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Port & Company/American Apparel/Alternative?

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After years of tie-dying I am leaping into heat transfers. In lieu of my usual Gildan blanks, I'd like to use a more quality shirt.

Any opinions on Port & Company, Alternative, or American Apparel as a new alternative?

Who offers the best $$ on wholesale blanks in the above lines?

thanks/:)
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Check out TSC Apparel for the American Apparel & Alternative styles and SanMar caries the Port & Company. You should setup an account with Alternative directly as well, this will let you see all of their closeout specials which are usually dirt cheap.

Hope this helps!
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Try Bare apparel also.
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I'm a big personally a big Port & Company / Port Authority fan and our company sells them much more than Alternative or American Apparel. Port & Company is not really a competitor Alternative or American Apparel. A different SanMar clothing line called District Threads is much more in the same genre as those two.
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American Apparel shirts are cut on the smaller side of the size chart. However, they really hold up in the wash and are really soft quality tees. I've washed the black shirt I ordered as a sample like 6 times and never ironed it and it has zero wrinkles in it. I've had it hanging up for a few months now and the collar hasn't stretched a bit. The white shirt sample I just ordered is kind of see through although I have yet to wash it. BUT I'm not sure what to make of them after some of the stuff I read about them last week and their possible bankruptcy.

Alternative Apparel shirts are of excellent quality! They are like silk to the skin. I gave my sample shirt to my boyfriend and he wore it over to my place this weekend and with one glance I could tell that it was my Alternative shirt because it's just THAT GOOD of quality and a real crisp black color. They have more of a band guy/grunge fit though. Not sure how well they do with screen printing since I never printed on it.

I have several Port and Co. shirts that I've ordered all the way up to a 6x and I'm drying one right now. I will let you know how it does in the dryer. But from first glance, it looks like a pretty nice quality heavy weight shirt. I only ordered these because the Alternative and American and even Next Level white tees are pretty much see through and although I know it's a style lots of people wear, I just have a real problem with selling folks a see-through shirt...although I know most of my urban/hip-hop customers are going to wear a shirt underneath.
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