Women's Wholesale Clothing — Page 2

Categories on This Page

The categories on this page run from performance and occasion niches — exotic dancewear, fitness wear, golf and furs — through the everyday departments of hats, hosiery, jeans, juniors and knitwear, to the size- and life-stage-specific ranges of maternity, missy and loungewear. Each category link leads to a page of wholesalers for that kind of womenswear, with each company's own description of its range and how to reach it.

Several of these categories are specialist trades in their own right. Hosiery and lingerie are stocked by legwear and intimate-apparel houses; jeans by denim specialists; furs by a small number of long-established fur houses. Buying category by category, from suppliers whose depth is in that category, is how a store keeps quality consistent across a whole women's department.

Working With Wholesalers

Before a first order with any supplier on these pages, confirm the details a directory listing cannot show: the size range actually stocked, how assortments are packed, minimum quantities, lead times and whether samples are available. Fit and fabric are the two things women's customers return garments over, so test samples against your own customers' expectations before committing to a bulk order.

Keep notes from every supplier conversation and compare each delivery against your approved samples. The second order with a wholesaler is where reliable information about lead times, reorder depth and quality pays off — and where a supplier who holds backup stock in your core sizes becomes visibly more valuable than one who does not.

When you are done with this page, continue to the next page of the directory for the remaining categories, from outerwear through shorts, or return to the first page for accessories through eveningwear.

The listings on the category pages reached from here are written by the companies themselves or from their own trade information, so the wording varies — one firm lists every category it covers, another describes a single speciality in detail. Read for the facts that matter to your store: the product range, the size runs, the town or city the company ships from, and the named contact where one is given. A listing that names a contact person and a direct email address is usually a firm that deals with buyers personally; a listing with only a phone number is often a long-established house that trades by telephone.

Two categories on this page deserve a buyer's extra care. Lingerie and hosiery are replenishment trades: shades, sizes and core styles must stay in stock all year, so a supplier's continuity matters more than its opening range. Furs sit at the opposite extreme — high-value, seasonal and bought on material quality — where the right move is to see and handle garments before committing. The category pages give you the suppliers; the judgement about which fits your customers stays with you.

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