Work pants and overalls
Overalls NZ crews wear, plus work pants and trousers
The work overalls NZ trades actually wear, plus work trousers, cargo pants and shorts — supplied and branded, or decorated on the stock you already buy. Workwear pants carry a logo differently to a shirt: the space that works is a thigh, a back pocket or a bib front, not a chest. One pair 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
- Stitched on our own machine, or transfers pressed here
- Alterations
- None — we decorate, we do not hem or take in
- Orders
- No minimum, couriered NZ-wide, South Island included
Brands we decorate — garment brands we supply and decorate, not our clients
The range
Work trousers, cargo pants, bib overalls and coveralls
Most work trousers stocked in NZ run from a light drill for warm sites to a heavy cotton canvas that survives a season on the tools. Overalls split the same way. We buy blanks from the same NZ overall suppliers most trade ranges come off, so what sits behind a quote for a whole crew is pricing on wholesale work pants and bulk work pants, rather than a shelf price.
Work trousers and cargo pants
The default for most crews. Uniform work pants in a cotton drill or a poly-cotton blend, with or without cargo pockets and knee-pad slots. Tradie pants on NZ sites are mostly the mid-weight ones — heavy enough to last, light enough to wear in February. Work clothes pants take a logo on the thigh or the back pocket.
Bib overalls and dungarees
The bib overalls that NZ workshops order have a bib front and braces over the shoulders, which gives you the one clear panel this garment has. Mens overalls in NZ are usually a heavy drill. Womens overalls in NZ typically come in a shaped cut rather than a smaller mens size. Denim overalls in NZ are the same garment in a heavier cotton, and overalls for women are worth ordering as their own line rather than as an afterthought.
Coveralls and boilersuits
One piece, ankle to collar. Coveralls and work overalls are what you want when the job throws something at the whole body, and an overall uniform reads as a uniform in a way separates do not. Water resistant overalls carry a coating, and we do not know what a heat press does to one — so on a coated or certified garment we stitch, we keep the mark clear of the seams, and you confirm the requirement against the garment’s own certification before you order.
Scrub pants
Scrub pants for practices, clinics and vets, in the same poly-cotton the tops come in. The scrub pants NZ practices reorder are usually plain, with a small stitched mark at the hip so it survives a hot wash. Medical scrub pants are one half of the outfit we cover here — scrub tops have their own page.
Uniform shorts
For summer crews, hospitality and anyone working indoors in a hot kitchen. Navy uniform shorts are the most ordered by a distance, then grey uniform shorts. Blue uniform shorts turn up where they have to sit beside an existing polo, and navy blue uniform shorts where that polo is darker. Same drill fabrics, same placements, shorter.
Stock colours that reorder
Pick a colour the wholesaler keeps deep. Black uniform pants and grey uniform pants are the two that reorder cleanly a year later; green uniform pants and the odd corporate colour tend to move in and out of stock, which is what makes a mid-year top-up hard. Uniform pants for men and for women come off the same ranges, each in its own cut, and uniform work pants for men in a tall or short leg are worth checking before you commit a whole crew to a size run.
We do not alter garments. No hemming, no shortening, no taking in — a pair of trousers arrives at the leg length the maker cut it, and there is no sewing machine here for anything but decoration. If your crew needs a specific inseam, order a range that comes in short, regular and long, or have a tailor finish them after we have decorated them.
Trousers are also only half a uniform. If the top half still needs sorting, work shirts and polo shirts are the other half of most of these orders.
Two things live on their own pages rather than this one: scrub tops, if you want the whole set rather than the bottom half, and school uniforms, which are a different order with a different reorder cycle.
Branding trousers
Branding workwear pants: where a logo actually goes
A logo on trousers is a different job to a logo on a shirt, and most of what goes wrong is decided before anyone turns a machine on. Three things behave differently below the belt.
There is no chest, so placement is the whole question
The usable panels are a thigh, a back pocket, a bib front and occasionally a hem. Each sits on a different curve and gets sat on, knelt on or leaned against, so the mark wants to be small and high rather than large and low. Send us the garment code and we will tell you what fits where before you order.
Heavy cotton is easy, stretch panels are not
A cotton drill or canvas is the friendliest fabric we stitch — it holds a dense logo without needing backing, and it does not pucker. Modern overalls workwear often carries a stretch panel at the knee or the waist, and stitching across one is a mistake: it stiffens exactly the part that is meant to move. We place around them rather than through them.
Trousers take the worst of the wash
Legs get the mud, the grease and the hottest cycle in the building, which is why a stitched mark is the default here and a pressed one is the exception. A transfer on a knee or a thigh sits on the crease that bends five hundred times a week, and it will lift before the garment wears out. On a hip or a back pocket, where the fabric stays flat, a press is fine.
Both methods are on the table and on this garment stitching usually wins, because the panels that take a logo are the ones that flex. A press still earns its place on a flat hip panel, on a bib front, or where the artwork is full colour and thread cannot hold it.
Hi vis overalls in NZ need their own conversation — the placement rules are tighter, the retroreflective banding is not ours to move, and the certification question above applies in full. Start with hi-vis gear if that is what you are ordering.
Two ways to start
Get your crew into branded work trousers
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 size run to a boxed order
Ordering uniform work pants runs to the same three steps as everything else we do. The one extra thing worth getting right on this garment is the size run, because a leg length cannot be fixed afterwards.
Step 1
Send the numbers and the logo
A garment code if you have one, or just "navy work trousers, about thirty, mixed sizes". Send the logo in whatever form you have it, and tell us where you want it — or ask, because on trousers the answer is less obvious than on a shirt.
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 the job is stitched and we have not already set your logo up at that size. We will say whether stitching or a press suits the fabric and the panel you have picked.
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 trousers and work shirts share it; caps stitch differently and need their own. A pressed transfer has no stitch count, so nothing on the print side works this way.
Who we brand work trousers for
Trousers are the half of an overall uniform that gets replaced first, and three kinds of business reorder them on a cycle.
Questions
Questions people ordering work trousers ask
If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.
Do you supply the trousers, or do I?
Either. We buy blanks from the NZ wholesalers most trade ranges come off, so bulk work pants for a whole crew are quoted the same way as a single pair, or you send us stock you have already bought and we decorate that. If you already have a range your crew likes, there is no reason to change it just to get a logo on it — the wholesale work pants sitting in your store room are the cheapest gear you will ever brand.
Where can a logo go on work trousers?
A thigh, a back pocket, a bib front on overalls, and sometimes a hem. Small and high beats large and low on every one of them, because the lower the mark sits the more it gets knelt on and scuffed. Send the garment code with your enquiry and you will get a straight answer about what fits on that specific cut rather than a general one.
Can you brand hi-vis overalls or water-resistant gear?
We can decorate them, and there is one thing we will not tell you. We do not know what our decoration does to a garment’s certification or to a waterproof coating, so we do not claim either survives. What we will do is stitch rather than press on a coated garment, keep the mark clear of the retroreflective banding and the seams, and tell you exactly what we applied and where. If certification matters on your site, confirm the requirement against the garment’s own certification before you order.
Can you hem them or take them in?
No. We decorate garments, we do not alter them — there is no hemming, shortening or resizing here, and no machine set up for it. The way around it is to order a range that comes in more than one leg length, which most trade brands do, or to have a tailor finish them once we have sent them back. Ask before you order rather than after, because a decorated garment is harder to return.
How long does it take?
Roughly 5 to 21 working days from artwork approval. A reorder of something we already hold on file with stock on the shelf sits at the quick end; a new logo, a garment we have to bring in, or a full size run for a new crew sits at the slow end. If you have a hard date, say so when you ask and you will get an honest answer about whether it is achievable rather than an optimistic one.
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, so an order of workwear pants in NZ reaches Christchurch, Wellington or Dunedin on an overnight or two-day courier depending on the address. Tradie pants NZ-wide cost 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 uniform pants cost?
Every job is quoted, so there are no prices published here. The garment you pick moves the price most — a light drill and a heavy canvas are not close — then whether the logo is stitched or pressed, then how many you order. A very small order also carries a handling charge, since the setup behind a job is much the same for one pair as for fifty. Send rough numbers and the logo and you will get a price per garment back, usually the same business day.
Send us the size run and the logo
Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. One pair is a real order.