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My wife and I saw the coolest..(or at least we though it was cool ) matching jerseys on a tandem the other day. They are Thing 1 and Thing 2 from the Cat in the Hat. They were really cool and has the picture of thing 1 & 2 on a tandem bike Anyone know where I can find these or get them made?
moleman76
06-06-08, 04:25 PM
(subject to possible copyright infringement issues, which the other folks might have had a problem with, too).
The artwork would be the hard part of a do-it-yourself approach, but if you can create an image (or images, fronts and backs might be different) on 8.5 x 11 or 11x17, locate a local "sublimation graphics" printer who does custom t-shirts. The technology is not too pricey and a lot of the silk-screen printers are getting into it, because the range of colors that they can print with is much broader. See if they can print your graphics on your shirts.
Buy a couple (maybe a couple extra) plain white jerseys, and have them print on your shirts.
This is kind of how the custom jersey printers work, except the really good ones print onto the fabric and then cut it out and sew it up. Yours will be different -- a lot of white between the graphics, but, so it goes.
You can fit, onto the edges / corners of your artwork page, Cat-in-the-Hat images, or your names, or whatever, to have printed onto the sleeves ... let your imagination run wild.
If they haven't printed onto polyester jerseys before, you might buy one more jersey than you need to serve as a potentially sacrificial trial run. Still, if you can get a decent jersey on sale for $25-$35, and pay another $10 each for the printing, you're looking at much, much less cost than the full-custom, must-buy-6 at $85 each, options.
Tell them you will tell everyone else who did the printing for you, let them put a "printed by" label somewhere, etc. ... maybe you can hold the price down a bit that way, too.
Thanks Moleman!
I have seen the t-shirts at Target for sale. I may look at what you have suggested. Maybe if go to a place does that and has the logos on display, they may be paying some kind of royalty on the logo and that should keep everyone happy.