How Long Do Bulk Joggers Take to Make?
By The Velocity Wear Team
Bulk joggers take 10 to 15 working days to produce, counted from artwork approval rather than from your first enquiry. Delivery transit sits on top of that and depends on where the boxes are going. The days most buyers forget are the ones before approval: quoting, spec decisions, sampling if you want one, and getting a signature on the proof.
What happens during those 10 to 15 days?
Fabric is allocated and cut against the size grid you approved. Panels are sewn, with the waistband, pockets and hem finish built in as part of construction rather than added later. Decoration happens at the point in the process that suits the method, which for some placements means printing on the panel before it is assembled. Then pieces are finished, labelled, checked and packed.
The range exists because those stages are not identical across specs. A plain leg print on a loopback body moves through faster than a heavy embroidery on brushed fleece with custom woven labels and individually bagged pieces. Neither is slow; one simply has more hands on it. The spec options are listed on the wholesale joggers page.
Why does the clock start at artwork approval?
Because nothing can be cut or screened until the artwork is final. Approval is the moment the spec stops moving: colours fixed, positions fixed, size grid fixed. Before that point, every stage downstream would have to be redone if you changed your mind, so the factory waits.
This is why two buyers who enquire on the same day can receive their orders three weeks apart. One approves in two days, the other spends a fortnight circulating a proof internally. The production time was identical. If you want to compress a timeline, compress the approval stage, because that is the part you control. The wider picture across garment types is in apparel production lead times explained.
How much time should you add for delivery?
Transit depends on destination. We deliver to the UK, the USA and Europe, and the time on the road or in the air is separate from the production window. Build it into your plan as its own line rather than assuming it is included, and remember that customs and regional carrier schedules can add days that no factory controls.
The sensible approach is to set your own internal deadline a week before the date you actually need stock. That buffer absorbs a slow customs clearance or a missed delivery slot without turning into a crisis. Buffers placed at the end of a plan are the ones that survive; buffers placed in the middle get spent on indecision.
When should a sample go into the timeline?
Before approval, never after. A sample is £150 and is credited against the bulk order, so set against the quantity tiers on the pricing page it is close to cost-neutral on a large run, but it needs its own slot in the calendar. Ordering a sample after you have approved artwork tells you what you have already committed to rather than what you should commit to.
For a first order with a new supplier or an unfamiliar fabric, put sampling in the plan from the start and treat the bulk approval date as the real deadline. Our guide to sampling joggers before a bulk order sets out what to check while the sample is in your hands and how long to spend on it.
