• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • LuxeSwap Auctions will be ending soon!

    LuxeSwap is the original consignor for Styleforum, and has weekly auctions that show the diversity of our community, with hundreds lof starting at $0.99 every week, ending starting at 5:30 Eastern Time. Please take the time to check them out here. You may find something that fits your wardrobe exactly

    Good luck!.

  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Need a custom shirt maker for one-off.

Ryan Guillory

New Member
Joined
Oct 20, 2016
Messages
2
Reaction score
0
Hey guys, I'm not sure where else to find this, I'm in the US and I'm trying to have a long sleeve fishing-type shirt remade in a different fabric. Does anyone know how to do this or where I can find someone who can do this for me? Essentially I'm trying to get a prototype shirt made, potentially after the 1st one I'd have revisions or order several more to hand out to field testers before I'd move into small mass production. Thanks for any help.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Jan 6, 2022
Messages
11
Reaction score
9
Just to understand the question better - is your question how you can best get a shirt made for yourself, or how to best get a sample made with the intention of producing a bulk order?
You can always get any of the standard bespoke shirt makers to make you what you want if your intention is to use it as a first prototype. I'm sure a place like Turnbull or Charvet would make you pretty much anything you want as long as you don't tell them you are planning on using it to start your own brand. That's certainly not the route I'd go. I'd rather start locating a factory now and have them make the proto since you'd have to do that at some point anyways and most factories hate it when you just pass them a shirt to copy without any pattern or spec sheet.
Would you make the proto with your own trim and findings?

If you are looking at moving into bulk production, the question really becomes - what is your desired production location, MSRP target, unit target, etc?
If you are looking for anything sub 100 units in bulk production, you will likely be paying sample price for each shirt (which means you will make no money selling them - think $80-$160 CMT cost per shirt) if you want to work with a real factory. You'd need to be based in the region that factory is in unless you want to pay a QC agent for a run, which will again, kill any chance of getting a margin on it.
 

Featured Sponsor

Do You Have a Signature Fragrance?

  • Yes, I have a signature fragrance I wear every day

  • Yes, I have a signature fragrance but I don't wear it daily

  • No, I have several fragrances and rotate through them

  • I don't wear fragrance


Results are only viewable after voting.

Forum statistics

Threads
508,766
Messages
10,604,534
Members
224,741
Latest member
rodriked
Top