Comfort Colors C9018 - Youth Midweight RS T-Shirt - Ice Blue

The Comfort Colors C9018 is the youth garment-dyed tee, a 5.4 oz 100% ring-spun US cotton midweight blank that carries the same soft-washed, pigment-dyed hand the Comfort Colors line is bought for, cut to youth sizing. It is the blank a shop reaches for when a kids' job wants the broken-in vintage feel and lived-in colour of a garment-dyed tee rather than the flat finish of a value cotton tee, which makes it the default for boutique kids' lines, family and matching adult-and-youth merch, camp and craft-market youth tees, and any program that runs the heavyweight adult Comfort Colors alongside a youth size in the same dye family.

Decorating a garment-dyed tee is its own discipline, because the colour lives in the cotton from a pigment dye rather than sitting on a white base, and that changes both the look and the prep. The dye-lot note is the one to plan for first: pigment garment dyeing produces a soft, slightly uneven shade that varies run to run, so a reorder will not rematch an earlier lot exactly. Order the full youth size run for one program together rather than topping up later. For DTG, the soft-washed ring-spun surface pre-treats and prints well, but a pigment-dyed ground takes pre-treat differently from a virgin-white tee, so dial pre-treat per dye colour and favour the lighter grounds for the brightest result. For screen printing, the preshrunk ring-spun knit sits flat and holds detail; deep pigment colours can shift slightly under a hot platen, so cure at the lowest effective temperature and keep the art scaled down for the smaller youth print field on a youth platen. For water-based and discharge, garment-dyed 100% cotton is where these inks shine, giving a soft tonal vintage print into the dyed ground, though the result varies by colour so pre-test the lot. For DTF, the transfer carries its own opacity and bonds at a controlled press temperature, the most consistent single method across every dye colour. For embroidery, the 5.4 oz midweight body takes a left-chest design with a cut-away backing kept light on the small youth panel.

• Brand: Comfort Colors
• Style: C9018 (Comfort Colors Garment-Dyed Youth Midweight Ring-Spun T-Shirt, manufacturer style 9018)
• Fabric: 100% ring-spun US cotton, pigment garment-dyed and soft-washed
• Weight: 5.4 oz/yd2
• Construction: Midweight ring-spun jersey, pigment garment-dyed and preshrunk. Ribbed collar with double-needle topstitched neckline. Taped shoulder-to-shoulder. Set-in sleeves. Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems.
• Fit: Youth relaxed fit
• Sizes: XXS, XS, S, M, L, XL
• Colors available: 50+ garment-dyed colours (check current availability on the product page)
• Ordering: available by the piece or by the case; confirm current packing per case for your colour and size before a large order
• Care: Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Wash separately first time.

The reorder note specific to this style: because the colour comes from a pigment garment dye, shade varies between dye lots and a repeat run will not rematch an earlier order exactly, so place the full youth program at once and treat deep colours as crock-prone on the first wash, which is the intended vintage character rather than a fault. Pair the C9018 with the adult Comfort Colors C1717 when a program runs matching adult and youth garment-dyed tees in one dye family, and step down to a value youth tee like the Gildan G500B when a kids' job wants the lowest unit cost over the garment-dyed hand. TheClothingSpace stocks the C9018 at wholesale pricing with bulk discounts that increase as case and unit quantities rise, among the lowest prices online for this style, with fast US shipping on stocked colours.

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