"BEI Design" <nospam_b...@comcast.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> W wrote:
> > I am looking for vendors that make extremely high end
> > sweatshirts (i.e., best quality materials, rich colors, double
> > stiching, double material in high use areas etc...what you
> > might get in a custom made shirt) and sells them wholesale.
> > There is a vendor Croft & Barrow that makes very high end
> > sweatshirts and puts nice embroideries on them, but they are a
> > retail vendor and I need wholesale. I am putting my own
> > design onto the shirt.
> >
> > What are some companies I should be looking at?
> >
> > Here is an example of a Croft & Barrow sweatshirt on eBay,
> > which gives some idea of the quality of the material and
> > workmanship:
> >
> >
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mens-Croft-Barrow-RoadHouse-Club-Sweatshirt-Size-Small-New-/221262223198?pt=US_Mens_Sweats_Hoodies&hash=item338441975e
> >
> > I would be putting color transferred images and then
> > embroideries on top of that, so the end use would be something
> > very similar to what Croft & Barrow is doing.
>
> That sweatshirt sells for $15.00, hardly high end IMHO. Macy's has
> Armani, Locoste, Ralph Loren and Nike sweatshirts for up to $300.00
> (!!!) and Kohl's has some for $85.00.
First, I posted an EBAY ad. Surely you understand that a shirt's price on
eBay is NOT it's price in the retail market? Croft & Barrow sweatshirts
are normally around $50 at retail. That's competing against $20 commodity
products, not Ralph Lauren. You also understand that Ralph Lauren is
selling shirts that should retail for $60 based on quality for $300 based on
marketing. Anyone can take a product, spend $100 on marketing it, and get
three times the price it should really sell for. Quality is defined by the
material, the quality of the color dyes, and the quality of the stitching
and construction, not by the price tag.
I searched embroidery blank on that web site and did not find any
sweatshirts. I selected the category for embroidery wear and got the brands
below in sub categories.
Which of these brands sell embroidery blanks that you think are high
quality?
� Colorado Trading (8)
� Fruit Of The Loom (13)
� Gildan (29)
� Hanes (15)
� Jerzees (36)
� Comfort Colors (11)
� Redsand
� Badger (34)
� J America (65)
� Independent Trading Co (43)
� Champion (15)
� Bayside (16)
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W