Clothes Business

5 Tips For Starting A Successful Clothes Business (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own clothes business? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a clothes business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a clothes business?
-> Pros and cons of a clothes business

Need inspiration?

-> Other clothes business success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a clothes business
-> Clothes business names

Other resources

-> Profitability of a clothes business

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a clothes business:

#1: Donovan Mathews, founder of Bryden Apparel:

We chatted with with Donovan, founder of Bryden Apparel ($74K/month). In our interview, Donovan says:

I always had that inner voice urging me to start something on my own related to sourcing & manufacturing and I decided to register a business to reserve the name.

Additionally:

The biggest lesson from our launch we learned was that we need to think in the customer’s shoes and test as much as possible to find out the best platforms to acquire customers.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Rob Williams, founder of Hawthorn:

We chatted with with Rob, founder of Hawthorn ($50K/month). In our interview, Rob says:

You absolutely can’t try and save on professional services. As the old saying goes, if you think a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur!

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Donovan Mathews, founder of Bryden Apparel:

We chatted with with Donovan, founder of Bryden Apparel ($74K/month). In our interview, Donovan says:

While it’s hard to be perfect in all 3 aspects at the start, a business should strive to remove all personal biases about the viability of the business model, their strengths, and ability to execute and not be overly confident about their revenue forecast.