Loading mechanism for shirts

Apparatus for picking a garment having a first side and a second side and fitting the garment on a pallet having a front and a back such that the first side and the second side of the garment are on the front and the back sides respectively of the pallet, the apparatus comprising:

• a picking arm configured to approach the garment and then withdraw towards the pallet;
• at least one adherence location on said picking arm, the adherence location being smaller than the first side, the adherence location for contacting the garment at a contact location on an outer facing surface of the first side of the garment and utilizing sticky material able to cause adherence of the garment, at the contact location, to the adherence location, thereby causing said picking arm to pull said first side over said pallet, wherein said uncontacted second side slides under said first side onto said back side of said pallet.