[Shaun @ Tru6]

I've been shipping our fall orders for the last 3 weeks, boys tops and bottoms, mainly to high end, small Main Street stores around the country.

This was a small sales season for me, really to be expected given the economy in January - April when all buying was done. And in a down economy, Boys is the first to be dropped and the last to be picked up again. Girls is where the real money is.

But I've been seeing some really positive signs talking with my customers:

One of my largest customers, Chasing Fireflies, a national print catalogue and online retailer shipped their fall catalog 3 weeks ago. 2 weeks after ship, they placed a re-order for the same quantity of one of my Urban Dino T's.

I stagger ship to both get products into stores as early as possible and to keep fresh goods coming into a store. Talking with several of my stores in Chicago and the East Coast, they are placing reorders for our cords (nicest in the country) and some T's. I have actually sold out of some of our styles. This is all low volume, some hand-made, stuff catering to upper-middle and upper class households.


Anyone else have some signs that people are spending and the economy is coming back?