Dress

A custom t shirt dress cut oversized or longline, printed at full coverage: a distressed street-poster collage in off-white on a heavyweight knit, a vintage racing print with a checkered flag, and a space nebula on a soft-flow polyester. A sublimation dress prints as flat panels before sewing, so the collage or nebula runs the full length without a seam break. No chest box, no blank back.

Does a heavyweight knit print as cleanly as a light one? It does, because the dye goes into the fibre rather than onto the surface, so the weight of the fabric changes the drape, not the print. Custom printed dresses for a streetwear label run on the same blocks as the oversized tees, which is why a dress and a tee in the same graphic line up as a set.

Who orders here? A streetwear label adding a t-shirt dress to a graphic drop, a festival or event brand ordering matching dresses for a stage crew, an online seller moving a best-selling print from single-piece printing to a small run under its own label, a creator adding a dress to a merch line. From 5 pieces per design and color; a reorder needs confirmation against the approved artwork, fabric and sample on the same knit.

See the matching oversized tees, the hoodie blocks in full print hoodies, the wider retro streetwear range, and creator lines in creator merch. Fabric weights and hand feel are set out in the polyester fabric weight guide. Akilex has manufactured since 2008 and inspects every run to AQL 2.5.