Work shirts · decorated in-house
Work Shirts in Auckland
We put your logo on work shirts for the trades and business shirts for the office — embroidered work shirts stitched in-house in Glenfield, or a pressed transfer where the artwork needs full colour. Branded work shirts go out across Auckland and the rest of the country, with no minimum order.
Decorated in Glenfield, couriered to you — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
Before you ask
- What we do
- We decorate shirts — a branding workshop, not a shirt manufacturer. Trade drill or corporate poplin, supplied by you or sourced by us.
- Methods
- Embroidery stitched in-house on our own machine, and heat transfers pressed in-house on our own press.
- Minimum order
- None. One shirt is a real order, though a very small run carries a handling charge shown on your quote.
- Delivery
- Courier NZ-wide from Glenfield. Typically 5–21 working days from artwork approval.
Brands we decorate — garment brands we supply and decorate, not our clients
The range
Which shirt suits the job
Two quite different garments get called a work shirt in New Zealand, and we brand both. The first three below are what goes on site; the last three are what goes into a meeting.
Cotton drill shirts
The heavyweight trade default. Thick cotton takes a dense stitch and holds it flat, so this is the fabric embroidery looks its best on and the one that forgives a big logo.
Poly-cotton work shirts
Lighter, dries faster and survives a high-rotation wash. What most crews actually order when everyone needs three or four shirts rather than one good one.
Vented and ripstop shirts
Mesh back panels, underarm vents and tear-resistant weaves for outdoor work in summer. Vent panels sit where a back logo might want to, so placement gets decided first.
Poplin business shirts
The smooth, lightweight corporate default in white and pale blue. Fine fabric needs a lighter stitch density than drill does — the same logo file will not simply carry across.
Oxford and twill shirts
Heavier weaves with visible texture, worn where a poplin reads too formal. The extra body holds a stitched mark better and hides any pressure mark from the machine more forgivingly.
Stretch and easy-care shirts
Performance blends that resist creasing and move with the wearer. Popular for client-facing staff who are in and out of a vehicle all day.
One shirt is not on this page: a day/night compliant work shirt is a certified garment with its own standard, and it sits with the rest of our hi-vis work rather than here. If your site requires certified clothing, start there — it is different stock, not a different decoration job. See the hi-vis range.
What we will not tell you is what our decoration does to that certification. We stitch and we press, and whether a certified garment still meets its rating afterwards is not ours to promise — nobody has put it in writing for us. If the rating is doing a job you are relying on, confirm the requirement against the garment’s own certification before you order.
Decoration
What changes when you put a logo on a shirt
A shirt has more structure than most things we decorate. A placket, a collar, a chest pocket and a yoke seam all sit exactly where a logo might want to go, and the fabric weight decides how the logo has to be built.
The placket and the pocket decide the placement
A chest logo goes on the pocket face, or where the pocket would have been on a plain front. It has to clear the button placket by enough to look deliberate — half a centimetre out reads as crooked from across a room.
Fabric weight changes how the logo is built
Heavy cotton drill takes a dense stitch and lies flat under it. A lightweight business poplin does not: the same file that looks sharp on a drill shirt will pucker on poplin, so it is rebuilt with a lighter density and a different underlay.
Names as well as logos
Work shirts are the garment people most often want a first name on, usually opposite the company mark. Names are stitched one at a time rather than shared across the run, so tell us at quote stage and the names are priced into the number you get back.
Most shirt orders are embroidered. A stitched logo outlasts the shirt on a site crew, and on a business shirt thread reads as the more considered finish across a desk.
Print is the better answer when the artwork is photographic, has gradients in it, or needs to be large — a full-width logo across the back of a trade shirt is a press job rather than a stitch job. We press every transfer here on our own heat press; the transfers themselves are printed for us by our transfer partner.
Fabric changes more than how a logo is stitched. Our guide to the best fabric for work uniforms compares cotton, poly-cotton and polyester for a crew, and how each one takes a stitched or pressed logo.
Two ways to start
Ready to get your work shirts branded?
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
How a shirt order runs
Three steps, and nothing is decorated until you have approved a proof.
Step 1
Send the details
Your logo, which shirt you are after and roughly how many. Rough numbers are fine, and if you are not sure whether a drill shirt or a business shirt suits the job, describe the job and we will say.
Step 2
We quote it
Garment options and a price per shirt with the decoration included, usually back the same business day. One number per shirt, not a garment cost and a branding cost to add together.
Step 3
Proof, decorate, courier
You approve a digital proof and we confirm logo size and placement in writing. Then the order is stitched or pressed here in Glenfield and couriered to you.
Embroidery carries a one-off setup if we have not already set your logo up at that size — that is the step where your artwork becomes machine instructions, and the exact stitch count and price are only known once it is done. One setup covers your garments at the same logo size, so your shirts and your jackets share it; caps stitch differently and need their own, and a very different fabric can too, because stitching dense enough for drill will not sit flat on a lightweight poplin. Your logo stays yours, the stitch file we build from it is ours, and we keep it on record so a reorder of the same gear never pays setup again.
Who we brand shirts for
A branded shirt is the one garment that turns up in almost every trade we quote for. These are the three that order them most.
Questions
Questions people ordering shirts ask
If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.
How much do branded work shirts cost?
Every job is quoted. The shirt itself, the decoration method and the quantity all move the number, so a stitched left-chest logo on ten drill shirts and a full-colour back print on a hundred are different jobs. You get one price per shirt with the decoration already in it, not a garment cost and a branding cost to add together. Send the logo and rough numbers and the quote usually comes back the same business day.
Is there a minimum order?
No. One shirt or three hundred. Larger runs price better per unit because the setup is spread further, but there is no minimum quantity and no obligation to reorder. A very small order does carry a handling charge, for the same reason the per-unit price moves: setting the machine up and running it takes much the same work for one shirt as for fifty. The charge is on your quote before you commit to anything.
Do you do business shirts as well as work shirts?
Yes, and they are a big part of what goes out. Custom business shirts in Auckland tend to be poplin, oxford or a stretch blend with a small stitched logo at the chest, which is a different job from a drill shirt with a back print even though both come off the same machine. If you want business shirts with a logo for an Auckland office, or a mix of trade shirts for the yard and business shirts for the front desk, that is one quote rather than two, and a business shirt's lighter fabric usually needs its own setup.
Are embroidered work shirts better than printed ones?
For most orders, yes. Embroidered work shirts hold up to the hot wash and the tumble dry that kill a surface print, and thread reads as the more considered finish at both ends of the range. Print wins when the artwork is photographic, has gradients in it, or needs to be large — thread cannot hold fine detail under about 5mm, and a big solid fill gets heavy and expensive in stitches. We will tell you which one your artwork actually needs rather than take the order either way.
Can you brand a hi-vis or certified work shirt?
We can decorate one, and we will be straight about what we do not know. A day/night compliant shirt is certified as a whole garment, and putting needle holes or a heat press onto it is a change to that garment. What we cannot tell you is whether it still meets its rating afterwards, because nothing is in writing from the makers for us to base it on. If the rating matters on your site, confirm the requirement against the garment’s own certification before you order. Certified stock itself sits with our hi-vis range rather than on this page.
Can I supply my own shirts?
Yes. Send us your own stock and we will decorate it, or we source the blanks and decorate them in one go. If you are supplying, send one spare where you can — fabric weight, pocket construction and where the seams fall all change how a design has to be set up, and it is better to find that out on a spare than on your whole run.
Do you supply branded work shirts across Auckland?
Yes. Branded work shirts in Auckland are one of the steadiest things we run — crews on the North Shore, workshops out west, offices in the CBD — and embroidered work shirts in Auckland are the most common version of that order. Everything is decorated in Glenfield and couriered out, and the rest of New Zealand is the same job with a longer courier leg.
Can I come in and pick them up?
No. We are a service-area business — the workshop is in Glenfield and there is no counter, so there are no walk-ins and nothing is collected in person. Orders start with a message or a phone call, artwork comes over email, and the finished shirts are couriered to you anywhere in the country, Auckland included.
Send us the numbers and the logo
Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. One shirt is a real order.