School Uniform Supplier for International & Swedish Schools in Thailand

Yes — international and community schools are a core client type for us. Whether it is a Svenska Skolan program, a Scandinavian community school, or a larger international school, we run it as an annual uniform program: locked specs and crest, full size runs, and delivery timed to your term calendar.

We lock your design once — fabric, colours, crest placement, and PE kit — then produce to a size run graded across your age ranges, with needle-detection screening for children's garments. Production is scheduled backward from term start, and we hold buffer stock so pupils joining mid-year are never left waiting.

Thailand charges apparel duty plus 7% VAT; preferential APTA rates exist for Bangladeshi-origin goods but are claimed against an APTA certificate we are not registered to issue, so budget the standard rate. Duty and VAT are settled at import by the school or its agent; our price includes freight to the school door but not clearance, so we are not a DDP supplier. We quote the expected duty and VAT alongside the unit price rather than burying them inside it, so the budget holds. The Chattogram–Bangkok sea lane is short, around 7–12 days.

Confirm the specification by early April and place the bulk order by the end of April. Working backward: 7–10 days to a first sample, a round of comments and a revised sample, then 12–15 days of production once the sample is approved, then 7–12 days on the water to Laem Chabang plus clearance and inland delivery. That is roughly ten weeks of real time, and the first year always takes longer than the ones after it because the crest, the colours and the size run are all being settled for the first time. Schools that come to us in June for an August start can usually still be served, but by air freight and at a cost nobody enjoys.

By grading to measurements rather than to a label. An international school in Bangkok has Scandinavian, Thai, British and Japanese children in the same year group, and a single national size chart will fit none of them well — a "size 10" is a different garment in three of those systems. We grade the block across your actual age range and issue a size chart in centimetres with a fitting set of samples the school can try on real pupils before bulk. The chart then stays locked across reorders, which is what stops a Year 7 shirt fitting differently from the one bought two years earlier.

Breathability and colourfastness matter more here than weight. We favour a cotton-rich pique for polos — cotton-dominant for comfort and moisture handling, with enough polyester to hold shape and resist creasing through a humid day — and lighter jersey for PE kit. The specific tropical failure mode to design against is not wear, it is fade: strong sun and frequent washing pull colour out of house colours and crest thread faster than most suppliers plan for. We specify reactive-dyed fabric and colourfast embroidery thread and check shade against your locked reference on every reorder, so the Year 9 shirts still match the Year 7 ones.