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OK I have done a ton of reasearch here and on the net and I am torn about what to do. I have been in business about a year and a half. I started out buying PFD blanks from Dharma Trading and dyeing them myself with Procion MX dyes. Then I discovered Rabbit Skins on shirtsupplier.com and jiffyshirts.com this spring, so I bought my entire summer stock pre-dyed from them. The colors I use are white, pink, light blue, lime green, yellow and pale lavender. I was so excited to not have to dye shirts anymore!
Well, within a month or so I discovered that they run about a size small and the fabric isn't very soft. My customers complained. I ended up relabeling them all myself bc of the size discrepancy. I found that their scalloped edge tees run even smaller than the plain tees! AARGH.
So now it's long sleeve season again and I have very limited stock left from last year and I am getting more & more requests for long sleeve tees. I need to find a supplier and fast. So I have been trying to find one that has a wide range of colors and fits true to size. I also would like to keep the cost per shirt around $3-5.
I should mention I don't have a tax ID number yet but I am working on it.
The suppliers I have looked at for the colors I'd like, some have all of them in short sleeves but not in long, some don't even have the standard pink & light blue in long sleeves:
Jiffy
shirtsupplier and their various entities
kiddy kats
TSC
AAA
wholesale baby blanks
iBlanks
AA/trendy blanks
cheapestees
gotapparel
blankapparel
I am wondering if I need to go back to dyeing my own to get the colors I want. In that case, maybe someone can recommend suppliers for PFD infant/toddler blanks OTHER than Dharma. The styles of tees I need:
Suggestions? Anyone?
Well, within a month or so I discovered that they run about a size small and the fabric isn't very soft. My customers complained. I ended up relabeling them all myself bc of the size discrepancy. I found that their scalloped edge tees run even smaller than the plain tees! AARGH.
So now it's long sleeve season again and I have very limited stock left from last year and I am getting more & more requests for long sleeve tees. I need to find a supplier and fast. So I have been trying to find one that has a wide range of colors and fits true to size. I also would like to keep the cost per shirt around $3-5.
I should mention I don't have a tax ID number yet but I am working on it.
The suppliers I have looked at for the colors I'd like, some have all of them in short sleeves but not in long, some don't even have the standard pink & light blue in long sleeves:
Jiffy
shirtsupplier and their various entities
kiddy kats
TSC
AAA
wholesale baby blanks
iBlanks
AA/trendy blanks
cheapestees
gotapparel
blankapparel
I am wondering if I need to go back to dyeing my own to get the colors I want. In that case, maybe someone can recommend suppliers for PFD infant/toddler blanks OTHER than Dharma. The styles of tees I need:
- Plain short sleeve infant & toddler
- plain long sleeve infant & toddler
- Lap shoulder short & long sleeve infant sizes
- scalloped edge short & long sleeve neck toddler sizes
- scalloped edge short & long sleeve lap shoulder infant sizes
Suggestions? Anyone?