Like the subject says. Does anyone else think that the girly mediums have gotten substantially larger?

I'm putting them against my older girly mediums and they're significantly wider around the waist and longer overall. More akin to a guy's shirt.

Also, despite the fact that we are, or at least I am, buying 'girly' shirts, with the understanding that the cut will be more appropriate for the slight curving of a female body, the shirts are more tubular than curved, which would be, say, more like Bella tees (http://www.bella.com/)

It's slightly more than a little bit annoying, since it's not like we can try these on before we buy them, so when we buy them and it doesn't fit, we have to then to exchange them, mailing at our expense. Not to mention the loss of time waiting for the shirt the first time it comes in, re-sending it, then waiting for the order to be processed and re-sent.

I figure that if I'm going to be paying two extra dollars for a shirt with a specific cut, i.e., girly, then I'd expect them to be slightly different from a guys' small.

I realize that this is more a problem with the quality standards at American Apparel than a threadless problem, unless threadless is using larger shirts to print smaller sizes when the small-sized shirts run out. In which case, shame on you. But I doubt this is the case.

Speaking of quality standards, it appears that AA has a great degree of arbitrariness in terms of what they consider a 'medium'. I've gotten girly medium shirts that are the same size as a girly small; conversely, there are also girly mediums that are the same size as the girly large. It's a little disturbing considering it's a plus-or-minus of an entire size.

And no, it's not all in my head; I've got some background in textiles and garments, and this is some pretty significant stuff.

So I'll be returning my girly mediums for those designs that still have girly smalls in stock. *slightly irritated*

Anyway, drop me a line.

Cheers.

-c