First Quality / Highest Quality
Explore our selection of premium apparel, featuring first-quality clothing from well-known brands at unbeatable prices. This category includes excess inventory, closeouts, overstock, discontinued items, and canceled production orders—all of which are flawless and ready to wear.
Our closeout items may come with original branded hang tags or UPC stickers, just like you’d find in retail stores. For apparel intended for imprinting, screen printing, or embroidery, the tags may be absent, depending on the manufacturer or stage of production when the item was closed out.
You’ll also find private label closeout apparel, which may have the brand labels removed or omitted, but still includes care, content, and size labels for your convenience. Whether you’re shopping for individual pieces or bulk stock lots, our closeout apparel offers the highest quality at discounted prices.
Slightly Irregular
Our Slightly Irregular Apparel offers high-quality clothing at a discounted price. These items are considered non-first quality due to minor imperfections, such as fabric defects, construction issues, slight dye lot variations, or small sizing discrepancies. Each piece is carefully hand-graded by our team to ensure that only the cleanest, most wearable garments make it to this category.
What You’ll Find:
- Hand Graded Irregulars: These pieces may have minor imperfections but are still in excellent condition and free of major visible flaws.
- Clean Irregulars: These items show only very slight imperfections, with no noticeable defects.
- Graded Factory Seconds: Items that didn't meet the manufacturer's first-quality standards but are still fully functional and wearable.
- Graded Factory Rejects: Clothing with small imperfections, inspected for usability.
The main difference between these and first-quality items is the presence of marked, clipped, or stamped labels behind the neck. Additionally, hand-graded irregulars typically do not have retail hang tags or UPC stickers.
If you’re looking for great deals on high-quality apparel with minor imperfections, this category offers the perfect balance of value and quality.
Mill Graded Irregulars & Factory Seconds
This category features Mill Graded Irregulars, Factory Seconds, and Factory Rejects—apparel that doesn’t meet first-quality standards due to minor manufacturing issues. These garments may have fabric defects, slight construction imperfections, dye lot discrepancies, or small sizing issues. Unlike our hand-graded irregulars, these items are sold exactly as they arrived from the manufacturer, without additional inspection or grading by RG Riley.
What You’ll Find:
- Mill Graded Irregulars: Clothing with slight imperfections, sold exactly as received from the mill. These items may contain visible flaws, and some may be marked with stickers, tape, or flags to highlight the location of the irregularity.
- Factory Seconds: Apparel that didn’t meet the manufacturer’s first-quality criteria, typically with small imperfections that don’t affect wearability.
- Factory Rejects: Garments with more noticeable flaws, often marked for sale in bulk at discounted prices.
The quality of mill graded irregulars and factory seconds can vary between manufacturers, and the imperfections may range from minor to more noticeable. These items are perfect for discount retail chains, bargain outlets, warehouse discount stores, or screen printing businesses looking for a cost-effective solution for bulk orders.
If you're seeking affordable apparel with minor imperfections, this category offers the best savings for those willing to work with slight flaws.
Thirds - Visible Flaws & Imperfects
Our "Thirds" category offers clothing items with visible imperfections, but these pieces are still wearable and provide a great value at an affordable price. During our quality control process, any garments found with noticeable flaws are designated as “Thirds.”
Defects in these items may include:
- Small to medium-sized holes
- Mended or patched areas
- Visible seam puckering
- Mis-stitching or uneven seams
- Minor stains or marks
To ensure clarity, tags on "Thirds" products are either partially cut, or stamped with an ‘IR’ or ‘IM’ to distinguish them. Despite these imperfections, these garments are wearable and priced with the budget-conscious shopper in mind. We’re proud to offer quality items that deliver real value, even in our discounted categories.