Sixty-four covers in four shapes
The covers here are not variations on one thing. Rectangular paper runs fifty-four by a hundred and eight inches; Octy Round is an eight-sided eighty-two-inch cut made for round tables; plastic comes in the same rectangle as the paper; and Stay Put covers are cut to the size of a tabletop rather than draped over it. Most packs are three count, so the decision is which shape, not how many.
How to pick a size
Measure the table, then add twice the drop you want on each side. A standard six-foot banquet table is seventy-two by thirty inches, so a fifty-four by hundred-and-eight cover leaves about a foot hanging on each side and half again at the ends — enough to look intentional, not enough to sit in laps. An eighty-two-inch round covers a four-foot table generously or a five-foot table with a short drop.
More than twenty shades, and what each one carries
Classic Red leads with six pieces, then Hot Magenta, with Mimosa Yellow, Candy Pink, Hunter Green and Ivory at four apiece and Black, Navy Blue, Pastel Blue and Purple at three. The rest of the range — Burgundy, Cobalt Blue, Emerald Green, Glittering Gold, Shimmering Silver, Luscious Lavender, Sunkissed Orange, Pumpkin Spice, White and more — runs one or two pieces each. The color tags list every format available in a shade, which is the check to run before committing a table to it.
Reading a shared score
More listings on this shelf carry a rating than anywhere else, and almost all of those scores are pooled by format rather than by shade. A figure on the rectangular paper cover tells you the paper holds up; it says nothing about whether cobalt prints truer than emerald. Some pools are thin enough to ignore outright, which is why every card prints the number of raters next to the score.
Building a theme out of two colors
Any themed party can be assembled from two solid colors plus one printed accent, and it costs less than the licensed version of the same idea. Navy with gold reads as a milestone; hunter green with ivory reads as Christmas; candy pink with black reads as a teen birthday. This is the shelf that makes the trick possible, and the reason it carries more pieces than any other except the professional team range.
Napkins, cutlery and the pieces people forget
Beyond the covers there are ten lunch napkin packs, six party kits, five cutlery sets, and smaller runs of dessert plates, beverage napkins, cups and guest towels. Cutlery is the item nobody remembers until the morning of: plastic forks in the party color rather than clear ones from the grocery aisle, a small difference that shows in every photograph of the food table.