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In clothing, heather refers to interwoven/ interknitted yarns of mixed colors producing flecks of an alternate color. It is typically used to mix multiple shades of white or black with another color to produce a muted shade, but any two colors can be mixed, including bright colors. Heather colors are usually obtained by mixing a polyester yarn which is white or black in color with a colored yarn which is 100% cotton. Therefore it is a blend that is approximately 50% polyester & 50 % cotton hence the term 50/50 t-shirt.

Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing can be incredibly rewarding, and offers many advantages over traditional screen printing.Ê Whether you are a new startup company or an established print shop looking to augment your production capabilities, DTG is definitely work a second look.Ê Here are 10 good reasons to consider adding DTG printing capabilities to your business:

Laugh It Off's panda WTF t-shirt that is the centre of the dispute. Image courtesy laughitoff.co.za

Laugh it Off Promotions, the irreverent producer of satirical T-shirts which won an epic trademark battle against SABMiller in 2005, is getting a taste of its own medicine.



Jay Jays, the retailer of surf-themed clothing, has brought out a T-shirt very similar to one of Laugh it Off's trademarked items and is retailing it at half the price. Jay Jays originated in Australia, but is owned in South Africa by the Pepkor group.

This is all rather ironic because Laugh it Off specialises in adopting and adapting other companies' trademarks in order to pass social comment.



The best known example was its adaptation of SAB's Carling Black Label logo. It altered the logo - ''America's lusty, lively beer, Carling Black Label beer, enjoyed by men around the world'' to read ''Black Labour White Guilt, Africa's lusty lively exploitation since 1652, no regard given worldwide''.

Brooklyn-based designer Dani Balenson, 22, has drawn on her struggles with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, to try and help de-stigmatize mental illness for the estimated 46.4 percent of adults (and 25 percent of college students) in the U.S. who are affected.

The recent Rhode Island School of Design graduate has created a thought-provoking series of T-shirts that utilize graphic patterns and colors to represent core behavioral patterns associated with depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,and ADHD as a means to ''encourage, engage, and support new conversations about mental health.''



The bright two-toned green color palette for the ADHD T-shirt is meant to represent the ''energetic and hyperactive persona'' of someone with ADHD, according to a description on her website. ''The module represents an ADHD person's distracted train of thought and the tendency to bounce around from one thing to another. It is a visual deviation in thought and action: the color shifts, the size changes, and the bigger circle is left unfinished. The pattern is a slightly skewed repetition of the module, which creates the bigger picture of an energized, unfocused, and lively mass.''

Expanded manufacturing. Increased exports. Improved competitiveness, integration and partnership. That is the NAFTA story for U.S. manufacturers.



January 1, 2014 marks the 20-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) implementation and there is strong evidence of the pact's positive impact on manufacturing in the United States. Since 1993, value-added manufacturing in the United States has expanded from $1.06 trillion to $1.87 trillion in 2012. The increased exports, improved competitiveness and greater industry integration helped contribute to this 76 percent expansion in manufacturing output.



As U.S. manufactured exports more than doubled since 1993, the largest growth market for our manufactured exports has been our two NAFTA partners - Canada and Mexico, which purchase more from the United States than any other country. U.S. manufactured goods to Canada and Mexico more than tripled since 1993, growing some $173 billion through 2012 and accounting for over 18 percent of the total growth in U.S. manufactured exports over that period.

A common practice for many apparel and printing concerns, factoring is the process of selling-on receivable invoices to a third party - usually a factoring company. The factoring company then collects the monies owed from the apparel company's customers.

Why Would you use a Factoring Company?

There are two advantages to this kind of financing. Firstly, customers can be slow to pay invoices, possibly putting the company under a bit of financial pressure. Secondly, the apparel company may need to have cash on hand in order to support more production and make additional sales. If all the apparel company's financial resources have been used up they will have to wait for their invoices to be paid before they can start producing more goods again. In this way factoring companies can assist production by ''buying up'' these owed invoices to free up cash and allow the apparel company to keep producing without having to go into debt, or halting production until their accounts get paid.