Shirt Manufacturer for Fashion Brands

Styles & Fits

Shirt Styles We Produce

Oxford is the volume style: basket-weave texture, slightly heavier hand than poplin, the default casual button-down. Poplin is smoother and crisper — the right base if the shirt needs to sit under a blazer or take a spread collar without collapsing. Flannel is brushed, 150–200gsm, and needs a different needle and stitch density than poplin or the nap pulls.

Camp collar and Hawaiian silhouettes drop the fused collar stand entirely — a different pattern, not a trimmed oxford. Overshirts and shackets are cut from heavier cloth (corduroy, twill, or a denim-weight weave) with a roomier chest and often two flap pockets; treat them as outerwear at the tech-pack stage, not as a thick shirt. Denim shirts run on the denim line — construction and wash live on our denim manufacturer page, not here.

Fit is independent of weave. We grade a standard retail block, a slimmer side-seamed block, and an oversized/dropped-shoulder block from the same spec sheet. Sleeve length and body length are the two measurements clients most often change from a reference garment.

Fabric

Weaves We Run

Poplin is smooth and crisp, the standard for casual and formal button-downs. Oxford is slightly textured and more casual. Flannel is brushed for a soft, warm hand-feel. Poplin and oxford typically run 100–140gsm; flannel runs heavier at 150–200gsm.

Solid piece-dyed fabric is the standard option. Yarn-dyed fabric — where the thread is dyed before weaving, used for checks, stripes, and chambray — is also available, though minimums typically run higher than solid colors because of the fabric mill's own lot-size requirements.

Linen is available for summer programs; it wrinkles in a way poplin does not, so we flag expected crease behaviour at sampling rather than trying to finish it into a poplin hand-feel.

Construction

Collar, Cuff and Construction

Woven fabric is made on a loom rather than knitted, so it doesn't stretch the same way as jersey or piqué and needs different cutting, interfacing, and buttonhole/placket construction — a genuinely different production line from our t-shirt or polo runs, not just a different fabric.

Fused or sewn-in interfacing, button-down or spread collar, and single or double-button cuffs are all standard construction options we build to your tech pack or a reference sample, along with a chest pocket with or without flap.

Order Types

Private Label, OEM, and Cut-Make-Trim

Most shirt orders are private label: your woven neck label, care label, and packaging on our production. OEM follows your tech pack exactly — collar stand height, interfacing weight, button spec, stitch-per-inch on the placket. If you already have a shirting mill, CMT is available; that arrangement runs at a 5,000-piece minimum rather than 300, because a yarn-dyed or piece-dyed shirting lot does not cut economically below mill minimum.

Yarn-dyed checks and stripes often raise the fabric minimum even on OEM, because the mill weaves that pattern to its own lot size before we cut. We confirm that number at quote, before you approve a tech pack. Still deciding the model? Our OEM vs ODM vs CMT comparison and private label guide cover the practical differences.

Getting Started

Sampling, Sizing & Lead Time

A proto sample typically takes 12–16 days once we have a tech pack or a reference shirt — a few days longer than a jersey tee because collar, cuff and placket each get their own fit check. Up to 10 free revision rounds are included before bulk cutting. The two things that most often need a second sample are collar stand height and sleeve pitch; send a wearable reference if you have one.

Bulk production runs 35–50 days after pre-production sample sign-off. Every order is inspected to AQL 2.5 before packing. Size runs grade to your spec or, if you do not have one yet, our size chart guide covering US, UK and EU conversions. Labels and packaging are sourced during sampling — garment labels guide if you have not briefed those yet.