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iFDL aka Jeffrey Kalmikoff is a 29.59 year old boy, has been a member since March 2, 2002, has scored 9060 submissions, giving an average score of 0.84.

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Nov 07 '07 by iFDL

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"Girls" vs. "Girly" ... give me your opinion!

Hey ladies!

I'm looking for your opinion regarding some language on Threadless. When Threadless first began, we had pretty limited sizing. We had a few guys' sizes, and only one size for girls - Girly M/OS (medium one size). As we expanded our sizing, we never shifted away from the term "girly" to reference all our girls' sizes.

As I've been working hard to give Threadless a face-lift (as you can see from the new homepage and submit page - more to come!), I'm thinking about changing the term from "Girly" to "Girls" so our sizing will be Guys & Girls, not Guys & Girly. Opinions throughout skinnyCorp are mixed, and there's excellent points in support of both words.

People have said that "girls" refer more to young women, teens & tweens (thereby possibly alienating older females) while "girly" refers to the style of the shirt. We certainly don't want to alienate anyone with terminology, so what's your opinion? Should we change it? Keep it? Does it not matter at all?!

Lemme know!!

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Roostersauce on Nov 07 '07 at 7:16am

it should be "Guys" and "Hos"

Roostersauce on Nov 07 '07 at 7:17am

trust me, wont alienate anyone

iFDL on Nov 07 '07 at 7:17am

jeesh, why didn't i think of that? o_O

anushka on Nov 07 '07 at 7:17am

I iz not a girly girl.

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:18am

hmm, that IS a tough little semantic decision

you might also keep in mind that some dudes buy girly tees... although I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes, although hypothetically someone might be more inclined to buy something that is described as being "girly" rather than exclusively "for girls"

but that's kind of a stretch.

iFDL on Nov 07 '07 at 7:19am

i guess maybe a better question is... what's the female equivalent of word "guys"

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:20am

gals!

ahaha

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:20am

dolls?

Roostersauce on Nov 07 '07 at 7:21am

i like gals

Jebbie on Nov 07 '07 at 7:21am

FUCKKKKKKKKKKK KEEPT GIRLY

Jebbie on Nov 07 '07 at 7:22am

it should be MANLY and GIRLY

iFDL on Nov 07 '07 at 7:22am

haha, the owner of one of our printers says "gals" and i think it's really funny. sadly, i don't think we'll be using "gals" :-P

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:22am

the word to match with guys really would be girls, though.

sillybanana on Nov 07 '07 at 7:22am

Girly definitely...girls does say little girls to me ,where as like you said girly describes the cut of the tee. But at the same time its not like i will get confused when i decide to order and assume that you no longer stock my size. Im not really any help am i?

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:23am

aw man, but it calls to mind the wild west... cattle roping... huevos.. uh... barbed wire...

trindli on Nov 07 '07 at 7:23am

girly is fine with me, because it describes more the style for me

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:24am

perhaps you should describe the men's tees as "manly"

this.passion.is.a.plagiarism on Nov 07 '07 at 7:25am

I prefer girly.

winkelmander on Nov 07 '07 at 7:26am

I say 'Girl' and not Girly. Since it only has to do with size and fit, and not whether the shirt in itself is 'girly' or not. A girl-sized shirt isn't necessarily girlish, and I also agree with Anushka that not every girl here would see herself as a girly girl. So why use that term for shirts.

Jebbie on Nov 07 '07 at 7:26am

i love margo, repeating what i say, but like passing it off as her idea.

noice.

iFDL on Nov 07 '07 at 7:26am

marglove, technically the boy equivalent of girly would be "boyly" - which would also be pretty entertaining!

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:27am

haha! I didn't even see that...

my subconscious is a plagiarist :(

Krakaboom on Nov 07 '07 at 7:27am

Dicks and Chicks

eskimokiss on Nov 07 '07 at 7:27am

is 'bitches' too descriptive?

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:27am

hehe... boil-y tees.

Jebbie on Nov 07 '07 at 7:29am

its okay. clearly i'm invisibubbles.

getting more and more like real life!

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:30am

How about Naive and Wench?

radiostaticstar on Nov 07 '07 at 7:30am

dudes and dudettes?

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:31am

I think girly sounds better in the end, though.

"Girly tee" has a nice ring to it. The "eeee" sounds on the end of each word. And they both sound happy.

tesco on Nov 07 '07 at 7:31am

birds

radiostaticstar on Nov 07 '07 at 7:32am

roy rogers and shirley temples?

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:32am

Chicks and Dudes

eskimokiss on Nov 07 '07 at 7:33am

male, female

eskimokiss on Nov 07 '07 at 7:33am

homme, femme

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:34am

Did you know that girl and boy are code names for drugs on the street?

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:35am

Proof that girls are evil:

First, girls need time and money:
Girl = Time * Money

And we know that time is money:
Girl = Money * Money

We also know that money is the root of all evil:
Money = Evil ^ 1/2

Therefore:
Money ^ 2 = Evil

So we are forced to conclude that:
Girl = Evil

sugarless on Nov 07 '07 at 7:35am

you should do boys and girls

sugarless on Nov 07 '07 at 7:35am

or guyish and girlish

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:35am

There's your answer... girl = evil, but girly you're safe. :P

lunchboxbrain on Nov 07 '07 at 7:36am

ladies ftw.

mindtrance on Nov 07 '07 at 7:37am

I like chicks and dudes personally.

Roostersauce on Nov 07 '07 at 7:39am

yea i was also thinking ladies too

margolove on Nov 07 '07 at 7:39am

I still think the rhyme seals the deal.

And if I or anyone else ever desires to write poetry about threadless, you've made it that much easier!

squatterjohn on Nov 07 '07 at 7:40am

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Jebbie on Nov 07 '07 at 7:42am

Girls equal time and money

That is in an equation as

girls = time + money

thus wehn time is money

it's

girls = money + money// girls = 2 money

etc etc

WRONG

thus girls donut equal evil... just smarter then boys at equations :)

Ellsswhere on Nov 07 '07 at 7:42am

i don't see how girly would be offensive so i think this is an issue of keeping threadless original, just make this one of your "things" that threadless has always done

Melikochan on Nov 07 '07 at 7:43am

I prefer "girly."

(I would die for one size larger -- guys medium fit me comfortably, but girly xl is too tight at the armpits/sleeves. What's up with that?)

GallyAl on Nov 07 '07 at 7:44am

I like 'girly'. Don't ask me why..I just do!

squatterjohn on Nov 07 '07 at 7:48am

It should be gally

welshalex on Nov 07 '07 at 7:48am

I'd say keep girly, because it just refers to the style, rather than who should buy it.

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