Reordering Wholesale Tracksuits in Colour
By The Velocity Wear Team
A repeat tracksuit run uses the artwork and specification already held from the first order, so the approval stage is short and production is the same 10-15 working days. The thing to manage is colour. Fabric is dyed in lots, and two runs made months apart can sit very slightly differently, which matters most when old and new stock are seen together.
Why does colour drift between runs?
Dyeing is a physical process with tolerances, and a second batch of the same shade is matched to a standard rather than cloned from the first. Worn stock has also faded a little by the time the restock lands, which widens the visible gap even when the new fabric is correct. Colour matching and fabric reality explains what causes the variation.
The practical consequence is simple. If both generations will be worn side by side, order deeper the first time. If the restock replaces worn-out stock rather than supplementing it, the difference rarely registers.
What carries over from the first order?
The artwork, the placement, the decoration method, the fabric specification and the size split you used last time, all of which can be repeated or adjusted. What does not carry over is the price tier, because each run is priced on its own quantity through the bands of 50-99, 100-249, 250-499, 500-999 and 1,000 or more. The pricing page shows where a given run lands.
A repeat run still needs to reach the minimum of 50 sets for that design. Two separate fifties are two runs at the entry tier rather than one hundred at a better one.
When should a restock be placed?
When remaining cover drops to production time plus transit plus a margin, not when the shelf empties. That means counting back 10-15 working days from approval, adding delivery, and adding whatever your own decision-making takes. Setting up a reorder schedule turns that into a repeatable calendar rather than a monthly panic.
A restock is also the moment to correct the size curve using what actually sold or what actually got issued. Most second runs should not be a copy of the first.
Should the design change on a reorder?
Only deliberately. Any change to the artwork or a colourway needing its own screens makes it a new design with its own fifty, so a tweak is not a free improvement. Product options are on the wholesale tracksuits page, and can I reorder the same design later covers what stays on file between runs.
What should you record after the first run?
- The exact size split you ordered, against the split you wish you had ordered.
- Which sizes ran out first and which were still in the box at the end.
- The approved artwork layout, including placement and the size of each mark.
- The fabric and colour reference as written on the final quote.
- How long the whole process took from first enquiry to kit in hand, not just the production window.
Five lines in a shared document turn the second order into a twenty-minute job. Without them, every reorder restarts the same conversations with whoever happens to be in the role this year.
It also makes the case for the next order easier to argue internally, because you are presenting evidence from your own run rather than an estimate.
Keep one set from the original run aside as a physical reference too. When a question comes up about shade or placement six months later, a garment on a hanger settles it in seconds where a written specification starts an argument.
