Last summer, Zoe—owner of a sustainable women’s clothing shop—ordered 300 Printing paper bags with her brand’s leaf logo. When they arrived, the logo was smudged, the green ink clashed with her earth-toned dresses, and the paper was so thin it tore when holding a linen blouse. “I only looked at a digital proof,” she said….
Sofia, who runs a linen dress shop, wasted $450 on 500 custom bags last year. She picked thin white paper and faint gray ink—bags tore easily, and the logo blended into the paper. “I skipped small checks to save time,” she said. “Now I know those checks prevent waste.” Ordering custom shopping bags for clothing…
Luna, who runs a small knitwear shop in Austin, spent a month apologizing to customers. She’d ordered 300 small shop bags for her cashmere sweaters—they fit, but just barely. When customers tucked the sweaters in, the bags stretched at the seams, and the wool got squished into lumpy folds. “I thought ‘just big enough’ was…
Last week, a boutique owner messaged me panicking: She’d ordered 500 paper bags for her silk dresses, only to find the rough paper was snagging the fabric. “I just picked ‘white paper’—I didn’t know there was a difference,” she said. If you’ve ever grabbed generic paper bags for your clothing line, you get it. The…
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