Bernie shirts at YUGEwear.com

My awesome wife came up with some shirt ideas to sell at rallies. I thought we might also offer them online, and helped to set up the store.

They are 3- and 4-color designs, hand screened in Portland. We looked at the digital direct-to-garment that the print-to-order places offer, and find that while the latest DTG is catching up, silk screening still provides the brightest colors and best quality.

We also are big on Made in USA, and wanted to offer union-made, but a few local printers we talked to raised some quality issues. We then wanted to go with American Apparel brand shirts, which are unquestionably excellent quality, but the turnaround time was a little too slow to meet our deadline. Also for doing events like rallies, most of the people there seem to just want something cheap, and don't care that our shirts already cost twice as much to make as some of the others there.

So for our first run at least, we've used Gildan shirts. They're good quality, but imported. And they allow us to offer the shirts at $20 (and free shipping for now), while giving $3 per sale to the campaign.

https://yugewear.com