COMMUNITY CLOTHING, PROBABLY THE BEST RUGBY SHIRTS OUT THERE

Laura Pew
Aug 22, 2023
3 min read

Updated: Apr 9

Founder Patrick Grant is confident you won’t find one anywhere near this good, even at twice the price.

When he set about developing a rugby shirt for Community Clothing, founder Patrick Grant wanted them to be as good as the shirts he wore when he played in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Every Community Clothing rugby shirt is individually hand cut and sewn in Derbyshire by a small team of exceptionally skilled makers who make rugby shirts for some of the best-known premium brands.

Community Clothing use only the best quality jersey, knitted in Rugby by a small, trusted, family run knitting mill that has been doing nothing but knit jersey for over 30 years, and finished in Leicester in a specialist cotton finishing mill. This fantastic quality pure cotton rugby shirt is comfortable, durable, and thanks to Community Clothing’s unique business model its great value too.

These rugby shirts are traditionally cut, with a looser more relaxed fit and because of this square cut, they fit just as well on women as they do on men. The Community Clothing rugby shirt costs £68 and is available in 13 colour options in sizes from XS to 4XL.

Making rugby shirts this good is expensive, and at most other brands you’ll have to choose; a shirt that’s good, or a shirt that’s affordable. And that’s because it’s standard practice for clothing brands to mark up their manufacturing costs by five times or more. So only around 20% of the price you pay for an item goes on making it. That’s because other brands spend huge amounts of money on things like expensive marketing campaigns, advertising, celebrity endorsements, and all sorts of other things that have nothing to do with making good clothes. Community Clothing don’t do any of that and prefer to let the quality of the product speak for itself, with mark-ups about a third of most other brands.

www.communityclothing.co.uk

About Community Clothing

Community Clothing is a British clothing brand and social enterprise founded in 2016 by award-winning clothing designer and judge on BBC One’s The Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant. Community Clothing does good things for people and communities in the UK, creating jobs where they’re needed most.

The mission is simple; to sell great quality clothes at prices people can afford; to make these clothes in the best British factories from the finest natural materials; and by doing this to create work and support skilled jobs in regions of the UK that need them most. In short, Community Clothing sells great quality clothes, at affordable prices and consequently creates loads of fantastic jobs in places that really need them.

To date Community Clothing has created nearly half a million hours (and counting) of work and supported 1,926 jobs. Community Clothing has a network of 48 partner factories all over the UK, located predominantly in the Northwest, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and South Wales.

Community Clothing has developed a unique business model that keeps costs super low, enabling the brand to produce clothes in the very best UK factories from the best materials, and still sell them at affordable prices. The unique business model utilises off-peak production, creates seasonless, brilliant basics, supports ultra local supply chains and promotes radical simplicity.

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