Bradford, established 2013
Your clothing brand, made properly
Your Brand Partner
We take founders from first sample to first sale. Premium garments, your own woven neck labels, decorated, finished and bagged ready to sell.
From 25 garments. Up to four weeks from artwork approval. Run by Baljit Rai, who has thirty years in Yorkshire textiles behind him.
Only need 25? That's fine.
You don't need to order 100 t-shirts or 500 hoodies. Mixed styles count together, so a first drop could be:
10 t-shirts + 10 hoodies + 5 sweatshirts = 25 garments
That's enough for your own woven labels, full relabelling and finishing. Minimum order 25 garments, mixed styles counted together.
One thing to know.
Woven labels are made to order with a minimum of 100 per design. That is the label maker's minimum, not ours. On a first run of 25 you pay for 100 and we hold the rest at no cost for your next order.
Most new brands fail on the neck label
A founder spends months on their logo. Picks the right garment. Gets the print exactly how they wanted it.
Then a customer tries it on and finds someone else's brand name in the collar.
That is the difference between a printed blank and a product. It is also the difference between a brand people buy once and one they come back to.
Everything handled in one place
Garment sourcing
Premium blanks from Stanley/Stella, Native Spirit and AS Colour. Organic and recycled cotton, retail weights, held in stock.
Decoration
Screen print, DTF and embroidery. Spot colour with a base white included as standard, every job specified and checked to our standard.
Your own label
Supplier label removed, your woven label stitched in. Printed care labels and swing tickets.
Finishing
Bagged, tagged and packed, ready to go straight to your customers or your stockists.
One supplier. One invoice. One point of contact.
Where most first drops go wrong
There are two routes open to a new brand, and neither is built for a first drop.
Overseas cut and sew. Genuine manufacturing, but minimums start at 100 per style per colour and the timeline runs to three or four months once sampling and shipping are counted. You commit real money before you know what sells.
Buying blanks. Quick and cheap, but you have bought a garment, not a product. The supplier name is still in the neck, and finishing it properly is a job you now have to arrange yourself.
We are the bit in between.
That middle route is called white label, or own label, and it is not the same thing as private label. The difference decides your minimum, your lead time and your risk: white label vs private label, explained.
| Overseas cut and sew | Blank suppliers | BR Apparel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum order | 100+ per style, per colour | Off the shelf | From 25 garments |
| Lead time | Three to four months | Stock, then you arrange finishing | Up to four weeks from artwork approval |
| Own woven label | At their minimums | Not included | Yours, from 25 garments |
| Fabric minimums | Hundreds of metres | None | None |
| Reorder | Start again | Reorder blanks, finish again | From stock. Up to four weeks from artwork approval |
| Can you visit | No | No | Yes, Bradford |
Own label starts at 25 garments. The labels themselves are made to order in runs of 100 per design, which is the label maker’s minimum, not ours.
Get to market, find out what sells, then scale. That is a far cheaper way to learn than committing to 500 units of something nobody wants.
We are the start, not the ceiling
Most brands should begin on stock garments. Low minimums, short lead times, and you find out what sells before you commit real money to anything.
There comes a point where that stops being enough: a weight nobody makes, a fit that does not exist, a construction detail that is the idea. That is when bespoke cut and sew starts to make sense.
When your volumes justify it, we will tell you honestly.
Most suppliers want you to outgrow them quietly and go elsewhere. We would rather be the one you call.
Launch Studio questions
- Launch Studio is how BR Apparel takes a new clothing brand from first sample to first sale. Premium garments, your own woven neck labels, decoration, relabelling and finishing, bagged ready to sell. From 25 garments, in up to four weeks from artwork approval, from the Bradford unit.
- No. We supply premium blanks from Stanley/Stella, Native Spirit and AS Colour, decorate them, take the supplier label out of the neck and stitch yours in. That is own label, also called white label. Cut and sew to your own pattern is private label, and it is a different job with different minimums. When your volumes justify it, we will tell you honestly.
- Print on demand ships a decorated blank with the supplier label still in the neck, one garment at a time. We start at 25, put your woven label in, add care labels and swing tickets, and bag each piece ready to sell. Reorders come from the same stock, so the second run matches the first.
- Yes. We sample from a single garment so you can hold the real thing before you commit. Samples are chargeable and are not credited against a later order. Relabelling and finishing, with your own woven label, start at 25 garments.
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Made in Bradford since 2013
One unit in Bradford, run by the person you will be dealing with. Tajima embroidery and DTF at the unit. Not a middleman, and not a print-on-demand site: a supplier and decorator a new brand can actually stand behind.
Come and see it. Handling the garments and the labels tells you more than any spec sheet, and clients have travelled a long way to do exactly that.
Ready to start?
Send the garments, the quantities and your artwork, or just the idea. We will tell you honestly what it takes.