Eco Friendly Blazer from David Luke

New Eco-Uniform is an industry first for David Luke

One of T King Associates School wear suppliers David Luke are doing their bit to save the planet with their new Eco-Uniform school jackets for boys and girls. Hailed as a school wear first, the new jackets are made from 100% recycled, non-biodegradable plastic from drinking bottles, which would otherwise go to landfill. Compared to an equal quantity of traditionally manufactured oil-based fabric, the 100% recycled de/repolymerized material used by David Luke requires 84% less energy to produce it. This in these current times can only be a good thing and TKA will be looking into the product shortly and reporting back to customers and users alike

promotional T-shirts good the bad and the ugly

I know it's the middle of an early winter but as sad as I am, I am already thinking how the recent cotton price increases, and general increase in cost of well lets be honest most things, is going to have an effect on the humble promotional T-shirt. We have for at least 20 years printed our T-shirts, from a basic give away for a day promotion, to T-shirts for events and blue chip clients looking to get people wearing their brand over the longer period.

It's worth remembering the following, if you print onto the cheapest poor quality shirt, it will not last more that 5 minutes before it is destined to be a car washing rag. In every situation I can possibly think of it as always worth raising the quality and lowering the run length to compensate, because even if you run 100 shirts of good quality people will wear them and keep them for longer, and its also worth investing in a good designer to pull the job together. The whole point of your shirt is to get your brand / message across long after the day you gave it to your customer or visitor.

Charles Kendall safety clothing

We have for many years, supplied safety wear, and clothing needed for factory, warehouse, industrial use, but never really had the chance to see our safety clothing in action. But that all changed recently, when we supplied, printed and delivered all the safety clothing Charles Kendall Group. They required Hi-Visibility, waist coats, bomber and yard / 3/4 length jackets, with the new corporate brand printed as per the specification outlined. The clothing needed to meet all health and safety requirments, and are all up to standard from us, we only suppliy Hi visibility safety wear to class two or above EN471. We have a number of ways to brand hi visibility workwear, we can screen print, as we did in this case with Charles Kendall, or we can dye the fabric, or we can also embroider, all of which we can do in house.

Note the sprcification on the vests EN471 Class2 Approved Confirming to 89/686/EEC Directive, 2 band bib and brace reflective 50mm wide strips stitched onto garment with a velcro fastening.

Specification for the two jackets bomber and Traffic / yard jacket, EN471 Class 3 approved confirming to 89/686/EEC Directive, waterproof taped seams, 2 retro reflective strips 50mm wide stitched on to arms and body of jacket, conceled hood in collar, phone pocket, studded storm flaps, padded and lined.

We are very greatful for the shots from Charles Kendall as, all the garments were sampled prior to the order being put in place, and were very greatful to recive a call from the team to say how pleased they are with the clothing we supplied.

work and safety boots

Happy new year, seems the roads and country is coming to a halt again with the snow and bad weather. I have been for a while working on selecting the best range of boots we can stock here in Buckingham near Milton Keynes.

If you have a look at the link http://www.tkingassociates.com/catalog/index.php?CG_ID=3 this is our range of safety and work boots we are now holding in stock at Buckingham. The qualtiy of the range is outstanding and represents value for money, with composite toe caps rather than steel the weight and balance of the boot is lovely. I will as always be wearing the boots, Last year I trialed the Aztec http://www.tkingassociates.com/catalog/product.php?CI_ID=2296 and found them to be really comfy, maybe a bit to much for the office but when on my motorbikes and working in the garden and garage they were fantastic very light. So this year I will try out the Puma Honey boot http://www.tkingassociates.com/catalog/product.php?CI_ID=2293 they look great , and am sure they will work well with the Tuff stuff trousers we hold in stock here, in our workwear section. I have by the way been wearing these trousers for over a year now and I can offically say these are well worn, well washed and in fantastic condition. DOn't forget these are on the shelf here as well ready for collection or delivery next day.

Safety boots well we have held various brands in the past, from portwest to Timberland and doctor martins, and I hope to have found the perfect balance with the V-tech range, if they prove popular safety boots wel will roll out a wider stock holding, The Bison boot is by far the most popular with a composite toe and wax finish, it has proved to last well and look smart for longer. The Puma is essentially the same boot but a different colour and leather, so as I say I will give these Safety boots a try and report back shortly.


V-Tech have over the years invested masivley in their safety boot range, with light weight composite toes, crafted with quality leathers, perfectly balanced boot and the use of light weight composite toe caps the safety boots reduce fatigue and feel better to wear all day long, and all stocked in the UK for dispatch to you direct.

~The best part and cast iron satisfaction promise from V-Tech is if within 30 days the boots dont meet your expectations they will give you a full refund !!!, and with a 200 day manufacture defects guarantee I think its a sure fire way to take a plunge and give your feet the safety shoes they deserve !!!