Most branded winter accessories follow the same tired formula: inexpensive acrylic fabric, stock colors, and an applied logo. Social Imprints, Stripe's promotional products partner, came to us looking for something different: a holiday gift that would feel considered, elevated, and genuinely worth keeping.
Stripe's Custom Pantone-Dyed Cashmere & Merino Wool Beanie + Scarf Set
Most branded winter accessories follow the same tired formula: inexpensive acrylic fabric, stock colors, and an applied logo. Stripe came to us looking for something different: a holiday gift that would feel considered, elevated, and genuinely worth keeping.
Services
- Custom Product Development
- Premium Material Sourcing
- Custom Pantone Color Matching
- Custom Branding & Labeling
- End-to-End Production Management
- Quality Control & Delivery
From Concept to Production
Custom products require more coordination than selecting an item from a catalog. Every decision, from the fiber blend and color development to the labeling and final finishing, can affect the finished product.
Our team managed the process from initial development through production and delivery, coordinating the custom Pantone matching, lab dips, branding, quality control, and final shipment so Stripe had a single partner managing the project from beginning to end.
Starting with the Right Materials
We started with the foundation: the fabric. Rather than using a standard acrylic knit, we recommended a premium cashmere and merino wool blend for its exceptional softness, warmth, durability, and refined hand feel.
Cashmere brings a distinctly luxurious softness, while merino wool adds warmth, resilience, and structure. Together, they create a winter accessory that feels substantially different from typical promotional merchandise.
For Social Imprints, that distinction mattered. The goal wasn't simply to put Stripe's logo on a beanie and scarf, it was to create a product that could stand on its own as something someone would genuinely want to wear.
Custom Pantone Color Development
Social Imprints provided us with Stripe's brand Pantone color, and our team developed a custom color specifically for the cashmere-merino fabrication.
We produced lab dips for Stripe to review and approve before moving into production. This allowed us to fine-tune the color and account for how the brand shade would translate onto the finished textile, resulting in a more intentional and accurate expression of Stripe's visual identity.
Instead of starting with a stock color and adding branding afterward, the brand color became part of the product itself.
Branding With A Light Touch
For the branding, we recommended a woven label with Stripe's logo. It gave us a clean, retail-quality way to identify the brand without overpowering the product.
The label acts as a finishing detail rather than the focal point, similar to the understated branding you would expect to find inside a premium retail accessory.
That restraint was intentional. Every element was designed to make the finished pieces feel like a thoughtfully developed product, not promotional merchandise.
Delivery In Under 90 Days
From our first email with Social Imprints to finished beanies and scarves in the client's hands, the entire project was completed in under 90 days. That timeline included custom color development, lab dip approval, production, finishing, quality control, and delivery.
The result was a premium winter set made specifically for Stripe: custom Pantone-dyed cashmere and merino wool beanies and scarves with understated woven branding and the material quality of a product you'd expect to find in a premium retail environment.
Because the best corporate gifts don't feel like corporate gifts. They feel like something you would have chosen for yourself.
