Hi Vis Hoodies

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High visibility clothing such as hi vis hoodies are required in a wide range of industries as an essential safety requirement.  Many of these require high visibility clothing are certified to specific ISO standards.

Occupations which require hi vis clothing

Types of industries which use hi vis clothing are often ones where transport or machinery is involved such as on railway workers, road workers, construction workers and airport ground staff. Being seen clearly means that there is much less chance of being hit or squashed by machinery in the event that a person is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Types of clothing

The first high visibility clothing as we know it today was invented in the 60’s and was a waistcoat which was worn on the railways.  Since then there has been huge innovation in personal protective clothing which means that instead of plastic reflective strips on the garment.  We are able to produce soft fabric which are reflective in the dark. From widely recognised jackets, waterproof trousers and bibs and braces to more modern garments such as hi vis hoodies, polo shirts, joggers, sweatshirts, hats, ¼ zips and even shorts and t shirts.  You can even get non workwear like sports clothing and children’s coats for people out after dark.

Hi vis hoodie

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Hi vis yellow hoodie

Being able to wear a hi vis hoodie has been a breakthrough in the comfort of safety wear.  It’s a much more flexible piece of clothing and much less bulky for moving about.  It is also much more comfortable for warmer weather when previously you would have had to wear a coat.

Hi vis clothing suppliers

At Impact Trading we have a wide range of hi vis clothing available. You can see some of it on our website here. We have items such as hi vis jackets, hi vis waistcoats, hi vis hoodies and hi vis polo shirts and hi vis t shirts. We also have a wide range of safety uniform which is not on our website. If you would like to know more, please contact us for more information.

Why Waiter/Waitress Uniforms Matter

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Ever walked into a restaurant and noticed how the waitstaff’s uniforms instantly sets the tone? It’s not just about style – it’s about signalling professionalism and setting expectations. That’s where high-quality waiter/waitress uniforms come in. At Impact Trading, we get that completely. We’re all about providing uniforms that not only look great but also make your front-of-house team feel confident and comfortable.

Superior Comfort

More often than not, a waiter or waitress spends hours on their feet, weaving through tables, taking orders, and serving food. That’s why comfort is key. Our waiter/waitress trousers and skirts are designed for easy movement, with features like stretch and breathable fabrics. No more feeling restricted – our gear lets your team move freely and comfortably throughout their shift.

Looking Sharp, Feeling Confident

Presentation matters, right? Our waiter/waitress shirts and blouses are all about that polished, professional look. Made from high quality materials, they fit like a dream and give off those “we mean business” vibes. Whether it’s a button-down front or long/short sleeves, our uniforms are versatile enough to suit any dining atmosphere.

Safety First

Working in a restaurant can get messy – spills, splashes, you name it. That’s where our uniforms come in handy. Crafted from durable fabrics, they offer protection against spills and splatters, while features like long sleeves add an extra layer of safety. Your team can focus on serving up delicious meals without worrying about their clothes.

Show off Your Brand

Want to add a personal touch? We’ve got you covered. Whether it’s your logo embroidered on the front or a custom design printed on the back, we offer plenty of options to showcase your brand. Plus, our fade-resistant materials ensure your logo stays looking fresh, wash after wash.

What truly sets our range of waiter/waitress uniforms apart is our ability to customise them to showcase your brand identity. Whether you prefer embroidery, DFT or screen printing or a much subtler approach with a tax tab, you can add your logo or branding to the front and back, creating a cohesive and polished look for your hospitality team. 

Our commitment to quality is evident in our use of fade-resistant threads, ensuring your logo remains vibrant even after multiple washes. We also provide a sample embroidery for your approval, allowing you to inspect the colours and sizing to ensure the final result meets your expectations. Our skilled staff will carefully embroider each garment, ensuring the logo is straight, correctly positioned and consistent throughout your order, giving you the confidence that you will receive high-quality, professional-looking branded apparel.

Let’s Chat

At Impact Trading, we understand that the right uniforms can make all the difference in your restaurant. From comfort and style to safety and customization, our gear is designed to meet the demands of modern dining. Ready to elevate your front-of-house game? Get in touch with us today – we’d love to help you find the perfect waiter/waitress uniforms for your team.

How Custom Company Hoodies Can Boost Your Business

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If you are looking for a way to promote your brand, enhance employee morale and make a great impression on customers, custom company hoodies may be the answer. Branded clothing is an incredibly effective marketing tool and hoodies in particular have become a popular choice for businesses of all sizes and industries.

Increased Brand Visibility

One of the greatest benefits of custom company hoodies is the increased brand visibility they provide. Whenever employees wear them in public, they become walking advertisements for your company. This can help raise awareness of your brand and increase recognition in your local community, industry or target market. Brand recognition is key for attracting new customers and staying top-of-mind. Plus, people are more likely to remember a brand when they see it represented on an item someone is wearing versus merely seeing a logo on a billboard or website.

Employee Pride and Team Building

Giving employees branded hoodies can also help create a sense of pride and team spirit within your company. When employees feel as though they’re part of a unified team and take pride in where they work, this can boost morale, engagement and productivity. Hoodies with your company logo make great employee gifts, rewards for outstanding work or just a way to kit out your team. Branded apparel contributes to a positive company culture and gives employees a way to represent the business.

Types of Hoodies from Impact Trading

At Impact Trading, we offer a wide selection of high-quality custom hoodies that are perfect for branding and promoting your business. Here are a few of our standout options:

Organic and Fairtrade Certified Hoodies: These 100% organic cotton hoodies are certified Fairtrade, so you can feel good about promoting your brand in an ethical, sustainable way. Some key features of these hoodies include:

Doubled lined hood with kangaroo pocket to keep hands warm. Flat strings and inside neck tape for comfort Brushed inside for an extra soft feel

300g/m2 weight fabric

Available in a range of colours and sizes. 

We also have a hooded sweatshirt option with large front pockets in sizes from XXS up to 3XL. This hoodie is made from 80% cotton and 20% polyester and is constructed from 3 layers for extra warmth when working outdoors. 

Customisation Options

At Impact Trading, we offer convenient customisation services to get your company logo and branding on their quality hoodies. Options for customisation include:

Embroidery (front, back or multiple locations) direct to garment, direct to film and screen printing

So, whether you want a subtle embroidered logo or vibrant printed graphics and designs, we have you covered to create the perfect branded hoodies.

Promoting your business with our custom company hoodies from Impact Trading is a smart branding move. Our quality options, ethical manufacturing practices and customisation services make it easy to get professional branded apparel that will elevate your company’s image, unite your team and get your brand noticed.

The Changes in Company Uniform

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There has been a drastic change in company uniform over the last 10 years, this change sped up in 2020 when Covid struck.  Office staff in particular noticed a significant change, as many of them spent some, or all of their time working from home.  There was no need to dress smart for the office and as long as your top half was acceptable for meetings, you could get away with joggers or even pyjamas on your bottom half.   

As we know, many people continued to work full or part time from home after the lock down lifted, and so this became the new normal. 

Going Into Work

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Casual Company Uniform

For those who continued to go into work, company uniform has also become more casual.   This is due to trends in fashion, comfort for workers and the cost of supplying uniform, especially as there is a much higher turnover in staff in many businesses in recent years.

Over the last few years, we have seen a change from dress shirts to polo shirts. Blazers to soft shells or hoodies. Suit trousers to chinos or jeans.  Ties and scarfs have almost disappeared, and many hospitality businesses are just supplying aprons as uniform, which is worn over the staff’s normal clothing.

Making Your Clothing Look Like Company Uniform

Because uniform has become so much more casual, businesses often choose to have it branded so it can be distinguished from non-work clothing.  This is a simple and cost effective way to provide a company uniform.

Company Uniform of the Future

As time moves forward we predict that uniform will continue to move towards a more casual look and practicality and comfort will be key. It may become more like merchandise and be used as a form of marketing through fashion trends.

If you would like to discuss your uniform requirements with us please call on 01908 290482 or email [email protected]

Aprons as Uniform

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We have noticed that aprons have become uniform for so much more than just hospitality businesses.

Lots of customers who order aprons from us are from other industries such as homeware shops, flour mills, museums, nurseries, and potters.

Aprons have become an easy way to give staff a uniform and brand identity because it’s one item of clothing and one size fits all.  An apron can be made completely bespoke to match a Pantone colour as well as to fit a brand design. 

Examples of customers

Homesense are a well known high street chain, part of the TK Maxx brand. We have supplied them with bespoke aprons for their staff for many years HOMESENSE

Shipton Mill supplies flour and so much more, anything you need to baking including aprons and couche cloths supplied by us  SHIPTON MILL

Organic cotton apron with Shipton Mill embroidered on the front
Organic cotton apron

The Waterside Inn is a 3 star Michelin Restaurant opened by Michele Roux.  It gained it first star in 1974 and is the only restaurant in the work outside France to have retained 3 stars since 1985.  Michel’s son Alain has been running the restaurant since 2002, we have been supplying their bespoke aprons and cookery school bags for many years  WATERSIDE INN

The Voung V&A came to us after seeing some aprons we had made for Pasta Evangelists for their restaurant in Harrods, they loved what they saw and wanted the same. YOUNG V&A

Valvona and Crolla are an incredible delicatessen, restaurant, bar, wine merchant and outside caterers in Edinburgh established in 1934.  We supply them with bespoke aprons made here in the UK  VALVONA AND CROLLA

A few years ago we worked with the fabulous coffee bean shop to develop and make aprons, tote bags and Christmas stockings.  You can see them and even buy them here. COFFEE BEAN SHOP

Why do companies brand uniform?

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There are many reasons why businesses and organisations brand uniform and clothing, some are practical, and some are for design purposes. Often businesses do it for a more than one reason, both practical and design.

Ownership of clothing

By branding uniform, you are making sure that it is clearly labelled as being owned by the business.  It’s much less likely that it will be used by the employee for anything other than work. It also identifies the clothing as an asset of the business.  Clothing is often tax tabbed for this reason.

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Tax Tabs for Branding

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Adding brand logos to uniform and Pantone matching clothing can help to strengthen a band’s exposure and make it more memorable to customers.

Identity

Branded uniform can give staff a sense of identity with each other and also for customers. You can clearly identify a sales assistant in a store if they are wearing a uniform.  If a trades person arrives at your door and they branded uniform on, it reassures you that they are from the company you are expecting.

Ways to brand uniform

There are many ways to brand uniform, you can have a full bespoke item which is dyed to match your exact Pantone colour.  You can scale it right back with a tax tab label sewn on for a discreet look or you can add print and embroidery with a logo and tag line.

Uniforms particularly in the hospitality sector have become part of the whole hotel or restaurant design.  For example, if the style of the restaurant is industrial, with lots of wood and metal.  The clothing may reflect that with denim, or leather fabrics.  The branding may be a logo in the design of a branding stamp, again to reflect industry.  It helps to make the whole experience immersive for the customer.

The Benefits of a Customised Apron

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A customised apron serves as a distinctive and practical choice for your business, highlighting your brand and your team while providing comfort and functionality. At Impact Trading, we offer an extensive range of styles and fabrics to cater to the unique needs of hospitality and various other industries.

The Advantages of a Customised Apron

The key advantage of using a customised apron for your business is branding and professionalism. Customised aprons serve as a walking advertisement for your brand, as they can feature your company logo, colours or specific designs. They can also create a professional and cohesive image for your company as they promote a polished and professional image and standardise the appearance of your staff.

Employee Morale and Identity

Providing customised aprons for your team fosters a sense of belonging and unity among employees, and it can also instil a shared identity and pride in representing the company. In terms of employee morale, wearing a customised apron can make employees feel valued and appreciated, and it adds a personal touch to the workwear, contributing to overall job satisfaction.

Promotional Opportunities

Customised aprons can be used as promotional items during special events or trade shows. This can attract attention, engage potential customers and create a positive association with your brand. You could also use a customised apron for special occasions or seasonal events.

Functional Design and Comfort

Customisation allows you to design aprons that cater to specific job requirements. Whether it’s extra pockets for tools or adjustable straps for comfort, tailored designs enhance functionality. This also benefits your employees as aprons made from comfortable and breathable materials ensure that your employees can work with ease, contributing to overall job satisfaction and productivity.

Customised Aprons at Impact Trading

At Impact Trading, we understand that one size does not fit all. Choose from our selection of beautifully crafted apron styles tailored to meet the specific demands of your profession. Whether it’s the classic bib apron, the functional half apron or the sophisticated bistro apron, each style is designed to offer both aesthetic appeal and practicality. Selecting the right fabric is crucial for comfort and durability, so you can opt for 60-degree wash fabric, polyester/cotton blends, 100% cotton for a soft touch or denim for a rugged, authentic look. For those with a commitment to sustainability, there is also an option for organic and Fairtrade-certified aprons, showcasing our dedication to ethical manufacturing.

Bespoke Aprons

At Impact Trading, we go above and beyond by offering made-to-order aprons, ensuring that each piece meets the unique requirements of your business. The diverse range of fabrics includes half Panama, bull denim, denim, organic denim, recycled coffee sacks, coated cotton and Pantone-dyed half Panama aprons. We can also dye all our aprons in the UK to your specific Pantone colour, and each apron, regardless of the chosen fabric or style, is superbly stitched and finished at our UK factory.

We feel that the benefits of customised aprons extend beyond design and aesthetics. They can also play a pivotal role in shaping your business’s brand identity, enhancing employee morale and creating a positive impression on customers. Our commitment to excellence, ethical practices and unmatched customisation options makes our aprons an indispensable choice for businesses looking to elevate their professional image.

How to create an apron with a logo and promote your brand.

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The service we provide.

One of our most popular products is our apron with a logo. We take great pride in supplying top-quality, branded aprons. We understand that as well as being practical your apron with a logo needs to perfectly reflect your brand image. A well-designed apron can be the perfect walking advertisement for your company. Our dedicated team will work closely with you to produce an apron that will look great, feel comfortable, be easy to care for and create a sense of unity with your staff.

Our stock range of aprons with a logo

 We have a wide range of aprons available in our stock range and the beauty of this route is the quick turnaround. The whole process can take two weeks from placing your order to delivery.

We can supply colourful polyester cotton twill aprons that are robust and retain their colour after multiple washes, right through to 100% Fairtrade and Organic for a sustainable apron that looks great and is kind to the environment.

Our bespoke apron service.

Our design team are ready and waiting to work with you on something more unique. The fabric is our starting point. We work closely with our mills to select the right fabric for your brief. We will send you swatches to approve along with any other details such as eyelets and metal neck adjusters. Once you are happy, the next stage will be to produce an initial sample. The sample stage is very important. It is an opportunity to see the design, review all the details and make any amendments.

Customising your apron

Adding your logo is the final touch. It serves as a visual representation of your brand and can leave a lasting impression on your customers. We have a talented team of embroiderers and printers who will advise on the best method to achieve an image that stands out and conveys quality and professionalism. Whether it is embroidery or print, the details create a sense of craftsmanship and attention to detail.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team about a future order, please click this link.