Summer garment lines for Ludhiana retailers

As a wholesale garments supplier for Ludhiana retailers, we cover the season your own city does not: readymade summer and year-round lines, sourced in Gandhi Nagar, New Delhi, for shops whose winter range is made by the knitwear units around them.

Ludhiana sells winter to the rest of India: sweaters, shawls, thermals and jackets from its hosiery and knitwear trade. Its own shops face the opposite problem from February, when the cold breaks, the knits stop selling and the counter needs cotton.

Why Ludhiana retailers buy summer lines in Delhi

A Ludhiana retailer buys summer lines in Delhi because the local trade is built around winter. The knitwear units that make your autumn stock spend the warm months on next winter’s, so your summer’s woven and cotton lines come from elsewhere.

Gandhi Nagar’s trade covers garments of many kinds, sold by the lot, which suits a shop needing a summer mix rather than one product in depth. Tiruppur is known for cotton knitwear; Delhi suits wovens, ethnic wear and a mixed lot briefed at once.

The change is also one of skills. Your buyers judge a sweater by its yarn, gauge and finish without a second look; a cotton kurti or a woven shirt asks different questions, about weave, GSM, shrinkage and colour fastness, and those belong in the brief.

Which lines fill the months after Lohri?

The lines that fill a Ludhiana counter after Lohri are cotton and light: kurtis and kurta sets, cotton shirts and T-shirts for men, lighter denim and bottoms, and kidswear. Most also sell through the year, which keeps a winter shop busy in July.

• Kurtis and kurta sets in cotton and light blends, for Baisakhi and the summer that follows. See women’s ethnic wear for how a kurti lot is specified.
• Men’s shirts and T-shirts, cotton and short-sleeved for the heat, written up by fabric, fit and size ratio.
• Denim and bottoms, which sell in every month and give the counter a base that does not depend on the weather.
• Kidswear for the summer holidays and the start of the school year, sized by age band rather than adult sizes scaled down.

Hosiery basics such as socks and innerwear stay with Ludhiana’s own trade. The Delhi lot is for what your neighbours’ units do not make in depth, not for lines you can buy across the road.

When should a Ludhiana shop brief summer stock?

Brief summer stock around Lohri, while the winter range is still selling. That leaves room for samples, approvals and transit, so cotton lines are on the rail as the cold breaks and well before Baisakhi in mid-April.

The changeover is the risky moment. A shop that clears its knits in February and has no cotton until April loses weeks of selling, while a lot briefed at Lohri closes that gap before it opens.

Plan summer repeats the way you plan winter reorders, on sell-through by size. A kurti that sells out of medium in its first fortnight should be repeated then, not when the last large has gone, because the summer is short too.

Baisakhi, Teeyan and the summer’s festive dates

Ludhiana’s summer has festive dates of its own, and each wants a different lot. Baisakhi in mid-April opens the season with bright kurtas, kurta sets and men’s kurta pyjamas, and it marks the point by which the winter stock should be gone.

Teeyan, kept by Punjab’s women in the monsoon month of Sawan, brings a second peak for suits and kurta sets in strong colours, and Raksha Bandhan follows with new clothes for the family. Brief both with the Baisakhi lot, as one summer plan.

Monsoon lots need fabric that copes with humid weeks: cottons that dry quickly, colours that do not bleed in the wash, and polybags in the packing instructions, so damp stays out of the bales on the road from Delhi.

Year-round lines that keep a winter counter busy

A year-round base of denim, shirts, kurtis and kidswear keeps a winter-led Ludhiana shop selling between the knitwear seasons and stops the counter emptying every spring. It is also the part of the range that reorders steadily, which makes it worth specifying carefully once.

Specify a year-round line so it repeats without fresh sampling: fabric, GSM and wash written down, a measurement chart with tolerances, and a counter sample kept on both sides. Our sampling and sourcing work sets that record up from the first lot.

Denim needs one more decision for Punjab’s summer: weight. A heavy denim that sells in December is a hard sell in June, so ask for a lighter fabric in the summer lot and keep the fit identical across both.

A Ludhiana shop new to buying jeans by the lot should start with our page on denim and bottoms, which covers fit, wash and measurement.

Value lines for Ludhiana’s working city

Ludhiana is an industrial city as well as a knitwear one, and the people who work in its hosiery units, cycle factories and workshops buy everyday clothes at value price bands: T-shirts, jeans and shirts that have to last a working week.

A value lot for a Ludhiana counter is specified by what it must survive, not by how it looks on the shelf: fabric weight, stitch density at the seams, colour fastness, and a size ratio weighted to the sizes your customers actually buy.

Value lines run on thin margins, so test the per-piece rate before you brief. The rate card gives indicative rates by line, and the quotation then confirms the rate for your specification, with GST and freight kept apart from it.

Summer lines for knitwear houses with counters

Ludhiana’s knitwear houses that run their own retail counters, outlets or seller accounts face the same summer gap at a larger scale. Delhi summer lines keep the counter and the account active while the units work on next winter’s knits.

Online, a quiet account loses ground. A listing with no stock can lose visibility, and last winter’s buyers have nothing to come back to, so a narrow summer range under your shop’s name keeps the account selling until winter returns.

If you want the summer pieces under your own label, private label through partner units puts your woven label and hangtag on them. For marketplaces, the pack needs Legal Metrology declarations such as the MRP and net quantity, so settle the tag before production.

Our guide to selling clothes online in India covers size charts and summer returns, which run differently from the warmth and fibre complaints a knitwear seller is used to.

Checking a woven lot for a knitwear town

Ludhiana’s counter staff check knits by hand feel and stretch; a woven summer lot is checked differently, and we do it before the bales leave Delhi: the count by style, colour and size, measurements at the agreed points, shade across bundles, seams, buttons and labels.

Woven shirts and kurtis fail where knits rarely do: collars and plackets that sit unevenly, buttonholes that fray, prints that shift across a seam. Those are the points we look at hardest on a first lot from a new source.

If pieces are pulled out and a line falls short, you hear before the lot moves, with the reason, so you decide with Baisakhi in view whether the line waits for replacements or travels as it is.

GST and IGST on a lot for Punjab

Goods moving from Delhi into Punjab are an inter-state supply, which is why the tax invoice generally carries IGST, the integrated GST, on a line of its own. A registered Ludhiana retailer can claim it as input tax credit; confirm the treatment with your advisor.

For readymade garments, GST at the time of writing turns on the sale value of each piece: 5% up to ₹ 2,500 and 18% beyond it, under the GST rates that apply from 22 Sep 2025. Your quotation confirms the rate on every line.

An e-way bill travels with the bales where the GST rules require one. Freight sits outside the rate, marked “Freight to be confirmed”, until your transporter names a price for the Ludhiana road.

Your first summer lot, from brief to handover

A first summer lot for a Ludhiana shop runs in four steps, all handled from our only office, in Gandhi Nagar, New Delhi:

1. The brief. Which lines, how many of each style and colour, the size ratio, a price band, and the week the lot must reach Ludhiana.
2. Samples. Raised in Gandhi Nagar and sent on the quotation’s terms, each with photographs and a measurement sheet.
3. Confirmation. A per-piece quotation with IGST and freight on their own lines; nothing is bought until you confirm it in writing.
4. The lot. Assembled in your ratio, checked against the approved sample, packed and handed to your transporter with the tax invoice and packing list.

Buying for both a counter and a seller account? Tell us which stock goes where, and the lot is packed in two parts, each marked and listed separately on the packing list.

Send the brief through our contact page, with your lines and the week you need them. For marketplace accounts and winterwear listings, see our page on ecommerce services in Ludhiana.