Custom Zip-Up Sweaters with Your Logo

Here's a test worth doing before you order: take the shirt your people really wear to work and pull the sweater on over it. That one test picks most custom zip-up sweaters for us. A dress shirt wants a thin knit. A polo or a uniform shirt can take something heavier. Zip length comes second, the logo comes last.

Six styles sit in this group, and they spread out a lot by weight.

Start with the shirt underneath

Here they are, light to heavy, by the fabric weight on each listing (oz means ounces per square yard, so a higher number is a thicker knit):

• 6.5 oz - Adidas A554 and A555. A 53/47 cotton and recycled polyester knit with moisture management, meaning it pulls sweat off the skin. The A554 listing also names a stand-up collar.
• 7 oz - Devon & Jones DG446 and DG446W, a cotton-blend knit in Black, Graphite or Navy.
• 9.75 oz - The J. America 8716, 100% polyester sweater knit with a herringbone texture all over.
• 12 oz - Harriton M421, a unisex quarter-zip.

People ask us which one is the warmest. By weight, the Harriton, and it isn't close. But warmest isn't always the goal. Honestly, a Houston office can swing from a freezing conference room to a lobby full of sun in the same afternoon, and a 12 oz knit over a starched dress shirt gets bulky fast.

So for front desk, sales floor and meeting-room wear, we lean to the 6.5 and 7 oz pairs. They sit flatter under a blazer and over a collar. The Harriton earns its place on staff who stand near an open door, a loading area or a cold back office all day.

It's like picking work gloves. Thin ones when you need your fingers, thick ones for the cold mornings.

Quarter zip or full zip?

Five of the six are quarter-zips: a short zipper from the neck down, so you can open it when the room warms up and close it when the AC kicks back on. That's the look most offices want for corporate quarter-zip sweaters. Neat, and it doesn't flap around.

For full-zip sweaters, the pick here is the J. America 8716. It opens all the way down like a jacket, so people can wear it open over a shirt and take it off without messing up their hair. Little detail. People notice.

The catch? With the zipper running all the way down, a wide logo has nowhere to sit, so plan on a compact one. And check the colors and sizes on the 8716 listing before you plan a whole team around it.

No zipper at all? Then you're really shopping pullover sweaters, and if buttons are the plan, cardigans. And if somebody on your team says "quarter-zip" but means a sweatshirt, not a knit, the quarter and half-zip sweatshirts are the place to look.

Dressing a mixed team in one style

This is where the pairs help. Each one comes in two size runs, the men's style and the women's style:

DG446 runs S to 4XL, the DG446W XS to 3XL, both in the same three colors. Adidas A554 runs S to 4XL, the A555 XS to 3XL, and both share the same six melange colors (Acid Orange, Black, Collegiate Navy, Focus Blue, Green Oxide and Grey Three).

The Harriton M421 goes the other way. One unisex cut, XS to 4XL, in Black, Dark Navy or Grey Heather. One style number for everybody. Easy.

Look, if your company already buys the Adidas or Harriton for a field crew, those three also sit in our work sweaters group. Same sweater in the office and on site makes one logo plan for everybody.

Where does the logo go on custom zip-up sweaters?

Left chest or right chest. Those are the two logo spots on every listing here, and on a sweater they make the most sense anyway. A left-chest logo is usually about 3 to 4 inches wide, which reads fine across a meeting table.

On the quarter-zips, keep the design clear of the zipper and its tape. On the 8716 the zipper runs the full length, so the chest is split in two. Logo on one side, a name on the other works nicely.

Our call on a knit: thread. The listings allow printing too, but embroidered zip-up sweaters just look like they belong in a client meeting, and stitching doesn't crack or fade in the wash. Every logo is digitized first (turned into a stitch file the machine follows), with the density set for the knit, plus the right backing behind it so the fabric doesn't pucker. Puckering is fabric bunching around the stitches, and a textured herringbone knit shows it fast if the setup is wrong. More on how we stitch is on our embroidery services page.

Shop note: all six Adidas colors are melange, a mixed-fiber look like heather. Thread reads a touch softer on it, so if the logo has to pop, pick one thread shade bolder than you think.

Fewer thread colors also keep a small chest logo crisp. Five colors in a 3-inch mark? It gets muddy. Two or three, much better.

Sending a logo? Our Artwork Acceptance Policy explains how we handle the files you send, so it's worth a look first.

Quick answers before you order

Is there a minimum?
No. Quarter-zip sweaters with logo start at one piece, so a single sweater for a new hire is a normal order.

How long does it take?
You get a mockup within 2 to 3 working days. After you approve it, a smaller order takes 7 to 10 working days to stitch. A whole company at once takes longer, so ask us for that date before you promise it to anyone.

What changes the price?
The sweater you pick, the stitch count (bigger and denser logos have more stitches), the logo size, how many spots you decorate, and how many pieces you order. Tell us which room these are going into, which style, and the sizes, then attach the logo on our quote request. We'll send back a proof and a number.

One last thing. Before the full order goes in, have one person zip the sweater all the way up over their real work shirt and sit at a desk for ten minutes. If the collar rubs or the knit pulls across the back, change the size now, not after the logos are on. See the whole sweaters range, or everything else we decorate under custom apparel.