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T-Shirts Unravelled
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#32It'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.
Loopwheelers apply even (low) tension on yarn which prevents uneven warping, but that doesn't change the fact that cotton still shrinks as a fiber.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
That piqued my interest. Do you know the name of any of the Japanese niche brands?
The Real McCoys, The Strike Gold, Studio D'Artisan. Here's a good introduction on loopwheeled shirts from Japanese repro brands. http://www.heddels.com/2014/03/an-introduction-to-loopwheele...
Only some of The Real McCoys are loopwheeled sadly, and there's some confusion over which.
The Flat Head and Tezomeya are also other examples of loopwheeled tees.
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#34I learned the dryer effect hard way - so many good tees were destroyed. :( Nowadays I just leave my t-shirts and polos to dry.
The size charts is a real eye opener. I know that Abercrombie carries smalls that fit me fine, but Zara was an unknown to me. Apparently, their tees are also reasonably priced and look pretty good...
Thanks for the post!
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#35tldr Pro-tip: If you want to get long life out of clothes you like, don't put them in the dryer.
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#36Does someone know what tools were used to make the graphs in this article?
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#37Great to have this data. But wouldn't the extent of dryer-induced shrinkage be driven by the amount of time in the dryer, as much or more than temperature? While most modern dryers offer a choice of temperatures, the big knob mostly controls a humidistat-based target. I personally equate the "very dry" setting with "shrink beyond usability". I'd expect that removing clothes while still damp would be more important to…
From the post: "The biggest determinant of shrinkage is whether the shirt went in the dryer or not. (We wash and dry all t-shirts using a warm wash and normal/warm dry cycle)."
That doesn't answer the question, which is an interesting one. Where in the dry cycle does shrinkage occur? If you dry on hot to slightly damp, do you get the same level of shrinkage as cool to fully dry? If so, why haven't I ever seen a dryer that starts hot and transitions to cool as the clothes dry out?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure this is a complaint worth worrying about if I'm them...
FWIW you personal website linked from your profile doesn't either: Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement has to be the very first statement in the script in /home/thebarproject/webapps/codecon_wp/wp-content/plugins/zencache/zencache.inc.php on line 13
He probably doesn't care either.
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#40This is a great resource, thank you. Being tall with a long torso, trial and error buying t-shirts has been torturous and expensive.