Tombo

Tombo is a teamwear and training range: shorts, performance T-shirts, leggings, joggers, hoodies and tank tops, in the shapes school PE departments and small clubs order year after year.

What the range covers

This page holds the Tombo lines The Stitch Factory stocks, across shorts, T-shirts, leggings, hoodies, tank tops, joggers and trousers. Shorts are the largest group, with T-shirts and leggings behind them. Sizes run through children's and adult fits, so a school can order one style for every year group and still have it match, and each product page lists the sizes and the colour list for the style you are looking at.

How the garments are made up

Training garments live or die on the waistband and the fabric. Shorts and leggings in a range like this normally use a flat elasticated waistband, often with a drawcord, so one size covers a spread of builds and the garment stays put through a session; some styles carry a pocket for a phone or a key and some are deliberately plain. The cloth is usually a performance polyester with a little elastane for stretch, which is what lets a legging move with the leg and recover its shape afterwards rather than bagging at the knee. The fabric, the features and the fit of each style are on its own product page.

Who it suits

This is the range schools come back to for PE kit, and clubs for training wear: football, netball, hockey, athletics and gymnastics, dance and fitness classes, and after-school and holiday sports clubs. It also suits a gym or a personal trainer putting a name on a small run of leggings and tops. The reason it keeps getting ordered is the combination of children's and adult sizing with a short, stable list of colours — the same kit can be bought again next year without the new ones looking different from the old.

Printing and embroidery in Sheffield

Every item here can be printed or embroidered with your school badge, club crest or company logo, done in-house at our Sheffield works. Stretch performance fabric is normally printed rather than embroidered, because a dense stitch has no give in it and will pull on a legging or a light short; where a logo has to be stitched we use a soft backing and keep it small. Lettering beyond the badge — a squad number, a sponsor across the back — is a print job and can go on at the same time. Browse the full Tombo range below, or send us the badge and a size breakdown through Request a Quote.