Group Rave Outfits: Matching Jerseys for Your Whole Crew.
One design, zero group-chat chaos.

Identical outfits are one option, and for a crew of five in hockey jerseys, they look great in photos. For a bigger or more mixed crew, these five methods keep the crew recognizable while each person wears something they chose.

1. One design, personalized for every member: everyone gets the same print, with their own name and number on the back and the crew name on the sleeve. It scales because adding a member adds one row to the spreadsheet and keeps the design the same.
2. Same print, different cuts: one artwork can go on a full baseball jersey, a hooded jersey, a hockey jersey, or a crop top jersey. Members choose the cut; the crew still reads as one print.
3. Same colors, own pieces: agree on a scheme (the table in the next section) and let people wear what they own in it. It costs the least and is the weakest in a crowd, because two people in “neon” can look nothing alike.
4. Same back, different fronts: keep the name-and-number block identical on every back and let each member pick a front element from the same artwork set. Ask for it in the design form and check the layout on the full mockup.
5. Accessories only: everyone wears bandanas, bucket hats, or kandi in the crew colors, and someone carries a flag or totem. It’s the fallback for a crew that formed last week, and it stacks on top of any of the first four.

A color scheme gets judged at 2 am under strobes, long after it looked fine on a phone screen at noon. The table gives four common schemes and what each does to the names and numbers on the back.

The contrast rule for names and numbers

For legibility, borrow a number from screen design: the W3C’s accessibility standard requires a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for normal text and at least 3:1 for large text, which it defines as 18-point or larger, or 14-point bold (W3C, WCAG 2.2, Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.3, accessed September 27, 2026). A name on a jersey back is far larger than 18-point, so 3:1 is the floor. People read that name from across a crowd in a strobe, so aim higher. The safe rule is lettering at the opposite end of the print’s value range: white on dark prints, black on light prints, with an outline whenever the print is busy behind the letters. Test it on the mockup before you pay.

1. Pick one design, with a deadline. Put two options in the chat at most, name the day the vote closes, and keep the tie-break for yourself. The winning option can be an idea, a logo, a reference image, or just the vibe; design help on the custom jerseys page is free, so nobody in the crew needs design skills.
2. Personalize per member. Set up one shared form with four fields: name exactly as it should print, number, cut, size. Names go on the back with numbers under them, and the crew name goes on the sleeve. Names and numbers can be printed into the fabric or stitched on; see how printing and stitching differ.
3. Collect sizes by measurement. Each member measures a piece they own and sends two numbers, once; the full method is in the next section.
4. Mix pieces on one print. Some members take a full baseball jersey and others the hooded version; the rest pick a hockey jersey, a basketball jersey, or a crop top jersey, and a reversible baseball jersey suits anyone doing a two-night festival with one garment.
5. Mockup, approval, then money: send the idea and the event date together and wait for the full mockup. Circulate it once for spelling checks, approve it, and only then collect from members.

Rave Bonfire’s size guide lists garment measurements taken with the piece laid flat, and it advises measuring a favorite piece you already own and matching the numbers. For a group, that becomes a three-step routine every member can do at home.

1. Each member takes a jersey or hoodie that already fits the way they want the new one to fit, lays it flat on a bed or table, and measures the chest width straight across under the arms and the length from the collar seam to the hem.
2. They send those two numbers, in inches or centimeters, together with the cut they chose, through the form. A photo of the tape on the garment settles any doubt later.
3. The organizer matches each pair of numbers to the chart for that cut and enters the size. If a chest measurement is within an inch of a size boundary, choose the larger size, because a jersey worn over a base layer needs room, and size exchanges are limited.

The simplest option is a Google Form, because responses can be stored in a linked Google Sheet, and Google Sheets puts the data in a table automatically (Google Docs Editors Help, “Choose where to save form responses”, accessed September 27, 2026). That sheet becomes the personalization list you send with the order.

Made to order in unisex XS–5XL. Use the table to keep the whole crew on one print when one person wants a full jersey, and another wants a crop.

The sizes checklist (copy it into the crew chat)

• Design vote closes on: ______ (organizer breaks ties)
• Form fields: name exactly as it should print · number · cut (hockey jersey, hooded baseball jersey, baseball jersey, reversible baseball jersey, basketball jersey, crop top jersey) · chest width flat · length flat · unit (in or cm)
• Photo of the tape on the measured garment attached
• Organizer matches each row to the chart for that cut, rounding up within an inch of a boundary
• Idea, reference image, and event date sent to Rave Bonfire together
• Mockup circulated once for spelling; approved by the organizer only
• Money collected after approval, one payment per member, recorded next to their row

Once you send the idea, the reference image, and the event date, the process is the same for one jersey or thirty.

Design help is free, and you see the full mockup before you pay anything. Nothing is printed before the mockup is approved, so the spelling check on names happens at that stage. There is no minimum order, and bulk pricing brings the price per piece down once the crew orders 10 or more pieces. Everything is made to order in unisex XS–5XL, so a mixed crew can wear one design from the smallest member to the largest. Tell us your event date when you send the idea and we will confirm the realistic delivery window before anything is printed.

If someone drops out or joins late

If someone drops out, the order does not collapse, because there is no minimum: a crew of nine goes ahead as nine. The best time to change the count is before the mockup is approved, so set the crew’s own deadline to drop out one day before your approval date and say so in the chat. If someone joins late, send the new name and ask whether it can be added on the same design.

A couple can match one design, one palette or one anchor piece; the couples’ rave outfit guide covers eight ways to do it.

A crew has two problems a couple never has: visibility and size spread. One print in mixed cuts, with names on the back, handles both. In a festival crowd, your friends look for the print, and a flag or totem in the crew colors is what they spot first.

Check the event’s rules for totems before you build one. EDC Las Vegas allows totems up to a maximum height of 10 feet, made from a lightweight material such as foam or PVC with no solid metal, on poles no thicker than 1 inch in diameter (Insomniac Events, EDC Las Vegas “Hours & Info”, accessed September 27, 2026); other festivals set their own limits, and the EDC Las Vegas 2027 page links to the official site. EDC’s FAQ also answers “Can I rent a locker?” with a yes (Insomniac Events, EDC Las Vegas FAQ, accessed September 27, 2026). That gives a crew somewhere to keep spare layers until they need them.

For the base layers under the jersey, the women’s rave outfit guide and the guys’ rave outfit guide cover the rest, and what not to wear to a festival lists nine things to leave at home.