T-Shirts Unravelled • Hacker News Board

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by jdietrich » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #9

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.

Superdry are faux-Japanese, they are actually a British company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGroup

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by radicalbyte » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #9

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.

Superdry is a British brand which produces rather nice shirts with Japanese print on them :)

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by smcl » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:39 PM UTC

These sizing charts are incredible and must have taken a lot of effort to put together. I'm gonna come back to this page a lot.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by abrowne » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:39 PM UTC

mojoe wrote: post #6

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? :)

It confirms that American Apparel small fits me well, but I need XS from other brands. I guess Zara small would be OK too.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by kelukelugames » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

The results are too important to accept without peer review, examine the methodology, etc.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by godzillabrennus » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:40 PM UTC

Seems like you guys and http://Markable.com would have a natural symbiotic relationship for data sharing.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by Cyph0n » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:41 PM UTC

radicalbyte wrote: post #12

Cyph0n wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Superdry is a British brand which produces rather nice shirts with Japanese print on them :)

Damn, it felt Japanese though :(

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by ralfruns » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:43 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.

That piqued my interest. Do you know the name of any of the Japanese niche brands?

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by janzer » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

As a bit of an aside, I actually came across this from a tweet by Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by itchyouch » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

I've standardized my shirts on the Uniqlo Crew Shirts and they seem to have very little change from wash to wash compared to my Banana Shirts.

The Uniqlo shirts are a cotton/polyester blend while the BR shirts are 100% cotton, which explains the help that durability of the synthetic materials provide.

It would be great if we could get some data on which brands have the most and least variance and which brands expand and shrink the most over their lifetime.