REFLECTOR: Sweatshirts Round 3

Sat Nov 6 16:15:45 CDT 2010

Hi Folks,
Here is where we are.  Above are four attached pics.  The Velocity in the blue circle is a design Alex Balic did for the Velo Symposium back a couple of years ago.   We also have a cut of the Swoopie airplane alone, without the column of words.  If you want to consider either of these please advise, otherwise below are the default design choices.  

THE CURRENT DESIGN AND OPTIONS
We have an OK from the factory to use the old sweatshirt design, so that is the current plan.  That design is for the VELOCITY logo (see attch) in the front upper left with the letters being about 1 inch high and maybe 4.5 inches across.  On the back with be the "SwoopieVAB."  That is the swoopie looking airplane with the column of repeated VELOCITY words reading down vertically across the left wing.  It is about 14" w by 11" high.  You can have this on the front or the back.  The airplane will be in Red on all shirts unless you pick a red shirt.  The remaining color of the lettering will be dictated by the color of the shirt. (two choices here black or white)  The design will be painted on and not stitched.  If you want either design on only one side of the shirt it will save you $2.  Say you pick out a golf shirt.  We can skip the back.  Say you want a sweatshirt with the Swoopie airplane on the front and nothing on the back, that is doable too.  That is to say, one sided printing will save you about $2.  

THE GARMENT OF YOUR CHOICE
Go to this website:  http://www.catalogwearables.com/   There you can pick out whatever you want.  Don't try to order anything, just write down all the particulars and send them to me off line.  For tee shirts Alex is suggesting we stay with the Gildan 2000 line.  For the fleecewear (sweatshirts), the recommendation is to choose the 50/50 blends of cotton and poly as opposed to say 80/20 blends.  Sorry, no 100 silk or nylon or slippery fabrics.  You cannot have the big design across the front if you have any zippers or buttons on the front.  

THE PRICE
This website is Alex's supplier.  Based on how much we order (I guess) is what he has to pay.  I have nothing to do with this part.  He or I will advise each of you. There is no price information until he has a look at the total order, but you can go to this website https://www.queensboro.com/ and look for something comparable and that will be the aprox price less whatever Alex sees at his end from his supplier.  Add to this about $6 per order for shipping costs to you which Alex will be doing.  Quick aside, if you see something you can't live without at Queensboro or want to go with embroidery, please consider holding off an any individual orders, and we can do the same group purchase over there too.  It is just that Alex only can do painting.  

THE ORDERING PROCESS
 1.  I know a good number of you have written to me already.  Please do it again with these details.  Go over to http://www.catalogwearables.com/  and then I need 6 de-limiters.  Product code, size, color, how many you want, about what it costs at Queensboroand what you expect to be paying (less shipping) and last a plain text explanation of what you want on the front and what on the back.  No we cannot shrink the back design swoopie airplane or blowup the classic Velocity name logo with the little airplane in the letter O. 

2.  Send that info to me off line.  terrence_miles at hotmail.com  Have that done by Nov 14.  

3.  I will then post a spreadsheet of who ordered what, and 

4.  Alex can call in and get pricing, which he or I will then post on to the spread sheet   

5.  When it get it that far, check your name, send in the money, and Alex can give us an aprox ready date and get to work.

Last I want to thank Alex for doing this.  Brett and Beth for their background help in almost matters like this, Malcolm Collier for helping me with one of the drawings, and Jorge Bujanda for his technical drawings, which are not a part of this go around.  

I know this is a bit cumbersome for the first time through, but the great advantage is the enormous range of choices.  "Build it your way," right...?...Where have I heard that before?

Best regards, everyone
Terry 

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