Elite Custom Apparel

Elite Custom Apparel is a printing service in Sayreville, NJ. The shop provides screen printing, embroidery, promotional products, and graphic design for customers looking to brand apparel, uniforms, corporate wear, and merchandise. Screen printing covers tees, long sleeves, sweatshirts, outerwear, pants, shorts, polos, uniforms, and puff prints. Embroidery extends to clothing, blankets, towels, bags, backpacks, hats, beanies, and jackets in all thread colors. Promotional products include mugs, pens, tumblers, magnets, bags, and backpacks, while the in-house graphic design team creates logos and artwork for apparel, print, and digital use. It holds a rating of 5.00 from customers who have reviewed it.

Founded in 2020 by Carleigh Stillwagon, the business grew out of a basement startup into a 4,000-plus square foot warehouse operation. Carleigh's background includes 14 years of competitive gymnastics training, including time at the Karolyi Ranch and NCAA-level competition, before a career-ending injury redirected her toward a business degree and entrepreneurship. Inspired by her mother's experience in embroidery, she built Elite Custom Apparel as a family-oriented shop dedicated to quality work, with stated support for first responders. The core team includes founder Carleigh Stillwagon, COO Carter Meade, office manager Shanon Thackara, and warehouse lead Carly Rybinski.

The shop is on Hartle Street, roughly half a mile from Washington Road and Main Street, about 0.4 miles from The Colony Club neighborhood, and under three quarters of a mile from Monsignor Dalton Hall theater and Wilson Elementary School. Cardio Medical and Vein Center sits about 0.7 miles away.

Stillwagon's direct, hands-on involvement in every stage of the process, from design through production in the company's own warehouse, reflects the founder-led approach the business was built on. A Sayreville print and embroidery shop of this size and scope, run out of a single facility with an in-house design team, is uncommon for Middlesex County and gives local schools, teams, and businesses a direct route to custom apparel without sending work to larger outside vendors.