Tracksuits for Salons, Ordered Properly
By The Velocity Wear Team
Salon tracksuits should be specified around bleach before anything else. Dark colours show every splash as an orange mark, so black and charcoal are the usual choice and the decoration stays small and away from the arms. Sets start at $53 at the minimum of 50, which is more kit than a single salon needs and about right for a small chain.
Which colours survive a colour bar?
Black is the trade standard because it hides dye and tolerates repeated hot washing, though bleach will eventually lift it to a pale orange wherever it lands. Charcoal and deep navy behave similarly. Light greys and pastels look excellent for a fortnight and then tell the story of every appointment. Our salons and barbers page covers the full uniform list, and custom uniforms for salons and barbershops compares tracksuits with smocks and aprons.
An apron over the set is the practical answer to chemicals, which is why many salons treat the tracksuit as the identity layer and the apron as the protective one.
Print or embroidery for salon kit?
Embroidery on the left chest is the durable choice, because stitched thread does not crack or lift after a hundred hot washes the way a large print can. Keep it to a compact mark rather than a wide logotype and it survives the life of the garment. Screen printing is the cheaper option and it works, but put it on the chest rather than across a sleeve that rubs against a basin all day.
Whichever you choose, the same artwork can be reused across the rest of the kit so the salon reads as one brand. Towels are usually ordered alongside, and our wholesale towels page covers the sizes salons actually use.
What does a salon chain pay per set?
The from-price on the wholesale tracksuits page is $53 per set at fifty, covering the hooded top and the matching jogger. Discounts start at 50-99 and continue through 100-249, 250-499, 500-999 and 1,000 or more, reaching up to 35% off the fifty-set price. A single three-chair salon will not use fifty sets in a season, so independents usually club together or order for a full year of staff rotation.
Towel stock is the other half of the budget, and the two orders are often placed together. Wholesale towels for salons and spas covers what bleach does to towelling, which is a longer story than what it does to a jogger.
How long before the kit is on the floor?
Ten to fifteen working days from artwork approval, plus delivery. A £150 sample, credited against the bulk order, lets a manager put one set through a real week and a real wash cycle before fifty of them arrive. For a garment worn eight hours a day, that week is worth the fee.
What happens when a stylist leaves?
Decide early whether the kit belongs to the salon or to the person. Most chains treat it as issued equipment, log who has what, and reissue from the reserve when somebody moves on, which is only possible if the first order included a reserve.
That is a large part of why fifty sets is a sensible number for a salon with fifteen chairs rather than an extravagant one. Two sets each covers the rotation, and the remainder covers two years of arrivals without a second production run.
Keep the spares in the middle of the size range. Those are the sizes a new starter is most likely to need, and they are the ones that get used rather than gathering dust behind the stock shampoo.
Agree a replacement rule at the same time. A set that has taken a bleach hit on the sleeve is no longer front-of-house kit, and having a stated point at which it gets swapped stops the floor slowly filling with marked garments nobody wants to be the one to bin.
