Custom polo shirts
Polo shirts with your logo on them, built for the wash
Polo shirts NZ-wide with your branding on them. We supply the garment or decorate the ones you already have — embroidered on our own machine, or pressed where the artwork calls for it. Mens and womens cuts, short and long sleeve, and one polo is a real order.
Decorated in Glenfield, couriered to you — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
Before you ask
- What we do
- Decorate your garments — we are not a clothing shop
- Methods
- Embroidery stitched in-house, or transfer pressed here
- Minimum order
- None — one polo is a real order
- Delivery
- Couriered NZ-wide, South Island included. Typically 5–21 working days from artwork approval.
Brands we decorate — garment brands we supply and decorate, not our clients
The range
Polo shirts we brand, short sleeve to long
New Zealand polo shirts come off the same handful of wholesale ranges, so the real choice is fabric, cut and colour. The polo t shirts NZ suppliers carry typically run from a light performance knit to a heavy cotton piqué. Stock colours cover the usual ground — a black polo shirt or a white polo shirt for front of house, navy and grey for the yard — and most ranges carry a red polo shirt or a blue polo shirt if your branding needs one.
Short sleeve polos
The default, and what most teams mean when they ask for polo t shirts. Mens and womens fits off the same range so a mixed team still matches.
Long sleeve polos
Long sleeve polo shirts for men and women, for cooler sites and for anyone who would rather not be in sunblock all day. A long sleeve polo takes the same chest logo as the short.
Mens cuts
Most of the mens polo shirts NZ wholesalers stock come in a straight body or a slightly tapered cut. Mens black polo shirts are the safest single order if the team is mixed and nobody has measured anyone.
Womens cuts
Womens polo shirts in a shaped body with a shorter placket and a softer collar. Ordering womens polos rather than small mens sizes is the single thing that most improves whether a uniform actually gets worn.
Cotton and piqué
Cotton polo shirts feel better on and stitch cleanly. Heavier, slower to dry, and the honest trade-off is that they crease in a way a poly blend does not.
Performance knits
Polyester and poly-cotton, lighter, quick-drying, and what most outdoor crews end up in. Holds colour through commercial laundering better than cotton does.
A polo is not always the right garment. If the crew is outdoors in the wet, a work shirt or a jacket earns its keep faster, and for a one-off run at an event a tee costs less and nobody minds. Work shirts and t-shirts cover those jobs.
Branding polos
Embroidered polo shirts: what the knit does to a logo
Custom polo shirts are not a tee with a collar sewn on. Three things behave differently on a knit with a placket, and they are the three worth knowing before you order.
The placket sets the limits
Left chest is the default, and the logo has to sit clear of the placket seam or it distorts every time the shirt is buttoned. That usually caps a chest logo narrower than the same logo on a tee. A nape, a sleeve or a small back-shoulder mark are the other places that work on this garment.
Piqué is textured, and it moves
A piqué knit has a waffle surface and real stretch, so stitches sink into the texture and fine detail closes up unless the garment is backed properly. We back the fabric before it goes near the machine. Small text is where this shows first, so send the logo early and we will tell you the smallest it can go and still read.
The fabric mix changes the method
Cotton stitches beautifully. Polyester performance knits are heat-sensitive, so a transfer goes on cooler and slower, and the very lightest moisture-wicking knits are the honest no for pressing — they can gloss or wrinkle under the press. Send the style code and you will hear whether yours is one of them before you order rather than after.
A polo takes both methods, which is why both are here. Embroidery is the default on a collared knit and outlasts the garment; a press earns its place when the artwork carries more colours than thread sensibly can. Which suits your logo is a question about the artwork, not about polos, and the embroidery and printing pages explain each method properly.
Two ways to start
Get your team into branded polo shirts
Most quotes go back the same business day. There is no obligation and no minimum order.
Or call 021 082 12843 — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
What happens next
- 1. You send rough numbers and what the team does.
- 2. We come back with garment options and a price per garment, decoration included, usually the same business day.
- 3. Once you go ahead, we confirm logo size and placement in writing before anything is decorated.
How it works
From a style code to a branded team
Same three steps as everything else we do. Nothing about a polo makes the process more complicated than that.
Step 1
Tell us the garment and the numbers
A style code if you have one, or just "navy polos, about twenty-five, mostly mens". Send the logo in whatever form you have it — a phone photo of an existing shirt is enough to start.
Step 2
We quote it per garment, decoration included
One price per garment per size run with the branding already in it, plus a one-time setup if we have not already set your logo up at that size. We will say whether embroidery or a press suits the artwork, and how big the chest logo can go on the placket.
Step 3
You approve it, then we decorate it
Size and position confirmed in writing before anything is decorated. Then the order is stitched or pressed here, packed and couriered out with tracking.
On embroidery, a price is an estimate until the logo is digitised. The exact stitch count — and with it the final price — is only known once your logo, at the size you want it, has been turned into machine instructions by a one-time setup. That setup is charged once at that size and kept on record, so reorders for new starters skip it entirely. One setup covers your garments at the same logo size, so polos and hoodies share it; caps stitch differently and need their own.
Who we brand polos for
Polos are the garment most of our work goes on, and most of that work goes to three kinds of business.
Questions
Questions people ordering polos ask
If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.
Do you supply the polos, or do I?
Either. We source most branded polo shirts Auckland businesses wear from the same NZ wholesalers, or you send us stock you have already bought and we decorate that. The custom polo shirts we brand in Auckland usually start as a plain garment off a wholesaler shelf. If you already have a range your staff like, there is no reason to change it just to get a logo on it.
Embroidered or printed on a polo — which is better?
Embroidered polos are the default and it is not close for a normal chest logo: thread outlasts the garment and does not care about the wash. A press is the better answer when the artwork is full colour, photographic, or has fine gradients that thread cannot hold. Most logo polo shirts in Auckland end up stitched, and we will tell you when yours is the exception.
Will the logo survive commercial laundering?
Embroidery will. Embroidered work polos are the garment we are most confident about on this — polyester thread stitched into a knit has nothing to lift or crack, which is why hospitality and healthcare uniforms are almost always stitched. A pressed transfer holds up well domestically and is the weaker of the two under repeated industrial washing at high temperature. If your gear goes through a commercial laundry every week, order embroidered polo shirts Auckland-wide and stop thinking about it.
Can you match my brand colours exactly in thread?
Close, not exact, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. Thread comes in a fixed range of stock shades, so we match to the nearest one and it is usually indistinguishable at arm's length — but it is not a Pantone match and we will not pretend it is. If an exact colour is genuinely critical, a pressed transfer gets closer than thread can, and that is a real reason to choose one.
Do you do womens cuts and the full size range?
Yes. Most ranges run womens XS to 3XL and mens S to 5XL, though the top and bottom of that depends on the brand rather than on us. Order the cuts your team actually wants — a womens fit is a different pattern, not a smaller mens, and it is the thing that decides whether a uniform gets worn or left in a drawer.
Do you deliver outside Auckland?
Yes — North Island and South Island, rural addresses included. We decorate in Glenfield on Auckland's North Shore and everything ships from there with tracking. Ordering from an Auckland decorator costs you a courier leg and nothing else.
Can I come and pick it up?
No. There is no shop, no showroom and no walk-ins — the workshop is not set up for visitors. Everything goes out by courier with tracking, Auckland included, so the answer is the same wherever you are.
What do branded polo shirts cost?
Every job is quoted, so there are no prices published here. The garment you pick moves the price most, then whether the logo is stitched or pressed, then how many you order and whether we have already set your logo up at that size. A very small order also carries a handling charge, since the setup behind a job is much the same for one polo as for fifty. Send rough numbers and you will get a price per garment back, usually the same business day.
Send us the garment and the numbers
Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. One polo is a real order.