When you stop and look around, uniforms are everywhere. The team at your local donut shop wear branded tee shirts and aprons. The delivery driver dropped off a package in his company polo shirt. The property management crew in matching jackets. Even the sales team...
The workwear market in South Korea is currently thriving. In particular, the demand for functional workwear with protective features is growing rapidly. And that’s no surprise, as the market benefits from several factors that are jointly driving demand higher. Time to...
Everyone reacts differently to uncertainty. Some hunker down, clutching their spreadsheets like lifeboats. Others grab their checkbooks, buying competitors as if they were stocking up on storm supplies. In today’s uniform and workwear market, there’s no single correct...
Every product has a story, and in apparel, that story eventually ends. The end-of-life (EOL) stage marks the last chapter of the product lifecycle, where a once-relevant garment has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to produce, stock, or promote. While...
In 1829, the first police uniforms were designed. Today, every country, and sometimes even regions within those countries, has its own unique uniform. Yet every now and then, something goes wrong in the design process. Recently, both England and Scotland published...
Since it is National Uniform Day this week, I wanted to look at various ways public safety personnel show pride in their uniforms. Pride is a tricky thing to measure—you can’t put it on a scale or weigh it out like rolls of fabric. But you can see it in the way a...
If you have been following along in our journey through the apparel product lifecycle, you know we have covered the excitement of the Introduction stage, the momentum of Growth, and the balance of Maturity. But today, let’s talk about the stage nobody wants to think...
If you want a society with mentally healthy people, the best way is to teach children to talk about it. That’s why a vocational school in Australia has already taken action. The teachers there don’t wear their own clothes, but special workwear carrying a message for...
If you’re still treating public safety uniform RFPs like a product catalog with pricing tiers, we need to talk. For years now—not just recently—uniform bids from law enforcement, fire departments, EMS agencies, and corrections have demanded far more than product specs...
In the apparel business, the real story begins when the hype dies down. After the NEW buzz, the excitement, the launch campaign, what is left? That is where we hit the maturity stage of the apparel product lifecycle. It is not as flashy as the intro or as dramatic as...
Firefighting has traditionally been a profession dominated by men. But in 2025, we’re seeing more and more women stepping into the firefighter’s gear. The only problem is: that gear is still too often not made for their curves. How many women don’t fit into standard...
It used to be simple. A buyer needed uniforms, a distributor had the uniforms, and the relationship was built on catalogs, handshakes, and scheduled drop-offs. But in today’s lightning-fast, logistics-optimized, tech-driven world, nothing is quite that simple anymore....
