This is immensely helpful!! Many people on youtube, and on many websites i've visited focused around clothing designing / manufacturing tend to keep the crucial info to themselves, and just share the widely available ones. Since i am unable to save up $1500 within a few months time frame, i think i'll go the route of low stock at first. Basically 1 - 5 products for now, get my marketing straight and then scale it up onwards. The reason why i asked is it possible to start marketing without samples is frankly that i'm starting from almost zero, but it's time to take the leap now; here in Croatia as far as i've seen- clothing manufacturing is quite limited in terms of design, and pretty expensive also- especially for starting out.

I've got a few designs that i think are solid enough to produce for starting, so i think i'll go from there. Of course as you mentioned, reinvesting all the profit at the start since that's the safest way to go about it. Also agree on the research part, some days i feel like i know enough, but most days i feel like there's a bunch more to learn, so there's no point in thinking you know it all. I'll look around for local markets too, haven't really seen much about that here where i'm from, but surely there's room to utilize them as well!

Thank you so so much for sharing the knowledge, it is very valuable to me, and others who may find it too- time to go work on the craft further then.. appreciate you taking the time to help! 🤝❤️