Workwear range just for women

A BRAND new workwear line has been created for female tradies after new research reveals ill-fitting clothing has left Queensland women on job sites feeling unsafe.

Bisley Workwear has designed a women’s range from the ground up after its Tradie Report 2020 showed that 40 per cent of surveyed women said they felt less safe at work due to ill-fitting clothing options.

Bisley Workwear owner and managing director David Gazal said the study was undertaken due to an increased number of women in mining, construction and infrastructure industries who felt uncomfortable.

“There were complaints that women’s workwear wasn’t fitting and rather than having it all anecdotal we needed to have some facts on where it wasn’t fitting, why it wasn’t fitting and how it made them feel,” he said.

Mr Gazal said the company had no choice but to start from scratch, after the study revealed nine out of 10 women had trouble finding safe clothes to wear to work.

“When you design a male garment they really are onedimensional, men are big or they are small, women have three areas in which their body changes.”

The varying sizes of women’s breasts, hips and thighs allowed Bisley Workwear to see that the clothing required different materials for levels of stretch.

“To try and get a men’s silhouette and put a few nips and tucks in it to fit all women is impossible.”

With nearly half of female tradies admitting to wearing casual or non-safety clothes on site, the tradewear brand consulted five women from different trades backgrounds in the design process.