Specific Sales Process - how do I do this??

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Hi All,

Here's an interesting scenario for all you logical thinkers of osCom to get your heads around.  I have thought about it, but am not knwledgeable enough to discern the best way to do what I want using osC... here's what I want to be able to do...

I am setting up an osCom site for a friend of mine and he will simply be selling garments with specific images on them.  Each type of garment (5 different types in total) will be available in a range of sizes with one of 6 images on it.  Nothing too difficult I hear you say, but.... which is the best way to present this to a customer?

Do I put my osCom site products as the garment or as the image that is to be printed on the garment? or do I have to get photographs of each of the garments with each of the images on them and use these as products on the site?

If I say put photographs of the garments as the main choice in the catalogue, how then, if a customer can choose 1 of 6 images to have printed on that garment - do I show the images they can choose from?  I appreciate I can have them in a pull down list (as is the case with size selection), but I'm sure you'll all agree that it would be much better if I were able to have the images "shown" rather than presented as a pull down text list.

So, the sales process is...

[list]-> Customer chooses garment from pictures of 5 garments on main page
-> customer chooses which image they want printed on their chosen garment (how/from what?)
-> customer chooses size from pull down list as normal osCom
-> customer proceeds through rest of order as normal osCom[/list]

So, hope I have made my dillema clear - can anyone advise as to the best way to achieve this (if it is possible) using osCommerce.

Many thanks

John