What is hangtag?
A hangtag is the card tag attached to the outside of a garment with a string, plastic swift tag or safety pin, carrying the brand, a price, a size, a barcode or a short story. It is the retail finishing touch that makes a garment look ready for a shelf.
Why it matters
For a brand selling online it is the unboxing; for wholesale it is the price and barcode a retailer needs. It is also where 'Made in Pakistan' can be told as a story rather than hidden.
On our floor
Printed to your artwork on card stock, strung and attached before polybagging. A small per-piece cost plus a one-off setup.
Common questions
- Is a hangtag required?
- No — optional, unlike the care label. Most brands use one; uniforms usually do not.
- What goes on a hangtag?
- Brand, size, price or barcode if wholesale, and anything you want the customer to read first.
- How is it attached?
- Plastic swift tag through the care label or a seam, or a string through the label loop.
- Can you print variable barcodes?
- Yes — per SKU, for wholesale orders.
Related terms
woven label
A woven label is a brand label made by weaving the design in thread on a narrow loom, rather than printing it, then cut, folded and sewn…
polybag
A polybag is the individual clear plastic bag each finished garment is folded and sealed into before cartoning. It protects the garment in…
care label
A care label is the small printed label — usually satin or taffeta — sewn into the side seam that states the fibre composition, the washing…
carton
An export carton is the corrugated box — usually 5-ply for strength — that finished garments ship in, packed by size and style, sealed, and…
Where this applies
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Twenty minutes with the people who make it — the garment, the quantity, the date.
Put it to work
Send us what you have — a garment, a logo, a rough quantity — for a quote within a working day, or book a call and we will talk it through.
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