Wholesale 19 September 2026 4 min read

Labels and Packaging for Bulk Joggers

By The Velocity Wear Team

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Private label on joggers covers four things: custom woven neck labels, tear-out labels, swing tags and packaging. Each is a separate cost per piece on top of the garment and decoration. On a retail garment they are what turns a blank into your product. On staff kit most of them are money spent where nobody will ever look.

What does each element actually do?

A custom woven label is stitched into the garment and carries your name permanently. On bottoms it sits at the back of the waistband rather than at a neck, which is the position everyone sees when a pair is folded on a shelf. It is the single most effective piece of private label work on a jogger.

A tear-out label is printed and designed to be removed by the wearer, which suits people who find a stitched label irritating against the skin. Swing tags hang off the garment at point of sale and carry price, size and story. Packaging is the bag or box the piece arrives in. The full range of options is listed on the wholesale joggers page.

Custom joggers with branded waistband labelling and packaging
On bottoms the waistband is the label position that does the work.

Which of these does your order actually need?

Sell the garment and you want the woven label and the swing tag as a minimum, because a piece on a shop floor with a bare waistband reads as a blank somebody printed. Ship direct to customers and the woven label matters more than the tag, since the unboxing is where the impression is made and nobody is comparing hangers.

Dress a team and you can skip most of it. Staff will not read a swing tag and a branded polybag goes straight in the bin. Spend that budget on a better fabric weight or a second decoration position instead. The case for each element across garment types is made in branding beyond the print.

What has to be on the label by law?

Branding is optional; care and content information is not, and the requirements differ by market. Fibre composition and care instructions are the usual baseline, along with country of origin in some territories. Those can sit on the same label as your brand name or on a separate satin care label behind it.

Decide this before artwork approval, because adding a compliance label afterwards means re-running the finishing. If you are selling into more than one region, design the care label for the strictest of them rather than producing two versions of one garment. The baseline requirements are summarised in care labels and clothing compliance.

How do the pieces arrive?

Bulk orders arrive folded and boxed by size unless you ask for something else. Individual polybagging is available and is what you want if pieces go straight into a fulfilment operation or onto a shelf, because it protects the garment and saves your team handling every piece twice.

Tell us the packing format before approval, since it is a finishing instruction rather than an afterthought, and it affects the per-piece cost. If pieces are going to more than one address, arrange the split at the same time; it does not change the quantity tier your price came from. Those tiers are on the pricing page.

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Every range is made to order from a 50-piece minimum in 10–15 working days, with tiered pricing up to 35% off at volume. Price your order or order samples first.

FAQ

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Common questions about wholesale — answered.

Yes, and on bottoms it is worth doing, because the size is otherwise invisible once the swing tag comes off. Most buyers put the brand name on the main label and the size on a small tab beside it.

Label suppliers work to their own batch quantities, which usually sit comfortably under a fifty-piece garment run. Ordering slightly more label stock than the run is common, since it makes the next production run simpler to schedule.

Yes. Send them ahead of production and they are applied during finishing. Confirm dimensions and quantity before approval, because a label that arrives late holds the whole order at the last stage rather than the first.

For direct-to-customer selling, often yes. For wholesale into other retailers, rarely, because the stockist presents the garment their own way. Put the budget into the woven label first and revisit packaging on the repeat run.

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