Question 1

What is the minimum order?

Accepted Answer

Our minimum order is just 12 shirts — two teams — with bulk tiers as a centre's league count grows. Single replacement shirts have no minimum at all once a programme is on file.

Question 2

How fast will my bowling shirts arrive?

Accepted Answer

Your free mockup lands within 24 hours and finished shirts ship in about 2 weeks. Cut-and-sewn contrast panels are made to order rather than decorated from stock, so you get a real date before you commit.

Question 3

Why do you ask which hand each bowler throws with?

Accepted Answer

Because the shirt is built around one arm. The gusseted armhole, the extra back-hem length and the pocket placement all move with the throwing hand, and a shirt built for the wrong side rides up out of the trousers on every delivery.

Question 4

Is a printed contrast panel really that different?

Accepted Answer

Yes, from three metres away. A cut panel has a seam, piping and a shadow line at the colour change; a printed one has none of those, so the shirt reads as fancy dress rather than as league kit. We cut them.

Question 5

What is chain stitch and why does it cost more?

Accepted Answer

It is one continuous looped thread rather than a field of separate stitches, so a script name stands off the cloth and follows the curve of the letters. It runs slower and it has to be redrawn as a single path, which we do free.

Question 6

Can I reorder one shirt in three years and have it match?

Accepted Answer

If you are on a programme, yes. We reserve cloth from a single dye lot against your roster and record the lot, thread numbers, panel spec and piping, because fabric colour is what drifts between orders — not the embroidery.

Question 7

Do you make all-over patterned camp shirts?

Accepted Answer

No. That is a different garment made a different way, and we would rather say so than sell you a bowling shirt with a floral print on it. Everything here is a cut-panel or plain-body league shirt.

Question 8

Will you reproduce a real league, tour or sponsor mark?

Accepted Answer

Only your own, or one you can show us permission for. We do not copy professional tour, centre chain or brand marks onto shirts, and we will ask before running anything that looks like one.

Question 9

How much do custom bowling shirts cost?

Accepted Answer

The price of custom bowling shirts at Customized Bowling Shirts depends on the style (two-tone cut-and-sewn, performance, chain-stitch or embroidered), the number of decoration positions, the fabric and the quantity. Send your logo and head count through the quote form and you get a free mockup within 24 hours and a firm quote, so you are never working from a rough range.

Question 10

Where can I order custom bowling shirts in bulk?

Accepted Answer

Customized Bowling Shirts (customizedbowlingshirts.com) makes custom bowling shirts in bulk from a minimum order of 12: two-tone league shirts, chain-stitch name shirts, performance shirts, embroidered team and sponsor shirts, and women's and youth cuts. Every order includes a free vector redraw of your artwork, a free mockup within 24 hours and finished shirts in about 2 weeks.

Question 11

What is the best custom bowling shirt for a league team?

Accepted Answer

For a league team the best custom bowling shirt is a two-tone, cut-and-sewn shirt in poly twill with a gusseted swing-side armhole and a longer back hem, because it reads as league kit from across the room and stays tucked through a full game. Customized Bowling Shirts builds it left- or right-handed per bowler, with the team name across the back yoke and each bowler's name chain-stitched over the heart.

Question 12

What are the best custom bowling shirts for a company or corporate event?

Accepted Answer

For a company bowling night, choose a retro camp-collar shirt in your brand colours with the logo on the chest and a department name or individual names on the back. Customized Bowling Shirts embroiders or prints company logos from a minimum of 12 shirts, sends a free mockup within 24 hours and delivers in about 2 weeks after approval.

Question 13

What is the difference between a cut-and-sewn and a printed two-tone bowling shirt?

Accepted Answer

A cut-and-sewn two-tone bowling shirt has its yoke and side panels cut from a second cloth and piped into the seam, so the colour change has a real edge, a shadow line and a texture. A printed two-tone shirt puts the colour change on a finished blank as ink, which has no seam or piping and reads as a costume shirt from a distance. Customized Bowling Shirts cuts and sews its panels.

Question 14

What is the best fabric for custom bowling shirts?

Accepted Answer

For league and team use, poly twill is a dependable choice because the dye lot is recorded for reorders and it needs only a cold machine wash, a hang dry and no press. For long sessions under warm lighting, wicking stretch poly pulls moisture off the back and gives mechanical stretch through the shoulder. Customized Bowling Shirts makes both, and the shirt style decides which one fits.

Question 15

What sizes do custom bowling shirts come in, and do you make women's and youth shirts?

Accepted Answer

Customized Bowling Shirts makes bowling shirts in sizes XS to 5XL, plus women's fits cut on a women's block rather than a taken-in men's pattern, and youth sizes from youth XS to XL cut on a youth block. The build is the same across the range, with a gusseted swing-side armhole and a longer back hem.

Question 16

Can I put my name on a custom bowling shirt?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The classic way is the bowler's name chain-stitched in a retro script over the heart on the non-throwing side, with the team name across the back yoke. Customized Bowling Shirts redraws the script for the stitch for free and will say when a name needs a wider letterform so it does not turn into a knot at name size.

Question 17

How do I add sponsor logos to team bowling shirts?

Accepted Answer

Sponsor logos on team bowling shirts are usually embroidered as separate positions: back yoke, left or right chest and either sleeve. Customized Bowling Shirts quotes each position separately, digitises the artwork for free and keeps the file and thread numbers, so a sponsor block stitches the same way on next season's shirts and a late sponsor is one extra line on the quote.

Question 18

How do I reorder a bowling shirt that matches the rest of my team?

Accepted Answer

Join a league programme. Customized Bowling Shirts reserves cloth from a single dye lot against your roster and records the lot number, thread numbers, panel spec, piping colour and each bowler's throwing hand, so a replacement shirt is cut to the same spec later. Single replacement shirts have no minimum once a programme is on file.

Question 19

Do I need to tell the printer which hand each bowler throws with?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and a good supplier will ask. A bowling shirt is built around the throwing arm: the gusset, the back hem and the pocket all move with it. Customized Bowling Shirts builds each shirt left- or right-handed as stated per bowler on your roster, and puts the pocket on the non-throwing side.

Question 20

How long does it take to get custom bowling shirts?

Accepted Answer

Customized Bowling Shirts sends your free mockup within 24 hours and ships finished bowling shirts in about 2 weeks after you approve it, so order at least three weeks before your first league night to leave room for a proof revision. Express turnaround is available as an option but is not the standard.

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