Private Label Clothing Manufacturer

Private label vs white label vs cut-and-sew

These terms get used interchangeably, but they mean different things for your brand. White label (or blank buying) is taking an existing stock garment and adding your label — fast, but you share that base product with every other buyer. Cut-and-sew is building a garment from scratch to your own patterns. Private label, as we run it, sits where most brands want to be: your own specification and branding on a product engineered for you, without the full tooling cost of ground-up cut-and-sew on day one.

The practical difference is what you can change and what you are stuck with. On a white-label blank the fit is fixed — you cannot move a shoulder seam on a garment somebody else patterned. Private label opens the specification: fabric weight, colour, trims, labelling and packaging are all yours, working from a block we already have graded, which is what keeps the lead time and the minimum where they are. Full cut-and-sew opens the pattern too, and costs a development cycle to do it.

Everything that carries your brand

Trims are where private label is won or lost. They are also where most first orders go wrong, because artwork that looks fine on screen does not always survive being woven at 4 cm across or printed on a satin tape. We make the trims in-house to your artwork and send them with the pre-production sample, so you approve the actual label rather than a rendering of one.

• Woven, printed, and heat-transfer neck labels to your artwork
• Care and content labels with compliant fiber content and country of origin
• Custom hang tags, swing tickets, size stickers, and sew-in flags
• Branded polybags, mailers, boxes, and tissue for a retail unboxing
• Barcoding and FBA-/retail-compliant carton marking for distribution

What to send us, and what we send back

You do not need a finished tech pack to start. A reference garment, a sketch, or even a link to something with the fit you want is enough for a first quote — we build the specification from there and send it back for you to approve. What we need before bulk is narrower than most brands expect, and it is the same list every time.

• Artwork for every trim — neck label, hang tag, any printed or embroidered branding — as vector files
• Your fibre content and care instructions, or a request for us to draft them from the fabric
• Pantone references for fabric colour and for print, since a screen colour is not a dye instruction
• Your size range and, if you have them, the measurements you want the block graded to
• Your destination market, because it decides what has to appear on the care label by law

What a private label programme costs to start

Sampling is the only spend before bulk. A blank sample is $60 and a fully branded one — your labels, tags and packaging on the actual garment — is $85, plus $45 courier. Sample fees are credited back in full against the bulk order of the same style, so an approved sample costs you nothing but the time.

Trims carry their own minimums, and this is the number that surprises people: label and tag suppliers work in thousands, not dozens. We hold that inventory across your programme rather than billing a 50-piece run for a 1,000-label order, which is a large part of why a low-MOQ private label programme is possible here at all. Your unused trims stay yours and are drawn down on the next reorder.

Built for retail and marketplace channels

Whether you sell direct-to-consumer, through wholesale accounts, or on marketplaces, the product ships ready for its channel. For Amazon sellers that means correct FNSKU barcoding and polybag suffocation warnings; for retail it means consistent folding, tagging, and carton labeling so goods flow straight into a distribution center without repackaging.

Making only t-shirts?

This page covers private label across the whole range — hoodies, polos, sweatshirts, joggers and the rest. If t-shirts are the whole brief, the private label t-shirt page goes into what is specific to them: fabric weights, decoration, and how a size run sits inside the minimum.

Consistent quality across every reorder

A private label only works if the tenth production run matches the first. We store your approved patterns, tech packs, fabric specs, and Pantone references, and lock every bulk run against your approved sample. That is what keeps your product recognizably yours as you scale and reorder.