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Aprons Buying Guide

Aprons Buying Guide

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Why Buy Promotional Aprons?

Personalized aprons, when used as part of a corporate uniform, will give your employees a cohesive look. What’s more, high-quality customized aprons reflect the exceptional service offered by your team while also keeping employees’ uniforms clean. Embroidered or screen-printed aprons make great gifts for customers or workers who like to cook, since a useful present such as a promotional apron will keep your brand on their minds. Combined with a custom knife set or BBQ grill kit, an imprinted apron earns your biggest fans.

Who Should Buy Custom Aprons?

Custom aprons are invaluable promotional items for a number of industries:

  • Restaurants: Consider ordering promotional aprons for your wait and kitchen staffs. The kitchen team will appreciate the added layer of fabric to protect clothes from stains and spills. By outfitting your servers with aprons, you will make them easily visible for patrons of your restaurant.
  • Bars: A custom apron brings a touch of class to your establishment. A solid black waist apron will give your bartenders and cocktail waitresses a place to keep corkscrews, wine keys, or bottle openers and other items necessary for their job.
  • Catering Services: Like bars and restaurants, catering companies benefit from the added air of elegance of a customized apron. Personalized aprons could serve as the basic uniform for your catering company’s staff, especially important if your company works private parties or weddings.
  • Arts & Crafts Classes: If you teach arts or crafts classes, custom aprons are useful in protecting your students’ street clothes plus are handy for paint brushes, pastels, or pens and pencils.
  • Construction & Carpentry: A sturdy cotton canvas waist apron is invaluable to a carpenter or someone working a trade as a place to keep tools plus protecting the body from stains, sparks, and other messes.
  • Housekeeping and Maid Services: Customized aprons as part of uniforms will protect employees’ clothing from cleaning agents that can bleach clothing inadvertently.
  • Motels, Inns & Hotels: Personalized aprons help keep employees’ clothing clean, cutting down on personal and company laundry costs.
  • Casinos: Dealers and servers at casinos can use embroidered aprons to clothes protected from stains.
  • Other companies: Aprons make great giveaways for employees and customers. Just remember that most people traditionally align aprons with cooking, so you may want to include an apron as part of a larger gift, such as a knife set or a BBQ grilling set.

Types of Promotional Aprons

There are two main types of aprons: waist aprons and bib aprons. The type you choose depends on how you intend for recipients to use them.

Waist Aprons

Waist aprons are the shorter of the two types, covering only the upper leg. They’re good for restaurant waitstaff or employees of construction and carpentry firms because they do not generally affect mobility.

Bib Aprons

Bib aprons cover the wearer’s chest as well as upper legs and are useful for kitchen and cooking staffs that need to protect their upper bodies from stains and splatters.

Other Features

In addition to selecting the length of your apron, you will also want to consider whether you need pockets. Generally, servers will want at least one pocket on their apron to store pencils, dinner checks, and an ordering pad. Craftspeople also appreciate the added convenience of pockets on their aprons.

Consider getting reversible aprons if you expect end-users to use aprons multiple times before washing. Aprons that are reversible may be called “4-way aprons” because they offer up to four clean surfaces to the wearer.

How to Buy Personalized Aprons

Material

The majority of the aprons are made out of cotton or cotton canvas, but there are also aprons made of poly-cotton blends or water-resistant polypropylene. Cotton and cotton canvas are the most versatile materials to use for aprons, offering comfort and protection, but are not water-resistant. However, polypropylene aprons do not have the same air of elegance or refinement as cotton or canvas aprons, so they are best used in casual or industrial conditions.

Decorating

While the decoration method varies by the apron, most are imprinted through silk screening or embroidery. Check the item description to see if any other decoration methods are available for the apron that you’re considering or if there are any stipulations with the standard decoration method.

Some aprons require bold artwork because the imprint method used cannot render fine detail. Again, refer to the item’s description to see if this is the case with the apron you’re thinking about ordering, or call 855-833-5893 between 9AM and 6PM EST on Monday through Friday. Our Promotions Specialists can answer any questions you may have and make suggestions if they think your logo may pose challenges to our manufacturers.

Quantity

The minimum quantity required varies by product, ranging from 24 aprons for some of our higher end items to 100 aprons for the basic model. Be sure to check the item description to determine how many aprons you’ll need to get to complete your order

Ready to order some promotional aprons? Have a question about these products? Call 855-833-5893 between 9AM and 6PM EST on Monday through Friday. We can take your order over the phone or answer any questions you may have