99.4% OF ORDERS READY ON TIME*.
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Experience & Reputation
- Founded in 1969
- First to mass-customize printed performancewear for the pageantry arts market in 2017
- Plentiful customer references
- Limited track record and references, if any
- Often a side business for a billboard company, sign shop, travel company, or ad agency
Operational Structure
- Company-owned, in-house production
- Maintains total control over quality and production timelines
- Dedicated, talented, full-time design staff
- Home-based or small office that outsources printing and sewing
- No control over quality and production timelines
- Uses freelance designers with limited professional experience
Materials & Sewing
- High-quality, breathable fabrics with durable zippers and threads, all field-tested for a variety of climates
- Experienced, trained, on-site sewing staff
- Extensive industrial sewing equipment
- Quality level is excellent from garment to garment
- Cheaper, lower quality fabrics that are less comfortable, restrict movement, and may perform poorly in certain climates
- Outsource sewing to independent contractors with varying skills, availability, and equipment
- Often results in quality and timeline issues
Sizing & Grading
- Professionally graded patterns and 11 field-tested sizes
- All sizes priced the same
- Graphic elements are the same size and proportion to each other
- Unskilled pattern making; sizes untested and can fit poorly
- Surcharges for larger sizes
- Incorrect grading results in inconsistent and disproportional design elements
Copyright Licensing
- Correct, legally authorized licenses that allow images to be used on physical products
- "Standard" license does not allow image to be used on products
- Exposes you to copyright infringements liability
Printing Quality
- Best-in-class, professionally calibrated, identically configured printing equipment
- High color accuracy and consistency
- With ForeverColor™ technology, color won't crack, fade, peel, or bleed under normal use.
- Lower quality printers are not calibrated, and printing can be outsourced entirely
- Limited or no control over color management, risking inconsistency from garment to garment
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Band Uniforms
Performancewear
With hundreds of attire combinations, McCormick’s Performancewear is perfect for your distinct appearance and unique presence.
Teamwear
*Based on internal 2025 apparel order fulfillment data. Apparel includes performancewear, teamwear, and band uniforms. “On time” is defined as being ready to ship within one business day of the expected completion date at the time of order start. The order start date occurs when all approvals, sizes, and PO or payment have been received.
There's More to Great Apparel Than Just Looks
McCormick's was the first company to mass-customize printed performancewear for the pageantry arts market in 2017. We do all our own design, printing, and sewing in-house and are happy to provide examples and references of our work.