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Five things clubs believe about kit lead times, and what actually happens: the decoration queue, blank stock running out, and the August committee problem.

The name-list back print, the nicknames problem, the fonts that vanish after one wash, and the design choices that still look right ten years later.

Uniform fails in the same four or five places every year. Here is how to buy, wash and repair so a set of uniform reaches July rather than February.

Printed kit cannot be returned, so sizing has to be right first time. What a size set is, how to run one at training, and the cases it does not cover.

The questions parents actually ask about cricket whites: what schools want, what clubs want, how many to buy and how to keep them clean.

A full junior rugby kit bag checklist: what lives in the bag permanently, what changes weekly, and the weather kit most parents under-pack.

The garment choices, the design decisions, the money and the three mistakes that catch out whoever ends up organising the leavers hoodies.

A full school uniform checklist for primary and secondary, with honest quantities, what to buy early and what can wait until half term.

The eight things to settle before you ask for a quote, what a proper quote contains, and how to stop artwork approval eating a fortnight.