When Americans look around to find a typically American product which is fun, exotic, attractive to European and Asian buyers, because it's UNIQUE and unobtainable over there...THE COWBOY SHIRT is one thing that is typically american And it's not a thing you can't make more cheaply in CHINA.
If you are into western wear - this stuff has to be made in AMERICA and have an AMERICAN LABEL to be the real deal. Think of the trim, body-hugging shirts, yokes with smile pockets. Design that in PARIS! Yeah right!
Lots of actors (including Pres Regan) and singers have worn (and still
do) Rockmount shirts.. They were featured in Brokeback Mountain. The zenith
of the biz is Rockmount which has been in business for years and the owner
emeritus lived to be 107 and was the oldest CEO in America to still come
into work!! Well the fashion he invented is just as durable! The link to
Rockmount site is: http://cowboyoutfitters.com/rorawe.html
ROCKMOUNT CLOTHING
is the big corporation in the field. Study their designs.
http://oldwestwear.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-lines-of-clothing.html
Start manufacturing this item and exporting to Europe, you'll find that
sales are going to go through the roof. Call your line something
very American, "SNAGGLETOOTH MOUNTAIN" or "COWBOY COTTONs" or
"COWHAND CUSTOM CLOTHING."
Google image "cowboy shirts" using the quotes to knock out cowboys and plain shirts. Save graphics to cache. Print out. Find patterns at the store, or online, designs that can be copied for gals, too, but without the baggy arms! Women will want trimmer sleeves. Young European and Asian girls will snap them up. A new look for the favored bluejeans in their closets.
Pretty Vintage shirt, the
real deal!
But sleeves are too bulky
and
at least 2 inches too long,
for a GAL!
Then make a less complicated shirt, plain color with no breast
pocket
detail and sell a flashy PONY SKIN vest with it. NOT real pony, fake. But
not fake western! This is an OREGAMI meaning folded paper design but it's
accurate at depicting the POP of a PONY VEST.
Then, go into darker colors, royal rich blue, crimson for a NIGHT TIME
SHIRT. And that little necklace thingie?
THE CONCHO? You need a concho on a cord to wear the shirt at night. So
go take a gander at COWBOY
JEWELERS COM. They even offer a fabulous CELL PHONE HOLSTER for
nightime wear. I'd rather see that in plain leather as to me, the shirt
is the jewel. No need to hoke up the look. Simple cowboy is better than
gussied up.
COWBOY FABRICS can be custom printed in Africa where they have lifted the art of printing cotton to a new level. EGYPTIAN cotton is one of the best in the world. See what printed Western Fabrics look like HERE.
Now, you can see why this could be made in places in AMERICA where the IRON WORKS closed, where the MILLS closed, where there is a giant labor force. Most American cities have a million or two Latino ladies who do beautiful work on sewing machines. All are mothers so you could offer PIECE WORK. You inspect their home before you hire them to make certain their sewing machine is good, to make certain dogs and cats won't sit on the work. You give them the IN BOX and OUT BOX, hanging off a wall so nobody can touch them with jam sticky hands. And you're good to go. If the woman has no car, you do pick up. PIECE WORK isn't some horrid thing invented in Asia for children to do. ATELIERS can be stifling but PIECE WORK that allows women to stay home with the kids, work as they watch TV ... that's FUN FOR A WOMAN. I know. I've run my own cottage industry for nearly 50 years to raise first my four babies, then a dozen cats!
STAY HOME AND MAKE A LIVING. Easy on the soul.
ANITA SANDS HERNANDEZ
in HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA astrology @ earthlink dot net
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