VS Wear designs and manufactures custom lawn bowls polo shirts for Australian bowls clubs, with cotton pique and technical performance fabric options suited to both warm days on the green and much cooler pennant season starts.
Every polo is produced factory-direct, backed by a free design service with unlimited revisions, and a remake guarantee covering any polos that arrive off-spec from the design your club signed off.
From social bowls members through to representative players competing at district and state level, our design team supplies polos that meet club dress standards while genuinely holding up to the number of times a club polo actually gets worn across a long playing season.
Not every club wants the same polo, so both traditional cotton pique and modern technical performance fabric are available depending on your club's preference.
Cotton pique suits clubs wanting a classic, breathable feel with embroidered branding, the traditional look many established clubs have worn for decades. Moisture-wicking technology manages perspiration and promotes drying regardless of which fabric your club chooses, and reinforced stitching at stress points extends garment life across a long season of regular wear and washing.
Sublimation allows complex multi-colour designs without added weight or texture, suiting clubs wanting a more modern look with detailed graphics or gradient effects that traditional embroidery cannot easily reproduce. Both fabric options share the same underlying construction quality, so the choice comes down to your club's preferred finish rather than any difference in durability.
Cotton pique has been the traditional lawn bowls fabric for decades, and plenty of established clubs have no interest in moving away from that classic feel purely for the sake of change. Technical performance fabric appeals more to clubs wanting a lighter, more breathable option, particularly for members playing multiple sessions across a single weekend or travelling for representative fixtures where comfort across a long day matters more than tradition. Neither option is inherently better than the other, and our design team is genuinely happy to talk through the trade-offs based on how your club actually plays rather than pushing a single recommendation regardless of fit.
Reinforced stitching at stress points matters more for a club polo than it might first appear, since the garment is handled, washed and worn week after week across a long bowls season rather than reserved for occasional match days. A polo that starts to fray at the collar or under the arms after only a handful of washes reflects poorly on the whole club, particularly when members wear it to represent the club at inter-club and district fixtures throughout the year.
Not sure which fabric suits your club's climate? Call 1800 845 056 and our team can talk through the options.
Traditional collar styles are available in self-fabric, rib knit and flat-knit finishes, so your club can choose the look that suits its dress standards.
Professional embroidery is available for club badges, logos and personalisation, giving a genuinely traditional, textured finish that many established clubs prefer over a printed alternative for their core match-day polo. Sublimation remains available as an alternative for clubs wanting unlimited colours and detailed artwork instead. Get a quote for your club's design and our team will advise on which collar and finish suits your existing branding.
A pennant fixture or club day can mean hours outdoors in full sun, so sun protection is built into the fabric construction rather than treated as an optional extra.
UPF sun protection is genuinely built into the fabric, giving members a practical layer of defence during long sessions on the green, and moisture-wicking technology keeps players comfortable through the heat of the day. This matters more for lawn bowls than for many faster-paced sports, since a single session can stretch across most of an afternoon without the kind of breaks other sports build in naturally. Players are also frequently standing exposed to direct sun with relatively little movement compared to a running sport, which changes how heat and UV exposure actually affect the body across a match. Fabric that accounts for that reality, rather than being adapted from a fast-paced field sport template, makes a genuine practical difference to how comfortable members feel by the closing ends of a long day.
Polos meet club dress standards for on-green wear and representative events, giving clubs genuine confidence that a design ordered through VS Wear will properly satisfy district and association requirements.
District and state association compliance often comes with specific expectations around collar style, crest placement and consistent club colours, and our design team works within those requirements rather than treating every order as a blank slate. Colour matching to your club's exact heritage colours means a design refresh does not lose the details that make your club recognisable to long-standing members. Many bowls clubs have worn the same core colours for decades, and members can be understandably protective of a design that carries genuine history, so a uniform refresh does not need to mean abandoning that history entirely. Our design team can work from an existing polo or a photo of an older shirt to rebuild the same colours and layout in a fresher cut and fabric, so the club stays recognisably itself after the update, and representative players moving between club and district commitments are not left in visibly mismatched versions of the same colours.
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Your approved design and colours stay on file, so reordering polos for members who join later is quick and needs no redesign. We keep it light for volunteer committees: confirm colours and dress-standard requirements, sign off a digital mock-up, and collect member sizes across men's and ladies' fits on one simple order form. Embroidered polos take a gentle cold wash, while sublimated polos hold their colour through hot-weather washing, so neither needs a special care routine across a membership. Both men's and ladies' fits are cut to their own pattern rather than a shared unisex block, so the polo sits properly on every member across the club.
Common questions from bowls clubs ordering custom polos.
Cotton pique and technical performance fabric options are both available, depending on your club's preferred style.
Yes. Our design team works from your existing colours and crest to reproduce your club's heritage colours accurately.
Yes. We build the polos to district and association dress standards, so they are compliant for on-green wear and representative fixtures.
You can choose a self-fabric, rib-knit or flat-knit collar, so the polo matches your club's traditional look.
Yes. UPF sun protection is built into the fabric construction.
The minimum is 20 units per design. Across a club membership, men's and ladies' fits and mixed sizes all count toward it.
We guarantee 3 to 4 week delivery from design approval.
Yes. Your approved design and colours stay on file, so reordering for new members does not require redesigning from scratch.
Embroidery is a raised, stitched finish that suits a classic club badge, while sublimation dyes complex multi-colour graphics into the fabric with no added weight. Many clubs use embroidery for the crest and sublimation for the rest.
Yes. VS Wear is Australian owned and operated and ships to clubs Australia-wide.
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