Question about scrubs...the uniform kind?

Question

If you could buy scrubs cheaper, would you?
First of all I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question or not. But any way here it goes:

If you could buy your scrubs cheaper than you do now, would you? I mean they are not name brand scrubs or anything like that. They would be home made, the color that you want and so on and so forth. You could even pick out the material that you wanted your scrub made with. All I want to know is if they were cheaper and was made good, would you buy them?

The reason I am asking this, is because I am thinking very seriously about making scrubs to sell. I was looking in stores a couple of days ago for scrubs for a new job that I am going to get. I was very shocked as to how much they are. I got to figuring it up and realized that I could make them, in most cases a lot cheaper than the stores sell them. Does any one think this would be a good ideal? No I am not advertising either, just wondering if it would work or not, if it is worth trying or not?

Answer 1

Scrubs made in manufacturing plants are not reproducible at home in your house for anywhere the same price or the same quality. They get price breaks on huge amounts of material, and many are made overseas where the labor cost is very low.

You would be losing money because you could not recoup the amount of time you pile into them.

However, there might be a market for custom-sized scrubs. I know lots of people can't find them small enough or big enough or maybe they don't wear the same side top and bottom.

TX Mom

Answer 2

Well, I know that Wal-Mart now sells them, so they are likely quite affordable. If you make good quality ones (they are very comfy), you certainly might be able to sell them.
Scrubs are now sold in a variety of colours and patterns.