Editing Best practices (section)

==Shirts==
Everyone loves a souvenir shirt!


There are a few ways to do shirts.  One is to gauge how many people will buy shirts and then have that many printed up.  This allows shirts to be sold at the event, but it requires out-of-pocket expense for the committee, and if not all of the shirts sell, you're stuck with them and out that money.


An alternative to this is to use a company like [http://www.shirts101.com Shirts101], which takes pre-orders online and then ships the shirts to the committee for distribution at the event.  If you go this route, you will not have extra shirts to sell at the event, but your committee will not have any out-of-pocket expense (people order from and pay the company directly), and you won't have unsold shirts left over.  If there is demand for more shirts afterward, you may choose to do a second run, where people can have their shirts sent directly to their homes.  Shirts101 will send your committee a commission check if you sell more than the agreed-upon base run.  The contact at Shirts101 is Dan Okelberry, and he's made of WIN!


[http://www.sighco.com SighCo] is another shirt company that has printed [[Convergence]] shirts and is run by some C* veterans. If you're going for the option to sell shirts at the event rather than pre-order, this is probably your best bet. They're familiar with C* and what it wants/needs.


Regardless of which method you use, make sure you consider comfort and size. Women's shirts should go at least to a 3x, and men's should go at least to 4x.