $15. Their minimum is 1200 labels for custom designs.
Whoa!! That is good. I can do that now. 4 colors too? Are you going to use them? If you do, tell us how they come out and how the service was.
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