Awesome work. Small nit: wish the average values were shown as colored dashed vertical lines.
T-Shirts Unravelled
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#72Awesome work. Small nit: wish the average values were shown as colored dashed vertical lines.
What rationale is there for companies not standardizing on sizes? Is the motive just vanity sizing?
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#73Does someone know what tools were used to make the graphs in this article?
Highcharts
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#74Earlier 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...
Are these western names used in western countries for Japanese products or so the names also get used in Japan?
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#75I feel obliged to share a lifehack my mother taught me regarding the laundry.
After removing the laundry, take your t-shirts and stretch them yourself, one by one, when they're still slightly wet. Grab them with two hands symmetrically, stretch horizontally, moving your hands down along the shirt. Do the same vertically, and with the sleeves.
Do not use a machine dryer, just a regular standing dryer like [1].
Put your t-shirts carefully, symmetrically on the dryer, and once dry, put them on a hanger. If you follow this, you will not have to iron them at all.
Source: been doing this for 4 years and I didn't touch the iron since. I have all t-shirts 100% cotton (though I buy only high-grammage ones) and they all seem brand new and ironed (the only exception being one particular brand whose collar looks bad unless ironed, I stopped buying that brand). YMMV of course.
[1] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oWjx2Q-mL._SY300_.jp...
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#76I'm the founder of threadbase. Thanks everyone for your kind words. I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions for what you'd like to see next or how we can improve the user experience. We're also looking for front-end/design help, as well as help with computer vision tech. Feel free to email me chris@threadbase.com.
Yes: this is actually amazing, thank you. I'm 6.5" and way 175 pounds. No. Shirts. Ever. Fit. Me.
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#77How did you actually do the measuring?
The "manufacturing variance" chart jumped out at me as looking fairly unnatural: there's a variation in width or variation in length but very little points that mix. Then I noticed that we're talking about just over half an inch in each direction.
How much of this effect is variation in your measurement?
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#78I'm the founder of threadbase. Thanks everyone for your kind words. I'd love to hear any comments or suggestions for what you'd like to see next or how we can improve the user experience. We're also looking for front-end/design help, as well as help with computer vision tech. Feel free to email me chris@threadbase.com.
Loved the post, here's a feature request for you:
I organize an annual conference [1]. All of our attendees get a free tshirt. We purchase all of our tees from a single manufacturer (say American Apparel) and let the attendee tell us the size they want before we finalize the order.
The problem is that attendees often don't know what size will fit them, and sometimes guess wrong and end up with a poor fit. Anything you could offer us to help here?
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#79Earlier 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.
Hah, Superdry is overpriced rubbish bought by 45-year-olds who can afford it because they think that's what 25-year-olds wear.
Most 45 year olds would not give a flying duck to what 25 year olds year.
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#80I feel obliged to share a lifehack my mother taught me regarding the laundry. After removing the laundry, take your t-shirts and stretch them yourself, one by one, when they're still slightly wet. Grab them with two hands symmetrically, stretch horizontally, moving your hands down along the shirt. Do the same vertically, and with the sleeves. Do not use a machine dryer, just a regular standing dryer like [1]. Put you…
My wife has a similar trick that we've been using successfully.
After removing the laundry, we fold everything neatly, and leave them stacked on top of each other for 30-60 mins. Than we dry them with a standing dryer.
Haven't ironed t-shirts or jeans since we got married.