Product development Racing-inspired jersey

Custom Racing Long Sleeve with Screen Printing

The Story

The yellow body catches your eye first. Black sleeves, paired red chest graphics and vertical sleeve lettering give this long sleeve its racing-inspired look. The chest graphics feature distressed crosses inside circles, and thin red borders frame the sleeve lettering. Fine blue stitching follows the neckline, sleeve ends and hem.

Customer-provided reference image — More than a color match: developing a racing-inspired long sleeve
Customer-provided reference image.

The challenge: preserve the whole design

The customer selected Option B’s larger sleeve lettering and asked to combine it with the smaller twin red chest graphics from Option A, keeping the mustard body and washed-black sleeves.

The sleeve graphics were to mirror each other across the body. The customer also wanted visible blue stitching around the sleeve joins and hem, and Fashionme specified a muted shade. Before sampling, the customer asked to check the artwork size on the revised front-and-back drawings.

Make the reference usable on the factory floor

The development materials include front-and-back drawings and a fabric-and-trim sheet. The sheet identifies mustard waffle fabric for the body, washed-black fabric for the sleeves and black ribbing. Blue thread is stitched across a black swatch to show its color against the sleeve fabric.

On the front drawing, the two circular red motifs sit side by side below the neckline. The back is plain mustard, with lettering extending along the black sleeve panels.

Fashionme requested the final artwork files and confirmation of the mustard-yellow and washed-black swatches. The team said the revised drawings would include graphic dimensions and stitch notes for the customer to check before sampling.

Design communication

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Design development

Front-and-back design: color blocking, artwork placement and construction details.
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Fabric and trim review: mustard body, washed-black sleeves, black ribbing and blue contrast stitching.
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Give each panel its own print plan

The workshop footage shows the chest motifs being screen-printed onto a flat yellow front panel. Both motifs are on one screen, with their spacing set in the stencil. A worker positions the screen over the fabric and pulls red ink across the mesh with a squeegee.

White lettering is printed onto a separate black sleeve panel. The completed sleeve print has a thin red border around the lettering. The printed pieces lie flat beside a front-and-back drawing.

Silent workshop clip: separate chest and sleeve printing stages.

Read the result as one garment

On the finished garment, the yellow waffle knit shows through the distressed areas of the red chest graphics. Blue stitching runs along the lower edge of the black ribbed collar.

Both sleeve prints end above the blue hem stitching, with a strip of black fabric between each graphic and the sleeve hem. Blue stitching also runs along the body hem. In the close-up, one sleeve end is turned back to show the stitches along its folded edge.

Silent finished-garment view: check the chest balance, sleeve lettering and blue contrast stitching.

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Project scope: product development and finished-garment review. Photos and clips document selected stages; they do not establish bulk-delivery results or certified performance tests.

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