VS Wear designs and manufactures custom sports uniforms and club apparel for the rugby, bowls, cricket and soccer clubs of Petersham, Stanmore and the Inner West, produced factory-direct at 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing and delivered on a guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround from design approval.
One design can dress the players and be sold to the members who never take the field. Minimum 20 units per design.
Rugby and bowls lead in a suburb whose clubs are among the oldest of their kind in the country, with members' apparel close behind.
Jerseys, shorts, socks and training tops for grades at a club that has been playing suburban rugby longer than any other in Australia. Browse our rugby uniforms range.
Short and long sleeve shirts, pants and sets for a bowling club with well over a century of greens behind it. See our lawn bowls uniforms range.
Hoodies, tees and polos for the majority of a community club's membership, who pay subscriptions and never take the field. Browse our club supporter merchandise range.
Playing shirts, coloured one-day gear and caps for the summer sides using the oval at Petersham Park. See our cricket uniforms range.
Polos, jackets and hoodies for committees running a club that is a social institution as much as a sporting one. Browse our off-field wear range.
Strips, keeper tops, shorts and training gear for the winter sides on Inner West Council grounds. See our soccer uniforms range.
VS Wear sells factory-direct, so the same premium quality lands 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing. Professional design is free, drawn by our in-house team from your colours, logo and ideas.
Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design. We ship Australia-wide, to whichever address you nominate.
Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval. Nothing is produced until you have approved it.
Every order carries our 100% remake guarantee: finished garments that do not match the approved artwork or production files are remade at our cost.
A community club in Petersham has a fifth question the four above do not reach: how much of this will actually sell. Playing kit is issued against a known list, but members' apparel has to be wanted by people who could equally buy nothing, and that is a different kind of risk.
The difference between merchandise that moves and merchandise that fills a cupboard is usually visible before anybody orders it. Photographs of finished work are how a committee can judge whether its own members would take one off the table on a Saturday.
Browse 1,000+ real custom uniform photos, including finished teamwear and customers wearing their VS Wear uniforms.
View the VS Wear GalleryPetersham sits about six kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is known for a large Portuguese community, with a high proportion of residents born in Southern Europe including Portugal, Italy and Greece. The Sydney Portugal Community Club, founded by Portuguese migrants, is one of the most recognised Portuguese clubs in the Inner West. Petersham Rugby Club is the oldest surviving suburban rugby club in Australia, and Petersham Bowling Club has been rolling on the same greens since the nineteenth century. Petersham Park carries a cricket oval, a rotunda, a playground and an aquatic centre.
At institutions of this kind the playing list is a fraction of the people who belong, which changes what an order should contain. Three things follow.
An order built only around playing kit serves the smallest group in the building. The larger opportunity is apparel for people who come for the club rather than for the game, and in a suburb where a club is also a cultural institution that group can be many times the size of the playing list.
Playing kit is issued against a known list and paid for from a budget. Members' apparel is sold to individuals who can just as easily buy nothing, so it needs its own design conversation and its own approval rather than being tacked onto a team order.
The way merchandise goes wrong is a single optimistic order that becomes a storage problem. Held artwork means a short second run is always available, so the sensible pattern is a modest first range, an honest look at what sold, and a top-up produced from the same approved files. 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 colours and numbers.
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.
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 is Australian owned and operated, and your order is looked after by our Australian-based team.
The risk a committee carries with merchandise is money it has already spent on behalf of members who had no say in it. That is a harder conversation at an annual meeting than a playing kit decision ever is.
Free design and unlimited revisions let a club test the idea properly before committing, and the ability to reorder small runs against held artwork means the first order does not have to be a bet on the whole year.
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.
A licensed club or a staffed clubhouse is one of the best delivery addresses in the Inner West, because somebody is there most days and merchandise can go straight behind the bar rather than into a car. We also supply Dulwich Hill and Leichhardt nearby, 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.
Hoodies, tees and polos rather than playing kit. They are the garments a member will wear away from the club, which is where most of your membership spends its time.
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.
One artwork, two decisions. The kit is issued against a list while the merchandise has to be chosen and paid for by individuals, so approving them together tends to serve neither properly.
Order a modest first range and reorder what sells. Held artwork makes a short second run straightforward, so nothing about the first order needs to be a guess at the whole year.
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.
It widens the audience. A design that only reads as sportswear will not be worn by the members who joined for everything else the club is.
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 clubhouse. A staffed club is open most days, which makes it one of the few sporting addresses in the Inner West that can genuinely receive freight.
No. VS Wear does not have a store or showroom in Petersham. 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 Petersham 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 quote and deliver to all of them, including Lewisham, Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, Enmore and Newtown. The pages linked above cover several in detail and the rest are quoted on identical terms.
Send the playing numbers and an honest estimate of how many members might buy something. We will draw one identity and quote the two parts separately.
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