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Some people in the fashion industry refer to price tickets as joker tickets. A price ticket is the small tag found hanging from clothing that contains pricing; the price ticket (or joker ticket) also typically contains a UPC code, a department number, a style number and a few other bits of information. The joker ticket is often attached to clothing by a swift tack or tagging pin, attached with the help of a tagging tool. If you know how the term “ joker ticket” originated, you are invited to contact Apparel Search so the information can be added to this page.
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In all honesty, I am not really sure where the term joker ticket came from. However, I do know that some people in the fashion industry refer to price tickets as joker tickets. If you are not familiar with a price ticket, that is the small tag that you find hanging from clothing that contains pricing. The price ticker (or joker ticket), also typically contains a UPC code, department number, style number and a few other bits of information.
The joker ticket is often attached to clothing by a swift tack or tagging pin. They are attached with the help of a tagging tool.
If you know how the term "joker ticket" originated, please contact us and we will add the information to this page.
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A price ticket is a small piece of printed card doing several jobs at once. For the shopper it states the price. For the store it carries the machine-readable and department information — the UPC code for scanning at the register, the department number for sorting and reporting, and the style number that ties the physical garment back to the retailer’s records. For the manufacturer it is part of the trimming package that finishes a garment for retail, alongside clothing labels and hangtags. Because the ticket hangs on the outside of the garment, it has to be attached securely enough to survive handling on the sales floor, but in a way that a buyer can remove cleanly at home — which is exactly the job of the swift tack and tagging gun.
Joker tickets sit in the trimming category of fashion terminology: the components that are added to a garment rather than sewn into its structure. The neighboring terms are price tags and pricing tags more generally, swift tacks and swift tacs, tagging tools and tagging guns, and clothing labels. A manufacturer setting up a garment for retail needs all of them together: the label identifies brand and care inside the garment, the hangtag and joker ticket carry brand and price outside it, and the tagging tool joins ticket to garment. The clothing components directory linked on this page is the starting point for sourcing those supplies, and the bundle production glossary entry linked on this page covers a neighboring production term readers of this section often ask about.
The origin of the name itself remains an open question. The term is in genuine industry use for price tickets, but where “joker” entered the name is not documented on this page — readers who know how the term originated are invited to contact Apparel Search, and the information will be added here. Until then, the safe definition is the functional one: in the fashion industry, a joker ticket is a price ticket.
The name some people in the fashion industry use for a price ticket: the small tag hanging from clothing that contains the pricing. It also typically carries a UPC code, a department number, a style number and other identifying information.
Usually with a swift tack or tagging pin, applied with a tagging tool (a tagging gun). The fastener passes through the ticket and the garment so the ticket hangs visibly for shoppers and cashiers.
Through the clothing trim section of Apparel Search, which covers trimming supplies such as tickets, labels, hangtags and buttons for clothing manufacturers.