School uniforms are unlike any other business in the clothingindustry. Street clothing retailers such as Land's End, JCPenney, or Gap limit what kind of clothing you can buy. When youwalk into one of their stores, what you see is what you get.School uniform supply companies are different. When your schoolpartners with Hall Closet Uniforms & Apparel, your options areendless. Your school has the ability to create a school uniformusing any combination of styles, colors, cuts or fabric that youwant.

This is a great advantage to your school. You can create a lookthat matches your ideals perfectly. It is this flexibility thatsets school uniforms apart from the rest of the clothingindustry. Of course, you're probably asking yourself, "If theschool uniform industry can offer so many options, why isn'teveryone doing it?" The answer is that it is more complicated.When we stock inventory at Hall Closet, we're stocking in orderto be flexible, not only for your school, but for each schoolthat we work with.

This leaves us with a lot of items to keep in stock. For pantsalone there is plain front, pleated front, relaxed fit, classicfit, and elastic back. Each of these has lengths of 30, 32 and34 multiplied by all of the various waist sizes. While we orderthese things, we are trying to anticipate what sizes and stylesthe students from your school will need. Over the years, we havebecome very accomplished at this, but there is still a level ofuncertainty.

So when it comes to the question, "How do I get the most out ofmy school uniform supply company?" We answer, "It's best toorder early!" Its not that we don't stock the styles and sizesthat your school needs. It's just that we know flexibility isimportant to your school, and unlike the rest of the clothingindustry, we're going to give you all the options. But while therest of the clothing industry can keep higher levels ofinventory, our wider selection of items forces us to keep lowerlevels of inventory.

Because of this, it is an industry standard for parents whoseschools partner with school uniform supply companies to order nolater than July 31st, whether you're working with Hall Closet,or any other supplier. We tell our partner school families tostart ordering as early as June. This allows time for schooluniform supply companies to gauge levels of inventory, and toorder more stock if certain items run low. If by chance apopular item does go on backorder, there is still time to get itout to you before school starts. In this way, we can beflexible, and you can get what you want, when you need it.