Having a limited budget thus ruling out dealing in all t-shirt sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL), which sizes should one focus on if the target audience is males aged 13 - 25 who buys von dutch, quiksilver, dc shoes, and the likes?
Also, what are the popular colours besides black...and white? My favorites are red, maroon, navy and heather grey. Comments..please?
For my 11 year-old who is the size of the average 13 to 14-year old, I buy adult size medium or large t-shirts. The kids at his school and at his sister's high school, prefer baggy shirts, and I can't say I mind buying him things big enough that he may actually be able to wear them out before outgrowing them.
My daughter (15) will occasionally buy a men's size small t-shirt that she finds especially appealing, but only if I'll agree to lower the neckline, raise the hem and reshape the sleeves to her specs. It's kind of a PITA and I'm backed up on projects so she's been told that if what she wants is a baby-tee, that's what she should be buying.
Since you don't have unlimited funds to tie up in inventory I would suggest stocking M, L and XL, with a few XXL. Skip the XS and S. Your target market wants loose shirts.
Personally I'd start off with black and heather gray. I do most of my son and husband's clothes shopping and I avoid white like the plague. It gets grimey, needs bleaching and that tends to be hard on the graphics and reduce the life of the garment.
XS, S, M, with a few L. You could keep a dozen or so XL's for special order if you like, or if this is single colour silk screen printing and you don't mid mixing small batches of inks.
My tall, muscular, well built 11 YO like an L - but T's here are fashionable nine sizes too big! His school shirts are age 14 and fit just fine. Waist size is 27".
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in my experience, large & extra large. xxl if you can afford a 3rd size. mediums just don't sell in that group. (if you were also selling to females in the 13-25 group, i'd add mediums)
i hate white t shirts. black, grey if i can get it in 100% cotton (for some reason grey is almost always some % polyester, which i can't wear). i'm not fond of colors but i do have a few brown & green t shirts. blue (royal, not navy) seems pretty popular around here. lee
I would go L and XL with a few XXL. My male friends are in the later end of that target and that's the sizes they usually buy - my boyfriend is a medium and likes his close fitting (insanely long torso which he is quite proud of hehe) but from what I can tell he's something of an oddity in that regard! :) The colours everyone is wearing here is red, heather grey, and blue. Popular brands are Diesel, Carhartt and Abercrombie and Fitch.
This yardbird is setting up a business and is coming to this group to get ideas to set up his/her business. I hate underhanded people like this, why he/she just can't come out in the open and be truthful as to why they want this information is beyond me.
yep, it's called market research and this is not the place for it. This is not exactly the target market of males age 13-25. This is the target for their mothers, maybe.
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