We kit the people who make the magic.
Show Tops started backstage — a printer, a theatre school, and forty hoodies that needed names on the back by Friday. A decade on, we kit dance schools, theatre groups and sports clubs the length of the country. Same urgency, bigger workshop.
✦ OUR STORY
Born backstage, built for the run.
Our founder ran lights for a youth theatre and printed tees on the side. When the company needed cast hoodies in three days, the high-street shops laughed. So she did it herself — overnight, on a second-hand press, names hand-weeded at 2am.
That became the whole point: kit that’s ready before opening night, priced so a school’s whole company can have one, and good enough to wear long after the final bow. We’ve never moved the printing offshore, and we never will.
Read the journal →What we believe, in three lines.
Speed is kindness
A cast hoodie three weeks late is a missed memory. We print in five days because the show won’t wait.
Everyone gets one
Per-piece pricing and no minimum means the whole company is kitted — not just the leads.
Made where we live
Every garment is printed and finished in Chelmsford, Essex. We know the people pressing your names.
From a spare room to the stalls.
Forty hoodies
The first cast order — printed overnight.
The workshop
Moved to the Beehive Business Centre, first real press.
Schools launch
Private storefronts for studios & schools.
11k members
Kitting companies the length of the UK.