Custom Clothing Printing in Aylesbury: Kit for a Commuter Town
By The Velocity Wear Team
Velocity Wear supplies branded clothing to Aylesbury businesses online, with tracked delivery to the address you give rather than a shop counter. For a town where a large share of the workforce commutes and many teams are part-remote, the hard part is not choosing garments. It is getting sizes right for people you will not see before the order goes in. Minimum order is 20 pieces per order with sizes mixed freely, which helps more than it sounds.
The Team Is Rarely All in One Room
Plenty of Aylesbury businesses are small professional, financial and technical firms whose staff split their week between home, the office and client sites. Nobody is going to run a fitting session. That single fact reshapes the whole purchase: you need garments that are forgiving on fit, a size curve based on something better than guesswork, and a plan for the inevitable exchanges.
It also changes what to buy. Branded outerwear and mid-layers get worn far more than shirts by a distributed team, because they go on over whatever the person already chose that morning. A good fleece or softshell does more brand work than a polo that lives in a drawer.
Sizing People You Will Never See
Asking people for their size gets you what they believe, or what they would like to be. Asking for a chest measurement in centimetres, then mapping it against the manufacturer's size chart, gets you something you can actually order against. Send the specific chart for the specific garment, because sizing varies noticeably between a slim-cut polo and a workwear fleece.
Then order a buffer. Not one of every size, which is how cupboards fill with unworn 3XLs, but two or three extra in the two commonest sizes on your list. Those are the ones you will need when somebody's answer turns out to be optimistic, and they are the ones a new starter is most likely to need in month three.
One Delivery, Then You Distribute
Goods arrive by tracked courier to the address you provide. For a scattered team that means one drop, then somebody has to redistribute. It is worth deciding in advance who does that and how, because the failure mode is a box of branded fleeces sitting in a reception area for six weeks while half the team never gets one.
The practical approach is to time the order around a date when people are in: a quarterly all-hands, a summer social, an onboarding week. Kit handed over in person gets worn. Kit that has to be collected mostly does not.
What Works for a Distributed Team
- Embroidered softshells or fleeces as the core item, because they are worn over anything and survive constant washing.
- A quarter-zip or crew sweatshirt for client-facing days, embroidered small and left plain elsewhere.
- Printed tees only where there is an actual event to wear them at, rather than as a default.
- A short size questionnaire using chest measurements and the specific garment's size chart, sent before you order anything.
- A small buffer in your two commonest sizes, held for new starters and for the sizes people guessed wrong.
Rural Buckinghamshire Buys Differently
Outside the town the customer changes completely. Land management, equestrian yards, farm shops, groundworks and rural trades across the Vale need durability rather than presentation: dark colours, embroidery rather than print, and garments that cope with mud and thorn. Hooded tops are a poor choice near machinery, whatever the brand looks like.
If you supply both markets, and a fair number of local firms do, run two garment lists sharing one logo file. That is cheaper than a compromise garment that is too smart for the yard and too rugged for the meeting.
Corporate Does Not Have to Mean Bland
A quiet tonal embroidered mark, stitched in a thread only a shade off the garment colour, reads as considered rather than promotional. It suits professional services far better than a high-contrast chest logo, and people wear it outside work, which is where branded clothing does its most useful work.
“"A scattered team turns every guessed size into a second parcel, and the second parcel always costs more than the first."”
Minimums, Timing and Pricing
Production starts at artwork approval, not order placement. Allow around 10 to 15 working days from approval for embroidery and screen printing, then 2 to 5 working days for UK delivery after dispatch, plus proofing time. The free Design Studio previews artwork on the garment so you can check scale before anything is made, and the instant price calculator updates live as you change garment, method and quantity. Bulk discounts reach up to around 40% as volumes rise, so combining a staff order with an event order usually beats running them apart.