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swirly7
swirly7 aka Bryant is a 25.1 year old boy, has been a member since March 12, 2006, has scored 1,491 submissions, giving an average score of 2.01, helping 31 designs get printed.
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A problem I have with threadless.
Hey everyone, so this is my first post.

Anyway, I got Captain Awesome in the mail today (I exchanged a guy's M for a S, the M was cavernous) and tried it on, noticing it was quite a bit longer than the other small Threadless shirts I own (maybe because of the checklist at the bottom of the shirt). This is consistent with a weird sizing trend that I have noticed with my six shirts; my guy's Pandamonium Small is ridiculously undersized and I wish I could exchange it for a medium, but it's too late. Fruit of the Plume (S) is fine and so is my Water, Water (although it's kinda itchy, but that's a different topic).

What's weird is that I have Biblical Disaster and Florence Nightingale in M and they are practically the same size as Captain Awesome in S. I don't know if anyone else has had similar experiences, but I found this a bit frustrating.

iPear
iPear on Jul 19 '06 at 7:56pm
I think that they might've changed up the company in which they print the shirts on.
C20Percent
C20Percent on Jul 19 '06 at 7:59pm
The men's medium in dark gray and sagestone come bigger than most other mediums.
TFMdesign
TFMdesign on Jul 19 '06 at 8:00pm
i think when printing the custom tags on the tee, they some times mess up, like they'll throw a large in the medium bin by accident, and since theres no tag saying it is a large, theyll print medium on it.
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Jul 19 '06 at 8:05pm
Yeah, all my shirts are different sizes/lengths, to a really noticeable degree.

My older ones are shorter (Teddybear loves Teddyboy, The Internet) while my MONDAY!! and Honest Tee are so long I have to fold them over.

They get better with every wash, tho.

And TFM design, it's quite possible that that's what happens once in a while. But they do cut the American Apparel labels off...sometimes you can still have a teensy bit of label on the tee.
xiv
   xiv on Jul 19 '06 at 8:08pm
from all the shirts ive ordered i have noticed that:



the gold runs very big



the black, green and burgundy fit like they should



sagestone and red are a little big (the wash/dryer can fix them)



blue fits like the black, except the body is a little long



pink and brown are a bit loose through the body



grey is extra long and has huge sleeves
Rockslide
   Rockslide on Jul 19 '06 at 8:10pm
I've also noticed this! Sometimes I buy a men's medium and its a perfect fit, other times its tight and small. So I thought maybe I'm growing or they've just been washed too many times. So I switched to larges and it seems to be the same, sometimes a perfect fit other times they seem like xl's.
Larlar
Larlar on Jul 19 '06 at 8:14pm
Yeah, I pick Larges just so I don't accidentally end up with something too small because you can never tell what you're going to get (within a given realistic interval), despite the sizing charts they provide.
15 days later
missing_link
missing_link on Aug 04 '06 at 12:26pm
I buy smalls and out of the fourteen shirts i have only one is different to me.



I have this shirt and it is one of my favorites
whisper in water
whisper in water on Aug 04 '06 at 12:27pm
I may love you, because you used the word "cavernous" in a sentence. :)
bananaphone
   bananaphone on Aug 04 '06 at 12:31pm
my gold tornado body is quite a slim fit personally. There are no consistant rules except everything is a bit fucked up.
14 days later
kkjelden
kkjelden on Aug 18 '06 at 7:20pm
Yeah I think that American Apparel changed their shirts (or Threadless is buying a different style) because all of my old shirts run real short, but my newer ones are ridiculously long. Meh.
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