Onesies and Rompers is the Cotton Basket collection of single-piece newborn garments: snap-crotch bodysuits in sleeveless, half-sleeve and full-sleeve cuts, skirt onesies with an attached flared panel, rompers with short or long sleeves, and sleepsuits. Every product is a single garment, not a set, and every product is single-size newborn. Packs are 10 or 15 pieces in a five-colour assortment, boxed, made at our Tiruppur unit.

The fabric across the collection is 40s combed cotton interlock at 170 to 190 GSM. Most styles are 180 to 190 GSM; a few of the all-over print styles are 170 to 180. Combed yarn has had its short fibres removed before spinning, which is the step that stops a knit from pilling under daily washing, and interlock is a double-knit with two identical smooth faces that does not curl at the edges. Bodysuits close with nickel-free snaps. There are no plain or blank bodysuits in stock; those are made to order under a brand's own label only.

Cotton Basket has manufactured baby garments in Tiruppur since 1999. Packs dispatch within 24 hours with a GST invoice and ship pan-India. The store-wide minimum order value is Rs. 2,000 across all collections. To place an order or ask about a style, message us on WhatsApp at +91 421 3585459.

What is the difference between a bodysuit, a onesie, a romper and a sleepsuit?

A bodysuit is a top that closes between the legs with snaps, so it stays tucked and covers the torso without riding up; it is worn under something or alone in heat. Onesie is the trade name for the same garment and the two words are used interchangeably on this page. A romper is a bodysuit with attached shorts or legs, a complete outfit in one piece, closing at the crotch with snaps. A skirt onesie is a bodysuit with a flared panel stitched at the waist so it reads as a dress from the front and a bodysuit underneath. A sleepsuit is a full-length, full-sleeve one-piece for night wear that opens down the front for changes. A retailer stocking the collection is stocking four garments with one fabric and one size, and a customer usually buys more than one of them.

Why is combed interlock at 170 to 190 GSM the fabric for a garment washed every day?

A newborn bodysuit is changed two to four times a day and machine-washed daily, so it goes through more wash cycles in its first two months than most adult garments do in a year. Two things decide whether it survives that. Combing removes the short fibres before spinning, and those short fibres are what work loose and pill on the surface after a few washes. Interlock construction locks two layers of loops into each other, so the fabric holds its shape and its face through repeated washing rather than going thin and limp. At 170 to 190 GSM the weight is enough to hold a print flat and enough to stay warm under a ceiling fan at night, without being heavy on a small body in daytime heat. That is why every style in this collection is on the same fabric: the garment that wears out first is the one the retailer never sells twice.

Which single-piece style should a shop stock first?

Snap-crotch bodysuits, because they are the garment a newborn wears most hours of the day and the one replaced fastest. A pack of half-sleeve printed bodysuits and a pack of full-sleeve bodysuits cover a customer through both warm and cool rooms; the full-sleeve cut is the one parents ask for to stop untrimmed nails scratching. Add a romper pack second, because a romper is the complete outfit a customer buys when they want one piece that is ready to wear out of the house. Skirt onesies and printed sleepsuits come third: they carry the highest shelf price in the collection and move on display appeal rather than on daily replacement, so they earn their space once the bodysuit packs are turning.

Where do the snaps sit and why does it matter?

On the bodysuits the snaps are nickel-free and sit at the crotch, so a diaper change is done without undressing the baby and the garment closes back over the diaper. On several bodysuit styles there are also snaps at one shoulder, so the neckline opens wide and the garment goes on from the side instead of over the head. Rompers and sleepsuits open down the front for a full change, and each product page states the closure it uses. The placement is what a parent checks before buying, and it is what a retailer should be able to point to at the counter: crotch snaps for changes, shoulder snaps for dressing, a front opening for a full one-piece change.

Do you supply plain or blank baby onesies in bulk?

Not from stock. Every pack in this collection is a printed, ready-stock style that dispatches within 24 hours. Plain bodysuits, white onesies in bulk and blanks in a brand's own colours, sizes or labels are produced as made-to-order private label runs only. Those runs start from the same combed interlock and the same snap constructions as the stocked styles here, with the minimum set per garment by construction and fabric. The process from artwork to first carton is on the private label page.

How does a 10 or 15 piece single-size pack work on a shelf?

Each pack is one style in five colours, 10 or 15 pieces, all newborn size. One pack puts five different pieces on the rod from a single invoice line, and the reserve of the same colour sits in the box behind it. There is no size to balance, because there is only one, and no colour to forecast, because the assortment is fixed. When one colour sells through, the retailer reorders the pack, not the colour. At the store-wide minimum order value of Rs. 2,000, a shop can open with a bodysuit pack and a romper pack and see which style turns before going deeper on either.