UK custom clothing manufacturing from 50 pieces

You get a reply from the person who will actually run your order, not a ticket number. We ask three things first: what you want to make, how many, and when you need it in your hands. Send whatever you already have, whether that is reference photographs, a rough sketch, or a garment whose fit you like. We come back with fabric and construction options and a quote against your spec. If it works, we make a sample, and bulk production starts once you approve it.

Yes. The minimum order is 50 pieces, and 50 is enough to launch properly rather than as a token run. Across a size run of XS to XXL that leaves you roughly eight per size, which is real depth in the sizes that actually sell. Most first orders go into a single colourway for that reason, because splitting across two colours halves what you hold in each size. Designs, fabrics and colours can move the minimum, so confirm yours before you plan the size breakdown.

Yes, that is enough to start. Photographs tell us more than a written description does, so send the front and back of anything close to what you want, plus a garment you already own whose fit you like. From there the pattern and fit development happen in house and turn into a sample you can hold. Fabric weight, colour and decoration get settled as we go, so nothing needs to be finalised before you message us. More on working without a tech pack.

Allow around three months from first message to stock in hand, then work backwards from your launch date. Samples take 2-3 weeks. Bulk production takes 3-8 weeks after you approve the sample, and shipping adds to that depending on the destination. Custom-dyed fabric and multi-colour decoration sit at the longer end. If you are working to a fixed date, a drop, a tour or a season, say so at the quote stage so the run is planned around it.

NO FUGAZI is a London-based clothing manufacturer, with production at our own dedicated overseas facility. What the UK side gives you is a single point of contact: the same London team quotes the job, runs your sample, follows production and answers you when something needs fixing, from the first message through to dispatch.

Use print-on-demand if you want to test a graphic with no stock to hold, and a manufacturer if the garment itself is part of the brand. Print-on-demand decorates a blank somebody else designed, so you inherit their fit, their fabric and their labels, and the same blank is on sale to everyone else. Cut-and-sew starts at the pattern, so the weight, the shape, the collar and the labelling are yours. The trade-off is real: making your own means committing to a run and holding stock.