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Our clients will ask us what types of suiting does Greco Apparel manufacture so we wanted to record a short video to explain our experience manufacturing a variety of suits, tuxedos and blazers for clients.

Greco Apparel has produced suiting for both men and women over the years. In addition to coats which can be made of wool, poly wool, and rayon. The end market is retail as well as for uniform and image apparel companies. An example client is Amtrak, which has a special design with 17 pockets for conductors.

The design of the apparel comes down to the the function of the garment, is the apparel for fashion or practical reasons? Rental tuxedos are a great example where we have used an adjustable size waist, sometimes referred to as “Buffet Pant.” This pant has a strip of elastic inside pant, so if someone eats too much at buffet, can stretch few more inches, and still fit in pant. This also gives some flexibility if a person’s size changes over time.

Greco Apparel produces garments for both female and male users. There is a little different construction depending if it is for male or female. This includes shorts, skirts, jumpers, maternity dresses, and kulot (which is commonly used in female athletics to have shorts underneath skirt like for tennis.

Call us at 215-628-2557 if you have questions about manufacturing suits.

Our clients will ask us what types of tops does Greco Apparel manufacture so we wanted to record a short video to explain our capabilities manufacturing a variety of tops including men’s shirts, oxford button-down shirts, screen print tees, long-sleeve shirts, knit and woven tops.

Tops can be categorized by knits and wovens, which are generally shirts.

Knits- garments such as T shirts, Polo shirts, and rugby shirts.

Wovens- garments such as oxford shirts, military goods, rip stop nylon, and uniform shirts, which are all made from woven fabric.

With lower priced shirts such as T Shirts, it is important to hit minimums for the program to make sense to manufacture directly with Greco Apparel. An example minimum for a low cost T Shirt may be 10,000 T shirts depending on design and price points.

Call us at 215-628-2557 if you have questions about manufacturing shirts.

Joe Greco, MSOD who is President of Greco Apparel has been manufacturing apparel for just about his entire life.

Our clients sometimes ask how apparel manufacturing has changes in last 60 years so we wanted to record a short video to explain what has happened from our perspective with so many years experience being in this business.

in 1973 when Joe Greco started in clothing manufacturing business, about 95% of apparel that was sold in United States, was manufactured in United States. There were about 23,000 clothing manufacturing employees in Philadelphia alone, Philadelphia was also the center for men’s suits.

China became popular over the years as companies began importing work from other countries. As apparel became easier to source overseas, companies in United States began to lose the competences associated with apparel manufacturing such as product development or sourcing fabric.

Sewing operators are entry level jobs, which is how Joe’s grandparents got started in 1907, as they just needed sewing machine.Clothing industry is also a great way way to get economy started.

Call us at 215-628-2557 if you have questions about apparel manufacturing.