Methodology

How we keep this catalogue current

What gets re-read, how often, and what happens to a garment that goes out of stock.

Prices

Every price on this site comes out of our own product data and is rewritten when it moves. The catalogue was last updated on October 5, 2026, and at that update it held 23 lines in stock across 69 colour and size combinations. Where a figure here and the figure at the till disagree, the till is the one that counts.

A garment we cannot currently buy does not appear at all. It is not hidden behind a “currently unavailable” label: it comes off the site at the next build and comes back by itself when it returns to stock, because the catalogue behind these pages keeps asking about it either way.

Closures, pockets, colourways and sizes

These come from the same product data and are rebuilt from it on every pass, so nobody types a pocket count into a paragraph by hand. The size run on a card is the run the garment is cut in at our last update; a size missing from the run is missing from the garment, not from the page. Where our product data gives no fibre content or does not say what the front does up with, the line is left out rather than guessed, and where it gives one, the label sewn into the garment is still the document that governs washing.

Pictures

Every photograph on this site shows the colourway being sold, on a body where the garment was photographed that way. Two kinds of frame are left out on purpose: the fit chart the whole workwear range shares, because a chart belongs in a table where it can be read, and the callout diagram with three features written across the picture, because it argues with our own caption underneath it. A photograph that disagrees with what is written beside it is pulled rather than captioned around.

Claims about labels, laundry and hygiene

Anything on this site that touches fibre labelling, care instructions, the flammability standard clothing is sold under, or the requirement that a food employee wears clean outer clothing is written under a published source rather than over one. Phrases from our own product data -- pre-shrunk, stain release, industrial laundry friendly -- are printed as claims about how a garment is built, not as promises about a particular laundry. The register below is the whole of it, and every entry was opened and read on September 6, 2026 before a link was put on it.

Corrections

If a closure, a pocket count or a size run on this site argues with the garment in your hands, write to pass@chef-designs.com with the page and the figure. It gets fixed at the next update, and we say what changed. The rest of what Chef Designs will and will not print about itself is set out in the editorial policy.

Where this comes from

FDA Food Code · US Food and Drug Administration. The model code state and local jurisdictions adopt for retail food safety; its clause on outer clothing requires food employees to wear clean outer clothing to prevent contamination of food, equipment, utensils and linens. Read September 6, 2026.
Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts · US Federal Trade Commission. What a garment label must state: fibre content by generic name and percentage by weight in descending order, the country of processing or manufacture, and the maker or marketer by name or RN. A fibre under five per cent is "other fiber" unless it is functionally significant. Read September 6, 2026.
Clothes Captioning: Complying with the Care Labeling Rule · US Federal Trade Commission. The Care Labeling Rule: washing method, bleach, drying, ironing and warnings, each backed by reliable evidence the maker holds, on a label attached permanently and securely and legible for the useful life of the garment. Read September 6, 2026.
Flammable Fabrics Act · US Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Act of 1953, expanded in 1967 and administered by the CPSC since 1972, and the mandatory flammability standard for clothing textiles it carries, applied to everything sold as clothing in the United States. Read September 6, 2026.
16 CFR § 1610.1 Purpose, scope and applicability · Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. The scope of the clothing flammability standard and its exemptions: plain-surface fabrics of 2.6 ounces per square yard or more, and fabrics made entirely of acrylic, modacrylic, nylon, olefin, polyester or wool. Read September 6, 2026.