About Skulls Tees.
Small Company. Serious About the Details.
Skulls Tees & Clothing Company helps businesses, teams, schools, churches, community organizations and dive operations turn ideas and established brands into apparel built for the real world.
We believe custom apparel should be easier to organize, easier to approve and worth wearing when the boxes finally arrive.
Built From the Other Side of the Counter.
Founder Keith Derington spent the first ten years of his working career in clothing retail. That meant learning apparel from the customer’s side: fit, feel, presentation, price, what catches someone’s attention and what actually earns space on a sales floor.
That experience still shapes how Skulls Tees approaches a project. A shirt is not successful simply because the logo printed correctly. The garment, artwork, placement and purpose all have to work together, and the finished piece has to be something people actually want to wear.
Apparel Is About People, Too.
Years of volunteering and community involvement, including years as a Cub Scout leader, provided a different kind of education: organizing people, working with families and volunteers, managing deadlines, accommodating different ages and sizes, and adapting when plans change.
Group apparel sits at the intersection of people and product. There are budgets, deadlines, sizes, organizers, staff, volunteers and the inevitable last-minute change. We build our process around helping the person responsible for keeping all of that moving.
A Special Connection to the Dive Industry.
Dive is one of the places where personal experience becomes industry expertise. Keith is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and DAN Emergency First Response Instructor, with firsthand experience around training, dive travel, boats, shops and resort operations.
That perspective helps us understand why a dive shop retail tee, a staff performance shirt, an instructor program and a destination trip shirt are four different jobs. Dive is a Skulls Tees specialty, backed by participation in the community rather than a market selected from a list.
What All of That Changes.
Experience only matters if it changes the way the work gets done.
Think About the Wearer.
Fit, fabric, function, presentation and whether the finished apparel deserves a place in someone’s regular rotation.
Think About the Organizer.
Sizes, quantities, deadlines, approvals, changes and reorders should be organized around the person responsible for the project.
Think About Production.
Artwork, proportions, placement, garment color and decoration method are reviewed with the finished product in mind.
How We Work.
Personal service without the runaround.
Direct.
You work directly with us. No bouncing between departments or wondering who actually understands your project.
Practical.
We make decisions around how the apparel will actually be used, not around making you navigate a giant catalog.
Detail-Focused.
The little things matter before production begins, because they become very visible after production ends.
The Company Behind the Brand.
Skulls Tees & Clothing Company is operated by Twisted Palms Ventures, Inc. We are a Houston-area small business working with customers locally and beyond.
Independently operated.
Hands-on service from concept through production.
Built around relationships.
We want to be the apparel partner you call for the next project, not just the company that printed the last one.
Local Where It Makes Sense.
Whenever practical, we choose local and regional partners. We also look for practical ways to reduce unnecessary packaging, reuse materials and limit waste as we grow.
Our connection to the dive community gives that responsibility extra meaning. The oceans, reefs and waterways our customers work and play around are worth protecting.
Let’s Make Something Worth Wearing.
Finished artwork, an established brand or an idea that still needs some work. Start with the people, the purpose and the deadline. We’ll help with the apparel.
