Custom Embroidered Vests

The same logo stitches three different ways depending on what the vest is made of. Before you pick a style for the color or the brand name, it helps to know how each fabric behaves under a needle, because that decides how big the logo can be and where it can go.

Fleece is the easiest. It is soft, thick and forgiving, and it holds a fairly full chest logo. The one catch is the pile. Thin lettering sinks into the fuzz and disappears, so we lay a topping film over the face and a solid underlay beneath the design to keep the stitches standing up.

Soft shell is a tight woven face bonded to a thin fleece back. It gives the cleanest, sharpest look of the three, which is why offices like it. Every needle hole is permanent on that smooth face, so placement has to be right the first time, and the stitch count stays moderate so the panel does not pucker.

Puffer vests are the hard one. The quilted channels, called baffles, are stuffed with insulation, and stitching across them crushes the loft and punches holes in the shell. The honest advice is a small logo on a flat panel or inside one baffle on the left chest. A big design across several channels will look lumpy and leak fill.

If your logo is detailed and you want it large, choose fleece or soft shell. If you want the puffy look, keep the mark simple and small. We look at your art against the vest you pick and tell you plainly if it needs to shrink or change fabric before you see a proof.

Walk through a bank, a title office or a tech company on a cool morning and you will see it again and again, a soft shell or puffer vest over a collared shirt. It looks put together without the formality of a blazer, and it keeps a person warm at a desk where the air conditioning never quite shuts off.

For a company, that combination is the easiest uniform to roll out. Nobody has to give up their own shirts. Staff keep wearing the button-downs they already own, and the vest with the company logo on the chest ties the whole team together at a client lunch or an open house.

Color does a lot of the work. Black, charcoal and navy vests go over almost any shirt, which matters when every employee brings a different wardrobe. A bright vest can work for a booth or an event team, but for everyday office wear the darker colors get worn far more often.

Vests also layer in the other direction. Crews wear a fleece vest over a hoodie, golfers wear a soft shell over a polo, and a puffer goes under a rain shell on a wet day. Arms stay free to swing a club, lift a box or type, which is why a vest gets worn when a full jacket stays on the hook.

We stock vests from five makers. Soft shell vests come from Eddie Bauer and The North Face, the textured fleece vest is Carhartt, the puffer is Independent Trading Co. and DRI DUCK makes a canvas vest. The North Face and Carhartt pages go deeper on those two brands. We buy all of them as genuine garments through authorized apparel distributors.

Each maker's own small logo stays on the vest. We never cover it, pick it off or stitch over it. Your logo goes where the maker leaves room, which on the vests we stock is the left chest, and on most of them the upper back can carry a second mark for a team name or a website.

A custom North Face vest or a Carhartt vest is only sold decorated. We cannot sell those two brands blank, so every one we ship carries your logo. Large orders from The North Face and Carhartt may need the brand to approve your logo through the distributor, which can add time before production starts.

Colors change by maker and by season, so the studio shows what is in stock right now rather than a list that goes stale. You can mix makers in one order, such as soft shell vests for the front office and fleece vests for the field team, all with the same logo and one proof per style.