Our Story
Bighorn Threads is the branded-apparel arm of VP Promos — Las Vegas based, serving teams nationwide. Screen printing, embroidery, and company stores for crews, offices, and field teams alike. Construction is where we cut our teeth; it's one vertical we serve, not the whole story.
How we got here
VP Promos opened in Las Vegas doing what most promo shops do — branded pens for real estate offices, logo polos for insurance brokers, tradeshow giveaways for anybody with a booth to fill. We printed for dentists, daycares, gyms, and half the HOAs in Henderson. Good work, steady work, never the same thing twice.
Then the construction accounts started stacking up. A framing crew here, a concrete contractor there, an electrical shop that needed hi-vis for a Strip project. And something got obvious fast: these weren't the same customers as everyone else. They needed gear that survived 115-degree summers and 30-degree night pours. They needed ink that didn't peel after the first wash with a month of drywall dust in it. They needed rush turns when a new hire showed up Monday and OSHA said "PPE first day." And they needed somebody who could tell Class 2 from Class 3 without Googling it.
Most online promo catalogs couldn't do that. Heck, most local shops couldn't either — they'd sell a construction company the same 4.2-ounce soft cotton tee they sold to a yoga studio, and then act surprised when it came back destroyed. We started keeping a different inventory for our construction clients. Then a different workflow. Then a different quoting process that accounted for rush-hire timelines and multi-crew sizing grids.
That trades work taught us how to build a branded program that actually holds up — durable gear, ink that survives the wash, sizing grids for whole teams, rush turns when new hires start Monday. So we built Bighorn Threads: same shop, same team, same presses, that same standard applied to every team we outfit. Construction is one vertical where it shows — hi-vis that meets ANSI, FR-rated layers that meet NFPA 2112, crew tees that don't look like corporate golf shirts — but the same care goes into a field crew, an office staff, or a company store full of polos.
We cover full uniforms for electrical, plumbing/HVAC, data center, and other Las Vegas construction crews. See PPE regulations for our compliance approach.
"The shirt that works for a software company at a lunch-and-learn is not the shirt that works for a concrete crew in July. We stopped pretending it was."
What we believe
These aren't wall posters. They're how we pick inventory, quote jobs, hire staff, and fire the accounts that don't fit. If you've worked with a promo shop that didn't operate this way — yeah, that's why.
We've seen the tees that fall apart after two washes and the hi-vis vests where the print peels off in a week. That junk doesn't leave our production floor. Every garment we offer has been worn, washed, and scuffed up in real Nevada conditions before it earns a spot in our catalog.
Promo is a relationship business. You want to reach a human who knows your account, your artwork, and your rush history — not a ticket queue. Our number rings a real person at a real desk in Las Vegas. Pick up the phone. We'll pick up ours.
Job walks don't wait. Ribbon cuttings don't wait. Neither do new hires showing up Monday. When you give us a date, we treat it like a pour schedule — hit or miss, no in-between. If we can't make it, we'll tell you before you commit.
There's always a website out there a few bucks cheaper. Go use them once — you'll understand why we're still here. Local means pickup, local means proofs in hand, local means we drive the order out to your office if the courier drops the ball.
How we're different
We're not the cheapest option and we never will be. Here's what you get instead.
Meet the founder
Bighorn Threads isn't a call center and it isn't a template site. It's Steve, still running the shop.
I still pick up the phone myself. If your team needs gear, you're talking to me.
Built VP Promos in Las Vegas from a one-desk operation into a working promotional apparel shop. Bighorn Threads is the branded-apparel arm — same shop, same presses, same hands-on experience, building programs for teams of every kind across the country.
Based in Las Vegas
We produce locally in Las Vegas — fast delivery to any Vegas office or job trailer, and a local team you can meet for coffee to walk through artwork. For teams outside the valley, we ship direct nationwide.
We regularly deliver to job sites all over the Vegas metro — from Strip high-rises to Henderson masterplans to out-of-town projects in Pahrump and Boulder City. If your crew's working it, we're probably already shipping there.
Outside the Vegas metro? We ship nationwide too.
Let's work
Send over your logo, your rough quantities, and your deadline. We'll come back with a transparent quote, digital mockups, and a real date we can hit — usually fast.
No voicemail loop, no chatbot. You'll get a human on the first try during business hours.
