Custom Apparel for Colleges & Universities
Department and organization apparel, spirit wear, and staff uniforms at campus scale.
What Colleges Need From Branded Apparel
Short answer: apparel that works at campus scale — departments, clubs, and organizations reordering throughout the academic year, plus bulk spirit wear for events.
Campus apparel needs range from a single department's staff polos to large one-time spirit wear runs for homecoming or orientation. We handle both ends of that range.
Recommended Decoration Methods
- Screen printing — cost-effective for large spirit wear and event runs.
- Embroidery — for department/staff polos and organization apparel.
Managing Apparel Across Departments & Organizations
With dozens of departments and student organizations potentially ordering apparel, a company store can simplify ordering without routing every request through one office.
Common Mistakes Colleges Make With Branded Apparel
- Routing every department's order through one office. At campus scale this becomes a bottleneck fast — a company store lets individual departments and organizations order independently from an approved catalog.
- Not planning spirit wear timing around the academic calendar. Large event runs (homecoming, orientation) need lead time — planning around the calendar avoids a rushed order.
Who Approves This Purchase
It depends on the order: individual department heads or administrators typically approve their own department's staff apparel, student organization treasurers or advisors approve club apparel, and a central purchasing or events office usually approves large campus-wide spirit wear runs. This is exactly why a company store (above) works so well at campus scale — it lets each of those approvers order independently without routing every request through one bottlenecked office.