This section has some useful links to garment brands and other vendors you may need.
GARMENT BRANDS - OUR FAVORITES
- Sun Apparel - We love these Sun garments. Great lower-cost alternative to American Apparel for the basic styles. Check out their employment practices as well. They run a shop in Mexico, but it is sweatshop-free and fairly run.
- Gildan - Good brand with a variety of styles ranging from basic t's to polo shirts. Excellent heavy fleece.
- Continental Clothing - Great hip garments from this English company. Wide color selection, tasteful styles, vintage-distressed and some of the thickest and most comfortable fleece available.
- American Apparel - Sweatshop-free made in LA fashion garments in a wide variety of styles and colors.
- Pro Club - Some of the most popular urban t's on the west coast. The t's are made from thick fabric with a small neck and they carry very heavy fleece as well. Sizes go up to 10X and 5X tall.
- Jerzees - Our favorite affordable source for sweatshirts.
- Sanmar - Manufacturers of Port Authority and Port and Company garments. Their "Essential Tee" is one of the best heavy cotton tees on the market.
GARMENT BRANDS - SOME OTHERS
- Bella - Great line of women's garments and reasonably priced as well . . .
- Fruit of the Loom - They make some of the most economical choices for blank garments, so if you are most concerned with price you should ask for these.
- Alternative Apparel - Probably the most expensive of the garment wholesalers, but they've got a huge selection of trendy styes and colors to choose from.
- Hanes - A household name. They make basic t's (comparable to Fruit of the Loom), Beefy T's, and a selection of fleece and women's garments.
WOVEN/PRINTED LABELS or HANGTAGS
- NW Tag is a recommended vendor of woven or printed tags on a variety of substrates. They can also print your hangtags.
INDUSTRY RESOURCES
- Screen Printers Resource is a great vendor of screenprinting supplies. We buy almost every product that we use from these guys. Stellar customer service.
- Screenprinters.net is a very valuable resource of information relating to screen printing, transfers and digital garment decoration. They also have their own line of instructional videos/books, DTG printers, software and other supplies. There are a couple of articles about Forward Printing on this site too!
- T-shirt forums is the most expansive discussion forum for anything related to t-shirts.
OTHER RESOURCES
- Hip hop directory is the spot to go for anything hip hop.
STICKERS, FLYERS, BUSINESS CARDS, SIGNS, ETC . . .
- Sticker Guy - Contact them for vinyl screen printed stickers. We don't like paper stickers, so wouldn't know where to go for those.
- Copy World Inc - The spot to get business cards and flyers on the cheap. If you want high quality offset printing, special stocks and spot colors - keep looking.
- Fast Signs Oakland - If you need signs, banners or vehicle wraps.