Hanes 5380 - Youth Beefy-T® Short Sleeve Tee - Deep Royal

The Hanes 5380 is the youth Beefy-T, a 6.1 oz 100% ring-spun cotton tee that scales the heavyweight Beefy-T body down to youth sizing. At 6.1 oz it runs nearly a full ounce heavier than the 5.3 oz value-grade youth tees most shops default to, and that extra mass is the reason it earns a place on a kids' order: the dense knit gives strong ink holdout and high opacity, so a print sits on the surface instead of sinking into a thin face. That makes the 5380 the youth blank a shop reaches for on durable, hard-wash programs such as school spirit wear and youth team kits, camp and church-group tees, youth fundraiser runs, and any job that prints the same heavyweight design across adult Beefy-T and youth sizes and wants one consistent fabric across the whole order.

The youth-specific note on the 5380 before you print is compliance: it carries a CPSIA tracking label, so it meets the children's product safety tracking requirement that school and youth programs ask for. After that, watch the light-colour blend trap that runs across the Beefy-T line. Solid colours are 100% ring-spun cotton, but Ash is 99/1 and Light Steel is 90/10 cotton/polyester, so one artwork can land on a slightly different substrate by colour. For screen printing, the 6.1 oz ring-spun body is a high-opacity platform: the dense knit holds heavy plastisol and bold spot colour with strong ink holdout and minimal show-through, and the ring-spun yarn takes fine halftones cleaner than an open-end blank of the same weight. Scale the art down for the smaller youth print field and use a youth platen. On Ash and Light Steel lay a light poly-blocking underbase and cure at the lowest effective temperature. For DTF, the transfer bonds to the cotton at standard heat-press settings; size the transfer to the youth chest and use a low-bleed film on Light Steel. For DTG, the 100% cotton solids pre-treat and print with strong cotton-ink vibrancy on the smooth ring-spun face, so favour solids over the heathers. For water-based and discharge, the 100% cotton solids discharge cleanly while the polyester in Light Steel limits the result. For embroidery, the 6.1 oz body is a stable base for a left-chest design with a cut-away backing, kept light on the small youth panel so it does not pucker.

• Brand: Hanes
• Style: 5380 (Hanes Youth Beefy-T)
• Fabric: 100% ring-spun cotton; Ash 99% cotton / 1% polyester; Light Steel 90% cotton / 10% polyester
• Weight: 6.1 oz/yd2
• Construction: Heavyweight ring-spun cotton. Set-in ribbed collar. Shoulder-to-shoulder tape. Double-needle stitching throughout sleeves and bottom hem. Tag-free tear-away label. CPSIA tracking-label compliant.
• Fit: Youth classic fit
• Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL
• Colors available: solids plus Ash and Light Steel (check current availability on the product page)
• Case quantity: typically packed 6 dozen (72 units) per case; available by the case or by the piece, confirm packing for your colour and size run
• Care: Machine wash cold. Tumble dry low.

The reorder note specific to this style: confirm whether your colour is a 100% cotton solid, a 99/1 Ash, or a 90/10 Light Steel before a repeat run, because the substrate changes your underbase and cure. Pair the 5380 with the adult Hanes 5180 Beefy-T when a program prints one heavyweight design across youth and adult sizes on a single fabric, and step down to a 5.3 oz youth tee like the Gildan G500B when a kids' job wants the lowest unit cost over maximum print opacity. TheClothingSpace stocks the Hanes 5380 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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