Rumors and more rumors as to what is going on
The tactical market is absolutely flooded with tactical pants and tactical clothing. I just did some research online for concealed carry vests and found a few smaller companies making vests, but I also noticed they are making pants. I’ve heard enough bitching and moaning from our customers about the fact that they didn’t want to pay $50 for a pair of pants, and now I’m seeing a cluster of small companies making $80 + pants. As a dealer, I have serious doubts about the profitability of clothing priced that high even if you create a cult following. The reality is this, if you don’t have easy access to a manufacturing facility in China, India, or Indonesia, you really are going to have a hard time making money.
Now that cotton prices have shot up so much due to the inability to grow it fast enough, prices have gone up for even the big companies. With Eotac tactical pants swimming in rumorville, the easiest transition for customers is to Woolrich Elite apparel although Tru-Spec seems to have gotten a good nod from people we have been dealing with. One of the good things about selling tactical footwear is that Original Swat boots owns their own boot factory and they don’t have the scheduling issues that many clothing companies have. If they are sold out of something, they order it and produce it at their own scheduling time line. One thing that seemed to really due in Eotac was they never produced the right products at the right time and it was almost like the company never got its best stuff on the market.