Workwear brands compared: the best workwear suppliers in 2026

Part of our complete guide to branded workwear.

Workwear brands fall into two groups. Certified safety brands like Mascot, Dassy, Tricorp, Snickers, and FHB focus on construction and industry, where standards apply. Branded, non-certified workwear is a different craft: brand experience, comfort, washability, and reordering matter most. Sunday belongs to that second group, not the first.

Two types of suppliers, and most people search for the wrong one

The biggest mistake when choosing workwear is treating it as one list. There are two markets, with different buyers, different requirements, and different suppliers.

• Certified safety wear. Construction, industry, and heavy logistics, where formal safety standards apply: hi-vis, reflective elements, steel toe caps, standards like EN ISO 20471. Compliance comes first. This is where a specialized safety brand belongs.
• Non-certified, branded workwear. Retail, hospitality, service, installation without standards obligations, showrooms, and customer-facing staff. Here brand consistency, comfort, durability, washability, professional appearance, and reordering matter. This is where Sunday sits.

Most companies think they're in the first category because they use the word workwear. In practice, a large share is in the second. Know which one you're in before choosing a supplier, because a safety specialist will rarely give you a strong brand wardrobe, and a merch partner will never supply you a certified hi-vis jacket.

Before comparing brands, work out which market you're in: certified safety wear or branded, non-certified workwear.

The nine brands everyone runs into

These are the names searched for most often. Below is what each brand is known for in the market and what type of company it usually suits. Always check specifications, standards, and current collections on the brand's own site.

The brands side by side

The columns describe general market positioning, not product specifications. Always check standards, materials, and certifications with the brand itself.

With workwear, quality shows in the details: fabric, stitching, hardware, and decoration that still holds after dozens of washes.

Where to buy workwear in the Netherlands and Belgium

Beyond the brands themselves, there's a layer of suppliers and retailers who bundle brands, decorate them, and deliver. That's usually who you find when you search "buy workwear" or "print workwear."

• CDM. Dutch supplier of corporate and workwear, focused on business buyers.
• Groenendijk Bedrijfskleding. Dutch specialist in corporate and workwear, with a strong presence among larger companies.
• Zijlstra. Dutch supplier of corporate wear and workwear with decoration.
• Unishore. Dutch supplier focused on corporate wear and uniforms.

These parties are useful if you need a certified brand or want a classic supplier relationship with a fixed catalog. They're less suited if you want your own designed brand wardrobe that combines live pricing, design variants, and centralized inventory management. That's a different model.

How to choose: four questions

1. 1

   Do safety standards apply?

   Yes: choose a certified safety brand. No: then it's a brand and quality question, and you have far more freedom than you think.

2. 2

   Should the outfit project your brand or the supplier's?

   With a heritage brand, you visibly wear someone else's logo. With branded workwear, your team wears your identity. Choose deliberately.

3. 3

   How often, and how hot, is it washed?

   That determines your decoration more than your fabric choice. Embroidery survives best. Read the trade-off in embroidery versus printing.

4. 4

   Is this a one-off order or an ongoing program?

   Workwear is never finished. People come and go, sizes run out, clothing wears down. Without a reorder process, you'll have an inconsistent-looking team within six months.

The difference between brands often isn't the garment but the decoration. An embroidered logo stays put; a poor print cracks.

What Sunday is and isn't for

Honesty is most useful here. Sunday is not a supplier of certified safety wear. If you need hi-vis, reflective elements, or EN ISO 20471, choose one of the specialized brands above. That's a different craft, with different buyers, different compliance, and different specifications.

Sunday is here for the other half: branded, non-certified workwear where brand consistency, comfort, durability, washability, professional appearance, and reordering are the priorities. Polos, T-shirts, business shirts, softshells, work jackets, padded jackets, sweaters, and hospitality aprons. For retail teams, hospitality, service teams, installers, showrooms, and customer-facing staff.

The difference from a classic supplier is the model. Sunday is merch infrastructure. You open a product page and the platform uses your brand details to instantly show design directions with live pricing. You see how a branded polo looks in your colors, which decoration holds up to washing, and how each choice changes the price. Want to see the design first? Use the free polo mockup generator.

The full branded workwear range is on the product page. The platform handles the rest: inventory, reordering, sizes, and delivery to multiple locations. Looking for a voluntary, brand-driven wardrobe people choose from themselves instead of functional workwear, read our guide to branded corporate apparel.

The real test of a supplier comes after a year: does the team still look consistent, and can you reorder quickly in the right sizes?