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Creatives Clothing. Need Your Advice!

Matt Davey's picture

Hello, I am thinking of starting an online clothing company for creatives. Don't really have a name yet thinking of Designers Label or Creatives Clothing. What do you recon the clothes would be with slogans and such like related to the creative industry.

I think this is a gap in the market because every creative person i have met is fun and there are no such companies out there I am aware of.

I would like to know what you think of this idea...
Would you buy from this kind of shop?

j truitt's picture

i'm not sure what kind of

i'm not sure what kind of stuff you're thinking of, but i will tell you this: i would not buy clothes that are like creative people's "inside jokes." like the stuff that veer makes. things like "Kern" and "baseline" — no one understands it, so it would just make me look like a stuck up geek if i wore it.

if your idea is not that, i'm always up for cool apparal.

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Matt Davey's picture

Ok Thanks,

This is really not my plan clothing like this:


Would you buy this kind of clothing? Its just marketed at creatives and may have a few quotes and things.

Jammo's picture

Definatly - just get big sizes lol

I love those tshirts above, sort of smart threadless style stuff.
Just please, if you do it, get big sizes and i'll buy lots ;)

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Matt Davey's picture

Sure will do..

just need a name

Rob Mientjes's picture

Just a name, huh

Names aren't easy to conjure up. You'll have to think what you want to evoke from the possible buyer. I suppose designers think different(ly) about such things, or at least deeper, so that's important. I'm not gonna give it a whirl, but I'm sure someone can think of something good.

Matt Davey's picture

Well.

So Far I Have Creative Clothing and emagine, the domain doesn't matter right now but in the future it will for now im going to have it as www.name.mattdaveydesign.com

Waleed's picture

Nice idea and I like the

Nice idea and I like the t-shirts.. Just like Jammo's request, I need something for my circumferences, hehe..

Names are really tough.. Subliminal indirect names are what I like the most..

Waleed
www.waleedsgallery.biz

Matt Davey's picture

Well.

Me and Jammo were chatting about leopard not being as it seams (me making the typo error as always) then it hit us Seams! The new venture is called seams.

Matt Davey's picture

Site Is Up!!

Hello everyone thanks for your feedback the site is of course not ready yet but everyone bookmark www.seams.mattdaveydesign.com and there is a preview online now.

You can email if you wish to help. If you do help and design a t-shirt or something then you will get a share of the profits. At the moment it is just me running the whole show so please all the help I can get is very welcome.

Matt,

Jammo's picture

loving it loving it loving it

The name is pretty catchy, the only other names i could think of were: Stitches, Stitch, Stitch me up, you get the idea. Seams is working great. The holding page is pretty, i like the logo idea - thats purdy cool!

Big sizes will sell out man I tell you !!! just get my order of 5 shirts ready lol.

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j truitt's picture

i will buy that stuff.

i will buy that stuff.

Matt Davey's picture

Money?

How much would you pay for a t-shirt like this?

train's picture

Keep the quality nice...

I saw American Standard, keep that up (don't make a cheap shirt!).

For price, I find it hard to pay more than $25 for a shirt with shipping.

Matt Davey's picture

Good Because..

The shirts will be £13 or $25 with free shipping to most places.

amuse's picture

bursting at the seams....

Love the designs, very similar to Threadless. How are you manufacturing the tees? Are you doing the screen printing?
Can you make a Mac Daddy screen idea, I did it once for a company I was working for but wrong audience. Go after the Mac freaks, we love that stuff!
i might be able to give you some insight if you are new to the apparel industry.
Good Luck

Matt Davey's picture

Sure will do..

Amuse Add me to msn or aim or mattdaveyichat. Yes Im very new to apparel I need all the advice I can get!!!

sidesey's picture

Loving it 2!

Good luck with this I think there are some great designs you have. Let us know when your production line is running... would certainly like to join the cue. Cheers

Matt Davey's picture

Our Production...

This is how it is going to work, the website is being coded now and this is how you buy your t-shirts sound ok?

1. You register your interest in buying the t-shirt on the website on a form not committing you to buying it but pretty darn close to. You enter details like Name, Paypal Email, Quantity and size.

2. Once enough people have registered their interest we buy a block of 25 t-shirts printed to the highest quality and on the best t-shirts around.

3. We send money requests to the people who have registered their interest and set the store to show we have stock and change the show your interest to a paypal buy button.

4. As soon as people start sending the £13 per t-shirt we start sending them.

5 T-shirt Arrives Everyones happy.

Tigerstorm's picture

Don't you accept VISA?

Just a wonder?

Matt Davey's picture

Well,

Can't you transfer money from your VISA to your paypal?
I suppose we could make a paypal cart but i am not an expert at this sort of thing.

Ivan's picture

great idea

i would call it something like canvaswear or creagear.

Paypal isn't enough. Many ppl can't have a paypal account, because paypal didn't bother to extend their network beyond the 20 something developed countries.

I would love to have clothes that have special pockets or other features that work for creatives only.

Matt Davey's picture

What sort of shopping cart

What sort of shopping cart software would you reccommend?

Matt Davey's picture

Himm...

How about a paypal cart that can take cards? Im just stuck with the ease of it.

Matt Davey's picture

OK Thanks,

Ivan, I have chosen Agora Cart so we will try to take everykind of payment.

Matt Davey's picture

FREE T-SHIRTS!!!!!

Get Yourself a Free T-shirt,
All you have to do to get a FREE t-shirt is design a t-shirt with the creative industry in mind and if your design is chosen it will go on sale on the Seams Store and you will get a printed t-shirt for you and a friend.

Send your submissions to

Leaverou's picture

People will design a t-shirt

People will design a t-shirt for a prize of 50 pounds at most? Doesn't sound fair enough...

Matt Davey's picture

Actually..

Because Im not making a profit at all to start with because I am buying stock very kind people like jammo have been designing for free. Of course I will pay them when I have profit but £50 at the moment is all going to buying stock.

Leaverou's picture

Then excuse me, I thought

Then excuse me, I thought the 50 pounds was all they would ever get.
I also like them. Please add some for women! :)

-Lea

stapel's picture

I would buy that stuff.

I would buy that stuff. I like them.

Matt Davey's picture

Ahh...

I haven't yet added any girls stuff so leaverou i give you first choice as to what sort of thing you would like.

Leaverou's picture

I didin't mean girly designs

I didin't mean girly designs (if there is such a term), I was referring to the t-shirt "shape" (excuse my english). Women most times don't like loose t-shirts like men do, they prefer something more flattering ;)
Take a look at other sites such as the one mentioned earlier on this thread, and you will see they include other t-shirt styles made for women. :)

-Lea

Matt Davey's picture

Right Girls....

I Now have girl sizes medium and Large and Male Sizes small, medium, large, xtra large t-shirts are $25 and creativebits users can have first orders on this range that we are selling. just email with your t-shirt name, quantity, size and payment method (just name one and i'll see what i can do). And please leave you name and cb username as well please if i get enough orders from cb users now then i will do future offers. The store is not open yet just a creative bits thing.

The current range is....

Flub-Dub's picture

my 2 penny thoughts

the idea is to offer flexibility regarding the payment.
some people preffer paypal, while others something else.
and indeed, paypal takes quite a bunch of people out of the equation.
take a look at moneybookers too.

i dont think that making people wait for the t-shirts until
you get to order a bunch is working.
you will get mixed reviews.
some of them will complain that they waited too long, while others will say the package arrived shortly. it all depends on the demand.
i think you should take your chances and pre-order 25 pieces for each model and size and just see how they sell.

also, 100%cotton is just not enough information.
the weight of the cotton is important here.
a weight of around 100g/sqm for example is a thinny tshirt, while something thats over 200g tends to be more resistant and warmy.
its bad to have good designs on crappy cotton.

sizes like M, S, XL, XXL differ quite a bit between different companies.
make sure you measure the tshirts in cm or in too.
and say something like our M size is 35cm wide and 60cm height with a sleeve opening of 15cm. this way ppl should be able to measure their tshirts home and compare it to the website and just imagine how close would that be to that they currently have.

also, western ppl are used to money back guarantees.
see how that fits the equation.
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Matt Davey's picture

Thanks..

I really do need all the help I can get and here are the answers to your 2 pennies.

1. The shirts are printed on american apparel so the quality is excellant as will be stated on the website.

2 Pre ordering hoping that people will buy is for people with lots of money unfortunatly this is not me I am a student and this is a side project, the orders will be dispached as soon as I can get them myself but i cannot do it any other way until people buy the first lot.(It will not always be like this)

3. Payment will be credit cards, debit cards, paypal and also you can mail us a money order and stuff.

4. Money Back guarantees, humm will think about it but it will depend on paypal and things once they take their share then we loose out if people dont want it.

Hope this help and if you wanna give more than 2 pennies come be a member of the team!

pokie's picture

I think it's a great idea.

I think it's a great idea. The shirts are nice, but like someone else said, we need some figure flattering shirts for the gals. :)

$25 with free shipping? I would probably buy one if I liked one enough. I want a long sleeve shirt though. :)

Chocklit's picture

I love your designs

Your designs are great, and you have chutzpah! No small business loan for this guy. He goes directly to the people! It is so sweet and trusting...I think I will order a shirt from you.

But pokie and Leaverou are right about women's sizes. Although American Apparel shirts fit tighter than some other brands, there is an appreciable difference between men's and women's fit.

I like the name, but it needs something. Creative spelling? "Seems"? "Seamz", maybe? How about "Dream Seams"? I just googled "Seams" and came up with these links:

SEAMS - a transmedia project that focuses on clothing as a vehicle to comment on the garment industry. www.seams.la

SEAMS - the National Association for the Sewn Products Industry. www.seams.org

SEAMS - The Society for Electro Acoustic Music in Sweden. www.seams.nu

Ummm...on second thought, don't spell it "Seamz", I just googled that spelling, and let's just say that the sites that came up were....interesting.

You know what? "Seams" is good.

alexleonard's picture

No website coming up for me

Hey.. really like those designs. Very cool altogether.

One problem though, when I visit the site all I get is:

"Index of /"
with no files listed.

I checked your main domain and that came up fine, but the sub-domain was a no-go. Maybe you're aware of this, but just thought I'd let you know in case you weren't.

Good luck with it - looking forward to seeing the site!

Alex

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