Best all-around Golf Shirt?

TerryJane · August 5th, 2014, 10:54 PM

Looking for opinions based on your experience on the best golf shirts out there for embroidery sales.
Easy to embroider, durable, wears well, looks good, customers satisfied with would be the concerns.
Looking more for something that would be worn at the workplace on a daily basis.
Thanks.

aardvark7 · August 6th, 2014, 06:15 AM

Unfortunately, I don't think there is an answer to your question!
There are simply too many variables at each point:

How much to pay for the shirt, cheap or expensive?
Type of fabric, knitted or woven?
Type of work, sedentary or active, dirty or clean?
Nature of laundering, home or industrial?

That is not even considering the embroidery, which would depend upon the size of the logo, the skill of the digitizing, the quality of the embroiderer and whether they have the facility to set up correctly for specific needs (i.e. woven fabric should have different needles to knitted!).

I think, in general, a decent quality knitted pique polo shirt is the most common, and, given the casual design, tend to retain the 'original' look for the longest, but if you embroider them carelessly, they get worn for days on end, and then just dumped in a boil wash, the chances are they will look dreadful pretty quickly!

pd87 · August 6th, 2014, 09:05 AM

It is difficult to name one specific brand and model. Like aardvark says there are many variables. Maybe it is easier to ask which brand people had good experiences with and order two or three different models from this brands. Than you should test what works for you. Feel the fabric, wash it several times at the highest recommended temperature and do an embroidery on the shirts...

We like Shirts from Kustom Kit, B&C and Gildan. I personally think Kustom Kit has the best quality but is more expensive than B&C. B&C is what sells most in our shop because quality and price are very good.

Bad experiences we had with Fruit of the loom....

TerryJane · August 6th, 2014, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aardvark7

Unfortunately, I don't think there is an answer to your question!
There are simply too many variables at each point:

How much to pay for the shirt, cheap or expensive?
Type of fabric, knitted or woven?
Type of work, sedentary or active, dirty or clean?
Nature of laundering, home or industrial?

That is not even considering the embroidery, which would depend upon the size of the logo, the skill of the digitizing, the quality of the embroiderer and whether they have the facility to set up correctly for specific needs (i.e. woven fabric should have different needles to knitted!).

I think, in general, a decent quality knitted pique polo shirt is the most common, and, given the casual design, tend to retain the 'original' look for the longest, but if you embroider them carelessly, they get worn for days on end, and then just dumped in a boil wash, the chances are they will look dreadful pretty quickly!

Yes, sorry. Price not the main concern. Durability for daily wear, where our embroidery and the shirt doesn't look like bad after a month.
I guess I'm looking for that shirt that people or businesses keep coming back for.
Our business is going well, up and running for over a year now, but mostly supplying stores that send us the shirts they want. And then they sell them.
Now, we are being asked by local organizations to do work, so we will be supplying the shirts.
Thanks so much.

TerryJane · August 6th, 2014, 02:13 PM

Thanks, I will check out Kustom Kit.