Custom Clothing - Garment Embroidery

Less formal than a shirt and easier to care for, polo shirts are the ideal staff uniform for any workforce. Not only is garment embroidery a great way to promote your business, it is a fantastic way to present a professional image of your company to both current and potential clients. However, how do you ensure that you get it right for your company? Polo shirts are available in a variety of fabrics, colours and styles, and it is important that you firstly choose the right fabric for your company's polo shirts. You need to choose one that suits your working environment, suitable for all members of staff.

It's all about the Fibre

Traditionally, polo shirts have been manufactured from 100% cotton. Kind to the skin, cotton also absorbs moisture, ideal for those who live in hot climates as it keeps the wearer cool. Unfortunately, whilst cotton has a variety of advantages, it also has a number of drawbacks when it comes to its use in staff uniform. Cotton doesn't wear well and can wrinkle easily, and also requires more care than uniform that is manufactured from synthetic fibres. Polo shirts made from synthetic fibres on the other hand, such as polyester/cotton, are the perfect fabric for the vast majority of staff uniforms. The 50/50 mixture of the fibres provides the wearer with the perfect balance of comfort and wear.

A wide variety of colours available

In order to best promote your company or brand it is recommended that you choose a fabric colour that is linked to your company logo. In the 21st Century, polo shirts are available in a wide variety of colours so this shouldn't be too hard. If your company logo is unusual and there isn't a matching colour for your polo shirts then you have two options; the first is to choose a plain colour polo shirt such as white, black or navy and look into garment embroidery and have your logo put on the breast because it will best stand out this way - the other option is if you have a sufficiently large requirement, have you polo shirts for your staff uniform manufactured in a bespoke colour.

Garment Embroidery

As previously mentioned, garment embroidery is a great way to promote your business, but why is garment embroidery better than printing? Giving a unique appearance, garment embroidery conveys a sense of quality and durability. Once upon a time embroidery was a handicraft, but thanks to technological advances, garment embroidery now utilises complex machines that are able to stitch your design directly onto your garments. Typically, an embroidered logo can contain thousands of stitches in order to replicate your company logo. Such machines have the ability to convert your logo from a .JPG or Bitmap image using computer instructions to tell the machine where to stitch your logo, how many stitches are needed and what colour threads need to be used.

Within Budget

A good quality embroidered garment doesn't have to cost the earth. With the right choice of supplier and with the right choice of garment, you can have the best looking staff uniforms for your company within your budget.