CLIFTON Sullivan Custom Striped Rugby Shirt

The Sullivan Custom Striped Rugby Shirt is built around rugby’s most recognizable design language: bold horizontal stripes, a traditional twill collar, and a substantial jersey body. Every shirt is cut and sewn to your chosen stripe widths, colors, layout, fit, and finishing details, so you can recreate a historic club shirt, develop an alumni piece, or create something entirely new without losing the character of the original.

Why Choose the Sullivan?

• Stripes without compromise: Control the width, order, color, and placement of every stripe rather than working around a stock pattern.
• Authentic rugby shape: A structured silhouette and traditional collar give the shirt proper club and heritage character.
• Four fabric choices: Choose from an easy everyday cotton, heavier structured jersey, warm loopback cotton, or print-focused poly-cotton.
• Made from scratch: The stripe layout, panels, trims, fit, and branding are built into the garment itself.
• Flexible group sizing: Mix men’s, women’s, and children’s fits and sizes within the same order.
• Free design support: Send us an old shirt, team photo, crest, sketch, or color combination and we will help rebuild it.

Fabric and Feel

The fabric determines whether your Sullivan feels soft and wearable, firmly structured, warm and heavyweight, or better suited to printed detail.

• Medium-Weight Cotton Jersey: a soft, durable cotton fabric with enough substance to retain the traditional rugby shape without feeling excessively heavy. It is comfortable for frequent wear and works particularly well for clubs, schools, tours, and alumni groups. Our top recommendation for the most versatile Sullivan.
• Heavy-Weight Cotton Jersey: a denser cotton fabric with more body and structure. It holds bold stripes and the traditional rugby silhouette particularly well, creating a firmer and more substantial finished shirt.
• Heavy-Weight Loopback Cotton: the warmest option, with a thick outer face and soft looped interior similar to premium sweatshirt fabric. It gives the Sullivan a weighty, cozy feel with strong heritage character.
• Poly-Cotton Jersey: a smoother fabric designed for brighter printed colors, gradients, intricate graphics, and details that cannot be created through cut-and-sew stripes alone.

Which Fabric Should You Choose?

Choose Medium-Weight Cotton Jersey for a balanced rugby shirt that is substantial, comfortable, and easy to wear regularly.

Choose Heavy-Weight Cotton Jersey for stronger structure and a more traditional heavyweight club-shirt feel.

Choose Heavy-Weight Loopback Cotton when warmth, density, and a soft interior are the priorities.

Choose Poly-Cotton Jersey when your striped design also includes gradients, detailed graphics, sponsor artwork, or printed effects beyond traditional cut-and-sew construction.

Build Your Stripe Layout

The Sullivan is available in men’s, women’s, and children’s fits, with different fits and sizes mixed within the same group order.

You can create broad traditional hoops, narrow multi-stripes, alternating widths, tonal combinations, sleeve-only stripes, or layouts based on an existing historic shirt. Our team can help balance the stripe positioning across different garment sizes so the finished group order remains visually consistent.

Available garment options include:

• Traditional white or contrast cotton twill collar in custom colors or patterns
• Short or long sleeve options
• Custom stripe widths, spacing, colors, and placement
• Custom placket shapes and colors
• Optional chest pockets
• Contrast cuffs, panels, and trims
• Decorative stitching and reinforcement details
• Optional rubber rugby button upgrade
• Custom labels and finishing details
• Mixed fits and sizes within the same order

From Club Classic to Modern Reinvention

The Sullivan can faithfully reproduce an old team shirt or use traditional hoops as the starting point for something much more individual.

You can customize:

• Horizontal stripe widths, colors, order, and positioning
• Solid or striped sleeves
• Collar, placket, cuff, and panel colors
• Embroidered crests, logos, text, and individual names
• Appliqué and twill patches
• Printed graphics and all-over artwork on suitable fabrics
• Optional chest pockets
• Decorative stitching and contrast topstitching
• Optional rubber button upgrade
• Custom labels, trims, and finishing details
• Personalization across individual shirts within the same order

Because every Sullivan is built from scratch, your stripe design is not limited to pre-existing color combinations or standard stock widths.

Best Suited To

The Sullivan is especially well suited to rugby clubs, schools, universities, alumni groups, sports tours, hospitality teams, lifestyle brands, merchandise collections, and organizations looking to recreate or reinterpret a traditional striped rugby shirt.

Consider Another Option If...

Choose the Watson Custom Rugby Shirt if you want the same cotton jersey fabric choices with greater freedom to use solid panels, color blocking, or less stripe-led designs.

Choose the Landmark Custom Drill Rugby Shirt if you prefer a firmer woven rugby shirt with greater structure, durability, and little to no stretch.

Choose our Custom Performance Rugby Shirts if you need a lighter, moisture-managing option for sport, training, tours, or warm conditions.

Choose our Custom Knitted Rugby Shirts if you want the densest and most traditional rugby construction with strong heritage weight and texture.

Key Details

• Fabric: Medium-Weight Cotton Jersey, Heavy-Weight Cotton Jersey, Heavy-Weight Loopback Cotton, or Poly-Cotton Jersey
• Fabric feel: Soft and substantial, dense and structured, warm and loopback-lined, or smooth and print-focused
• Fit: Men’s, women’s, and children’s fits available within the same order
• Sleeves: Short or long
• Signature feature: Fully custom horizontal stripe layouts
• Customization: Stripe widths, colors, collars, plackets, embroidery, patches, pockets, stitching, buttons, trims, and labels
• Design support: Included at no additional cost
• Best for: Clubs, schools, universities, alumni groups, tours, hospitality, merchandise, and heritage-inspired apparel

Need Design Help?

Our design team can work from an old rugby shirt, team photograph, club crest, reference image, sketch, or color palette to create a complete custom striped rugby shirt design at no additional cost.