T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by janzer » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

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Post by brad0 » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

Brilliant post. This explains exactly why some T shirts I buy fit great in the chest after buying and are shorter and wider after one wash.

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Post by carlob » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

Doesn't work on Safari with Ghostery and uBlock. No text loads, but the plots do.

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Post by BatFastard » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:23 PM UTC

I like the concept of the post, but found it difficult to read. Too much data, and not enough conclusions.

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Post by themartorana » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:25 PM UTC

carlob wrote: post #3

Doesn't work on Safari with Ghostery and uBlock. No text loads, but the plots do.

I'm not sure this is a complaint worth worrying about if I'm them...

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Post by mojoe » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:28 PM UTC

This is a cool analysis, although I think every t-shirt I own is from Target (Merona and Mossimo brands) so I didn't have a single point of reference for the width and length charts. Those charts seemed like by far the most useful part of this post.

Edit: I'm curious about the downvotes. Are people appalled at my lack of taste in t-shirts? :)

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Post by tdaltonc » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:30 PM UTC

Man, so many things that I always wanted to know. Why didn't a marketing team at Tide make a infographic about this a decade ago?

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Post by nextos » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:31 PM UTC

It's pretty well known that tees made using 1920s-era loopwheeling machines don't suffer from size changes, and age really well. But sadly these are now super expensive, and only offered by Japanese niche brands who bought machinery from American corps.

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Post by Cyph0n » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #8

It's pretty well known that tees made using 1920s-era loopwheeling machines don't suffer from size changes, and age really well. But sadly these are now super expensive, and only offered by Japanese niche brands who bought machinery from American corps.

I remember visiting a Japanese clothes shop here in Dubai and I noticed their shirts were quite different in texture than anything else I'd seen. It was expensive too. I think it's called Superdry? Could that be one of the niche brands you're talking about or are they just using a unique blend of textiles?

In any case, it's quite fascinating how sometimes old tech is simply better than what we have today.

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Post by threadbase » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:35 PM UTC

carlob wrote: post #3

Doesn't work on Safari with Ghostery and uBlock. No text loads, but the plots do.

uBlock is killing some of our graphs. Fixing this is on our todo list (although not top ten) so hopefully resolved in not too long.