Polo Shirts for Uniform Staff How to Get it Right


Less formal than a shirt and easier for staff to take care of (less ironing), embroidered polo shirts are ideal for uniform staff. Embroidered Polos with the company logo are a great way to help promote your business, unify your team and present a professional image to your customers, but how do you make sure you get it right?

Embroidered polo shirts are available in different fabrics, styles and colors. First, you must choose the right fabric for your shirts, one that suits the working environment.

All fibers

Traditionally, the poles were made from 100% cotton, a natural fiber that has been used by humans for thousands of years. Unfortunately, while cotton has its advantages, but it also has drawbacks for their use in the uniform of the staff - not dress well, wrinkles easily and requires more care than synthetic fibers.


Polyester, a synthetic fiber, developed in the early 1940s, a number of attributes that make it ideal for personal uniform: It is strong, durable, dry quickly and is wrinkle-resistant, but in its standard form is not so comfortable the skin such as cotton. Therefore, the polyester is often blended with cotton to create a fabric that combines the best of both fibers: cotton for user comfort and breathability and polyester for strength, durability and ease of maintenance .

Accordingly, the polyester / cotton fabric is currently the most commonly used for clothes of staff poles however, in recent years, technical polyester fibers (such as Coolmax), which were first developed for use in premium sportswear, started They are used for the Polo uniform personnel.

Technical polyester fibers have been specifically designed to wick moisture away from the skin to keep cool and athletes perform at their peak: strong but soft to the touch, quick drying and easy to maintain, they represent the current state of design the fiber art. For general use, polyester / cotton is the right fabric for most team uniforms Polos and a 50/50 mixture of fibers provides the best balance between comfort and wear.

A Weighty issue

The fabric weight is also important and the right thing will result Embroidered Polo which is suitable for the work environment comfortable for the wearer and durable enough to provide real value for money to the business.

Leaving aside the polyester Polos techniques, which are lightweight nature, polyester shirts / cotton Polo tend to start from about 160 to 170gsm (GSM means grams per square meter, now a unit of measurement commonly used in the industry textiles). Although these lightweight Polo Poly / cotton are cheap to buy, they tend to feel fragile and in connection with a polo shirt embroidered, they do not provide enough stable fabric in embroidery. Light polo shirts can be used for gifts promotional budget, but they rarely offer real value of money as a standard element of the employees.

The midterm Poly / cotton shirts, in terms of weight and performance, the fabric is usually somewhere in the region of 180 to 210gsm. With this weight fabric provides a reasonable balance between comfort, durability and price. Therefore, polo this weight range are regularly used for workwear in the manufacturing and industrial sectors.

Heavyweight polo typically use fabric weighing between 220 to 280gsm. Embroidered polo shirts with fabric that weight are not only stronger and more durable than their lighter counterparts, but also provide other improvements in user comfort, quality and image as well. Therefore, Polo heavy liners are often used to transmit the customer or more prestigious work environments or quality oriented team.

A matter of style

Most centers use a pique knit and feature an open two or three buttons (foot) neck, rib knit collar and short sleeves, but there are additional options, such as Jersey or Interlock knit rib collars or or elastic jacquard knit cuffs, an extended rear panel (to keep warm) and side openings (for ease of movement). Although this list is not exhaustive, the final choice will depend on labor considerations, the necessary appearance and of course the available budget.

Colors from A to Z

To promote your company or brand, it makes sense to choose a color fabric "tone" with the company logo and thankfully these days, the poles are available off-the-shelf in a wide range of green colors for Apple Zinc gray.

If the colors in your logo are particularly unusual and there is a match (or free) polo color off-the-shelf available, then there are still a few options to consider:

The first is to select a solid color Polo, such as black, navy blue or white - select a color in your clothing color company logo will be fine as embroidery.
Bank's manufacturers "off-the-shelf clothing tend to change their ranges over time and may choose to file a color if it is considered popular. The second option, if you have a strong enough demand, is to have a polo shirt made for your staff uniform color. Manufacturing a custom embroidery Polo, opens a range of possibilities with regard to color matching your main corporate colors, brand embroidery, finishes and details, but this option is generally viable 300- 500 pieces for a single color fabric or 1,000 pieces to more complex designs.

Intelligent son

We talked about the basis of his embroidered shirt and how to choose the right clothes, but the own embroidery and why we should use embroidery rather than printing?

Although embroidery began as a craft, commercial embroidery now uses complex machines to sew the design directly into the panel portion of clothing or clothing. An embroidered logo can contain thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of colored wire mesh to reproduce the company logo.

Today, embroidery is done by scanning project - the scanning process converts your bitmap logo a.jpg or set of computer instructions that indicate where the embroidery machine sewing, sewing and colors wire to use.

Embroidering a Polo shirt does require some extra consideration.

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