LFGSS Official T-Shirts

hi hi,
i am an experimental pattern cutter for Vivienne Westwood - Gold Label, not so keen on the graphics for the competition, but if you are interested in a more interesting shape, cut, fit, or detail etc for the T-Shirt itself, i'm totally up for helping. sorry i only saw this thread now.
but, if your going into production i guess there's still time...

http://www.londonfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9411&d=1241085961

What are your opinions on the production feability of something like my Nervex lugs design?
Could the blue parts be separate, and sewn on, at resonable cost? Could the pattern be printed before construction and everything lined up perfectly?

How would you do it, and what unit cost would that entail?

to print is no problem at all it just means you have a bigger screen as you're placing more fabric (slightly more cost). you would also need to print the sleeves before cutting the fabric. This then becomes a question to the production team, do you print first, or cut the fabric .
I imagine that the initial idea may have been to source constructed garments and then print. But if you're looking to build your own garments then your whole pricing structure changes. To sew the lugs onto the sleeves, neckline, and hem is not difficult but every construction intervention costs. Its a matter of pricepoint/volume and the relationship you have with the factory (i dont do money at work so i'm not sure exactly costing of such things, but can help negotiate).
It is nice to have print going into the seams, its cleaner. But if you printed to lugs over the seams it might feel a bit more raw, which can be good. perhaps a metalic resin type print that sits up off the fabric, crome?

this lug idea is nice but poses a lot of technical problems. you have two choices in this thread, like samawry points out:

1. buy cheap bulk ready-made t-shirts (albeit nice ones like the bamboo numbers david sourced before) at your print source and print but this design wouldn't work as you can't print too near seams.

2. have the t-shirt panels cut and printed (or the lugs as fabric panels etc) before sewing it up. this one requires a production source, and throws up huge cost implications along with the lead time being way longer than just a simple print job and the fact that we'd have an issue of minimums (i.e the balance between the number of units and the price per unit = the more the cheaper but you'd be looking at 3000 to keep the price reasonable).

2 is the more exciting, the more creative etc, but for this fund raiser i think its the wrong route. my two cents amigos.