VS Wear designs and manufactures custom lawn bowls short sleeve shirts for Australian bowls clubs, districts and state associations, with bulk pricing available to outfit an entire membership in one coordinated order.
Every shirt is produced factory-direct, backed by a free design service and a 100% remake promise if the delivered shirts do not match the artwork you approve, with unlimited revisions before production begins.
From social bowls members through to pennant sides and state association representatives, our design team supplies shirts that meet club dress standards while genuinely holding up to the number of times a bowls shirt actually gets worn across a long playing season.
A bowls shirt is worn for hours at a time across a long outdoor session, so comfort and durability are treated as genuine requirements rather than an afterthought behind the design.
Moisture-wicking, breathable performance fabric keeps members cool through a full day on the green, and short sleeves make this the natural pick for warm-weather pennant days and summer social sessions. Durable construction stands up to constant wear and washing across a season that runs for months, which matters in bowls because the same shirt gets worn week after week for social roll-ups, club days and pennant fixtures rather than kept aside for match day alone. A shirt that feels fine at the first end but overheats or chafes by the fifth is a real problem when a session can stretch across a whole afternoon in full sun, so comfort over a long day is treated as a core requirement rather than an afterthought.
Reinforced seams and tidy stitching matter more than they look, since a club shirt is washed and worn far more often than a match-day-only garment. Collars and underarms are the first places a cheaper shirt gives out, and a frayed shirt at an inter-club or district fixture is not the look a club wants to present. Because the sleeves are short, the shoulder seams take the strain as members reach and deliver, so those seams are built to hold. The shirts are also machine washable and keep their colour and shape wash after wash, so there is no special care routine to manage across a large membership order.
Not sure which fabric weight suits your club's climate? Call 1800 845 056 and our team can talk through the options.
Traditional and modern collar options are both available, so your club can choose the style that suits its existing dress standards or a fresh update.
Sublimation printing produces vibrant, fade-resistant designs that will not peel or crack, dyed directly into the fabric so a shirt printed at the start of a season still looks correct at the end of it. This suits clubs wanting bold colours, gradients or detailed graphics as part of a modern club refresh.
Quality embroidery is available for club crests, sponsor logos and member names, giving a more traditional, textured finish that many established clubs prefer for their core shirt design. Get a quote for your club's design and our team will advise on which finish genuinely suits your club's crest and existing branding style before you commit to a final decision.
Bowls clubs bring together a genuinely wide range of ages and body types across social, pennant and representative members, so a narrow size run was never going to suit a whole membership.
The XS to 5XL range covers a club's full membership, and bulk pricing outfits everyone in one coordinated order rather than several smaller buys through the year. Competitive pennant players and social bowlers get the same fabric and design quality whatever grade they play. On a larger order, getting sizes right first time matters, since a correction after production starts holds up every member waiting on the run, so we help clubs collect accurate measurements before the order is confirmed.
VS Wear is trusted by clubs, districts and state associations across Australia, supplying shirts that meet the dress standards different levels of competition expect.
District and state association rules often set specific expectations for collar style, crest placement and consistent club colours, and our design team works inside those rules rather than starting every order from a blank page. VS Wear is Australian owned and operated with local service, so your club deals with a local team throughout. Plenty of bowls clubs have worn the same colours for decades, and a refresh does not have to throw that away: we can rebuild an existing shirt in a modern cut and fabric while keeping the colours and layout members already know.
Pennant and representative sides carry an extra requirement: every player in identical, compliant kit on the day, with the club crest and any district markings exactly where the competition expects them. We plan those orders around the season opener and hold the artwork so a club can add spare sizes for late selections without starting again. Social members, meanwhile, often want the same shirt in a relaxed fit for club days and barefoot bowls, and both come off the one approved design so the whole club still looks like one club.
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View the VS Wear GalleryWe guarantee fast 3 to 4 week delivery with unlimited design revisions, so the finished shirts genuinely match what your club approved.
Your approved design and colours stay on file, so reordering for members who join mid-season is quick and needs no redesign. We keep the whole process light for volunteer committees: confirm colours and dress-standard requirements, sign off a digital mock-up, and collect member sizes on a simple form. It runs the same way whether you are ordering fifty shirts for the first time or five for late-joining members.
Common questions from bowls clubs and associations ordering custom shirts.
Lawn bowls short sleeve shirts are cut from a moisture-wicking, breathable performance fabric, so members stay cool through a long afternoon on the green and the shirt copes with frequent washing.
Yes. Our design team reproduces your club's exact colours and crest from an existing shirt, a sample or Pantone references, so a new order matches what members already wear.
Yes. You can have a fully sublimated design, an embroidered crest, or both on the one shirt, depending on the finish your club prefers.
Shirts run from XS to 5XL, so social bowlers, pennant players and every body type across the membership are covered in the one order.
The minimum is 20 units per design. Across a full membership order most bowls clubs clear that comfortably, and mixed sizes all count toward it.
Lawn bowls shirts are guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from design approval, delivered anywhere in Australia.
Yes. Your approved design stays on file, so a mid-season reorder for new members comes back in the same colours and layout without redrawing anything.
Yes. We build to district and association dress standards, matching collar style, crest placement and club colours to what your competition requires.
Both traditional and modern collar styles are available, so a club can keep its established look or move to a fresher cut.
Yes. VS Wear is Australian owned and ships lawn bowls shirts to clubs, districts and associations right across Australia.
Factory-direct club shirts, fully customised to your bowls club and backed by our guarantees. Order your custom lawn bowls shirts and get:
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