Sets and Suits is the largest collection in the Cotton Basket wholesale catalogue: two-piece baby top and bottom sets, what the Indian trade calls a baba suit, made at our Tiruppur unit and sold in fixed packs of 10, 12 or 15 pieces. The sets are a printed top with matching shorts or bottom. The tops come in five constructions: button front-open with a V-neck or round neck, round-neck pull-on with no buttons, sleeveless button-front vest, collared shirt with a full placket, and shoulder-button dress top. Sizes are either single-size newborn or a three-size S, M, L run where S fits 0 to 3 months, M fits 3 to 6 and L fits 6 to 12.

Three fabric tiers run through the collection, and each product page states which one it is on. The newborn packs are 40s combed cotton interlock at 180 to 190 GSM. The S, M, L packs are either 40s combed cotton interlock at 160 to 170 GSM or 40s semi-combed cotton interlock at 150 to 160 GSM. Two styles are cut from combed cotton single jersey at 180 to 190 GSM. Nothing in the collection is a polycotton blend and nothing is below 150 GSM. That is the specification a retailer quotes when a customer picks up a set and asks what it is made of.

Cotton Basket has manufactured baby garments in Tiruppur since 1999. Every pack here dispatches within 24 hours with a GST invoice and ships pan-India. The store-wide minimum order value is Rs. 2,000 across all collections, not per product. To place an order or ask about a style, message us on WhatsApp at +91 421 3585459.

What is the difference between a jhabla set and the sets in this collection?

In much of the Indian trade, jhabla is shorthand for the cheapest top on the rack: a thin, often polycotton front-open top sold loose or in a bundle, bought on price alone. The sets here are the same garment family, a front-open or pull-on top with matching shorts, but they are specified by fabric rather than by price. Every set is cotton-only interlock or single jersey from 150 GSM upward, sold as a matched top and shorts in a fixed pack, with the yarn count, the fabric construction and the GSM printed on the product page. A retailer who stocks this collection is not competing on the jhabla price point. They are selling the set that a parent comes back for after the cheap one has pilled and lost its shape in the first month of washing.

How should a retailer choose between the three fabric tiers?

By the shelf the set is going on. The semi-combed 150 to 160 GSM sets are the entry tier: cotton-only, the lowest wholesale price in the collection, and the set that competes with the cheap top on the next counter without being one. The combed 160 to 170 GSM sets are the middle tier, where the combing step has removed the short fibres that cause pilling and the weight is still light enough for daily wear in heat. The combed 180 to 190 GSM newborn sets are the top tier, the heaviest fabric in the range, bought by the parent who is handling the garment several times a day and washing it daily. A counter that stocks one pack from each tier covers three price points with one order and lets the customer feel the difference between them by hand.

When does single-size newborn beat a three-size S, M, L pack?

Single-size newborn is the pack for a shop that sells to first-time parents and to hospital-gate and maternity-adjacent trade, where the buyer wants the smallest size and nothing else. There is no size to confirm at the counter and no size run to keep balanced. The S, M, L pack is for a shop with repeat customers: the parent who bought S at birth returns for M at three months and L at six, and the pack has them waiting. Most retailers stock both. The newborn pack turns fastest in the first weeks after a birth in the neighbourhood, and the three-size pack keeps that customer coming back for the rest of the year. Newborn packs in this collection ship in 10 or 15 pieces at five colours; three-size packs ship in 12 or 15 pieces with four or five pieces per size.

What does the fixed pack and colour assortment do for a retailer?

Every set in this collection ships as a fixed pack: 10, 12 or 15 pieces, five colours, in a printed box. The retailer does not choose colours or sizes within a pack, which is the point. There is no forecasting of individual colours, no minimum per variant, and no broken assortment where the popular colour has sold out and the rest sit. One pack fills a display peg with five distinct pieces from a single line on the invoice. On the three-size packs, the five colours run through each size so that a size is never missing a colour. The pack is also how the store-wide minimum order value of Rs. 2,000 works: a retailer can meet it with packs from two or three collections rather than committing to one style in depth.

Which closure should a shop stock first?

Button front-open, because it is the closure parents of newborns ask for and the one that carries through to twelve months. A front-open top goes on a baby lying down, which is how a newborn is dressed, and stays useful when the baby is crawling and a pull-on becomes a struggle. Add a pull-on round-neck set once the shop has customers with babies past the neck-strength stage, because a no-button set is the fastest sale at the counter. Add a sleeveless vest set for the hot months and as a layering piece under a full-sleeve top. The collared shirt sets and shoulder-button dress sets are the occasion end of the range, for the retailer who wants a dressed-up option without opening a separate category.

Can these sets be made under a retailer's own label?

Yes. Every construction in this collection, front-open, pull-on, sleeveless, collared and shoulder-button, is a garment we already cut and sew at scale, so a private label version starts from a known pattern rather than a new one. The brand chooses the fabric tier, the print and the label, and the minimum is set per garment by its construction and fabric. The process from artwork to first carton is on the private label page. Readymade packs from this collection and a private label run can ship together on one invoice.