Custom Clothing & Merchandise
Image Source: Creating Passionate Users Kathy Sierra, over at the Creating Passionate Users blog, makes an excellent point which anyone buying t-shirts for an event should take notice of. In fact, if you don’t have time to read her post just check out her picture above which, as the platitude goes, speaks a thousand words. … Read more
American Apparel, the casual clothing chain whose socially conscious manufacturing, sexually charged advertising and snug-fitting T-shirts have generated a cultlike following, will be sold to a little-known investment firm for $382.5 million, according to people briefed on the matter. Source: The New York Times, 18 Dec 2006Â
If you haven’t come across Google Trends yet, check it out. You can see and compare search patterns over time and key news articles are correlated with the graphs. Interesting to note summer 2005 saw a big peak in search volume for the t-shirt printing industry compared to 2006, which wasn’t as big as 2005 … Read more
What do you get a friend who is a t-shirt lover for Christmas other than a t-shirt, because if they have one more trendy, screen printed, slogan tee in their wardrobe, it will explode? Well, a book may be a good way to go and The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by … Read more
We have been making do with the default header than defines the ‘k2‘ WordPress theme (the techie stuff that powers the Indigo blog) for far too long. This purple block is getting a little dull to say the least and I have been inspired by the collage design over at Matt Mullenweg’s blog. The two … Read more
Another review of a US t-shirt web store, this time a brand called Kindred, whose surrealistic, pioneer-inspired collection is some of the most original stuff we have ever seen screen printed on a t-shirt. American Apparel shirts (how did you guess?) and a $5 off coupon code of ‘cousineddie‘ makes this site well worth the … Read more
Our opening/closing times for the Christmas period. * CLOSE – midday on Friday 22nd December 2006 * RE-OPEN – 9am on Tuesday 2nd January 2007 We will run a skeleton crew on 27th to 29th December. We hope everyone is enjoying the festive season!
We’ve had a few teething troubles with ‘Ange‘ (the new Indigo server) and emails today. Sorry if you email hasn’t got through – all is fine now!
Our suppliers are gearing up to spice up their product offerings in 2007, and at this time of year we are seeing a raft of press releases and announcements in the trade press. We are looking forward to launching Callaway (golf), Canterbury (rugby) and 2 new organic brands (Epona and Okarma) on the Indigo site … Read more
Sorry to keep harping on about ethical and organic clothing but as our little industry goes this (along with direct-to-garment printing, which is a whole other story) is the most disruptive force in the market place at the moment. In the next few days we’ll let you know more about Continental exciting foray into the … Read more