VS Wear designs and manufactures custom school jackets in bomber, varsity, softshell and hooded styles, built with heavyweight fleece lining and durable outer shells for genuine cold-weather warmth.
Every jacket is produced factory-direct with a fast 3 to 4 week guaranteed delivery, and backed by our 100% remake guarantee if the finished jackets do not match your approved design.
From everyday school sport through to graduation and leavers jackets, our team combines embroidery and sublimation to give your school genuine flexibility in how logos, house colours and student personalisation come together on one garment.
A school jacket carries more weight than most other items in a uniform program. It is often the garment students wear to and from school, at assemblies, on excursions and at community events, which means it represents the school publicly far more often than a sports-specific jersey or a PE polo ever will. Getting the fabric, fit and branding right on a jacket genuinely matters, both for how the school presents itself and for how long the jacket actually lasts in daily use.
We work directly with schools as a factory-direct supplier, keeping pricing competitive while giving your uniform coordinator one direct contact from first design through approval and production. With no reseller layer in the middle, changes to colours, sizing or personalisation details are confirmed quickly and directly with our production team.
Heavyweight fleece lining provides genuine warmth during colder months, while durable polyester and melton outer shells resist wear from daily school use.
Reinforced stitching and stress-point reinforcement are built into every jacket to extend garment life through the pulling, stretching and general roughhousing that school jackets are subjected to on a daily basis. Quality hardware including YKK zippers, metal snaps and brass buttons is used throughout, which matters over the life of a jacket since cheap zippers and snaps are usually the first thing to fail on a lower quality garment, long before the fabric itself shows any real wear.
Colourfast, fade-resistant dyes and prints maintain vibrancy after repeated washing, so a jacket purchased at the start of a school year still looks correctly branded at the end of it, and ideally for several years after that if the jacket is handed down or the design is reordered for new students. This combination of a genuinely warm lining, a hardwearing outer shell and hardware that will not fail early is what separates a jacket built for actual daily school use from one that only looks good in a catalogue photo.
We deliberately avoid cutting corners on hardware and lining weight even where it would reduce cost, because a jacket is typically the single most expensive item in a school uniform program and families expect it to last well beyond a single season. A zipper that jams or a lining that flattens out after a handful of washes creates real frustration for families who have invested in what is meant to be a durable, multi-year garment, which is exactly the outcome our fabric and hardware choices are designed to avoid.
Multiple jacket styles are available, including bomber, varsity, softshell and hooded, each supporting embroidered logos and sublimated panels for full-colour house colours and graphics.
Embroidered school logos can be placed on the chest, back or sleeve for a premium, traditional finish, particularly popular on varsity and bomber styles where a raised embroidered crest carries genuine visual weight. Sublimated panels handle full-colour house colours and larger graphics where embroidery would be impractical, and importantly, embroidery and sublimation can be combined on the same jacket, giving schools the traditional look of an embroidered crest alongside vibrant sublimated colour blocking or house panels in the one garment.
Softshell styles suit schools wanting a lighter, more modern jacket for milder climates or everyday wear over a school uniform, while hooded styles add extra weather protection for schools in genuinely cold regions or with significant outdoor sport programs. Student personalisation including names, graduation years and custom text is available across every style, making these jackets a natural fit for leavers and graduation orders as well as standard school sport uniforms.
Leavers and graduation jackets in particular often carry additional detail beyond the standard school design, such as individual graduation years, signature panels or a specific colourway reserved for the final year cohort. Because sublimation and embroidery can be combined freely, a graduating class can retain the recognisable core school design while still having a jacket that visibly marks their specific year group as distinct from the jackets worn by younger students still at the school.
Size range covers junior primary through to senior secondary and adult staff, with sizes able to be mixed within a single production run.
This matters for schools ordering jackets across multiple year levels or including staff sizing in the same production run as student sizing, since a single coordinated order removes the complexity of running separate purchasing processes for different parts of the school community. Existing school jacket designs can also be replicated or updated, useful for schools wanting to refresh an existing design without starting from a blank page, or simply reorder an established design with updated graduation years or minor colour adjustments.
Staff jackets are commonly ordered alongside student jackets in the same production run, sharing the core school design while using adult sizing and, in some cases, a slightly more understated colourway or reduced personalisation suited to staff wear rather than student wear. Coordinating staff and student jackets in the same order also means colours and fabric batches match precisely, avoiding the slightly-off shade mismatch that can occur when staff jackets are sourced separately from a different supplier at a different time.
We guarantee a fast 3 to 4 week delivery, with factory-direct bulk pricing and complimentary design revisions until your school approves the final artwork.
Graduation and leavers jacket orders often carry a firm delivery deadline tied to a specific ceremony date, and our team understands that pressure, working with schools to confirm realistic production timeframes well ahead of the event. Expedited delivery can also be discussed for urgent school events where the standard timeframe does not comfortably fit, so speak with our team early if your order has a fixed date attached to it.
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View the VS Wear GalleryCommon questions from schools ordering custom jackets.
We make school jackets in bomber, varsity, softshell and hooded cuts, so a school can pick a style to suit its climate and its look.
The minimum for custom school jackets is 20 units. Tell us your year-level and staff numbers and we will confirm how that works for your order.
Yes. We can reproduce an existing school jacket design or update it, whether that means refreshing the graphics or just changing the graduation year.
School jackets are delivered in a guaranteed 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design.
Yes. A single jacket can carry both an embroidered crest and sublimated house-colour panels, so you are not forced to choose one finish.
Sizing runs from junior primary through senior secondary to adult staff fits, all available in the one production run.
Yes. A single order can mix sizes across year levels and staff, so the whole school is covered in one run.
Yes. House colours, student names, graduation years and custom text can all be added, on any of the jacket styles.
For an urgent event we can look at expedited delivery. Get in touch early with your ceremony or event date and we will confirm what is achievable.
If the finished jackets do not match the artwork or production files you approved, our 100% remake guarantee covers a remake at no cost to your school.
Factory-direct school jackets, fully personalised for your school and backed by our guarantees. Your school jacket order includes:
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