I'm planning on starting a clothing line, how would you find suppliers that can do my designs?

[MementoMori777]

And please don't say no alibaba 😂

[jshm2]

You don't.

You've many steps to go before reaching that step.

There is enough shit clothing in the market, no one really needs more. It's why most are going down the sustainability and circular economy routes to weed out the time wasters.

You also need to get yourself a pattern maker and/or garment machinist to test the patterns, correct them, as well as size them. No shop or manufacturer will touch you if you don't at least have a technical pack. As you're starting out you, can learn how to do it yourself else get onto Fiverr and find someone. Will cost you a few grand though,

This is why most designers build brands, but outsource production.

[MementoMori777]

I'm not trying to go big branded designer, just affordable clothing with good designs, I was hoping that the designs would attract people, but I also don't want to give them crappy quality shit, so it costs thousands for these designers to print out my design on clothing?

[NathanDavis]

cheap one... China

decent one, California... and no, it will not be cheap

[MementoMori777]

Not a problem

[Adaeva]

Of course you should use Aibaba. com to find sellers.

[MementoMori777]

I didn't like my experience with alibaba, their quality is all crap they just try making it look like good crap

[Adaeva]

Then try another one. At first, don't buy much, just one or 2 items. Even if the minimum is much higher, you may be about to negotiate a small initial purchase. Usually the quality from China is very good. If the first seller wasn't good, the next seller probably will be. I was able to make a few dollars by selling a half dozen inexpensive items I purchase from a Chinese dealer on eBay. I didn't repeat, because, counting my time, I earned less than $1 an hour.

[MementoMori777]

Wow a young entrepreneur, that's refreshing, pulling small hustles and shit, you'll be getting to places, I bought 20 items from them once and it wasn't the product they described i wasn't able to sell them, fool me once shame on them, fool me twice, in their dreams, either ways I want my own color designs on clothing, they seem to only do logos, by the way don't let your earnings unmotivate you, profits is profits and something is better than nothing.

[Adaeva]

If you want your own color designs, it is going to be expensive to set up the equipment to do that. That mean buying a large quantity; that is, a big investment and that's risky. Perhaps, it you can buy the material you want and can make your own items.

I may try again, if I can find something I can sell a lot of and not just 2 or 3 items a month.

[MementoMori777]

Perhaps I'll just stick with car flipping, that's of course if I don't find contacts for this or think of another idea, and there's going to be many failures before reaching success, it's known to happen, keep it up and I appreciate the info 💯

[Adaeva]

Thank you for the MHO.

[MementoMori777]

Wasn't me but no problem problem 🙂👍

[watercolor_lions]

Like designer, or cool t shirts with funny logos?

[MementoMori777]

I have a few ideas and designs, not really planning on making it into a designer brand because I want it to be affordable and have more sales, and it's serious clothing line

[MementoMori777]

By designs I mean I have my own designs on the full shirt, not logos, like color designs