Custom sportswear suppliers: custom supply, clearly briefed

This page is the supplier-side custom page for the yoga and seamless training range. It covers custom sports clothing for training use. It does not cover thermal, sweat-proof or therapy custom ranges, and it does not claim a custom range that has no anchor in the official category.

What custom means in a supply brief

Custom can mean a logo on an existing style, a colour change, a size-run change, or a fully developed style from a tech pack. Those four kinds of custom need different sampling plans, so the brief must say which kind is wanted for each garment line. A brief that says only the word custom will be answered with questions about all four kinds at once.

Send the artwork, colour references and size information with the first brief where possible. Artwork that arrives after a sample has started will either delay sampling or produce a sample that cannot be used for a logo decision.

Supplier confirmation before sampling

Ask the supplier to confirm, for each line, whether the custom request can be sampled on an existing style or needs new development, and what artwork or reference material is still missing. That confirmation turns a custom enquiry into a sampling plan, and it prevents a buyer from approving a plain sample and then discovering the custom detail cannot be added in the same way.

Custom supply also needs a labelling note: what labels, tags and packaging the buyer expects, and whether any of them need approval before production. Put labelling in the first brief, not in a message sent after sampling.

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