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Positively Shaping Corporate Workwear

Is your company’s uniform body positive? Is it inclusive and fit for purpose? Specialist uniform designers have the expertise to produce stylish, comfortable and affordable corporate workwear to fit your workforce, whatever their size and shape. Full figure fashion revolution It’s not just fashion trends that change, body shapes are changing too. People are not just getting bigger, we are also curvier. Leading the charge are celebrities like the Kardashian […]

Staff Uniforms: What Matters Most to Your Staff?

In the Line of Duty:what do employees really love and hate about their team uniform? We interviewed retail and restaurant staff at London’s biggest shopping mall to find out. Taking the time to undertake staff interviews as part of the uniform design process helps to ensure that your new corporate uniform will not only look good but perform its function, that your staff will feel comfortable wearing it and better […]

Celebrating Success at the Professional Clothing Awards

JSD are celebrating after bringing home a clutch of trophies from the prestigious Professional Clothing Awards 2018. Best Workwear Design – Ocado Our Bespoke Workwear Range for Ocado, featuring advanced performance fabrics for a range of high visibility, layered workwear resulted in a win in the “Best Design for Workwear” category. The judges were impressed with our submission outlining how we developed not only a truly bespoke, advanced performance uniform […]

Football Fever – Team Kit and the Power in a Uniform

Football fashion – The power in a uniform Even before the first kick of the World Cup, competition between the teams is already fierce. Over what you ask? Who has the best team strip, of course. Or, as we would say, their uniforms. The creative design process follows much the same pattern as for any corporate or staff uniform. There’s a client, a brand, aesthetics, comfort and guidelines. The only […]

Dress Codes or Uniform? – How to Decide

Dress Codes can be more trouble than they are worth. Don’t dismiss investing in staff uniforms before reading this… With many businesses moving towards more relaxed dress codes at work or none at all, and even traditional customer-facing organisations, where uniforms have always been a staple, dressing down their workwear to be more flexible and individual, you might think that your business doesn’t need to invest in a uniform. After […]

Why Invest in a High End Uniform?

8 Reasons why you should invest in a high-end staff uniform People often say that what you wear says a lot about who you are. So by that assumption, what uniform you choose for your staff says a lot about who you are as a brand and as an employer. A well-designed, bespoke, high quality uniform may seem like a big outlay, but you should treat it as an investment […]

21st Century Punks: Hospitality Staff Uniforms Get a Transformation

New Street Food Concept Restaurant Showcases Punk Uniforms as Antidote to Hipster Culture JSD recently received a brief from a new concept restaurant chain to design a uniform that would both showcase their brand and provide the latest in practical features. Background: The street food scene has been taken over by slick-bearded hipsters who have turned the tradition of hygiene-light, greasy roadside snacks into a corporate niche, taken over by […]

Connected Threads – Fabric Technology and Workwear

E-textiles open up an exciting future for Corporate Uniform Design Smart fabrics was one of the biggest talking points at the recent Paris Fabric shows – Premiere Vision and TexWorld. The upcoming WEAR 2018 conference in New York will also focus on emerging trends in smart fabrics and wearable tech. While these areas are still quite new, they present opportunities for uniform design in the near future. These are exciting […]

New Year, New Look: How Do You Know When It’s Time To Change Your Company Uniform?

Is It Time To Replace Your Staff Uniform? Among the many well-meaning resolutions we make come the start of January, one of the most common is wanting to improve our looks or update our wardrobe. Have you taken a look at your corporate workwear lately and considered whether it’s ripe for a makeover? Here are some of the most common reasons for companies to replace their uniforms. Time For A […]

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