Detailing Shirts

BaDm0theR

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Im pretty excited about these shirts that i co-designed and bought from a local Embroidery place in Palm beach.

It was a few days in the making (basically trying to think of a layout that will fit in the shirt, be impactfull, easy to read and appealing).

Anyhow, i snapped a few pics and felt like sharing them with you guys.
 
Excellent! Make yourself up some business cards to match! :bigups
 
Interesting! Very Creative. I haven't seen to many product companies with their own shirts. How about making some Steve? :lmfao
 
nice looking shirts if you dont mind me asking what did they run you as far as price goes I know your in FL. and im in NC shouldnt matter to much but trying to get and idea on some prices Thanks Kevin:jump
 
Clean4u: I did some investigating/shopping around before i found these knowledgeable, friendly and monetarily competative embroidery business called Monart Monograms.


Anyhow, pricing really depends on which type of shirt you want (from regular white t-shirts, to collared Polo/golf shirts, to high quality knits), and also the type of and complexity of your design.

I went with Outerbanks Polo/golf shirts, 5000 series (they are higher quality than they're cheapest model polo)...and stuck with a simple text design layout.

After choosing thread colors, and the text layout/design and also the type/quality of shirt, it came out to roughly $25 per shirt.

I bought 3 (navy, black and red) and the total was a little over $76....very reasonable in my opinion.

The business owner, who knew that my order wasnt going to be large to begin with, was extremely helpfull, patient and curteous. I spent 2 days coming and going trying to discuss, design and finalize a logo layout....so service was impecable....and for that i strongly feel that $76 isnt too much to pay for.

Expect to pay roughly $18-28 out the door for a custom embroidered shirt.


:D Hope this answers your question.
 
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detaled by hans:

"Very bland" :( :doh

When i we (the embroidery business and me) were designing these shirts we aimed for attractive yet simple. They offered me to choose from like 100'000 pictures that i could have had sewn on for no extra charge, but when they showed me how it looked like, it became too busy and a little confusing to look at.


*sigh* I respect your opinion, but i honestly think the thread color, shirt quality (i got premium quality w/out using tremendoues amounts of funds, $140 is way too much for a single shirt IMO)...and based on that i am confident and satisfied with my decision.


However, nothing is set in stone....so if you have some creative ideas, why dont you design something for me and ill take a look. They have my design info in their computers, so i can come back any time to add/remove stuff from the shirt layouts, and re-order new shirts.


Let me know.


:bigups
 
Also, based on the Palm beach comunity (which consists of predominantly elderly, retired and overwhelmingly successful individuals), i felt that it had to be clear and easy to read.


Feedback is feedback though, ill look into some other design idea's in the near future.

:beer
 
Steve (Poorboy) should make some t-shirts for the Poorboy's lineup. I like the products so much I would wear it.
 
My mom runs an embroidery shop and I digitize (do the graphics) for her. From what I can recall, that is a decent price and a good quality shirt company. It's nice that they were good to you for only ordering 3 shirts. I worked with someone in hawaii that was very rude and would rip people off that had small orders.
 
BaDm0theR said:
Also, based on the Palm beach comunity (which consists of predominantly elderly, retired and overwhelmingly successful individuals), i felt that it had to be clear and easy to read.


Feedback is feedback though, ill look into some other design idea's in the near future.

:beer

Yes you are dealing with a lot of elderly and retired people who don't see well and the design is a bit small....otherwise it looks good:bigups simple and to the point:D

Tassadar...we're looking into silk screening some shirts, embroidery is nice for a few, but too expensive to make 100's:D
 
Rockpick said:
Those look great!!! :headbang
:yeah
That style of shirt, (Polo), doesn't seem to me to be what would look good with some of the T-shirt graphics you see a lot of. IMO, for a business impression, you made a good choice.
One question. Aren't these for you to wear while you are working? A $140 detailing work shirt seems a little expensive.

Charles
 
Greetings fellow detailers;

Mike, glad you're happy with your shirts...

Having said that...... :jump ......... I must now post with my personal experience. No disrespect meant here whatsoever...

I used to wear real nice polo shirts with my company name on them. After completely destroying them and sweating like a hog non-stop - I've now opted for comfortable cotton T-shirts...

They get very dirty. This can't be helped in our line of work. Besides the nasty stuff from the autos (interior and exterior) getting on our clothes - the chemicals we use invariably end up on them...

At $25 per shirt this can get very expensive...

Since I have the tendency to dive right into my work - often, at the end of the day - my shirts are a disaster...

I now pay less than $10 per shirt... And I go through about 10 of them a year...

Again, no disrespect intended.... Just another viewpoint here...

Regards,
Onthespot (Western NC)
 
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