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Re: My favorite database shirts

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post #9

The 50/50 shirts are great. I've got a stripe shirt that first turned me on to them and I went online and bought a bunch of blank ones in different colors. My current company found a similar shirt from bella+canvas that is also great. It and the stripe shirt are the only vendor shirts in my regular rotation.

I will toss out a second vote for bella+canvas being a modern equivalent to the american apparel of yesteryear.

What is very frustrating is I have 2XL shirts from 2007-2009 that fit better than a 4XL from 2022. I've tried to narrow it down to brands and blends and the 50/50 or tri-blend shirts have held their true sizes for longer but somewhere along the way every brand has seemed to have gotten smaller by full inches. In underarmor polos I now buy their tactical line to get the equivalent of their "loose" fit from yesteryear. It is so frustrating and sometimes a huge money waste buying shirts.

The longest lasting shirts in my closet are some Hurley and Billabong shirts from Hot Topic and similar from 2010 or earlier.

For any conference organizers or swag buyers reading this, please start offering up to 4XL in any cheap brand shirts, especially 100% cotton, even if it is preshrunk.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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post #28

I disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is e…

Somewhat off-topic but for those who want a black, 100% cotton and lighterweight t-shirt, IMHO nothing compares to Intimissimi[0]

They run a bit small so I recommend one size larger than your regular size. They're currently on sale from Black Friday so only $14.30 each. (Large Black is now out-of-stock, sorry!)

They also make many other varieties like v necks, long sleeve, modal/cashmere/ etc.

(Claimer: I'm not affiliated or getting a referral from this... I just think they're a lesser known brand in the US)

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0. https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/short_sleeve_crew_nec...

Re: My favorite database shirts

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post #28

I disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is e…

Follow on, my biggest frustration with these super thin, clingy shirts is how _everyone_ is showing their nipples through them now.

Re: My favorite database shirts

#35
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3x/yr X 3years == closet full how small is your closest? i've heard how small apartments can be in places like NYC/SF, but if the space provided for your clothes is filled by 9 t-shirts, i'm going to need to re-evaluate small again.

leave it to hackernews to debate the semantics of figures of speech

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Re: My favorite database shirts

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It's been 20+ years but I loved this shirt for it's SQL agnostic-ity: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lol-code-geek-select-from-user... (This shows the shirt you could buy once-upon-a-time from thinkgeek, which appears to be no more...) I believe they used beefy-t brand shirts, which was like the nicest thing you could get for t-shirts at the time. (Personal opinion, don't @ me.)

I think my wife finally tossed all my old thinkgeek shirts. I had a huge collection from my college years including "There are only 10 types of people in this world...", "man love" and "there's not place like 127.0.0.1".

Who has filled this void? I know xkcd had/has some geeky shirts and they shut down too.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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The History Guy recently posted "A Brief History of the T Shirt":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_xyrZCSo8

Generally: started out as undershirts, became work shirts (especially in the USN during WW2), and then folks just started wearing them on a daily basis post-war, mostly in 'misfit' / counter-culture groups in the 1950s (especially amongst teenagers), and the hippy culture embracing them in the 1960s.

Re: My favorite database shirts

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Like the author, my favorite t-shirt of all time is an early 2010's American Apparel blend shirt, (though mine is a Stripe CTF3 winner shirt.) However, American Apparel changed something mid decade, and I've never been able to get anything close to as comfortable as those shirts.

My current standard shirt are the NextLevel tri-blends, which are almost as good, and can be ordered plain online, or you can find them with all the logos you want in thrift store near techie areas.

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