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The Essential Women’s T-Shirt Size and Fit Guide
Women’s apparel is notorious for having inconsistent fit and sizing issues across different brands and styles, which even applies to women’s t-shirts. This is because of the variety of cuts and styles available. While you might be a medium in one product, you might find that small fits you better in another. Getting the right …
The Complete Guide to Comfort Colors
Do you have a favorite T-shirt with a worn-in softness, a faded natural color, and a relaxed fit that’s familiar like an old friend? Imagine those same qualities in a fresh new shirt. That’s the essential idea of Comfort Colors. This article gives you everything you need to know about the brand that pioneered garment …
What Is The Softest T-shirt Material?
In the highly competitive T-shirt market, one attribute is more sought-after than ever: softness. People who value comfortable tees have a challenge: with all the brands, styles, and fabric blends out there, how do you know which is the softest? And how do you order online without being able to feel it for yourself? We …
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Top 5 Street Art and Streetwear Collaborations
Street artists and streetwear have always gone together like peanut butter and jelly, salt-n-pepper, and aerosol cans and freshly painted walls. “Street art” has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings. Today it includes countless mediums, materials, and styles. Its most prominent artists have risen through the ranks of the art world to earn high respects, both …
Designer’s Guide to Graffiti Fonts
In many ways, graffiti is humankind’s earliest attempt to leave its mark on the world. By some accounts, we’ve been doing it for nearly 40,000 years. From the charcoal briquettes and crude tools of the prehistoric peoples of North America, ancient Egyptians, and the earliest manmade art in the caves of Indonesia, it has been a long …
Critical Information to Include on a Charity Event Shirt
Planning a charity event is hard work. In order for an event to be a smash hit, you must pay careful attention to every detail. One particularly important detail is the thing your participants will leave with–their event shirt. Charity event t-shirts make for a great wearable on the day of your event, unite your participants …
Design
Top 10 Websites for Free T-Shirt Fonts
If you’re ready to embark on your journey into the vast internet wilderness to find the perfect fonts for your design, there are plenty of sites that offer free font downloads. Here is our list of the best: 1. Google Fonts Google Fonts is a massive directory of free fonts for websites or other web-based projects …
15 of the Best Fonts for T-shirts
Font selection is one of the most important parts of a T-shirt design. Fonts convey important information about your brand, group, or event. Much more than the words in the message alone. The best fonts for T-shirt designs are typically bold, distinctive, easy to read and help communicate the message. Our top designers have assembled …
15 Family Reunion Shirt Ideas
Matching shirts are one of the best ways to commemorate a family gathering. They bring everyone together–literally, for the group shot. T-shirts are prized souvenirs that become cherished keepsakes, holding memories and loved ones in their soft fibers. A thoughtful design turns an ordinary shirt into a crowd pleaser–and we know what works. We print …
Marketing
What You Need to Know About Copyright Before Designing Your T-Shirt
I bet you have a ton of great ideas for custom T-shirt designs. But are they legal? The last thing you want to do is send your latest creation off to get printed, only to find out it can’t because you’re using something that’s been copyrighted. You might be thinking, “who cares? Everyone uses copyrighted …
Fun Softball Practice Drills and Team Building Exercises
Ready for this upcoming softball season to be the one where your team runs roughshod over the rest of the league? You’re going to have to practice better. It’s such a cliche, but drills are the only way to improve. That’s because so much of softball is about muscle memory. The closer you can get …
5 Things You Need to Know About Softball
Everyone from kids to senior citizens can enjoy softball. And there’s really never a bad time to introduce yourself to the game. Still, first-timers (and their parents) might want to get acclimated to the game before their first practice. Before you have your first catch, get to know these essential things about the game of …
Our Journey
RushOrderTees to Invest $1,000,000 in Cryptocurrencies
RushOrderTees is excited to announce that we’re investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a number of other cryptocurrencies. Over the next two months, we’ll convert one million dollars of our cash reserves. We are using the cryptocurrency brokerage platform Coinbase Prime to process the transactions. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are definitely gaining popularity lately, with everyone …
Six Shooter Challenge 2019 Recap with Photos, Video, and an Interview With Joe Wolos
Another exciting Six-Shooter Challenge is in the books, and the theme this year seemed to be “expect the unexpected.” From shocking upsets to unconventional techniques, and even a rule change, this year had it all. That includes puppies and dance performances. The ink flowed and the shirts flew off the presses. Everyone had a blast, …
The T-shirt as a Blank Canvas: RushOrderTees Featured in Wearables Magazine Annual Fashion Issue
Earlier this summer, Wearables Magazine contacted RushOrderTees and invited us to participate in their annual fashion issue. They tasked seven different custom apparel companies to come up with a floral-themed T-shirt design inspired by the idea of “the T-shirt as a blank canvas”. And ours was to be digitally printed, aka DTG (direct-to-garment). One of …
Print Methods
DTG vs Screen Printing: What’s the Difference and Which is Better?
DTG (Direct-To-Garment), also known as digital printing, has come a long way in the last couple of decades. Once a newcomer to the custom apparel industry, it now rivals traditional screen printing in quality and affordability. What everyone wants to know is: How exactly do the two print methods compare, and which one is better than …
Which Screen Printing Ink is the Best? Comparing Water-based Ink vs Plastisol
In the decorated apparel world, there are many different techniques to print custom graphics, and screen printing continues to be the fan-favorite. But there are two broad categories of inks: Plastisol and water-based. Naturally, the next question asked is: Which one is better? In this post, I’ll compare and contrast the two main types of …
Ask the Expert: Manual vs Automatic Screen Printing
Screen printing machines for the decorated apparel market mostly fit into two categories: manual presses and automatic presses. Yes, there are belt printers that do the all-over prints, but they’re pretty rare. For the purpose of this post, we’re comparing the two main types. As you would expect, automatic presses print much faster than manual …