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For streetwear, 300 to 400 GSM. Below roughly 280 GSM a hoodie starts to feel like a mid-layer rather than the substantial piece your customers are comparing against, and above 450 GSM it becomes stiff and slow to dry without feeling meaningfully better. Within that band, 320 to 350 GSM brushed-back fleece is the most common answer and suits most brands. The most reliable way to get what you want is not to pick a number from a chart but to send us a hoodie whose weight you like. We will measure it, match the fabric weight and note the construction, then confirm it back to you before sampling. Weight is the number one reason a first streetwear sample disappoints a brand, and it is entirely preventable with one garment in the post.

By having it drafted as its own block rather than sizing up a standard pattern. This distinction catches out a lot of new brands. If a factory takes a regular hoodie pattern and produces it a size or two larger, you get longer sleeves and a longer body — the garment is bigger everywhere, which is not the look. A true boxy block is drafted wide relative to its length, with the shoulder seam deliberately dropped down the arm and the body kept short even as the chest measurement increases. Those are pattern decisions made before any fabric is cut. We draft boxy and oversized fits as separate blocks, and the most reliable route is to send us a garment with the silhouette you want so we can pattern from the real thing rather than from a description.

It depends on the artwork, not on which is newer. Screen printing pushes a thick layer of ink through a mesh, one screen per colour. That gives the most durable and opaque result, handles heavy solid coverage on dark fabric better than anything else, and gets cheaper per unit as quantity rises. Its limitation is colour count: a six-colour design needs six screens, and photographic artwork with gradients is not practical. Direct-to-film prints your artwork onto a film and heat-presses it across, so colour count costs nothing and fine detail survives. It is the better answer for detailed, multi-coloured or photographic work at low quantities, which describes a lot of first streetwear drops. Send us the artwork and we will tell you which one your design actually needs.

Faster if you warned us it might. The slow part of a reorder is almost never the sewing, which we can schedule quickly. It is the fabric, and specifically the dyeing, because your colour has to be booked into a dye lot at a partner plant and lots are scheduled in advance. A reorder placed cold waits for that lot like any other order. A reorder we knew was coming can have fabric already reserved against it, which removes the longest step. So the single most useful thing a streetwear brand can do is share a drop calendar with us, even a rough one. It costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and is the difference between restocking a sold-out piece in weeks rather than months.

Yes, and it is the method we recommend over a written description. Send us the physical garment. We measure it flat at every relevant point, weigh the fabric to establish GSM, identify the knit structure and the rib composition, note the seam types and the construction of the cuffs, hem and hood, and pattern from that. A written spec, or a photograph, always leaves room for interpretation — two people can read heavyweight boxy hoodie and picture different garments. A physical reference removes the ambiguity entirely. We will also tell you honestly where we would build it differently, for instance if the original uses a construction that will not survive many washes, so the decision stays yours.