How do I size a box around a folded garment and its tissue?
Fold the piece the way your team packs it, wrap it in its tissue, and give us the length, width and height of that bundle. We build the box around it, so the garment arrives folded exactly as it left you.
Tissue and folding are part of the size. A sheet wrapped round a shirt adds a little on every side, a card on top adds height, and knitwear and padded pieces rise again once nobody is pressing them down. We size from the wrapped bundle as it sits on your bench, with room for it to go in without squashing but not enough for it to slide about and pick up new creases.
Most brands do best with a house fold: one agreed way of folding each type of piece, so every packer does it the same. Tell us which pieces share a box and how many go into a typical order. When a tee and a hoodie often travel together, we size the depth for both, and one footprint in two depths keeps your range looking like one family.
- We size from the folded garment in its tissue
- A house fold keeps every order the same
- One footprint in two depths covers light and heavy pieces
Can one packaging look work for online orders, the shop and gifts?
Yes. We make each format for its own journey and carry the same colours, logo and tissue through all of them, so your customer meets one brand however they buy.
An online order goes out in Custom Mailer Boxes or corrugated Custom Apparel Boxes that travel through the post on their own. A customer leaving your shop carries Custom Paper Bags, and a present calls for Rigid Gift Boxes or Magnetic Closure Boxes that are ready to hand over. If you sell footwear too, Custom Shoe Boxes can wear the same design.
Send us your brand colour references and we print to them on corrugated board, paper and wrap paper, showing each one on the proof. The same tissue and a seal sticker from our Custom Labels & Stickers range can go inside every format, so a posted order opens to the wrapping your shop uses.
What packaging suits scarves, socks, belts and other accessories?
We size accessory packaging to the piece: a pillow box for socks, a sleeve or drawer box for a folded scarf, and a rigid or magnetic box when the accessory is a gift.
Accessories often sell at the till or alongside a garment, so the box has to fill quickly and look finished. Custom Pillow Boxes suit a pair of socks or a small folded scarf. Custom Sleeve Boxes and Custom Drawer Boxes suit flat pieces, and we can open a sleeve along its long side so a folded scarf shows in full as the tray slides out. For a silk scarf or a leather belt bought as a present, Magnetic Closure Boxes and Rigid Gift Boxes give it the weight of a gift.
Belts and ties are packed coiled or rolled, and a die-cut insert from our Custom Packaging Inserts range holds the coil in place. When an accessory is bought with a garment, we can size its box to lie flat on the folded garment inside the main box, so the order opens as one.
How do I give a limited drop or new collection its own packaging?
We keep one base box for your range and give each drop its own printed belly band, sleeve or seal sticker, so every collection looks new while the box underneath stays the same.
Each drop brings a new name, a new colour story and sometimes a collaboration, and printing a fresh box every time leaves you holding stock that fits only one release. With a plain or brand-printed base box, only the band, sleeve or sticker changes, and because we draw it from your box's dieline, it fits first time. Custom Sleeve Boxes are built on this idea, and a belly band does the same job more lightly on a mailer or rigid box.
For a numbered run, we print each number on a label and leave a neat space for it on the base or the band. When a collection comes back, we work from the same dieline and colour references, so the restock matches the first run.
Which fashion boxes do customers keep and reuse?
Rigid boxes are the ones people keep, so we finish them to look good in a wardrobe or on a shelf long after the garment is worn.
A box that is kept goes on showing your name every time it opens. Rigid Gift Boxes with a lift-off lid suit knitwear and folded gifts, Magnetic Closure Boxes reopen with a soft click and keep their lid attached, and Custom Drawer Boxes slide open like a small drawer. Customers use them to store scarves, belts and keepsakes.
We plan these boxes for months of handling. A laminated or textured wrap keeps its corners looking fresh, a logo in foil, embossing or debossing sits quietly on a box on display, and a printed lining inside the lid finishes every opening. If your customer may want to fold the box away, Custom Collapsible Rigid Boxes with interlocking tabs set up again and again.
Can premium apparel packaging arrive flat and pack quickly?
Yes. We make fold-flat rigid and magnetic boxes that are stored flat and set up at the bench in moments, and corrugated mailers that lock shut without tape.
Fashion studios often pack in a small space and in bursts, on drop day or before the gifting season. Custom Collapsible Rigid Boxes and Custom Ribbon Pull Collapsible Boxes give the wrapped, weighty feel of a rigid box while staying flat on the shelf until needed, and the ribbon pull style lifts into shape with one pull.
Every layer inside the box is a step at the bench, so we help you keep the ones that earn their place. A message printed inside the lid can replace a loose card, a box sized to the wrapped garment needs no paper fill, and a seal sticker closes the tissue in one press.
What paper bags does a clothing shop need?
We size a clothing shop's bags around what leaves the till: a slim bag with a narrow gusset for folded garments, a wider one that takes a boxed gift, and a small one for accessories.
Folded clothes lie flat, so a narrow gusset holds them neatly, while a boxed purchase needs a wider base to stand square. Tell us your most common purchases and the size of any box that goes into a bag, and we set the width, gusset and height around them, with room for tissue folded over the top.
Twisted paper handles suit busy everyday counters, while rope or ribbon handles and a printed inside suit boutiques and gift purchases, where your customer looks into the bag as they unpack. A seal sticker across the folded tissue keeps the purchase covered on the way home.
What should I send with a fashion packaging quote request?
Tell us what you sell, how it is folded and how it reaches your customer. We recommend the formats, size each one and show everything on the dieline and digital proof before production.
For each garment or accessory, send us its folded size in tissue, how many pieces go into a typical order and whether it is posted, carried from your shop or given as a gift. Add your brand colours, any finish you have in mind, such as a foil logo or a soft-touch lid, and whether the boxes need to be stored flat. For a drop, tell us how many designs will share the base box.
We draw each box around your bundles, with any insert, label zone and finish areas marked, and send the dieline and digital proof so you can check the fit and the look on screen. If a garment changes, such as a heavier winter knit, tell us and we adjust the depth before the next run.
- The folded size of each piece, with its tissue
- Pieces per order and how each one reaches your customer
- Brand colours, finishes and the designs that share a box
