Personalisation and logo branding recommendations
If you’ve ordered garment declaration before, you're probably familiar with some of this, but we thought it might be helpful just to run through our recommendations for customising different types of garments.
T- Shirts
Best with Print.
We recommend when branding a t-shirt to use print, whether the t-shirt material is pure cotton, poly-cotton or manmade fibres.
Branding can be all over, and you can have front and back, big or small prints.
Polos
Choose: Embroidery/Print/Tags.
With polos, you've got a choice of embroidery, print or tags, but very often, polos are embroidered in the chest area. Sometimes we also add little bits on the sleeves.
It's also possible to do print and embroidery across the back of the garment, so you can have you’re messaging across the shoulder area.
Fleece
Best with Embroidery.
Most of the time, fleeces have embroidery logos on the chest; that’s because of the fluffiness of the fleece which tends to make it unsuitable for print.
We can embroider these front and back large and small, be aware that the bigger you go, the more stitches and more time, so it will cost more to go large with embroidery.
SoftShell
Best with Print.
Soft shell jackets quite often come with a coating, and we will need to be conscious of this when we're pressing the printed area. We also do not want to get any show through if there’s any meshing underneath. You can have your print high on the sleeves and front and back.
Waterproof Jacket
Best with Print.
With waterproof jackets, we definitely do not use embroidery because we don't want to puncture the material so that it allows any rain to go through onto the person's clothing. Again, we would use print with these; you can go as big as you want really on the back but watch out for pockets, oh and we can do sleeves.
Shirts
Best with Embroidery or Tags.
With shirts, the best-looking results are with embroidery. We're obviously doing chest areas but also sleeves, and sometimes we do a little call out here and there, using woven ribbon tags with printed logos on them. Because the shirts have button cuffs, we can open these up and add branding lower down on the sleeve than we would on most other garments.
Hoodie / Sweatshirts
Choose: Embroidery/Print/Tags.
Hoodies and sweatshirts, it’s really about how much you would like to go for it! Print can be large across the chest or the back, and depending on how thick the material is, we have embroidery as an option also.
Knitwear
Best with Embroidery.
Knitwear looks premium quality with embroidery, and we’re getting some really high-quality effects with this. One idea is we can take your logo and take an element of it or maybe the first letters of monogram or your icon/emblem within your logo; with this we can create brand identity by doing something smaller using an identifiable piece of your logo, this looks great on knitwear and is the kind of thing you will see on the high street when fashion brands add embroidered motifs.
Body Warmers
Choose: Embroidery/Print.
Bodywarmers / gilets, whether they're the insulated type, we would take a view on the type of product you've got, where it would fit in relation to how the stitching is done for the insulation. We could embroider as it looks good, but if you're going to be outside, we don't want the moisture travelling through, so we might consider doing it in print.
Insulated Coats
Choose: Embroidery/Print.
And the same rules apply with coats, if the jacket or coat has a waterproof coating you’d want to go for print. It does look quite lovely with the puffiness to have it embroidered as well, so we'd need to have a chat and show you some examples for us to decide what’s best.
Blazers
Best with Embroidery, Badges or Tags.
For Blazers, we tend to do mostly little, really tiny embellishments. A little bit of stitching for colour matching to your brand, or you might consider a badge or just some tiny tags which hint towards your corporate identity.
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