How Trades Buy Tracksuits Wholesale
By The Velocity Wear Team
Trade crews buy tracksuit sets at $53 per set from the 50-piece minimum, and they buy them as a layer rather than as site clothing on its own. The set goes on under a jacket in cold weather, gets worn in the van and on the way to site, and carries the firm's name where customers and passers-by see it. Specified that way, it earns its place.
What it does not do is replace anything protective. A tracksuit is warmth and branding, and the kit that handles visibility and site requirements sits over the top of it. The wholesale tracksuits page covers the garment, and the construction and trades page covers the wider workwear list it belongs to.
Why would a trade crew order tracksuits at all?
Three reasons, in rough order of importance. Warmth, because a mid-layer under a jacket makes a January morning workable. Presentation, because a crew arriving at a domestic job in matched branded kit reads as a business rather than as a van full of strangers. And retention, because kit that people actually want to wear gets worn, and kit that gets worn advertises continuously. The approach to specifying rather than catalogue-shopping is set out in construction workwear specification.
What survives a winter on site?
Dark colourways, small robust decoration and a set that has been bought as a matched pair rather than assembled from two orders. Site work is hard on clothing, and the failure points are predictable: the knees, the cuffs and any large printed area that has been dragged across something rough. A stitched logo on the chest and a modest mark on the thigh will outlast a full-width print across the back every time.
Does the branding need to read from a distance?
Less than you would think on a tracksuit, because it is usually covered when the crew is actually working. The distance-legible branding belongs on the outer layer, where the considerations in branding hi-vis, fleeces and polos apply. On the tracksuit itself, a clean chest mark and the firm's name on the leg is the right scale: visible in the van, at the merchant's and at the door of a domestic job, without being a print that fails in six months.
How do you spec the order so it lasts?
- Buy the top and jogger as a matched set, so the two halves are produced together and stay the same shade.
- Choose a colourway that hides dirt, because site kit is not going to look new for long.
- Keep decoration small and stitched where it will take abuse.
- Order above headcount, so a set in the wash does not leave someone out of kit.
- Keep the specification on file for the next run, since the minimum applies again every time.
On quantity, the bands run 50 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499, 500 to 999 and 1,000 upward, with savings reaching up to 35% off the 50-set price at the top. A firm with several crews ordering one design will usually clear the first band comfortably. Allow 10 to 15 working days of production from artwork approval plus transit, and order before the cold arrives rather than during it.
Buy for the season you are entering, not the one you are in. An order placed in October is competing with every other firm that has just noticed the weather, and production still takes its 10 to 15 working days from artwork approval before anything ships. Firms that place the order in late summer have the kit before it is needed and pay the same price for it. The same applies to a growing crew: a run sized for the people you expect to have in six months costs very little more per set than one sized for today, and it removes a second order entirely.
