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The Colour Cartel

Garment Finishing & Relabelling for Clothing Brands

The finishing touches that set your brand apart

If you’re building a clothing brand, launching a label, or levelling up your merch, Retail Finishes are what take your garments from “printed” to retail-ready.

This part is all about presentation. The steps that happen after printing that turn a blank tee into something you’d expect to see folded on a shelf or packed neatly in an order.

We ensure your apparel arrives organised, consistent, and ready to sell, pack, or hand over without extra work on your end.

What Are Retail Finishes

Retail finishes are the final steps applied once your garments are printed. They’re designed to improve presentation, streamline fulfilment, and make your products feel complete from the get-go.

Instead of receiving loose garments in a box, your order arrives organised and ready for whatever comes next. Whether that’s a brand launch, wholesale delivery, staff kits, or online orders.

At The Colour Cartel, retail finishes are offered through two services:

Garment Relabelling

Replacing the original manufacturer’s label with your own branded label.

To discuss options or add garment relabelling to your order:

Full Retail Presentation

Folding, bagging, swing tags, and packaging options that prepare your garments for sale or distribution.

To discuss options or add garment relabelling to your order:

The Colour Cartel

Garment Relabelling

Garment relabelling replaces the original manufacturer’s label with your own branded label. It’s a key step for clothing brands wanting a fully branded product from the inside out.

Relabelling is completed in-house and must be done before printing and shipping.

Why Relabel?

Relabelling helps your garments feel intentional and brand-led. It removes generic branding and replaces it with something that reflects your business, not the blank supplier.

We Can:

  • Design and manufacture custom-branded labels
  • Sew labels into tees, hoodies, hats, and more
  • Retain required care labels for size, fibre content, country of origin, and wash instructions (as required by law)

Things to Consider:

  • Relabelling adds approximately 3–4 weeks to your order
  • All relabelling is completed before printing and dispatch

Where It Comes Together

Simple upgrades that shape how your garments are handled, packed, and received.

Garment Relabelling

Garment Relabelling

STEP 1

Swap out the original manufacturer tags for your own branded labels. This makes every piece feel like it truly belongs to your brand while keeping legal care instructions intact. Perfect for tees, sweatshirts, hats, and more, relabelling ensures a consistent, professional look across your entire order.

Custom Swing Tags

Custom Swing Tags

STEP 2

Swing tags are a simple way to add branding, pricing, or product information. You can supply your own tags, or we can help design and produce them to suit your brand.

Tags are attached in-house, so your garments arrive ready for retail or direct-to-customer orders.

Folded Presentation

Folded Presentation

STEP 3

Garments are neatly folded and arrive uniform and tidy, just as you’d expect from a retail store. A small detail, but one that instantly changes how your product is perceived.

Ideal for merch drops, wholesale orders, or anyone wanting a clean, consistent look across the board.

Bagged Garments

Bagged Garments

STEP 4

Each garment can be individually packed into a clear polybag to protect it during storage and shipping. Bagging is especially useful for online stores, stock storage, or orders being distributed across multiple locations.

It keeps products clean, organised, and ready to dispatch.

See How It Works

Curious about what goes into making your garments retail-ready? These videos give a behind-the-scenes look at our finishing process, from folding and bagging to tagging and pre-press workflow improvements.

Merch, Made Premium

Retail finishes can be added individually or combined to suit your order. Many brands choose a mix of folding, bagging, swing tags, and relabelling to create a streamlined, ready-to-sell product.

Clothing brand launches & drops

E-commerce fulfilment

Staff kits & uniforms

Wholesale & retail orders

Let’s Talk Retail Finishes

If you’re not sure which finishing options make sense for your order, or you’re planning something more complex, get in touch with our team. We’ll walk you through what’s possible and help you choose a setup that works for your brand, timeline, and budget.

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