HELPP!! HELLP startin a clothing line ASAP

it is not that simple. calm down and think about what you are doing. it is expensive and a full time job

There are lots of threads on fulfillment services. In my opinion they are they best way to test market your designs and ideas. You can spend thousands of dollars on equipment and spend months to even years learning how to produce a quality product, or you can sign up with one or all of the fulfillment services upload your designs and start trying to promote your clothing line. If your stuff sells and you are the next big designer great. Then with no fear or worry you can go out on your own.

okanekoalition said:

I need help starting a clothing line.
I want to design t-shirts, jackets and jeans.
Does anyone know a way where I can just show someplace my designs and they would manufacture it for a good price??

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so you want someone to produce your designs with no up front costs from you? it dont work that way.

I think you should really do some more research and make a business plan. You need to figure out alot of things before you can just have your whole clothing line made and selling. The first thing is figuring out exactly what type of clothing line you are interested in, once you figure this out, you need to do research to figure out the best way of doing it, and what you need legally to do it.

I would concentrate on the business plan first as this will give you a direction to go. If you use the search box at the top of this page and imput business plan or just getting started, you will find alot of helpful advice in other threads that will give you more of a direction on where to go from here.

Hope this helps.

The Mad Designer said:

so you want someone to produce your designs with no up front costs from you? it dont work that way.

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Sometimes it does if you are using a service such as cafepress or zazzle It really depends on how much you want to be involved with the process. If you are just a designer, fullfillment companies can work good, as you leave all the work besides designing to them, without all of the investment.

< hates business plans, but it's probably why i have just thought about my own business for some 20 plus years. ha!

Haha see William, they give you a direction to focus and get started

sunnydayz said:

Sometimes it does if you are using a service such as cafepress or zazzle It really depends on how much you want to be involved with the process. If you are just a designer, fullfillment companies can work good, as you leave all the work besides designing to them, without all of the investment.

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I think the guy was talking about mass producing his designs. Not one at a time deals.

Cafepress makes all your profit

you're really better off buying the minumum equipment by either a company like www.silkscreensupplies.com, a cheap good deal on ebay, or you could check craigslist to see if someone is selling cheap equipment in your area.

call me stupid but isnt he just looking for a screenprinter.....if so start local in your area, and shop around. ask to look at samples, and get some pricing. test the market with some small runs, even if you dont make money on the first run, at least you will know what sells and doesnt. dont go to crazy or you will end up with alot of stuff that you cant get rid of