These guys are a local favorite bluegrass band called, The Bucky Walters. I've never actually seen them play from what I can remember but they live in the same neighborhood as me. I met them through my neighbor Malcolm, who lives across the street and is a much more sociable guy than I am. He introduced me to Niko, who is the mandolin player and the guy who has been
dealing with the business end of the band merch.
I did one run of shirts for them not too long ago and it turned out well. I understand that they sell a good amount of merch, so this time they wanted to go with the higher quality Amercian Apparel brand of Tshirts. These are made in USA down in L.A. and are the nicest shirts I've had the pleasure of owning. They do cost more, but overall seem well worth it considering the great fit and soft fabric. The last run they did was brown girly shirts and white T's for guys. The brown was so popular that they decided to do some mens shirts in brown this time. The girly shirts he decided on were a hip style of retro ringer T in a two tone chocolate with brown. I had my doubts, but he seemed confident. I placed the order with AA through my sister who has a wholesale account with then through her brand of hip girly clothes, Pretty Me.
The shirts arrived and they looked great! Niko asked me to match the brown on the sleeves and collar, so I mixed a batch of dark brown plastisol ink with a little black and it worked fine. I printed the 27 girly shirts in less than an hour and here's how they look. Impressively cool with the ringer T; good choice Niko! I bet the sell a ton of these. It's a good looking print too.The art was done by one of the guys in the band and features duelling chickens. The band provided the screen which was a 225 mesh count and worked just fine for this job. I'll also be using the same screen to print the brown mens shirts. For that job I'll be using the flesh colored ink that shows up as a light tan or khaki color on the brown shirt.
Here's the mens in brown.
No comments:
Post a Comment