Threadless, the e-commerce apparel company that allows artists to submit and print apparel products, is adding footwear to its product offerings after acquiring Bucketfeet. Threadless works by allowing designers and artists to submit their work, and users vote on the ones they like best. The winning submissions will be printed onto items like T-shirts, bags…
Companies and organizations in the apparel world, such as Gap Inc., Target, the Sustainable Trade Initiative and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, have established the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), which will focus on helping apparel companies with…
Long Trail Brewing Company has somewhat of a litigious past, and it’s taken other companies to court that dared to use just about anything related to the word “hike” or the act of hiking. The latest lawsuit involves Long Trail suing an apparel company called Chowdaheadz, after the company made a shirt that said “Take…
The world’s first interactive fist-bumping toy, Bump’n Buddy, is set to launch. The creator, Kevin Vaughn, owner of PromoTown powered by HALO Branded Solutions, has launched a Kickstarter campaign that will run from Oct. 24 to Nov. 23 and will allow collectible backers to be one of the…
I follow baseball and weather phenomena quite closely, so when Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas from mid-August until early September, I hoped not only that organizations and selfless individuals would assist the distraught residents, but also…
The Nepalese Election Commission has banned the manufacture, distribution and use of promotional items like hats, stickers, T-shirts and tote bags during the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies. An Election Commission spokesperson told My Republica that the use of promotional items could keep an election from being “free, fair, transparent and…
A Phoenix, Arizona-based apparel company donated $200,000 in unsold T-shirts to victims of the Sonoma County fire in California. The company, X-treme Apparel, is also selling #SonomaCountyStrong T-shirts and hats, donating the proceeds to fire recovery in the area. X-treme Apparel is donating proceeds from T-shirt sales to California fire victims.…
Just because the NHL season is underway, with the Las Vegas Golden Knights seemingly avoiding any trademark disputes that plagued them before the puck drop of opening night, doesn’t mean that the battle is over. According to SportsLogos.net, both the College of Saint Rose and the United States Military Academy (Army) filed separate requests within…
When one hears the term “East Coast-West Coast feud,” that person might automatically think of the hip-hop battle that raged from the mid- to late-1990s, pitting, most notably, Bad Boy Records against Death Row Records. While…
Vantage Apparel, Avenel, N.J., has included S&S Activewear on a program that offers no minimum, free inbound shipping on all brands in the wholesaler catalog to the Vantage facilities located in Santa Ana, Calif.; St. Louis, Mo.; and Avenel, N.J. “The market continues to shift to small orders and faster fulfillment,” said Vantage Apparel president…