Style 555
The long work coat — engineered for full knee-length protection. A classic fold-down collar barrier, secured with gripper or dome snaps, in countless customizable fabric weights and colors.
Cut and sewn in Wetumpka, Alabama since 1979
Custom workwear,
made for the way you work.
For over 45 years, Southern Apparel has manufactured American cut-and-sew garments for the meat, poultry, and food processing teams that keep production moving.
45+ yearsFamily owned since 1979
Made in the USASewn in Alabama
Built to specYour fabric, color and fit
No minimum to startOne coat or ten thousand
What we make
Garments that earn their place on your production floor.
Style 444
The short work coat — a high-mobility, hip-length alternative for core stain defense, with standard snap closures, a fold-down collar, and custom arrangements for up to four pockets.
Style 333
The wrap-around smock — a collarless, 3/4-sleeve protective wrap with an adjustable 36" tie-back for quick-change convenience, customizable in industrial textiles and colors.
Style 222
A versatile 47" unisex apron engineered for coverage — customizable pencil and lower pockets, 36" tie strings attached or side grommets with detached ties, and comfortable 27" neck loops.
Customized to your needs
Hoods, hi viz, collar changes, extra snaps, shortened sleeves. Any change, added per garment at one clear price.
And when a custom gets ordered long enough, it becomes a house style with a name of its own — like the 540 (our 555 without the collar, with 3/4 sleeves), the 44SLW some customers just call “the shirt” (a slim-cut, short-sleeve 444 in 5oz poplin with a gripper front and pocket snaps), and the Calwrap (a shorter 333, squared at the bottom, without the full binding). Tell us what your floor needs — keep ordering it, and it gets its own name.
Tell us what you need ›YOUR STYLE, YOUR OPTIONS
Whatever your industry calls it, we manufacture it to your specs
Food Processing Coats
Medium weight 7oz blended twill with dome snaps that hold fast to the thicker weave. The workhorse for food processing and food service lines.
Lab Coats
Medium weight 7oz polyester poplin built for heavy laundering, with easy gripper snaps that protect the fabric. The standard for lab, pharmaceutical and counter settings.
Butcher Coats
Heavy weight 9.5oz twill with dome snaps. Worn over everyday clothing in food processing, butchery and commercial kitchens: a stain barrier that helps you meet sanitary standards, with extra weight for cold butcher areas.
Same coat, your name for it
All three are our 555 cut, in any color you run: white, navy, light blue, burgundy, gray, brown, hunter green, red or black. Tell us the name your production floor uses and we will build to it.
Request a quote ›The Item System
Every garment carries one smart number
After four decades on the floor we built an item ID that holds the whole spec. Tell us the number and we make the exact coat again, every time. Reordering stops being a guessing game.
- Style the base garment
- Fabric weight, color and pockets in two digits
- Size from small through 5X
- Add ons one letter per alteration
45+ years on the machine
Our shop
Three generations at the machine
Southern Apparel has cut and sewn workwear in Wetumpka, Alabama since 1979. We are family owned, American made, and we still answer the phone.
Every coat is cut in house and finished to your fabric, color, pocket and alteration spec. We build it once, then we build it the same way for as long as you order it.
Start a conversation ›Built for the teams that keep the country fed and cared for
- Meat Processing
- Butcher Warehouses
- Poultry Plants
- Food Processing
- Medical Facilities
- Laboratories
- Uniform Suppliers
- Clean Rooms
Cut, sewn and finished under one roof
From bolt to box in Wetumpka, Alabama
Fabric is cut in house, sewn on our own floor, inspected, folded and shipped. One shop, one standard, on every order we run.
New customers
First order with us? Welcome aboard.
Open your distributor account in one sitting. Tell us about your company, set your payment and shipping preferences, and drop in your first purchase order. Once your credit is approved, we invoice on net 30.
Complete the packet
Company details, key contacts, credit references and your shipping preference, all in one short online form.
We open your account
Your credit application is reviewed for terms invoicing and your spec goes on file with its own item IDs to reorder from.
Send the PO, we sew
Production is scheduled as soon as your purchase order lands. Stocked items ship in about 1 to 2 business days.
Open Your Wholesale Account
Prefer email? Send your details to sales@southernapinc.com and we will take it from there.
Ready to place your order ?
Tell us the style, fabric and quantity. We will send a quote and your own item IDs to reorder from.