VS Wear supplies fully sublimated custom sports uniforms to schools, clubs and junior teams in Lochinvar and the surrounding Hunter towns, produced factory-direct at 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing and delivered on a guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround from design approval.
Order for one grade or for a whole school, from a minimum of 20 units per design, with spares built into the same run rather than chased later.
School sport comes first in a village with a preschool-to-Year-12 campus, then the winter codes and the summer ones behind it.
House colours, carnival singlets and representative team gear for primary and secondary years alike. Browse our school sports uniform range.
Playing jerseys, shorts, socks and training tops for the junior grades that fill a Hunter winter. See our rugby uniforms range.
Home and away strips, goalkeeper sets and training gear, usually the first code a family joining a new estate signs up for. Check our soccer uniforms range.
Dresses, bodysuits, bibs and warm-up layers for the teams playing through the associations in the towns nearby. Browse our netball uniforms range.
Whites, coloured one-day gear, playing shirts and caps for junior and senior sides across the summer. See our cricket uniforms range.
The minimum order is 20 units per design. Professional design is free, drawn by our in-house team from your colours, logo and ideas.
One quote can carry playing kit, training gear and off-field wear across every age group. Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design.
Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval. Every order carries our 100% remake guarantee: finished garments that do not match the approved artwork or production files are remade at our cost.
In Lochinvar the group that most often clears a minimum on its own is a school year level rather than a club side, because the St Patrick's Primary School and St Joseph's College site spans preschool to Year 12 while the village itself is small. A single year group ordering carnival gear is a straightforward order; a single junior team usually needs its coaching staff and a few spares counted in.
A group ordering for the first time has nothing to compare against, so finished photographs are the reference point. They also make a parent committee's decision far quicker than a flat drawing does.
Browse 1,000+ real custom uniform photos, including finished teamwear and customers wearing their VS Wear uniforms.
View the VS Wear GalleryLochinvar had a population of about 1,095 at the 2021 census, nearly double its 2016 figure, which makes it one of the fastest-growing localities in the Hunter. In February 2023 it was named Maitland's next boom town, with 5,000 housing lots on public exhibition and a new school and shopping precinct planned. It already carries three schools, with St Patrick's Primary School and St Joseph's College sharing a site from preschool through to Year 12, and Lochinvar Public School as the other primary.
That growth changes one practical thing about an order: the number. In a settled town a count taken at the AGM is still roughly right in March. In a village where a term of new enrolments can move a year level noticeably, the count should be taken as close to design approval as you can manage. Approval is what starts the guaranteed 3 to 4 weeks, so a late count costs nothing as long as the design work is already done.
Spares are worth more in Lochinvar than in most places, because a growing group will use them. Adding a handful of garments to a run that is already going is the cheapest they will ever be, and it means a child arriving at Lochinvar Public School in June is dressed the same day rather than after a wait. Every group that has ordered twice in a Hunter Valley growth suburb wishes it had ordered spares the first time.
The reason later garments look slightly different is almost never the manufacturing, it is that artwork was redrawn between orders. We hold the approved files and produce every later run from them, which is what lets a child who starts in the middle of the year wear the identical uniform rather than a near match.
Teams here often play in competitions administered from the larger towns nearby, so the fixture calendar is set elsewhere even when the players are local. That is worth checking before you set a deadline. A club still deciding in February is fitting design, approval and the guaranteed 3 to 4 week production window into its busiest registration weeks. Send us your numbers.
VS Wear sells factory-direct, so the same premium quality lands 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing.
Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design.
Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval.
Every order carries our 100% remake guarantee: finished garments that do not match the approved artwork or production files are remade at our cost.
Same price at any size is the line that matters in a Hunter Valley village of about 1,095 people. A Lochinvar group is not quoted differently for being small, and it is not asked to reach a bigger threshold before the design work starts.
That is also why growth is not a pricing problem here. A group that orders 24 garments this year and 60 next year is on the same terms both times, working from the same held artwork.
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.
In a village this size a school office is usually the most reliable delivery point, and the shared St Patrick's Primary School and St Joseph's College site is attended every weekday. We also supply the larger Hunter Valley towns close by, including Maitland and Cessnock, and the full list of New South Wales cities we service covers the rest of the state through our New South Wales cities directory.
Committees pricing several grades at once can start with our free custom team uniforms guide, which covers sizing and artwork for multi-team orders.
As late as you can, and certainly not at the AGM. Get the design drawn and revised early with St Patrick's Primary School or St Joseph's College numbers as a guide, then count again immediately before you sign off, because nothing is locked in until then.
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.
More than you think, and always in the first run. Spares added to a production run that is already going are the cheapest garments you will buy, and in a place growing at Lochinvar's rate they get used rather than sitting in a cupboard.
Yes. We hold your approved artwork and produce later runs from the same files, so an addition in June is identical to the March order rather than close to it.
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.
Yes. A school year level clears the minimum comfortably, and a junior team gets there once coaching staff and spares are counted. Nothing about the price changes because the order is small.
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.
The school office, in most cases. It is attended every weekday, which beats a ground that is open two evenings a week, and one delivery point makes handing gear out simple.
No. VS Wear does not have a store or showroom in Lochinvar. 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 Lochinvar 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.
Maitland, Cessnock and the towns between and beyond them. The pages linked above cover several in detail and the rest are quoted on identical terms.
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