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Everybody wants to start a clothing line these days athletes, men, women, and even celebrities. With so much competition its beginning to be difficult to build a successful clothing line, but its never been easier than now to fail!

I’m here to tell you if you follow these 7 easy steps below you will be on your way to starting an unsuccessful clothing line in no time.

7 Steps to Starting an Unsuccessful Clothing Line:

1. Store payments

• Trust every store you work with and use consignment as a way of re-payment for your sold goods at all times. Offer extended payment options to new and established stores.
• Don’t reward stores for early payments with discounts.
• Be happy that a store pays you whenever they do. You have more important things to do than worry about unpaid invoices.
• Get in the store for now and worry about how they are planning to pay for the clothing later. A store wouldn’t place an order if they couldn’t pay for it…that’s just unprofessional.

Note: Make sure you read all the mistakes in by commentators! Thanks

I was looking through some of my notes for articles and just wanted to come up with something new that I haven’t seen on any other blog…at least in the manner that I am going to provide the information. What better way to learn than by knowing and listening to mistakes that other clothing companies in your field make. This list is going to go on indefinitely and I will re-post it to the top of the blog either weekly or daily depending on how popular it becomes. I know most of our readers either have or are in the process of starting a clothing line have made a mistake, wit their own stories to tell of were they ordered too many products or set prices too high while trying to start their clothing line or in their day to day business activities. So I am going to begin the post by listing as many mistakes that I have made and know other companies have made that can limit your chance of success as a clothing company.

I would highly suggest working or interning to gain sales experience, because I think that is where many startup company’s fail.

Contemporary fashion women’s line Catherine Malandrino has an open intern position in the sales department for their Holiday/Resort 2008 collection. You will be involved in every aspect of how the fashion department works and operates.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Jessica-Howard a manufacturer of dresses and sportswear is looking for an intern for the fashion design department.

Only the dedicated and responsible need to apply to assist with the design, production, sales, and administrative teams. You must be proficient with Excel and have knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are a plus.

Both paid and unpaid positions are available.

Popularity: 2% [?]

I have officially made Atlanta, Ga my home…Buckhead/Sandy Springs to be exact. It was definitely a business move so that I can better network with some of the schools/colleges I work with and to hopefully visit many of the company’s and colleges that I speak with on the daily.

Some events are definitely coming in the near future so look out! If you live in the Atlanta area and subscribe to Dobizo than maybe we can meet up and talk about the fashion industry and some of your ideas that could make Dobizo a better place for the Global Apparel Industry.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Online custom denim jeans manufacturer Z2 Jeans (Z Squared) found its niche in the business of pleasing customers by offering them the chance to create their on denim jeans to fit the many shapes and sizes of consumers.
By customizing you can control every aspect including:

• Color
• Fit (slim,classic,relax)
• Rise
• Leg(Flare,boot cut..etc)
• Fly zipper
• Hem
• Pocket style and design
• Belt loops

I could go on for days, but the possibility is limitless for the customer looking for their own customized denim jeans. Since these are customized jeans you can control the exact measurement of your jeans to insure you get the right fit you spend hours looking for.

You have the option to choose between men and women customized jeans or clone a replica of your favorite pair of jeans. Prices for these services start at $85 a small price to pay for that perfect pair of denim.

Want to know more about Z2 Jeans then head over to their site and create your custom pair of denim jeans. Also visit their profile on the Global Fashion Network.

This internship position from Eccentric Symphony is for the graphically inclined. Eccentric Symphony is a clothing line by rock musician Nikki Lund and professional surfer Maikai Makena.

The hired intern will work directly with production and the designer of Eccentric Symphony. The intern will also be working around a reality TV show based on Nikki Lund the head designer and singer in the Los Angeles industry. Must have a likable personality, enthusiastic, hard working and must available to shoot for the reality TV show.

Please send all inquiries with resume and availability to maikai@eccentricsymphony.com. Make sure you check them out online at Eccentric Symphony.com. (Nice site)

Other contact details:

MaiKai Makena
949-521-3399
323-222-3736 (fax)

Popularity: 8% [?]

Stay stitching is a single line of stitching around a curved edge to help prevent stretching. Usually done with bias cut edges, which would allow easy distortion of the fabric.

Illustration of stay-stitching:

Popularity: 7% [?]

Deibe Rondon is looking for a fashion design intern for her small designer label. Not much information was available for the position other than you can work no less than 10 hrs per week.

What you will learn:

• Draping
• Flat pattern
• Cutting experience
• How to operate and start your own clothing label
• Knowing Adobe Illustrator is a must

This is an unpaid opportunity, but food and transportation will be provided. If this internship position interests you please forward resume and availability to deibe@deiberondon.com. For more information on Deibe Rondon’s collection take look at their online catalog.

Popularity: 8% [?]

This is Ceo Audio 8 with Eklectik Genes Founder Don Mahmood based out of Suwanee, Ga. Don represents a company I found out about while attending the Mens Apparel Mart Show in Atlanta, GA back in 2004 and the use of his look book was very memorable so memorable that I wrote about it in one of our earlier articles about look books.

Topics Don and I discuss range from marketing to attending trade shows and how to be more prepared.

Download the Ceo Audio below: (Feel free to email it, re-post it..whatever )

 Eklectik Interview: Download (181)

Popularity: 9% [?]

Heidi Merrick a women’s wear designer has an open internship position within the fashion design department in her design studio in Los Angeles.

Heidi is looking for computer savvy to assist with the Spring/Summer 2009 collection.

Requirements:

• Experience in Excel and Illustrator
• Work 3 days a week throughout the summer

You will be working as an intern with a possibility to move up in a smaller company. All interested candidates send your resume and portfolios to Johnny@heidimerrick.com

For more information on Heidi Merrick visit them online.

Popularity: 11% [?]

Some of these mass merchandises want a piece of every dollar. Not to be out done by Wal Mart as if they already weren’t Kmart is planning on launching a surf inspired clothing company called Boarding by this summer.

Depending on initial consumer reaction the clothing may be rolled out to more than 1,400 of its store locations in later seasons. Prices will range from $12.99-$22.99 at retail. Boarding is a product of Miami based Orange Clothing President Scott-Deutsch Says ” The same quality and look of Quicksilver and Volcom, but at half the price.

How many are checking for a Kmart surf wear brand?

Source: DNR

Popularity: 11% [?]

I know after looking at the title I wrote myself it made it seem as if this was some type of revolutionary invention for clothing, but it is a new clothing company by the name of Speak 4 Ya Wear.

I received their shirt earlier this week as promised we will review any clothing company’s that send us t-shirts, jeans, footwear…whatever. For information on where to send clothing see the Contact page.

There isn’t really much I can say about the company at this point, because their website is currently under development, but the shirt I received was good quality as far as the weight and the basic screen print. Only concern I have is that they don’t have their own labels on the neck, (Used a blank Russo Wear shirt) but their is a custom label on the bottom left seam of the shirt.

Here is some random photos of the shirt:

Bottom seam label:

Back shoulder print:

Visit Speak 4 Ya Wear online.