Made In England/GB

[Spike1865]

£100 for a tshirt makes me feel we need to get back into the rag trade!!!

[Justin]

I just used to get my clothing professionally relabelled, not expensive and looks great.

[pisquee]

white polyester ribbon is easy to sublimate, fold and then sew into garment

[mrs maggot]

Spike you live in Nottingham, still plenty of factories - not as many as there were but still a few and in Leicester you could contact [EMAIL="mairajkhan@hotmail.co.uk]mairajkhan@hotmail.co.uk[/EMAIL] the family run a garment factory in Leicester and do a lot of their own dye sub garments. otherwise get a list of clothing manufacturers in Nottingham, and do a bit of foot work, but you will definitely be able to get them made up

[Spike1865]

Cheers folks. I might do that Mrs Maggot! I used to manage an account in my old worldwide logistics capacity for a company called Absolute Apparel. I believe his name was Khan. Maybe connected? Are they still going? A few times a year they would have MASSIVE shipments from places I can't divulge because of confidentiality reasons.

[Justin]

Why is it imperative to use Uk sourced Spike? Is this just a preference or a USP?

[Spike1865]

Apols Justin. I would rather employ British nationals.
No preference as to where they started life, my wife is Armenian. They are beautiful people. It borders Iran and whenever I go we go shooting/hunting over the border for BBQ food. Sorry for to any veggies I offend but I like still like meat!
Our production/manufacturing end of things has really died away and we need to help those that live here play a part. Not contract everything out as most do.
Rgds
Spike

[Justin]

Uhm, not sure you could guarantee British Nationals in a UK based factory I'm all for supporting UK economy but not sure what your market will be, UK made shirts won't be cheap and very hard to justify when 99% of folk are only interested in price.

[pisquee]

you could employ your own machinist either full time or on piece basis, this way you can employ them directly and make in-house, rather than contract out.
This is what we do.

[Spike1865]

I guess it's a me thing then Just. But that is what I'd prefer.
Pisq. I can't afford those overheads so I guess I'm struggling. Like Homer... D'oh... I can get racks of work.