Design, Print, and Wear Your Style
Chicago's Top Choice for Custom T-Shirts & Apparel
Create custom tees for your business or personal collection with us! Whatever your style, event, or needs, our Chicago shop makes it simple to craft high-quality custom t-shirts you'll love wearing! Let our printing expertise make you stand out!
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What makes us the top custom apparel shop is our commitment to ensuring quality printing in every unique tee we produce.
How Does It Work?
Step 1: Choose Your Style and Fit
We aim to give you lots of options to find the perfect apparel items for your needs. We offer an incredible selection of apparel including t-shirts, hoodies, hats, and more. You can choose from various styles, cuts, colors, and fabrics like soft cotton, performance moisture-wicking material, or eco-friendly options. We want you to love the comfort, durability, and look of our quality pieces.
Step 2: Design Your Custom Apparel
Once you’ve chosen your base apparel, it’s time to make it uniquely yours! Use our intuitive design tools to upload your custom logo, artwork, or image, or create something new using our design elements. You can add text, graphics, or patterns, and adjust the color, size, and placement of each element to get your desired look. Want to try different fonts or experiment with color combinations? Our tool makes it easy to get the exact look you envision!
Step 3: Review and Approve Your Order
After finalizing your design mockup, we will provide digital proof for you to carefully review every detail before going into production. This will display your selected products featuring your artwork/graphics, in the specific sizes, cuts, fabrics, and colors you have chosen. Please confirm that the text orientation, image positioning, fonts, and design colors are displaying to your specifications. If ink saturation on material swatches does not meet expectations, we can make adjustments. Let us know if you spot any flaws whatsoever so your custom apparel order prints flawlessly.
Step 4: Printing and Quality Control
After approval, your custom apparel goes into production. We use high-quality printing techniques such as screen printing, DTF, or embroidery, depending on your design and the type of apparel. Our methods ensure vibrant, long-lasting prints that won’t fade or peel. Every piece is thoroughly checked by our team for quality and accuracy, ensuring that your custom items meet our high standards.
Step 5: Pickup or Delivery
Once your custom apparel order is complete, it will be ready for you to pick up or have delivered based on your preference. If you are local to the Chicago area, we welcome you to come to our store and see your creation in person. Finally, the exciting moment comes when you unwrap your custom tees, whether it’s to showcase your unique style, promote your brand, or celebrate a special event.
Enjoy Your Custom Creations!
Our simple, user-friendly process aims to make designing and ordering custom apparel not only easy but enjoyable. We are committed to ensuring you love the finished products we print and ship out. Seeing you and others around Chicago proudly wearing our custom t-shirts and gear out and about is our greatest reward.
Why Choose Embroidery for Your Custom Apparel?
A classic and adaptable way to give personalized clothing a superior, expert touch is through embroidery. Whether you're making personal goods, advertising apparel, or uniforms, embroidery gives exceptional texture, durability, and refinement that elevates designs. Here are some reasons why embroidery can be the ideal option for your unique project:
1. Professional and Polished Appearance
Embroidery delivers an elevated and sophisticated look ideal for corporate apparel, uniforms, or any professional setting. The stitched thread design stands out beautifully, enhancing logos, text, and images with definition and depth. Precision placement and thread color blending result in polished logo embroidery and custom monograms. Whether an intricate pattern or clean company name, embroidered customization lends a luxe, high-end feel for impressive branding power suits, polos, hats, and more.
2. Long-Lasting and Durable
An embroidered design will withstand years of wear and washing. Unlike ink-based printing that can fade, peel, or crack over time, embroidery is colorfast and resistant to damage from sunlight, friction, and repeated laundering. The durable poly or rayon thread is securely stitched directly into the fabric, making embroidered pieces ideal for frequently worn workwear, school uniforms, team jerseys, and outerwear meant for the long haul.
3. Rich, Vibrant Colors
Embroidered designs maintain their bold, vivid appearance wash after wash, ensuring your logo or design stays as striking as day one. With a vast selection of thread colors, we can perfectly capture your brand's palette while creating designs that truly pop. The unique dimensional quality of embroidery adds a luxurious sheen and depth that makes your custom apparel stand out with distinct sophistication.
4. Texture and Dimension
One of the best aspects of embroidery is the ability to produce apparel with rich, luxurious hues that attract attention. Unlike screen printing which can sometimes appear flat, the threads used in embroidery come in a wide spectrum of colors to match any logo or design. This allows us to recreate deep colors and gradients that pop off the garment. The vibrance of embroidered apparel makes your branding more striking and memorable.
5. Versatility for Various Fabrics
Unlike flat printing techniques, embroidery inherently adds texture and physical dimension to apparel. The stitched threading brings thickness and depth, making embroidered designs pop up from the fabric surface. This dimensional aspect makes embroidery especially impactful on hats, polo shirts, outerwear like jackets, and heavyweight items like sweatshirts. The texture of the stitches can be felt, seen, and appreciated up close, taking your custom clothing to the next level.
6. Enhanced Perceived Value
Embroidery is often utilized by brands and organizations to imbue apparel with a heightened sense of value and exclusivity compared to screen printing. Because of the textural, high-quality nature of embroidered designs, they impart merchandise with the feel of a premium, collectible item. Embroidery is frequently employed to create corporate gifting pieces, team athlete apparel, and other high-end brand merchandise for this reason. Whether crafting an exclusive company polo shirt uniform or a branded giveaway cap, embroidery enhances the perceived value.
7. Eco-Friendly and Low-Waste Option
Unlike screen printing which uses inks and heat transfers, embroidery is an eco-friendly embellishment technique that produces minimal waste. It uses only thread to apply designs, without any harsh solvents or chemicals. We take pride in providing this sustainable, low-impact customization option for brands focused on environmental friendliness and stewardship.
8. Ideal for Simple and Bold Designs
Embroidery works exceptionally well for simple logos and text designs with bold, solid shapes. Unlike printing methods that can bleed ink, embroidery shines when recreating clean lines, crisp edges, and well-defined fills. This makes it a fantastic option for clearly and accurately representing branding elements and designs where clarity is essential. For team jerseys, uniforms, and other apparel where legibility matters, embroidery ensures your logo and text stand out cleanly and sharply.
Is Embroidery Right for Your Project?
Ideal for long-term durability and conveying professional polish, embroidered designs impart items with eye-catching dimensions. From squad jerseys to corporate gifts, embroidery lends a refined touch of quality compared to printing alone. Though initially more expensive, embroidery's resilience against fading plus its striking visual pop make this embellishment a sound value investment for countless branding and personalization purposes alike. Give your apparel the lasting gleam that only thread can provide.
Why Choose Direct-to-Film (DTF) Printing for Your Custom Apparel?
Among the newest yet most adaptable decoration innovations for custom clothing, Direct-to-Film (DTF) printing delivers vivid style with no compromise on wearability. DTF printing could be the best option for your personalized clothing for the following reasons:
1. High-Quality, Vibrant Prints
DTF printing creates exceptionally high-quality prints with rich, vibrant colors. It uses a specialized film transfer that allows for precise and colorful recreation of graphics and images onto apparel. DTF prints have excellent image resolution and color depth, bringing digital designs to life on fabric. Customers will notice the top-notch graphical quality that makes branding and artwork pop.
2. Works on a Variety of Fabrics
DTF printing is compatible with a wide range of fabric types and blends. Unlike traditional printing that may cause issues with certain textiles, DTF works excellently on 100% polyester, poly-cotton blends, performance fabrics with spandex or Lycra, nylon, and more. This versatile decorating process handles simple and technical fabrics alike with ease.
3. Durable and Long-Lasting Prints
The thin film layer used in DTF printing protects printed graphics from cracking or fading even after repeated wear and washes. Prints exhibit extremely durable adhesion with the material, resisting damage far longer than sublimation or even screen printing alone. Vibrant designs maintain integrity for the long haul.
4. Soft and Flexible Finish
DTF transfers feature a lightweight, flexible printed film layer that ensures printed apparel remains smooth and natural to wear. Unlike heavy print deposits or materials that may rigidly adhere, DTF smoothly fuses prints and fabric while retaining breathability and softness.
5. Ideal for Detailed and Complex Designs
The DTF transfer process excels at recreating photographic images or complex artwork with precision and keen attention to detail. Printed film curves around fibers rather than sitting atop them, allowing detail and depth without visual disruption on fabric. For apparel that showcases elaborate designs and imagery, DTF brings high-resolution graphical quality to textiles.
6. No Minimum Order Requirement
Whether decorating a few custom pieces or high-volume quantities, DTF printing is accessible with no minimum order requirements. It provides on-demand, individualized decoration well-suited to prototyping, small production runs, or personalization needs. The low commitment needs, digital nature, and extensive capabilities position DTF as a convenient yet powerful apparel printing solution.
7. Fast Turnaround Times
Compared to analog methods like screen printing, DTF enables quick production due to its digital nature. Jobs can move from design files to decorated garments in mere days depending on order size. Whether prototyping new custom gear or embarking on larger branded runs, DTF's expedited process is a perk.
8. Eco-Friendly and Low-Waste
As DTF does not use films with PVC or substantial inks, it creates less physical waste than conventional decoration options. The process also skips steps like pre-treating fabrics or heavy curing procedures that expend additional resources. This positions DTF as an earth-conscious printing method worthy for eco-minded apparel shoppers.
9. Perfect for Full-Color and Gradient Designs
Unlike embroidery constrained to select colors or simple 1-3 color screen prints, DTF unleashes CMYK full-color imagery on fabric. This empowers photorealistic designs, vector graphics, gradients, and beyond that display colors unattainable otherwise. Make an impact with bold, vibrant styles or subdued and photogenic illustrations alike thanks to extensive digital color capabilities.
10. Cost-Effective for Customization
Unlike direct-to-garment printing, DTF provides affordable apparel customization without demanding high volumes to justify setup costs. For smaller batches from 5-100 pieces, DTF empowers creative custom garments and team uniforming at reasonable prices - no inflated small-order fees.
11. Ideal for Heat-Sensitive Materials
Thanks to comparatively cooler applications, DTF enables printing on heat-delicate textiles like nylon or silk without damage during decoration. By sparing materials from intense heat exposure during application, DTF maintains the integrity of technical, exercise-oriented apparel or luxe fabrics.
Is DTF Printing Right for Your Project?
Direct-to-film (DTF) apparel printing checks all the boxes for unrestricted polish and creative liberty. From polyester athleticwear to cotton retail collections, unlock precise graphical quality and intense colors on virtually any material. Resilient wash after wash while maintaining a refined hand feel. Limited only by imagination, DTF empowers ideas into long-lasting reality, making the brilliant tangible across custom projects spanning events, sports, work, gifts, and self-expression.
Why Choose Rush Custom Tees?
Getting quality apparel fast is our expertise – whether to outfit last-minute events, replenish giveaway stocks, or power through a rebrand with new corporate apparel. Rush Custom Tees specializes in quick turnaround of custom printed t-shirts and apparel without sacrificing quality. We accommodate both small and large rush orders and provide a wide selection of styles, fabrics, and decoration options to choose from. Our easy online ordering system makes getting custom gear on short notice fast and convenient. When you need custom apparel quickly done right, choose Rush Custom Tees.
Final Thoughts
Depend on Rush Custom Tees if you need custom-printed clothing quickly. We deliver accurate, flawless designs with no cut corners, despite fast turnaround times. Trust us to outfit your team, promote your brand, or prepare for your event without compromise. Our reliable rush service produces apparel with professional, quality results every time you need them urgently. Choose Rush Custom Tees for custom shirts done quickly and done right.
