Size Splits for a Bulk Joggers Order
By The Velocity Wear Team
Sizes mix freely inside the fifty-piece minimum, so a bulk jogger order is one design spread across any curve you like. Weight it to the middle three sizes, keep the extremes thin, and hold a handful of spares. On bottoms, the decision that drives returns is not the waist, it is the leg length, so specify a hem before you specify a curve.
Why do bottoms need a different curve from tops?
A t-shirt has one dimension people care about. A jogger has two, and they are not correlated in the population: waist and inside leg vary independently. A buyer whose waist is a medium and whose legs are long has no good option on a standard grid, so they pick the larger size and accept a loose waist, or they pick the right waist and roll the hem.
This pushes real-world demand towards the middle of the grid more heavily than on tops, because people compromise inwards. It also means the choice of hem changes the curve. On a cuffed pair the band absorbs extra length, so length is forgiving. On an open hem it is not, and you will see the difference in returns. Both finishes are on the wholesale joggers page.
What split should a first order use?
If you have a list of the actual people, use it. A staff order comes off the rota, a club order off the membership, a campaign order off the team plus the giveaway pool. Only when no such list exists should you fall back on a generic bell, and even then weight it slightly large, because a loose jogger reads as a fit choice while a tight one reads as a mistake.
Write the split as whole numbers, not percentages. Fifty pieces as 4 / 11 / 15 / 12 / 6 / 2 is a decision you can check at a glance. The same thing as percentages invites a rounding error that leaves you one short in the size everyone wanted. How grading works across a range, and why the steps are not even, is covered in how garment sizing is graded.
How do you collect sizes without chasing people?
Set a closing date and hold it. A short form with one required field beats a group chat, and it produces a spreadsheet you can hand straight over at order stage. Put the garment measurements in the form itself, in centimetres, so people are choosing against numbers rather than guessing from a letter.
Add a line for anyone outside the standard range so you can decide deliberately rather than discovering it at delivery. And say clearly on the form whether the style is cuffed or open hem, because that single fact changes what a lot of people will pick.
What do you do with sizes that do not sell?
Assume the ends of the curve will move slowest, which is exactly why they should be thin. Keep a few back as replacements rather than pricing the run so that every piece must sell to break even. On staff kit, spares in the middle sizes are effectively free insurance against a new starter arriving mid-cycle.
If a size sells out and you want more, a repeat run is straightforward while the design is unchanged, but it is a fresh fifty rather than a top-up of six. Order the second run against what actually sold rather than against the original plan. The return-rate side of all this is in apparel sizing and fit, and larger quantities move you up the tiers on the pricing page.
