Minimum Order for Wholesale Joggers
By The Velocity Wear Team
The minimum order for wholesale joggers is fifty pieces per design. Sizes mix freely inside that fifty, so a single design can run from extra small to double extra large in any split you choose. What does not mix is designs: a second artwork, or a colourway that needs its own screens, counts as its own fifty.
What counts as one design?
One artwork, printed or stitched in one set of positions, on one body colour. Change the body colour and the ink has to be reformulated and re-screened, which makes it a separate run. Change the artwork and it is obviously separate. Change the size, though, and nothing changes at all in production, which is why sizes are the one variable that moves freely.
There are two useful exceptions. Personalisation, such as a name above the cuff, sits on top of the base design rather than replacing it, so a fifty-piece run can carry fifty different names. And decoration that varies only in placement within the same artwork is usually still one design. If you are unsure which side of the line your spec falls, send both versions with the enquiry from the wholesale joggers page and we will tell you before you commit.
Why fifty and not five?
Because a jogger is cut and sewn rather than picked off a shelf. Fabric is knitted or sourced in a roll, the pattern is laid across it, and a marker that only has to yield a handful of pieces wastes most of the roll. Screens are burned, embroidery files are digitised, machines are threaded and set. All of that happens once whether you order fifty pairs or five.
Spread across fifty, the setup becomes a small part of each garment. Spread across five, it would dwarf the garment itself, and the per-piece price would look nothing like a wholesale price. Fifty is the point where custom manufacturing stops being a novelty item and starts being stock. The same logic across the industry is unpacked in minimum order quantities explained.
How do buyers get to fifty when the team is smaller?
Three routes, in order of how often they work. Order forward: buy a year of kit rather than a month, which suits any business with staff turnover. Combine sites or departments onto one design, varying only what is personalised. Or add a resale element, where members or customers buy the surplus and effectively fund the run.
What rarely works is splitting the run to feel smaller. Twenty-five in navy and twenty-five in black is two designs of twenty-five, and neither reaches the minimum. Commit to one colour on the first run, learn what sells or what the team actually wears, and put the second colour in the second order when you have evidence for it. The price ladder that starts at fifty is on the pricing page.
Does ordering more than the minimum change anything else?
It changes the price and very little else. The tiers step at 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1,000, with up to 35% off the fifty-piece price at the top. Production time stays at 10 to 15 working days from artwork approval across normal quantities, so a larger order is not a slower one in any meaningful way.
The one thing that does shift is the cost of being wrong. Fifty pieces of a fit nobody likes is an annoyance; a thousand is a problem. That is what the £150 sample, credited against the bulk order, exists for: it lets you commit to a large run having already held the garment. The per-piece arithmetic is worked through in how much wholesale joggers cost.
