Clayton Hunt

ShirtMaker

About

Welcome to SoftShirts. We are manufacturing and wholesale distributing, 100% Organic Cotton Sustainably Made Garment Dyed Tees. My business partner Allen Stephenson and myself come from two different backgrounds. He started Southern Tide and built an incredibly impressive company specializing in Premium Preppy Apparel to Retail stores. I started The Graphic Cow, spending 20 years screen printing and working on the wholesale t-shirt side of the Collegiate market. Our goal is to give you an incredible shirt at a great value. The current market is a race to the bottom for high volume cheap apparel. What passes for soft is another level of low quality goods pushed on the customer in new colors. Could we develop a much higher quality cotton fabric and bring an incredibly soft, superior t-shirt to the wholesale market? You would think that should be a no brainer. It took us a while to create this shirt as we went all over the world testing yarns, working with factories and setting up a supply chain to manufacture the Feel Good Tee. You see, we are obsessive in quality, so we don't just put in an order and buy a shirt. We source the cotton and send it to make our special yarns. We then Knit and Dye our fabric to be sewn and ultimately garment dyed into your t-shirt. It is a lot of small steps to make the product we have. Most mills would cut corners and cheapen the goods giving you what everyone else has. Or it would be the opposite and you would pay double the price for the same shirt because of all the marking it up. We hope you like our shirts as we took the best ideas we have had over the years and made a Boutique piece of apparel that we call the Feel Good Tee. We hope it makes you Feel Good Too! Specialties: T-Shirts, Apparel Design, Sales, Graphic Design, Market Trends, Demographics

Country

United States

City

Greenville

Industry

Textiles

Skill

Apparel, Creative Direction, Event Planning, Fashion Design, Manufacturing, Graphics, Graphic Design, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, New Business Development, Public Speaking, Sales, Screen Printing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Textiles, Strategic Planning

Experience

ShirtMaker

SoftShirts

2018-1 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Manufacturer and Wholesale Distributor of 100% Cotton Sustainably Made Garment Dyed Tees.

Founder-Designer

Indigo Apparel Co.

2012-1 - 2015-3 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Greenville, SC

After 20 years of growing The Graphic Cow Co., I saw a need to develop a premium luxury t-shirt to bring to the wholesale market. In 2014 I developed the customer base and printed and shipped over 220,000 shirts in the 2nd year of production. In creating Indigo Apparel I went out and found every mill and supplier to manufacture our shirt entirely in the Southeast of the USA and developed the fabric to be the softest in the industry. The fabric is high density knit in an oversized cut and the collar never will stretch out or roll over. We brought to market 24 short sleeve pocket colors, 8 longsleeve pockets and 6 pocket tank tops that are soothing, warm and beautiful. The fabric weight is year round material and is perfect in every way. We called this shirt the Perfect Pocket.

Founder

The Graphic Cow Co.

1993-11 - 2015-3 · 21 yrs 5 mos

Greenville, South Carolina Area

The Graphic Cow is a Graphic Design & Screen Printing Co. that specializes in printing event shirts for the Collegiate and Business markets. We were the largest Screen Printer in the Collegiate market for our niche. I created The Graphic Cow Co. while a student at The University of South Carolina and opened my first office at Clemson University on Sloan Street in downtown Clemson during my senior year in 1993. I kept riding up to Clemson and spied the cows out in the pastures of the Millikin plant on Hwy 76, hence the name, The Graphic Cow. The idea stuck as we were a Cow of Artwork. I began designing and screen printing T-Shirts in the 9th grade of High School back in 1986. You could say that I have been in screen printing and t-shirts almost my whole life.

Education

University of South Carolina

History, Business, South Carolina Studies

1991 - 1994 · 3 yrs

I majored in History and minored in South Carolina Studies. If I had taken one finance class I would have minored in Business Studies as well. (I was not a fan of finance at the time!)

Hampden-Sydney College

They Studied Me

1990 - 1991 · 1 yr

I was recruited as a linebacker to play for the Tigers, but was switched to 2nd string center for the offense. I was one of 5 freshman who made the traveling team out of 40. My most vivid memory was my first snap in a game where I fumbled the ball and was quickly pulled!!!