How Bulk Denim Jackets Are Packed
By The Velocity Wear Team
A bulk denim order arrives folded, usually individually bagged, boxed into cartons and stacked on a pallet for anything beyond a small run. The decision that matters to you is whether each carton holds a single size or a mixed size run, because that one choice determines how long distribution takes at the other end.
How does a bulk denim order arrive?
Jackets are folded, bagged, and packed into cartons that are labelled with their contents. Denim is heavier than jersey, so a carton holds fewer pieces than you would expect from a t-shirt order, and a run of fifty jackets makes a meaningful stack rather than a couple of boxes. For larger orders the cartons go onto a pallet, shrink-wrapped, which is how they travel to the UK, the USA or Europe.
Denim also creases under compression. Jackets packed tightly at the bottom of a stack arrive with hard fold lines that hang out over a day or two, which is one more reason to take delivery ahead of the date you actually need them.
What is a size run per carton, and why does it matter?
A size run means each carton contains a spread of sizes rather than fifty of the same one. Open a box and you have a working set: a couple of smalls, several mediums and larges, a couple of extra larges. Solid packing means each carton holds one size only, so a box is either useful to you or it is not.
Which you want depends entirely on what happens next. If the jackets are going to one place and being handed out, size runs save you unpacking everything to find a medium. If they are being split between branches or stockists, solid cartons let you send whole boxes without repacking. Say which at quote stage, because it is decided when the order is being finished.
Should every jacket be bagged individually?
For anything being sold, yes. An individual bag keeps the jacket clean through transit and handling, and it is what a customer expects if the item ships on to them. For internal staff kit going straight onto backs, it is less critical, though it still helps keep the run tidy while you distribute it.
Branded bagging is available as part of private label finishing, which is worth considering if the jackets ship directly to end customers. That sits alongside the other private label options described in neck labels on wholesale denim jackets.
What should you check on the pallet before signing?
Carton count against the paperwork, obvious damage to the outer boxes, and whether the shrink wrap is intact. Do that before the driver leaves, because a note on the delivery record is worth far more than an email the following week. Then open cartons from more than one part of the pallet rather than just the top box.
Count the sizes against your order at that point too, while there is still time to do something about a shortfall before distribution. What to look at on the garments themselves is covered in quality checks on bulk denim jackets, and if the stock is heading straight to a run of dates, the logistics are discussed in ordering denim jackets for tour season. Pricing from the fifty-piece minimum is on the wholesale denim jackets page, with the glossary covering the packing terms.
Storage between delivery and distribution is worth planning too. Denim is heavy, so a run of fifty stacked on a hard floor in a damp stockroom picks up creases and, over weeks, can take on a smell that transfers to the garments. Keep the cartons off the floor and somewhere dry. If the jackets are being held for a seasonal launch, leave them bagged inside their cartons rather than unpacking them early to look at them.
