Calculator
How many meters does your program need?
Enter the garment mix and the headcount. The calculator returns a range at 150 cm width, adds your wastage and matching allowance, and tells you which order tier the total lands in.
Work out your meters
Planning figures at 150 cm width. The total updates as you type.
Fabric needed, per shade
616 to 704 m
400 garments, 560 to 640 m before wastage and matching.
Clears 500 m per shade, so this can be woven as a custom shade in its own dye lot.
Request CatalogPlanning figures, not a guaranteed yield. Real consumption comes from a marker plan at your size ratio and styling, which can move the total by 10 to 20 percent either way. Size the enquiry here, then let the marker confirm it.
Where these numbers come from
Each garment carries a published range for a mid-size adult garment at 150 cm width, the same table used in our guide on fabric consumption by garment type. The low end fits small sizes and plain styling, the high end fits large sizes, longer lengths and heavier pocket or pleat detailing.
Two factories cutting the same garment from the same cloth can land 15 percent apart, because the pattern and the cutting room decide consumption, not the fabric. That is why this returns a range rather than a single figure, and why a marker plan always beats a table.
| Garment | Fabric at 150 cm width |
|---|---|
| Waistcoat | 0.7 to 0.9 m |
| Bib apron | 1 to 1.2 m |
| Skirt or pinafore | 1.2 to 1.6 m |
| Trouser, formal | 1.2 to 1.4 m |
| Trouser, cargo or utility | 1.4 to 1.6 m |
| Shirt, full sleeve | 1.6 to 1.8 m |
| Tunic or kurti | 1.5 to 1.8 m |
| Chef coat | 1.8 to 2 m |
| Blazer or jacket | 1.8 to 2.2 m |
| Lab coat | 1.9 to 2.2 m |
| Kurta | 2 to 2.4 m |
| Scrub set, top and trouser | 2.2 to 2.6 m |
| Coverall or boiler suit | 2.4 to 2.8 m |
| Junior trouser | 0.7 to 1 m |
| Junior shirt | 1 to 1.3 m |
| Junior skirt | 0.9 to 1.2 m |
Questions
- How many meters of fabric does one uniform need?
- At 150 cm width, roughly 1.3 m for a formal trouser, 1.7 m for a full-sleeve shirt, 2.0 m for a lab coat or blazer and 2.6 m for a coverall. A trouser-and-shirt set is about 3 m per person before wastage. Junior school sizes run roughly a third less.
- How much wastage should I add?
- Between 5 and 10 percent for cutting, depending on how tightly the marker is planned. Matching a stripe or check repeat across seams adds a further 5 to 15 percent on top of that.
- Are these figures exact?
- No, and no planning table can be. Real consumption comes from a marker plan at your actual size ratio and styling, which can move the total by 10 to 20 percent either way. The calculator returns a range for that reason. Use it to size an enquiry, then let the marker confirm the number.
- Does a heavier GSM need more meters?
- No. GSM is weight per square meter, not length, so a heavier fabric needs the same meterage for the same garment. It changes the weight and the cost of the order, not the length.
- Does the minimum order apply to my total or to each shade?
- Per shade. Each shade is its own dye lot, so a total that clears 500 m across four shades does not clear the custom minimum for any one of them. Pooling garments onto fewer shades is the usual way around it.
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