How to brief a uniform manufacturer

List the jobs. A hotel front-office set and a kitchen set are different products. A factory supervisor and a shop-floor operator may share colour and still need different pockets. If you only send a pantone, you will get a guess.

Give a first-order quantity and how you think about top-ups. Manufacturers plan cutting and shade around that. ‘As needed’ is not a size break.

Send mark files and say where they should live. Say how garments are washed — industrial, in-house, or at home. A logo that looks sharp on a table can destroy a light shirt in a tunnel washer.

If you need flame resistance, ESD, cleanroom or a named standard, write the standard and attach whatever evidence you already use. Do not ask a factory to ‘make it FR’ from a photograph of someone else’s garment.