New Clothing Trends Encompass Heavy Duty Workwear

Workwear has been out of style for most of the planet, except for lumberjacks, cable guys, professional Abseilers, or the like, who are required to don plaid shirts, peak caps and heavy duty trousers for safety. The newest clothing trends have encompassed outside work style clothes, and it’s creating a storm.

This time around, people are not simply buying menswork trousers and wearing them, they're adding, taking away, altering and accessorizing their new clothing to encompass the current clothing trends for 2011. Even though we’re looking at less than one month left for 2011, this trend is looking to carry over to 2012. 

Men and particularly women are looking to hard-wear working brands that use lots of heavy materials such as canvas and coated denim, to personalize and alter to suit their own style. The actual brands are starting to see this new trend as an opportunity to get their foot in the fashion clothing door, with some brands catering to the fashion conscious while still ensuring their industrial-minded clientele get exactly the clothing they require for their heavy-duty jobs.

There’s always been a steady demand for work shirts and trousers but the lumberjack is making a comeback. The plaid shirts are to be found in many clothing cupboards with winter creeping in. One store owner said that they sometimes get the odd guy looking for Dickies pants specifically for work, but most of them just want them for fashion.

To give an idea of how far these clothing trends are going, an art gallery in Canada’s dress code for one of their recent events was ‘lumberjack formal.’ Regardless of job or style, clothing trends for winter is clearly workwear that’s definitely going to last.

UK Workwear Show Provides Global Opportunities

The yearly Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show 2012 will be hosted in Coventry and is expected to host the largest trade delegation from China to ever attend an industry event. The China Workwear Association (CWA) has already booked fifty stands at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry for the UK workwear show, which will be held on the 17th and 18th April.

This massive interest from China highlights the objective of developing new trade links between China and Europe. The Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show will act as a platform for the UK workwear market for Chinese businesses. The show also offers European buyers and suppliers a great opportunity to showcase their workwear in the UK, as although China is well known for its manufacturing, there is also demand for European imported workwear in the UK.

Other leading UK workwear suppliers and manufactures will attend the UK workwear show, which will also showcase safety and industrial workwear from in the UK and around the world. The most prominent feature of the show will be the popular workwear catwalk fashion show, which will display everything from work trousers to uk safety workwear. A new addition this year is the launch of the Professional Clothing Award.

The UK Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show is now in its fifth year running and has become a well-known industry arena for raising a companies’ profile, to expose new clothing lines to international markets and to network with leaders in the industry. Visitors from over 20 countries have attended the show, indicating its relevance in the global workwear industry. Download the UK Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show brochure for more information on the show or for help on how to book an exhibition stand.

UK Businesses mark Workers' Memorial Day

Every year, April 28th marks Workers’ Memorial Day – when businesses around the globe commemorate those who have died or been injured in the course of their daily occupations. Workers’ Memorial Day is a vitally important event because it highlights the need for maintaining high standards of health and safety practices in all hazardous industries. Trade unions, occupational safety campaigners and bereaved or financially affected families all come together to remember those who have lost their lives, and to focus on better ways of protecting workers on a daily basis. Workers’ Memorial Day 2011 was also particularly significant as it marked the first anniversary of official recognition of the event in the UK.

Employees Paid to Don Safety Clothing

In a recent court ruling in the US, global food manufacturers, Kraft Foods, were ordered to pay employees for their time changing in and out of safety clothing. This is despite the company and employees agreeing that there would be no pay for the time taken to change into the reflective safety clothing. Unfortunately for the company, this is going to cost them several million dollars in back pay.