VS Wear designs and manufactures custom sports uniforms for the rugby, netball, soccer, hockey and cricket teams of Armidale and the New England, produced factory-direct at 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing and delivered on a guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround from design approval.
Work back from your own opening round, because nobody else in this competition is on your calendar.
Clubs here order out of Bellevue Oval and out of the Armidale Sportsground.
Jerseys, shorts, socks and training tops for the sides in the New England competition, town clubs and colleges alike. Browse our rugby uniforms range.
Dresses, bodysuits, skirts and warm-ups for the netball half of the Armidale Blues Rugby and Netball Club. Browse our netball uniforms range.
Strips, keeper tops, shorts and training gear for clubs like South Armidale United FC at the Armidale Sportsground. Browse our soccer uniforms range.
Jerseys, skirts, shorts and socks for one of the codes played right through an Armidale winter. Browse our field hockey uniforms range.
Playing shirts, coloured one-day gear and caps for the summer use of the town's premier turf pitch. Browse our cricket uniforms range.
Hoodies, jackets, polos and supporter gear, which at this altitude is worn from the car park to the final whistle. Browse our off-field wear range.
Rugby union is the code that sets the calendar here and the New England winter season runs roughly April to September, with cricket filling the warmer months. Work back from your first fixture, not towards it.
Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design. Design and approval sit in front of that, and how long they take is up to your committee, not us.
Professional design is free, drawn by our in-house team from your colours, logo and ideas. Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval.
The trap in Armidale is watching the opposition. A club that waits until the rest of the competition starts ordering is taking its cue from committees that sign off on a completely different schedule. Count backwards from your own opening round instead, allow three to four weeks for production and a fortnight for the committee to argue about the crest, and the date takes care of itself.
Worth looking for: what a set still looks like at the end of a season rather than at the start of one, since the finals here are played on the same ground every year.
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View the VS Wear GalleryBellevue Oval at the University of New England is home to Robb College Rugby and to St Albert's College Rugby. Bellevue Oval also hosts the New England Rugby Union final series every year. The Armidale Blues Rugby and Netball Club is the town-based club in the same competition, and South Armidale United FC plays its football at the Armidale Sportsground. So a single round here can put a residential college and a town club on the same paddock.
A college sports committee and a town club committee approve spending on completely different schedules, so neither is a useful cue for the other. Clubs here should set their own order-by date and stop watching the rest of the ladder.
Because the New England final series lands at Bellevue Oval each year, the competition finishes on a known date as well as starting on one. Gear that arrives in round six is gear worn for fewer rounds, which is the argument for ordering against the start rather than against the deadline.
The Armidale Blues Rugby and Netball Club orders for both halves of its membership, so jerseys and dresses come off one approval and land on one date. That is the simplest part of the job and worth locking in early. Send us both grade lists.
Residents here play soccer, netball, badminton, basketball, rugby league and union, hockey and cricket, so a colour scheme has plenty of neighbours to sit against. The Armidale Regional Sports Council works with the council to improve sporting opportunities across that whole spread, which is a fair sign of how many committees are operating at once.
Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design.
Every order carries our 100% remake guarantee: finished garments that do not match the approved artwork or production files are remade at our cost.
VS Wear sells factory-direct, so the same premium quality lands 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing.
VS Wear is Australian owned and operated, and your order is looked after by our Australian-based team.
Certainty matters more here than in a town with one competition and one calendar. A committee at the Armidale Blues Rugby and Netball Club is answering to two sets of members, and a college side answers to an institution.
A guaranteed turnaround is something either of them can put in writing to whoever signs the cheque, and a remake guarantee is the answer to the only real objection: what if it comes back wrong.
Uniforms are designed and produced centrally, then freighted to whichever address your club or school nominates, whether that is a clubhouse, a home ground or a school office.
College sides can nominate a campus address and town clubs a clubhouse or a home one, and either works as long as somebody is named on the parcel. SportUNE is owned by UNE Life and services the university and the greater community, with courts open to the public for hire, so a club training on campus is not necessarily a campus organisation. Tell us which you are and where to send it. We also supply Tamworth west down off the tableland and Coffs Harbour east on the coast, and the full list of New South Wales cities we service covers the rest of the state through our New South Wales cities directory.
Cricket committees working out what to order for two seasons can start with our free custom cricket uniforms guide, which covers whites, coloured gear and squad sizing.
Against your own opening round. The other organisations in the competition approve spending on schedules that have nothing to do with yours, so using them as a cue is how a club ends up ordering in April.
VS Wear designs and manufactures fully sublimated custom sports uniforms for clubs, schools, associations and corporate teams: playing kit, training gear, warm-ups and off-field wear across the football codes, netball, basketball, cricket and soccer. Every order is produced factory-direct and shipped Australia-wide.
It sets the back end of your season, which is worth knowing. Gear approved late is gear worn for fewer rounds, so the value of ordering early is measured in matches rather than in weeks.
Yes. A college side orders on exactly the same terms as a town club, and the same 20 unit minimum per design applies. Whoever signs off for the institution is who we deal with.
Three to four weeks from design approval, guaranteed. The design and revision stage sits in front of that, and how long it takes depends on how quickly your committee signs off the mock-up.
One. Jerseys and dresses go into the same production run under a single approval, so both halves of the club are ready for the same opening weekend.
Yes. Armidale primary and secondary schools order house sport colours, representative team uniforms and PE gear on the same factory-direct terms as the clubs, and a single year group usually clears the 20 unit minimum.
The minimum order is 20 units per design. Adult and junior sizes can share the one production run, so a single side with its coaching staff generally clears it.
No. VS Wear does not have a store or showroom in Armidale. Every order is designed and produced centrally, then freighted to the address you nominate, whether that is a clubroom or a school office. That model is what holds pricing 30 to 40% below usual retail, and it means Armidale clubs get the same free design service, the same guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround and the same Australian-based support as any other order in the country.
We deliver right across the region. We supply clubs at Tamworth and Coffs Harbour, and we quote sides ordering out of Guyra, Uralla, Walcha and Glen Innes. The pages linked above cover several in detail and the rest are quoted on identical terms.
Tell us the date of your opening fixture and we will tell you the last day the design can be approved. Everything before that is yours to spend arguing about the crest.
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