Buying Clothing Wholesale: Clothing Suppliers
by Brent Crouch
Published September 25th, 2008
If you want to make a profit by buying and selling wholesale clothing, there are a few important things that you will need to know. You can’t just take a leap into the business unaware of what you should buy and what customers are looking for. Many wholesale businesses will fail because they went into business blindly. Follow these three suggestions and you are sure to be a success.
Odd Sizes can be a Good Thing
When you are purchasing wholesale clothing you have to realize that the odd sizes can be a very good thing. First of all odd sizes can be purchased really cheap and you can sell them at a huge markup. The reason for these cheap prices on odd size clothing is that retailers will avoid them because they can be hard to sell. For this reason, clothing wholesalers will sometimes offer you some great deals.
The fact of the matter is that people are all built differently and they are all shapes and sizes. When someone is an odd size they have a hard time finding clothing that will fit. If you purchase odd sizes you will quickly see that these people are more than willing to pay top dollar for something that will fit. So never overlook odd sizes because you are afraid that they won’t sell.
Get Good Quality Clothing
If you are in the business of selling clothes then you do not want the reputation of selling cheap low quality items. Buy clothes that are only of the highest quality. Buy clothing that is the real thing. If it is a leather jacket you are selling, make sure it is genuine leather. A plastic looking leather coat looks bad and it is uncomfortable. People not only want to look good in their clothes, but they also want to feel comfortable with what they are wearing.
Cross Sell, Cross Sell, Cross Sell
You probably want to put a lot of concentration on women’s clothing, but it is still a good idea to throw in some men’s and children’s clothing as well. For the most part, the women who buy your wholesale clothing are also wives and mothers. In order to get the most from your business, you have to offer clothing that can be cross sold. Offer a few men’s shirts as well as boy’s and girl’s clothing in your product line and you will see your profits soar.
Often times people will go into the wholesale clothing business with no idea what direction they should take. Follow these suggestions and get the most you can out of your business.
Brent Crouch is the owner of Jillian Distributors , a leading clothing supplier. He has spent the last 5 years taking his startup company from his garage to over a 1 millon dollar business selling clothing and other wholesale products to retailers.
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Hi dear do you dropship internationaly
I want to make a market place i can make an affilation website to ebay
best regards
cross selling is the way to go!
hello
i am new at this.
i understand that there is a chance to buy a truck lod of men and women and kids clothing at a very very low prices.
if this is the case, i iwould like to know how to go a bout it and how if you are able to ship it to out of the country like jordan
thank you
Hi there
I am just enquiring about importing exlease used laptops to new zealand. i would arrange my shipping as my families are in california and also thinking of starting a second hand refurbished computer store.
Please let me know the details
Sujay Bhindi
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Hi my name is monica barnes working for the.Zaken liquidations and we specialize in buying small quantities up to entire warehouses of closeouts or discontinued merchandise is any way you can put me on to sellers thant I can solve their problem