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Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by ryanmonroe » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:31 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #45

> What surprised us was that over the course of many wash cycles, the chest and waist will drift wider and the length will drift shorter. What if the fabric was rotated 90 degrees upon manufacture, wouldn't this eliminate this problem? The shrink pattern is related to the orientation of the thread build of the fabric used is it not?

I think this is because the shirt is stretched horizontally just from being worn but obviously there's no forces stretching the shirt vertically because any force that would stretch it vertically just raises the bottom instead

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by thirdsun » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:32 PM UTC

BatFastard wrote: post #4

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

The conclusions are in the headlines and further details can be found in the paragraphs below. I think it was easy to skim through and get a good picture of their takeaways.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by clort » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:34 PM UTC

MaxHalford wrote: post #36

Does someone know what tools were used to make the graphs in this article?

I'm guessing highcharts.com, since I had to enable scripts from there to get them to show.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by jwagenet » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

I would love to see the size dataset expand to casual and dress buttonups, and even jeans. A bit of data like this will greatly improve my shopping experience.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by art0rz » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #41

specialist wrote: post #40

This is a great resource, thank you. Being tall with a long torso, trial and error buying t-shirts has been torturous and expensive.

Ditto. Then you finally find a shirt which is just the "right" length at the store, and three washes later and it is too short... But you cannot buy the next size up since you need more LENGTH not shoulder width. Very few brands make t-shirts which are 2x-tall (as opposed to 2x-large, where both the length AND width increases). A medium-2xtall would be like the unicorn of t-shirts. The sizes should be: S, M, L, 2x, 3…

Have you tried shirts from skateboarding/extreme sports brands? They tend to be longer but relatively not much wider.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by mikestew » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:36 PM UTC

stickfigure wrote: post #37

pizzasynthesis wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

If so, why haven't I ever seen a dryer that starts hot and transitions to cool as the clothes dry out?

I'm pretty sure that all of the three dryers we've had in the last twenty years had a permanent press setting that does exactly that. Our current one certainly does, and it's just the front-loader that was on sale at Home Depot, nothing fancy.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by gcr » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #33

jackseviltwin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then... how can you really tell what The Real "The Real McCoys" really are?

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by mc32 » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 8:41 PM UTC

The most maddening things is that even within a brand, size, S,M,L, etc. are inconsistent, never mind hoping there would be consistency of measurement across brands.

Their charts expose this onconsistency. Some brands Mack Weldon, is more consistent than say American Apparel.

Even when objective measures like pants waist size in inches, typically a size 32" actually 34" --I guess to make people think they are thinner tan they actually are.

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by vyyvyyv » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

Are there plans to do this for women's clothing?

Re: T-Shirts Unravelled

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Post by scintill76 » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #39

carlob wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be fair, that's a server-side error that will probably always occur (so the site is effectively permanently down), not like the original client-side error caused by users configuring their browsers in a way that site owners might consider hostile or otherwise not worth supporting.