Our Mascot Count

We decided to do a last minute revamp of the website to include school mascots. Believe it or not, this is one of the main reasons why the site is not up yet. We understand that having school mascots in our designs is vital to creating prettier clothing. Prettier clothing = happier customers. Not only will the mascot artwork allow us to compete with the big players in the high school market, but it will make our platform more flexible for the whole customization process.

Including school mascots has been a pain in the you know what. Out of the 1,766 unique high school mascots in the United States, we have a mascot image for 1,131 of them . Since users will have the ability to change their school mascot if they don't like the default one, certain mascot categories will have more than one mascot image that they can use. For example, if a particular high school's mascot is "Eagles", we give the user several eagle images to choose from like:

In total, our users will have 1,231 unique images to choose from. We store these unique images in approximately 400 folders on our server.

Our users will have the ability to choose from 22 color schemes for each mascot. Basically, just with our mascots (not including any clothing or text), we have the ability to give users over 20,000 unique mascot options.

Learning How to Heat Press

Jenna mastering the art of heat pressing. Just one of a few methods that we will use to create custom orders.

Brainstorming before Coding

We drew this up in the office to help us write some of the logic in our code. If you can decipher it, you'd see that we're on the something awesome.

American Apparel V-neck Tee

American Apparel model on the left. High School Clothing model wearing the same v-neck t-shirt on the right.

This is Why Our Domain is Super Awesome

If you google “high school clothing” we’re #2 in the rankings with just our placeholder page…Crazy…We’re doing our best to get the site up ASAP. 

Seeing What's Out There

Here are photos from our two recent outings:

Went to a Coloft.com event to check out what some of the other local startups are working on. Five companies pitched their technologies to a group of tech geeks and some investors. Can't wait until it is our turn to showoff our product.

Scoped out the NBM Show in Long Beach last week to check out the latest and greatest in clothing manufacturing.

Look at the Concentration in The Office!

10 ways to have fun this summer (without getting into trouble)!

While it always seems like it takes forever for Summer to come along, when it finally does,  sometimes we feel like we have absolutely NOTHING to do. We have felt your pain.  We want to help you have fun and stay out of trouble.  Here are some things we think that are totally harmless and completely fun!

1.  Have SEVERAL movie marathons with your friends! We suggest the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and the National Lampoon movies.  They are a great way to be with your friends, have a good laugh, and pig out on junk food!
2.  Pick up a new sport! Nothing is more fun than putting yourself out there and accomplishing something you have never done.  Grab a few of your friends and share some laughs as you succeed (or fail) at a new sport.  We suggest surfing, badminton, and/or skateboarding. 
3.  Visit a family member or friend in a different city! It is always fun to get out of where you are.  Spice up your summer by taking a few days to explore somewhere new in a very inexpensive way.  We suggest visiting friends that are in college.  They can show you around and take you out!
4.  Learn to cook! I know cooking can seem tedious and boring, but start with something simple and work your way into something more complex.  It is a great feeling being able to make something and watch others enjoy it.  We suggest starting out making something like pasta or baking something like cookies.
5. Volunteer! I know, I know, doing something for others on MY summer break... doesn't sound fun. We beg to differ!  Taking a few hours out of ONE of your many summer days can be helpful for yourself and others.  It can give yourself a morale boost, and it can greatly influence someone's life and/or organization.
6. Read! Oh no.. another boring suggestion...NOT SO FAST! Jump on the bandwagon of popular books right now.  Even if you don't think it is a type of book you would like, at least you can talk about it with others and say that you've tried.  We suggest 50 Shades of Grey, Hunger Games, or Gone Girl.
7. Seek out new music! Search on iTunes or the internet for music that is similar to yours and completely different.  Even ask your friends for suggestions.  Updating your music library will make you feel accomplished and it will broaden your musical/creative knowledge.
8.  Start a blog! Even if you are a bad writer or you feel like you have nothing to say that people will want to read, writing can be therapeutic and creative. Make it like your personal journal.
9. Redecorate/rearrange your room! Your room is your sanctuary.  Literally changing your environment can make you feel like a new person!  Summer boredom can easily be remedied simply by moving around some furniture in a few different ways or going to the dollar store and adding a few new touches.  
10.  Make a bucket list! Write your own list of things you hope to accomplish this summer or this next year.  Crossing off something new every so often makes you feel accomplished and give you lots of things to look forward to!

Thanks for reading! Have a great summer!

Interns go to a Galaxy game!

On Thursday, June 14, three of our High School Clothing interns and Jon went to the Hermosa Beach Young Entrepreneurs networking event held at Chelsea Bar in Hermosa. They spent a few hours networking, making friends, and entering to win tickets to an LA Galaxy game.  Luckily, they won! So, on Sunday, June 17, the three interns that attended the event on Thursday went to the Galaxy game! They had a great time and represented High School Clothing well by cheering on LA's finest.  To learn more about the Hermosa Beach Young Entrepreneurs, visit their website: hbyoungprofessionals.com

New Leaders Council

Our interns attended a fundraiser for the New Leaders Council in Los Angeles last night.
The New Leaders Council works to support the political entrepreneurs of the future. The key theme of the fundraiser was Building Progressive Power and High School Clothing attended in order to further our knowledge about progressive causes in education, with hope to ultimately donate to these causes in the future with our "do good" page.

To find out more, visit newleaderscouncil.org.

HighSchoolClothing.com: An introduction

Hey there! We are High School Clothing (highschoolclothing.com), an online clothing company that is dedicated to bringing you custom clothing for high schools, whether you are a teacher, student, staff member, parent, coach, or alumni. We want to be your site for custom t-shirts, sweatshirts, and more!  We are creating a site that makes it easy for you to get great quality custom clothing in just three simple steps. 

Even though we are just getting started, we have BIG dreams.  Our company is a branch of our larger company called Booster Clothing, and we hope that High School Clothing will be our first success! We eventually want to be THE online source for high school gear.  Started by two former engineers, Tim Fellin and Jon Navarro branched away from their corporate jobs to create something of their own.  They are creative, passionate guys running with their ideas and hoping to form a successful clothing site, and also to help out the community surrounding education.  

Not only do we want to bring you great custom clothing, we also want to give back to your community.  We will be creating a "Do Good" page on our website where we can help your high school community with a cause they support! We can make t-shirts or sweatshirts directed towards your cause and we want to make what's important to you important to us.

We could really use all of the support we can get so tell your friends, follow our blog, find us on Facebook, and keep and eye out for our launch date and super awesome deals!


Jenna Bowman
Marketing Intern at High School Clothing
highschoolclothing@gmail.com