Creatives Clothing. Need Your Advice!

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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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.

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 ;)

just need a name

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.

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

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..

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.

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,

i will buy that stuff.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

What sort of shopping cart software would you reccommend?

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

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

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

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

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.

I would buy that stuff. I like them.

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

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....

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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always outnumbered, never outgunned

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. :)

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.

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