Looking for Clothes wholesaler

[Orange7749]

I am planning to do online business , may I get some help that where can find a wholesaler that can ship to Malaysia or any suggestion where to take the stock with fair price at bkk?

Waiting good news , thanks a lot

[Orange7749]

Anyone ?

[UKJASE]

what sort of clothes mate?

[philbat]

Bobae market

[SantiSuk]

Yes Bobae is good.

Or Pratunam on the northern side. Start at the 5 storey City Complex and also try the 4 storey Indra Square (same as City - hundreds of shop units within a multi-storey department store-like building).Indra is under the shadow of Bayoke Tower. They are the most concentrated, but walk the area generally. The whole area is set up to wholesale sell to clothes stalls and shops/markets throughout Thailand. You might find a bigger company in there who will do shipments and maybe export and there are probably shipping agents somewhere in there. Pretty good value if buying more than 10 of an item. Good enough value if buying more than 3. Retail customers also welcome. Huge area of clothing of all kinds - so big that it can be difficult to find the thing you are looking for - took me two visits to find plain vanilla quality T-shirts for screen printing for instance.

I'm not in the trade, but my three girls (TW+2 daughters) just love Pratunam area and my wife did have an unsuccessful go at selling stuff retail once - as per usual once the family and friends had bought everything she could foist on them returns ran thin! I also buy shirts for our local hash club (the drinking club with a running problem).

Map in this thread.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/712787-where-to-make-your-own-football-jerseys-in-bkk/

City Complex is the "smaller clothing mall" I refer to on the map, though in fact I now find it the more useful. The Pratunam clothing market area is bounded by Petchaburi Road, Petcahburi soi 15 and Ratchaprop Road and on the northern side by the road that runs along the south side of Bayoke Tower.

[in case anyone is looking for plain printable club shirts, Haram at the back of the ground floor of City does a good range of whites and some basic colours. I got the colours bit wrong in my 2 years ago posting. Next to Haram now is a polo shirt shop that has plain (apart from an innocuous motif) polo shirts in breathable fabric at very good prices too. I did find a very cheap T shop only two rows away a few months ago with a huge array of colours and styles, including several different womens' neck styles. No sooner found than it had gone or moved when I went to buy ten days ago (it may just have been closed on my weekday visit so worth looking again at a weekend - it was one row or two rows in from the back on the ground floor). It'll take me at least a day to find it in there if it is still around!]

[dddave]

I tried some clothing exporting to England 10 years ago. A friend had a daughter already in the clothing business and she really liked some items we sent her.

It is really difficult for a number of reasons but three of the biggest are getting a repeat supply of a particular item or style, getting the material you are paying for like 100% cotton (big joke) and getting consistent European sizes.

For the most part, less expensive clothing manufactured here is done on a lot by lot basis. A small factory will get a good price on a run of a particular material and make several lots of a particular design. When the material is gone, the design is done. If your export customers want more, you are stuck trying to source the material which very well might not exist any more and even if you find some, shops will charge you twice as much as you originally paid to replicate the pattern. There is simply no consistency of supply.

Sizes are a huge pain in the posterior. Shops unfailingly cut small and often mix parts. In one shipment of 300 dresses, we had to discard 40% as unsalable.

Material? Unless you have a portable testing lab, you will never be sure you are getting the material you were promised. We could never be sure our content labels were accurate which made it impossible to sell to larger retailers.

[Orange7749]

Thanks you all of you!