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1,010% legit. i am working on my doctoral fashion digree at princeton, i would kno.

You're a good looking kid diamonds. Just keep your mouth shut.

^^ those whores are gross.

I love your dior wool trousers.

Look on the bright side: you won't have many distractions and you'll be able to focus on school.

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I fear that this thread is going to turn into a bloodbath. Self-promotion, especially of t-shirt lines, doesn't fare well on Superfuture.

I've been very curious on the economics and marketing of t-shirt lines and small youth oriented labels, so maybe I can hijack this thread for my own agenda.

Let's say it costs somewhere between $5-9 dollars to get a design printed onto an American Apparel t-shirt. The t-shirts are sold at $20, potentially leaving somewhere around $12 profit per shirt. How many t-shirts can you possibly sell, and how much money can you possibly expect to make?

If it costs $7 to produce the t-shirt, what price do you "wholesale" the shirts to boutiques? $10-14? Hopefully giving you a profit of $5 per shirt. Now don't most boutiques only buy extremely limited quantities of t-shirts? I know that American Rag in Los Angeles only buys around 20 shirts if it's a small label, making our hypothetical profit a mere $100.

Without visiting trade shows, how does one market one's line to boutiques internationally? Compose a list of boutiques then call them and send catalogues? Send news letters to magazines? Post all over the internet? Paste stickers and flyers all over the streets?

How many t-shirts do small labels sell? The Hundreds, Kenzo Minami, RVCA, Lad Musician, Corpus, Stray Boys, WoodWood, Hello Minor, It's Our Thing, and even smaller labels? If they can sell 20 shirts to 12 boutiques that makes 240 shirts, and at $5 profit, a total of $1,200. Then hopefully they could also sell on their website 5 designs of 40 shirts each at $12 profit for an additional $2,400. Totaling 440 shirts sold for $3,600.

I understand that some labels easily sell a few hundred t-shirts of each design, but realistically for a new t-shirt line like "It's Our Thing", how many shirts could they possibly sell? How much do they profit each shirt? How do they market themselves? Surely it’d be overzealous initially to whip up 5 designs in photoshop and send them off to a screenprinting company to get 2,000 t-shirts made.

Does anyone have any insight?

i've been thinking about applying to american apparel =\. anyone have any advice for applying or words of caution?

i like all of them. i'd buy them if they were under $200 usd, over that amount i'd rather buy nice lace up leather shoes.

1. Most people here, at least the ones that regularly post, are over 21 and are not from Hong Kong.

2. What the fuck is Vivism.

3. What Wallets?

1. the youth presence on this forum is undeniable (see: Supreme, aNYthing, etc...). how many of us are over 25? i'm under 21 myself. why would you wear streetwurrrr in yo 30s?

the hong kong statement was a hyperbole. i like hong kong myself, but you know i'm sayin nigga. who do you see buying vivism in boutiques? who do you see wearing japanese selvedge? hell, you even said, "I'll be cosplaying as Suzumiya Haruhi" at the Anime Expo in Long Beach!

2. what the fuck is Vivism? u must b joke! oh come on, you're selling Lad Musician and Supreme: http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=23839 .

3. What wallets? This thread is titled "laser etched wallets by TANNER"!

maybe you should pay attention a little more. don't believe anyone here, including me.

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poly800rock: private messaged. i've answered your questions. stop complaining.

lolol @ tokyo night. lolol @ queen mary. lolol @ anime expo. lolol @ uci.

questions on the t-shirt buisiness:

how much are you selling the t-shirts for?

what type of t-shirts are the designs printed on?

how much does it cost to sew a custom tag onto a t-shirt?

aside from superfuture, how have you tried marketing the t-shirts?

have any boutiques bought any t-shirts? don't boutiques usually buy very very small quantities of shirts from small labels?

do you have any hopes of recovering your costs on these t-shirts?

all you ever do is say shit is "whack", let's see some of your super "dope" stuff and if you bothered to read you'd also see that they do have "basics" coming out.

u r just player hatin' bcuz i exposed you as someone who iz incapable of thinking too hard in a thread you and i both remember a while back. 2 dis day u still donot know if u got duped or not bcuz of urr stubborn pride.

$50-$80 for wallets that look like they were made by young boys for an Indian Guides project? nigga plz, you must all be the son's of Sony executives. i feel that it's my duty to complain, more than an old jew, on this forum to keep you young hypebeasty kids in check and shatter the all-too-prevalent Superfuture groupthink.

yes, poly800rock, the wallets are "whack". like i said, they're overpriced, the designs are trite, they look like an elementary Indian Guides leather project, and with only 2 card-holder slots, they're not too functional. while everyone here is riding Tanner's jock, i'm trying to help you kids by bringing to your attention that you can buy far superior wallets for $50-$80!

my mistake is forgetting that i’m on superfuture. this crowd is nothing but rich teenagers out of hong kong who buy $150 Vivism t-shirts in North America. w/e, it’s only daddy’s money, and i guess you're supporting the economy.

oh, and is it caribbean cotton?

sick designs and cheap at £150.00. before i cop, r they limited editions? and do they ship to singapore? thx.

- yuki

nobody else has said it: this shit is whack. i don't know why everybody's gotta put shitty designs on nice basic items.

ouch. thats practically all i wear.

im just going to assume im in the other 5%.

You should wear slightly more relaxed clothing cultpop, the fit can still be tailored, just not too tight at the waist, or too short at the arms and stomach. You know that chubby sixteen-year-old kid at the Fall Out Boy concert, who insists on wearing the Youth Large sweater to fit into the crowd? Thankfully, your fit isn't as bad, but it's still too small and too tight in the wrong places.

Plus, you're supposed to be a grown man. Add more classic items to your wardrobe, and don't take fashion cues from high school kids.

doubletap: watchu ride in?

wtf?! asians and "ricey" cars? fuk, learn ur history. tahts fucking ignorant talk.

my $7,000 civic could beat ur euro-american ass car any day, WHITEY! $40,000 upgrades. what now bitch.

cheapmuthafukr yearns to be a hipster.

uh oh.

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buyer or merchandise planner for a retail dept store chain. its like shopping directly from the vendors everyday on a very large scale

how'd you get that job? school degree/connections? friends/connections? or simply applied for the job?

I think that tight skinny jeans, think Cheap Monday, make small skinny guys look even shorter, especially when the waist is worn low so the pockets on the back start below the butt.

What about clothing for making small skinny guys appear taller?

A better question to ask is what do you want out of life?

Or not. Just go into accounting. You'll follow a safe and structured career path to a fairly high salary. Bonus, you won't have to rely too heavily on those English skills of yours, and you won't have to think too creatively often. A monotonous lifestyle of conspicuous consumption awaits you!

ps. I'm entertaining the thought of law school myself. Life sucks dickhead.

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when i read the title of the thread i thought this was gonna be bestiality, for serious. japs would never hurt animals, they make love to them! javtalk.com