Embroidered Summer Workwear

The summer has arrived, and with the country experiencing its first heatwave of the year with record temperatures and more forecasted soon, now is the time to look at your workwear uniform and if it is fit for purpose in the summer temperature conditions.

Traditionally work staff uniform has looked very similar all year round. Depending on the working environment and the tasks required of the employee, it has consisted of an inner garment that can be worn on the inside, next to the skin, such as a polo shirt or traditional shirt. 

An outer item of clothing, usually a jacket, fleece or softshell been popular choices and a pair of trousers. Each of these items is easily branded with a company logo and provides a simple yet smart and effective staff uniform. 

This is great when we have normal British weather with average temperatures. But what happens when the temperatures rise as they have done recently, and staff are struggling to cope in the extreme heat wearing the staff uniform they have been provided. 

There are several options available that we will discuss below.

Garments made from thinner and lighter fabric. As an example, a standard polo shirt fabric weighs approximately 200 grams per square meter (GSM). Lighter fabrics are available, however, many weighing less than 150 GSM. 

It is also important to consider the type of fabric worn. The most popular fabric has been either a 100% cotton or polyester and cotton mixture. Both fabrics have their merits, and we recommend them in certain conditions, but not in hot weather. 

When the temperature rises, it is often more comfortable to wear a 100% polyester garment with a wicking ability that transports moisture away from the skin, ideal in hot weather.

Lighter-weight outer garments are also available, including lightweight jackets, sweatshirts, fleeces and even hoodies. Moving from trousers to shorts is an obvious change to your work uniform in the summer. 

Sometimes this is not safe or practical depending on the type of work you do but it certainly helps to keep you cooler. Again, a wide variety of shorts are available suited to almost all working conditions.

Whatever changes you make to your workwear uniform types the branding will not affect the wearer comfort in hot weather. Adding an embroidered logo to your summer uniform enhances the look, personalised the garment and qualifies the spend for business tax purposes. 

Just be mindful that embroidering your logo onto a lighter fabric may require changes to the set up of the embroidery and we will always recommend checking the logo on a sample garment if you change to a different fabric type or weight.

If you are looking at new embroidered staff uniform or workwear this summer, please visit our website, www.jklclothing.co.uk to view our ranges and some available options. 

If you cannot find exactly what you are looking for then simply email our sales department sales@jklclothing.co.uk and they will be happy to provide help and advice.

Embroidered Polo Shirts – Personalised to You

 

A personalised embroidered polo shirt is a great way to create a unique item of clothing. Polo shirt material, usually either pique or jersey knit, is a great base on which to embroider.

There are many reasons why people chose an embroidered polo shirt. The most common is as part of a staff or workwear uniform. 

Having staff in a smart, bespoke polo shirt not only gives a good first impression to your customers but it also advertises your business for free. Secondly as part of a team kit. 

Sports clubs regularly order bespoke polo shirts from us to provide team members with clothing that identifies them as belonging to their club. Lastly, individuals, these fall into many different categories from the individual wanting a bespoke item of clothing for themselves to the person organising a trip and wants each person to have their own embroidered polo shirt. 

Whatever the reason a polo shirt is a great garment to personalise with an embroidered logo.

Polo shirts cover all bases. What do we mean by this? A polo shirt can be worn in almost any setting. It is equally at home worn in a factory by someone performing a manual job to an office where a degree of smartness is expected. For this reason, it is our most popular embroidered garment.

So how do you get your own personalised embroidered polo shirt? Well, lets start by saying no matter how you dress it up (excuse the pun), an embroidered garment of any kind is not as straightforward as ordering a plain one. This is because any embroidered garment is unique to the customer. It’s a one off, personalised to your own specific design, size, and colour. 

For these reasons it’s a little more complicated than ordering a plain navy polo shirt in size large. Having said that we believe JKL Clothing have made it as simple as possible. 

To get exactly what you want we need some basic information from you. Starting with the logo or text that needs to be embroidered onto the polo shirt. Once we have this, we can work with you to produce the polo shirt you have in mind. We will need other information such as logo size, colour, position etc to produce a sample for you to approve before we embroider your garments. 

We have automated this as much as possible on our website but sometimes you simply can’t beat dealing with a real person which is why you will have an account manager responsible for your bespoke embroidered polo shirt from start to finish.

So, if you want to get started with your first order for a personalised embroidered polo shirt or wish to refresh your current staff uniform get in touch with JKL Clothing at sales@jklclothing.co.uk and see what bespoke options are possible using a simple polo shirt.