Custom Poly Bags for Clothing Brands With Your Logo
By The Velocity Wear Team
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Custom poly bags for a clothing brand are frosted, resealable zip-seal bags printed with your logo, with a punched hang hole and size stickers matched to your size run. Velocity Wear makes them at 50 bags per design, with 10 to 15 working days of production after you approve the artwork, either as a standalone order or packed around your apparel at the factory.
Why do apparel brands bag every garment?
Because a garment spends far longer in transit and storage than it does on a hanger. Between the factory and the customer it is packed, shipped, stacked on a warehouse shelf, picked, dropped into a mailer and left on a porch. A water-resistant poly bag keeps it clean and dry through all of that, and keeps dust and handling marks off the fabric. Many stockists and fulfillment warehouses also ask for each unit to arrive individually bagged, so an unbagged delivery can mean repacking before anything is sold.
The printed version adds branding on top of protection. Every bag in the custom poly bag range carries your logo and brand details on the face, so the one piece of packaging that actually touches the garment belongs to your brand rather than to a generic stock bag.
What does a printed bag do for unboxing?
For a direct-to-consumer brand, the outer mailer is usually plain, handled by carriers and thrown away within a minute. The bag inside is what the customer actually opens, and it may well stay with the garment in a closet. A frosted bag shows the tee or hoodie as a soft, folded shape behind your logo instead of a crumpled item in a courier sack. Your branding also survives if the mailer arrives torn. The wider packaging picture for DTC labels is in polythene bags for online clothing brands, and the clothing brands page covers what new labels tend to order alongside.
How does a resealable bag help with returns?
A zip seal reopens and closes again, so a customer sending back the wrong size can put the item back in the bag it arrived in. The garment then travels back protected instead of loose in a mailer, the size sticker still identifies it on your returns bench, and checking it for resale is quicker when it comes back folded and clean. A bag sealed with a one-time adhesive strip has to be torn open, which leaves the customer nothing tidy to return it in.
Ordering bags with or without garments
You can order the bags alone or with a clothing run, and the right route mostly depends on where your garments come from.
| Route | What you send | What arrives | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bags only | Logo artwork, garment styles or folded measurements, quantities | Printed bags with size stickers matched to your breakdown | Brands with garments from another supplier |
| Bags with an apparel run | Artwork for garments and bags, size breakdown | Garments already folded, bagged and labeled | Brands ordering their clothing from us |
| Sample first | The same details, for one or two pieces | A sample to check fit and print, for £150, credited later | Anyone who wants to see the bag before committing |
On the apparel route, the bags are sized to the garments we are making, so nothing has to be measured on your side, and your size breakdown sets the stickers. Factory bagging, step by step explains what that looks like and what to specify.
Custom poly bags for t-shirts and mixed styles
A t-shirt bag and a hoodie bag are not the same bag. Each one is sized to the garment folded the way it will ship, and the dimensions for every style are confirmed in your quote before anything is made, so a tee does not slide around in hoodie packaging. A bulk order across several styles simply lists each style with its quantity. The minimum is 50 bags per design; if you need several bag sizes, list them all and the quote sets out how they count.
What to put in your request
Send your logo as a vector file, the styles each bag will hold, the number of bags per design, your delivery country and the date you need them in hand. We reply with pricing, usually within hours on working days, and can invoice in USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AED, SEK or DKK. The custom printed poly bag page lists the full spec, and the complete guide to printed polythene bags walks through every option in the range.