Scruffs

Scruffs makes workwear and safety footwear for the trades, and writes for builders, electricians, plumbers, bricklayers and decorators. It is a hard-wearing range: holster and trade trousers with knee-pad pockets, work shorts, hoodies, T-shirts and belts.

What the range covers

This page holds the Scruffs lines The Stitch Factory stocks: four styles of work trousers, two belts, a pair of work shorts, a hoodie, a sweatshirt and a T-shirt. Ten items is a short page, and the trousers are what it is really for — the clothing around them is there so a team can be dressed in one brand from the waist up as well as down. Each product page gives the waist and leg sizes a style is made in and the colours it comes in.

What is on a pair of trade trousers

A trade trouser is a different garment from a plain work trouser, and the difference is in the pockets. Holster pockets are the two deep pouches that hang outside the thigh and hold nails, fixings or a set of pliers where a hand can reach them without bending; they tuck away when they are not in use. Knee-pad pockets are openings above the knee that take a foam pad, so a floor layer or a tiler is not kneeling on concrete. Around those sit cargo and leg pockets, a rule pocket, a hammer loop, and reinforced stitching and hard-wearing panels at the knee, the seat and the pocket mouths, which are the places a working trouser goes first. The cotton or polycotton fabric and the exact pocket layout vary by style and are listed on each product page.

Who it suits

This is the range for the trades it is written for: builders and groundworkers, joiners and shopfitters, electricians and plumbers, tilers and floor layers, decorators, and maintenance and facilities teams. It also suits a small firm that wants one brand on the whole crew, with the trousers doing the hard work and the hoodie, sweatshirt or T-shirt carrying the company name where customers see it.

Embroidered or printed in Sheffield

Everything here can be embroidered or printed with your company logo, done in-house at our Sheffield works. In practice the trousers are usually left plain and the logo goes on the top layer — a stitched logo on the left chest of the hoodie or sweatshirt and a larger name across the back shoulders, which is what gets read on a driveway or a site. We can embroider a leg pocket if that is what you want, and a screen print suits a large design on a T-shirt. Browse the full Scruffs range below, or tell us the trade, the sizes and the quantities through Request a Quote.