Readymade garments, supplied by the lot

A wholesale garments supplier in Delhi should save you the trip to the market without hiding the market from you. We source garments from manufacturers, check them against your approved sample and supply by the lot to buyers across India, from Delhi NCR to Kolkata.

What we supply, and what we do not

We supply readymade garments at wholesale, by the lot, and private label clothing produced through partner units. We do not own a factory or a production line.

Our part is the buying. We find the goods, agree the specification with you, check the pieces and hand over a lot that matches what you approved, with a tax invoice that shows GST on its own line.

In practice we sit between the market and your business. Manufacturers make the garments; we do the legwork in Gandhi Nagar, so the lot handed to your transporter carries the sizes, colours and quantities written on the quotation.

If you are comparing suppliers with a buying agent or sourcing agency in Delhi, ask each one who checks the pieces, who answers for a short lot, and whose GSTIN is on the tax invoice. We supply and invoice the lot ourselves.

Three habits follow from that, and you will meet all three in your first conversation with us:

• We do not quote a rate before we know the specification. A per-piece rate without fabric, sizes and quantity is a guess.
• We do not describe goods we have not seen. Every lot is matched to a sample you have approved.
• We do not fold tax or freight into the rate. GST sits on its own line, and freight is confirmed separately.

Why we work from Gandhi Nagar, New Delhi

We work from Gandhi Nagar because it is the readymade-garments wholesale market in East Delhi, and buying well depends on being in the market. Being there lets us see goods, compare sources and check pieces in person rather than from photographs.

The market trades in lots and bundles, and what is on offer changes from week to week. Two shops can show what looks like the same garment in fabrics of different weight. A buyer who visits twice a year sees only part of it.

For buyers outside Delhi, that is the practical case for working through us. You tell us what you need; we look, compare, sample and report back. You decide from samples, photographs and measurement sheets, without the trip.

If you buy in another of India’s garment centres, a Delhi lot can fill lines your own market does not cover. Surat is known for synthetic fabrics and sarees, Tiruppur for knitwear, Ludhiana for hosiery and woollens, and Kolkata for garments and hosiery.

If you want to understand the market itself, and what to expect if you visit, we have written a separate guide to buying wholesale in Gandhi Nagar.

Three ways to buy garments from us

There are three ways in. The right one depends on whether you need goods that exist now, goods that match a reference you already sell, or goods under your own label.

• A ready lot suits a retailer restocking for a season, or a reseller who needs volume from what the market already holds.
• Matching to your reference suits a buyer with a style that has sold and needs it again, in a chosen fabric and price band. It is the work of our garment sampling and sourcing service.
• Private label suits a brand that wants its own name in the neck and control over fit and fabric. It runs through private label production with partner units.

The routes connect. A first order can be a ready lot; a style that sells can become a reference; a reference that keeps selling can become private label. We quote each route the same way: by the piece, with the specification written down.

Who buying through us suits

Buying through us suits trade buyers who purchase garments in quantity and resell them, under the maker’s label or their own. The goods have to be right before they leave Delhi, because returning a lot across the country costs both sides.

• Retailers outside Delhi who restock by season and want someone in the market to check the goods before they are packed.
• Resellers and distributors who supply smaller shops and need lots assembled in the ratios their customers buy.
• Marketplace and D2C sellers who need consistent stock behind a listing, so the garment in the photograph is the garment the customer receives.
• Brands planning their own label who want to test a style as a ready lot before committing to private label. Our guide on how to start a clothing brand in India covers the decisions around that first step.

It suits buyers less well when an order is a few pieces each of many unrelated styles, or when the decision rests on rate alone. Wholesale works by the lot, and a lot only makes sense when the specification is clear enough to repeat.

What to tell us in a first enquiry

A useful first enquiry names the garment, the quantity and the price band, and says where the goods are going. The more of the list below you can answer, the fewer rounds of questions before a quotation.

• Category and style. Men’s, women’s or children’s; the garment type; a reference photograph or a garment you already sell.
• Fabric. Knit or woven, the composition you expect, and the GSM (grams per square metre, the fabric’s weight) if you know it.
• Colours. A physical swatch or a shade reference, not a description alone.
• Sizes and ratio. The size range, and how many of each size you want in a set.
• Quantity. Per style and per colour, not only the total.
• Labels and packing. Labels as supplied or your own; single polybags, bundles by size, or another instruction.
• Price band. The per-piece range your selling price allows.
• Destination and date. The city the lot is going to, your transporter if you have one, and the date you need the goods by.
• Billing. Your registered business name and GSTIN, if you have one, for the tax invoice.

If you do not know some of these, say so. Not knowing the GSM is common, and we can work it out from the reference or a swatch. What nobody can quote well is “cotton T-shirts, all sizes, good quality”.

A question asked before the quote costs less than a surprise found after the lot has left Delhi.

How a lot is made up

A lot is a quantity of one style, split by colour and size in agreed proportions, and packed so it can be counted. Getting the split right matters as much as the garment, because the wrong size spread leaves stock on your shelf.

Size ratios

A size ratio states how many pieces of each size make up one set. Ratios are written in size order, and the set repeats until the quantity is reached.

Illustration: a ratio of 1:2:2:1 across S, M, L and XL gives sets of six pieces, each with one S, two M, two L and one XL. A lot of 600 pieces in that ratio is 100 sets.

Your ratio should come from your own sales, not from habit. If larger sizes sell through first in your shop, weight the ratio towards them. A ratio copied from another buyer’s lot fits their customers, not yours.

Colour assortments

Colours are split the same way. A style in four colours can be bought evenly or weighted towards the colours that sell, and each colour can carry its own size ratio if your customers buy them differently.

Solid and assorted packing

A solid pack holds one size in one colour; an assorted pack holds a full ratio set. Solid packs suit buyers who sort stock into a store room; assorted packs suit shops that shelve a set as it arrives. Tell us which before packing starts.

Why every lot starts with a sample

Every lot starts with a sample because a sample is the only description of a garment that both sides can check against. A photograph shows the style; a sample shows the fabric weight, the shade, the stitching and the fit.

For a ready lot, the sample is a piece pulled from the stock you would receive. For goods matched to your reference or made under your label, it is a piece found or made against your brief, and revised until you approve it.

Once approved, the sample is the standard for the lot. We check the lot against it before packing and keep it on file for reorders. Our page on sampling and sourcing explains the sample stages and what each one proves.

How a per-piece quote is built

A per-piece quote is the cost of the garment as specified, at the quantity you are buying, before GST and freight. Every change to the specification moves it, which is why we ask for details before we quote.

These are the things that move a per-piece rate:

• Fabric. Composition, GSM and finish. A heavier or blended fabric changes the cost before anything else does.
• Construction. Panels, pockets, plackets, linings and the number of operations each piece needs.
• Decoration. Print, embroidery and washes, with their size and placement.
• Trims. Buttons, zips, elastic, drawcords and thread, standard or matched to your shade.
• Labels and packing. Your own labels, hangtags, barcode stickers and polybags add material and handling.
• Quantity and assortment. Larger lots in fewer colours spread fixed costs across more pieces; many colours in small quantities do the opposite.
• Size range. Larger sizes use more fabric, so a wide range can be priced in bands.

The wholesale garment rate card gives indicative per-piece rates and minimums by line, so you can judge whether a category fits your price band before sending a full brief. The quotation for your lot is what confirms the rate.

Each quotation lists the specification it was priced on. If the specification changes, the rate is revised in writing before anything is bought or made, so the rate you planned with is the rate on the invoice.

GST, freight and the paperwork with each lot

GST on readymade garments depends on the sale value of each piece. At the time of writing, from 22 Sep 2025, it is 5% where the sale value is up to ₹ 2,500 a piece and 18% above it. Your quotation confirms the rate.

GST always sits on its own line, on the quotation and on the tax invoice, never folded into the per-piece rate. Freight is quoted separately: until the charge is known, the quotation reads “Freight to be confirmed”.

Illustration: a lot of 200 pieces at ₹ 500 a piece has a value of ₹ 1,00,000 before tax. At 5%, the GST line reads ₹ 5,000, and freight is added once confirmed. These are round numbers for the arithmetic, not our prices.

A lot that mixes lines on both sides of the ₹ 2,500 threshold carries both rates, each shown against its line. Our note on GST on readymade garments covers how the threshold is read.

Documents with each lot

What decides how long a lot takes

Timing depends on where the goods come from, so we give dates on the quotation rather than a standard figure. A ready lot moves at the pace of stock and checking; anything made for you moves at the pace of sampling and production.

• Stock. A ready lot that exists in your sizes and colours is the quickest route. A lot assembled from several sources takes longer to match and check.
• Sample approval. Every round of comments adds a round of sampling. Clear written comments, sent together, save a round.
• Fabric. Fabric in stock can be cut at once; fabric dyed or knitted to your shade adds that process to the schedule.
• Labels and trims. Your own woven labels and hangtags are made to order and must arrive before the garments can be finished.
• The calendar. Demand in the market rises before festivals and the wedding season, and queues lengthen with it. Plan festive stock early.
• Confirmation. A lot is scheduled once you confirm the quotation in writing. Open questions hold it.

How we check a lot before handover

We check a lot against the approved sample and the quotation before it is packed. The aim is plain: the pieces you receive should match the piece you approved, in the quantities you ordered.

1. Count. Total pieces, then pieces by style, colour and size, against the quotation.
2. Ratio. Sets made up in the agreed ratio, with no size short or doubled.
3. Measurements. Pieces from each size measured at the agreed points, within the agreed tolerance.
4. Shade. Colours compared with the approved sample in daylight, and bundles compared with each other.
5. Workmanship. Seams, stitch density, loose threads, holes, stains, and print or embroidery placement.
6. Trims and labels. Buttons, zips and labels present and secure; size labels matching the size marked outside.
7. Packing. Folding, polybags and cartons or bales as instructed, each marked to the packing list.

Pieces that fail are pulled out before packing. If that leaves the lot short, we tell you before it moves, with the count and the reason, so the choice between replacement and a smaller invoice is yours.

How many pieces we measure depends on the lot and on what sampling showed. A first lot from a new source gets a closer check; a reorder of a settled style is checked against what earlier lots taught us.

If you inspect to an AQL (acceptable quality limit) plan, name the level in your brief, so our check and yours work to the same rules.

Packing and handing the lot to your transporter

We pack the lot in Gandhi Nagar to your instructions and hand it to the transporter you nominate, with the tax invoice and the packing list. Agree transit time and insurance with your transporter before the goods move.

How a lot is packed

• Pieces folded to one size and one method, so stacks are even and counts are quick.
• Individual polybags where you ask for them, with the size visible through the bag.
• Inner bundles by size and colour, or in assorted ratio sets.
• Cartons or bales marked with your name, the destination, a carton number and the contents.
• A packing list that matches the markings, carton by carton.

Tell us early if your shop or your marketplace has packing rules of its own, such as a carton size limit, a label position or a barcode format. Packing correctly once costs less than repacking at the other end.

Reorders and keeping lots consistent

A reorder should match the lot before it, and that only happens if the first lot was written down. We keep the approved sample, the measurement chart, the fabric details and the trim references for each style we supply, and brief reorders against them.

Three things drift between lots, and each has a check:

• Shade. Fabric is dyed in batches, and two batches of one colour rarely match exactly. We compare reorder pieces with the retained sample, not with memory.
• Fit. A new cutting master or a copied pattern can move measurements. We measure reorder pieces against the original chart.
• Fabric. The same fabric name can cover a lighter cloth. We check GSM and hand feel against the record.

Reorders run smoothly when you tell us early. A style that sold through this season may not be in the market next season, and early notice gives us time to secure the fabric or find the nearest match.

Buying garments to sell online

If the garments are going onto a marketplace or your own storefront, the lot has to support the listing as well as the shelf. That means consistent sizing, a size chart you can publish, and labelling that answers what the marketplace asks for.

• Size charts. Publish measurements taken from the approved sample, not a generic chart. A chart that does not match the garment produces size returns.
• Declarations. Packaged goods sold online must carry Legal Metrology declarations, such as MRP and the name and address of the manufacturer, packer or importer, and each marketplace asks for them when you list.
• Photographs. Shoot pieces from the lot you will sell, not only the sample, so colour on the listing matches colour in the parcel.
• Stock depth. Plan ratios from your sales data, so a listing does not sell out of one size while the others sit.

Our ecommerce arm runs marketplace accounts and listings for brands on Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Myntra and Ajio. If you want the garments and the listings handled together, see our catalogue and listing service. For category specifics, read our guide to selling clothes online in India.

Common mistakes in wholesale garment buying

Most problems with a wholesale lot are settled before it is bought or made, by a specification that was too loose. These are the common ones, and each has a plain fix.

• Approving from a photograph. A photograph shows the style, not the weight, hand feel or shade. Approve a physical sample.
• Asking for “cotton” without a GSM. Two cotton T-shirts at different weights are different products at different rates.
• Ordering totals, not ratios. A total without a size and colour split leaves the split to someone else’s judgement.
• Changing the brief after approval. A new colour or trim after sampling resets the sample and the rate.
• Leaving freight to the end. Choose your transporter while the lot is being prepared, not after it is packed.
• Treating the rate card as the price. It is indicative. Plan with the quotation for your lot.
• Keeping no sample. Without a retained sample on both sides, a reorder has nothing to match.

How to start, and what happens next

Start with the enquiry form on this page, write to accounts@kavitabrands.com or call +91 72330 03016. Our office is at X-732-A, Gali No 7 & 8, Raghubarpura No 1, Gandhi Nagar, Chand Mohalla, New Delhi, Delhi 110031.

Include the details from the list under what to tell us in a first enquiry. If you would rather talk the order through before writing it down, our contact page has every way to reach us.

A clear brief for a ready lot moves straight to samples and a quotation. A private label brief starts with questions about fit, fabric and labels; our note on planning a first private label order sets out what to decide first.

Whichever route you take, the quotation is where it becomes concrete: the specification, the rate by the piece, and the tax and freight lines. Nothing is bought or made for you until you have confirmed it.