Custom Clothing & Merchandise
The Independent are reporting today that on-line clothing sales are up: Internet sales of clothing have passed the £1bn-a-year mark, despite customers not being able to try things on before they buy. Mintel reported a five-fold rise in sales of clothing and footwear on-line since 2001 and a 44 per cent surge to £1.4bn last … Read more
“10/15” is a new concept from US manufacturer Hanes and, despite the silly name (IMHO), is actually a very good idea. It stands for 10 colours / 15 styles, and was developed based on market research and views from leading distributors. 10 colours / 15 styles answers the increasing need to find the perfect colour … Read more
It is time to go home, turn off the lights, pick up all the bottles of wine and ‘Quality Street’ and juggle them on the train whilst dodging all the little kids that have come into work with ‘Daddy’ in the City, an old tradition around here. Just a quick reminder, we’ll be running a … Read more
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!