@haydesigner@jgoldshlag@jmoor783
I’ve seen those sub-ten-buck Costco polos in the past. You might not be surprised to know that I could usually beat their price for a slightly better shirt. For people accustomed to shopping Land’s End, these prices will look pretty good; the quality, however, might not. (I say “might” because they most likely wouldn’t have ended up here if they were that good.)
I’m pissed off about all the countries that didn’t vote for the UN resolution condemning Russia for the Ukraine invasion and the atrocities against the civilians they are committing there.
I couldn’t care less if the “no”-voting countries got nuked, if the people there won’t stand up to their leaders. As for the "abstain"ers, I will really restrict my support of them from buying any of their products. MANY of those abstaining countries send us garments they manufacture.
@hchavers Agreed. But that is why I said “restrict” instead of “eliminate”. I will definitely up the threshold of what I think is worth buying and from where. I once had a very-well-respected economics prof (that I doubt many here had heard of) who maintained that you “vote with your dollar” (probably a paraphrase) as to whether you value a company’s products. Many financial sanctions originated by consumers will get some attention by those seeking our good old US$. Including influencing companies to be more humanitarian oriented. It seems to have worked for those consumers environmentally motivated.
@phendrick
An observation from within the screen printing trade; most shirts like this are produced in small second- and third-world nations in Central America and the Caribbean, or in Mexico. But there’s a dead giveaway that these are from China in the photos. That narrow sewn-in brand label is very much a Chinese-garment thing. It’s not an absolute screaming certainty, but that’s the way I’d bet.
@phendrick
It’s probably printed on a hang tag. I’ve seen that on some of the sleazier polos that customers have had me use for printing as uniform shirts. (My cost, under four bucks. Tag says $40 or more. Nobody with any sense is fooled, trust me.)
The one spec that is most important for a lot of folks is missing. Are these that nasty, scratchy, irritating pique knit, or the softer, smoother jersey knit? 60/40 cotton/poly means they probably won’t shrink, but a decent 5.5 or 6 ounce ring-spun cotton in jersey knit is what I want for office wear (or anywhere that has A/C).
Of course, I am specifically not a good prospect for this item, because I have wholesale access to them as printable garments. But I know what my customers want, and I suspect that the Mehtizens have similar tastes.
@mexicantacos Wirthout one in front of me, I have no idea. But Gildan has made both pique and jersey knits, in stiff cotton, soft ring-spun cotton, cotton/poly blends, tri-blend, and performance wicking poly. The specs on these don’t even hint at the knit, and I’d be really leery of buying them without that information.
@whomeyesu The photos show a sewn-in narrow brand stripe “label”. My experience has been that these are exceptionally itchy and really annoying to remove without damaging the shirt.
I love it when I bend slightly at the waist and whatever was in my shirt pocket comes out and skitters along the pavement.
And given that the pockets sewn on to the typical polo are much shallower than those on a business-dress shirt, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Tee- and polo-shirt pockets pretty much define “useless decoration” in my experience. And then there are the people who want pockets on a screen-printed shirt. Mmmmm, nope.
@ojohn People definitely have their thoughts about pockets on polos and t-shirts – I often see the chant “no pockets no sale.” Over here, if there’s a pocket, no sale. Hate 'em.
the pockets sewn on to the typical polo are much shallower than those on a business-dress shirt…
So what you’re saying is that half-assing something you don’t want to do in the first place because it’s not your cup of tee was self-fullfilling in ruining it for everyone as intended…
[by “you” I mean the folks that make and sell tees and polos.]
@806D2701@ojohn@werehatrack “given that the pockets sewn on to the typical polo are much shallower than those on a business-dress shirt”
Now you know what women’s pants are like. If they don’t put those fake pocket openings on them, they put in a pocket that’s about 2" deep. Now you know why women carry purses.
For this type of shirt I reccommend the occasional Woot! offering of GBH (Galaxy By Harvic) pique polos, basically at the same price as these. The collars on the GBH never crease and the fabric is comfortable. I won’t spend $40 to take a chance on shirts I can’t return. $25 maybe…
@ETFrisco Pockets on shirts aren’t that great, barely anything goes in a shirt pocket, it’s not a secure place to keep stuff. Anything thicker than a banknote “prints” and makes for a messy look. #teamsymmetry
@806D2701@ETFrisco
Then complain to the sellers and buyers to stop designing and putting such shitty pockets on their otherwise quality products.
The problem isn’t people aren’t buying shirts with pockets, the problem is that people aren’t buying shirts with shitty pockets. The cause of the problem is the people designing and making shirts with defective pockets, not lack of consumer demand.
@alanfrishman That’s another dead giveaway that they’re from China, in my experience. In US letter-sizes, I’m an L most of the time, or an M or S in Men’s shirts. In Chinese sizing, I’m a 3X. Some savvy US sellers insist upon the product getting US-appropriate size labels, and even then, sometimes the manufacturers “misunderstand.” I have to wonder if that’s how these ended up with Meh…
$3 each at Badwill or the Salivation Army. And you only have to buy one. Or wait 'till the good ones go on sale at Land’s End (down to only double what they’re worth), and they won’t have your size or color in stock. Think of the moolah you’ll save!
@mike808
It you’re putting it in a shirt pocket, either you use a comically short slide rule, or you like having it poke you in the ear just before it falls forward and lands on the floor.
These seem to be the same as the ones I got on Woot! last week. They were SUPPOSED to be Galaxy by Harvick, but instead sent me some brand called “jump/Start”. They are so terrible I demanded a return… so bad they said, “here’s your money back, keep the shirts, we don’t want them either”. I would NEVER buy these. Never. Ever. all of mine are supposed to be XL, none of them are actually the same size and fit. the material is totally threadbare and thin. weird fell too.
@armerius
That sounds very much like a certain container load of shirts that one of the local importers brought in from Pakistan about 25 years ago. The labeling and the actual shirt size were pretty much random. And they were cotton, but not even partially pre-shrunk. I wondered, at the time, if the reason he got them so cheap was that the Pakistani supplier had actually imported them from somewhere else, and been so horrified that they relabeled them and turned them around without even trying to sort them first.
@DianeGreco@FreePasta
It’s meh’s order “number”.
The fun is posting whatever image /giphy pulls up for one’s order “number”. Let’s see what hilarity ensues… (if you don’t like it, you can edit and save and it will pick a new image until the edit window times out).
/giphy contagious-knitted-glass
These shirts are ungraciously long, though they fit my chest and arms like the rest of my polos in this style. I could probably conceal carry an AR under this, not just a .45.
Specs
Product: 5-Pack: Men’s Everyday Polo Shirts
Model: MPK-1900
Condition: New
Available Sets:
Care Instructions
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
Not Online - Tagged $49.50 each
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Mar 17 - Monday, Mar 21
Weak, guaranteed they fit oddly.
@Stallion All my shirts fit oddly. Could these be odd enough to fit right? I am not going to find out.
They are cheaper at costco!!
@jmoor783…. Uhhh, the cheapest polo at Costco is more than double this price.
@haydesigner @jmoor783 there are routinely decent polos at Costco for $10 per shirt. Certainly better than these
@haydesigner @jgoldshlag @jmoor783
I’ve seen those sub-ten-buck Costco polos in the past. You might not be surprised to know that I could usually beat their price for a slightly better shirt. For people accustomed to shopping Land’s End, these prices will look pretty good; the quality, however, might not. (I say “might” because they most likely wouldn’t have ended up here if they were that good.)
@jmoor783 $60 for a Costco Membership plus 5 $10 shirts would be $110. Not seeing how this is cheaper.
@haydesigner 32 degree polos come in a 2 pack for 15 bucks and usually go on sale for 10 later in the season (May). Also they are very comforable.
Cute clicky face today.
Every set has a color you won’t wear, so it’s really 4 shirts for 40$
@khchin22 +1, I’d be in for black, navy, charcoal, heather, and hunter, but white, royal, and light blue are all straight to the donation bag.
@Aspirant_Fool @khchin22 I’m with you on the white and light blue, but I kinda like royal. OTOH, I already have too much black…
Eh, I’m in for them. Can’t argue about shirts when they aren’t on the t-shirt site.
/giphy quick-vicarious-stove
Oh, and rumble rumble @yakkoTDI
@guybrush01 @yakkoTDI
Meh needs to have fun things like that loader.
@guybrush01 @iwilsker @yakkoTDI And that ammo
@guybrush01 @iwilsker @yakkoTDI that’s too practical and useful for Meh.
@guybrush01 @iwilsker @TimW @yakkoTDI And every 8th round or so would be a squib.
Only buying because I haven’t bought in over a month. (What’s happening to me?!?)
/giphy whipped-sedate-wizard
If I wanted to be “just a tad formal,” I’m not sure these shirts would be the answer.
“Imported”; but what is the country of origin?
I’m pissed off about all the countries that didn’t vote for the UN resolution condemning Russia for the Ukraine invasion and the atrocities against the civilians they are committing there.
I couldn’t care less if the “no”-voting countries got nuked, if the people there won’t stand up to their leaders. As for the "abstain"ers, I will really restrict my support of them from buying any of their products. MANY of those abstaining countries send us garments they manufacture.
@phendrick I wish that I could really do that, but we are truly a global economy with global manufacturing and global sourcing.
@hchavers Agreed. But that is why I said “restrict” instead of “eliminate”. I will definitely up the threshold of what I think is worth buying and from where. I once had a very-well-respected economics prof (that I doubt many here had heard of) who maintained that you “vote with your dollar” (probably a paraphrase) as to whether you value a company’s products. Many financial sanctions originated by consumers will get some attention by those seeking our good old US$. Including influencing companies to be more humanitarian oriented. It seems to have worked for those consumers environmentally motivated.
@phendrick
An observation from within the screen printing trade; most shirts like this are produced in small second- and third-world nations in Central America and the Caribbean, or in Mexico. But there’s a dead giveaway that these are from China in the photos. That narrow sewn-in brand label is very much a Chinese-garment thing. It’s not an absolute screaming certainty, but that’s the way I’d bet.
@phendrick @werehatrack I checked, and these shirts are made in Outer Freedonia, definitely a “Marxist” state…
NOT ONLINE - TAGGED $49.50 EACH lol
@JvB Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that when I first read the copy.
I’ll have to try that at my next garage sale. It’s not that hard to make your own tag and sew it in.
@phendrick
It’s probably printed on a hang tag. I’ve seen that on some of the sleazier polos that customers have had me use for printing as uniform shirts. (My cost, under four bucks. Tag says $40 or more. Nobody with any sense is fooled, trust me.)
@werehatrack That means it does fool a lot of people?
@phendrick @werehatrack @JvB
Ah, I see you shop at Kohl’s.
@werehatrack Want to pitch us some shirts to sell?
The one spec that is most important for a lot of folks is missing. Are these that nasty, scratchy, irritating pique knit, or the softer, smoother jersey knit? 60/40 cotton/poly means they probably won’t shrink, but a decent 5.5 or 6 ounce ring-spun cotton in jersey knit is what I want for office wear (or anywhere that has A/C).
Of course, I am specifically not a good prospect for this item, because I have wholesale access to them as printable garments. But I know what my customers want, and I suspect that the Mehtizens have similar tastes.
@werehatrack are they like Gildan?
@mexicantacos Wirthout one in front of me, I have no idea. But Gildan has made both pique and jersey knits, in stiff cotton, soft ring-spun cotton, cotton/poly blends, tri-blend, and performance wicking poly. The specs on these don’t even hint at the knit, and I’d be really leery of buying them without that information.
@werehatrack They’re pique and a cotton/polyester blend.
@GLaDOS Oh, ick. DNW. We hates the pique, yes we does, Precious, it scrubs us the wrong way, nasty pebbly stuff.
These are taggless or TAGGED…confused¡ Scratchy tags are itchy-itchy.
@whomeyesu The photos show a sewn-in narrow brand stripe “label”. My experience has been that these are exceptionally itchy and really annoying to remove without damaging the shirt.
Got to buy something for a dad or uncle you don’t like that much?
Meh’s got you covered!
No pocket no sale
@ojohn I love it when I bend slightly at the waist and whatever was in my shirt pocket comes out and skitters along the pavement.
@806D2701 @ojohn
And given that the pockets sewn on to the typical polo are much shallower than those on a business-dress shirt, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Tee- and polo-shirt pockets pretty much define “useless decoration” in my experience. And then there are the people who want pockets on a screen-printed shirt. Mmmmm, nope.
@806D2701 @ojohn …or fall in the toilet.
@ojohn People definitely have their thoughts about pockets on polos and t-shirts – I often see the chant “no pockets no sale.” Over here, if there’s a pocket, no sale. Hate 'em.
@obxer @ojohn
So what you’re saying is that half-assing something you don’t want to do in the first place because it’s not your cup of tee was self-fullfilling in ruining it for everyone as intended…
[by “you” I mean the folks that make and sell tees and polos.]
@806D2701 @ojohn @werehatrack “given that the pockets sewn on to the typical polo are much shallower than those on a business-dress shirt”
Now you know what women’s pants are like. If they don’t put those fake pocket openings on them, they put in a pocket that’s about 2" deep. Now you know why women carry purses.
pocket please
For this type of shirt I reccommend the occasional Woot! offering of GBH (Galaxy By Harvic) pique polos, basically at the same price as these. The collars on the GBH never crease and the fabric is comfortable. I won’t spend $40 to take a chance on shirts I can’t return. $25 maybe…
Gotta have pockets, or no deal.
@ETFrisco Pockets on shirts aren’t that great, barely anything goes in a shirt pocket, it’s not a secure place to keep stuff. Anything thicker than a banknote “prints” and makes for a messy look. #teamsymmetry
@806D2701 @ETFrisco
Then complain to the sellers and buyers to stop designing and putting such shitty pockets on their otherwise quality products.
The problem isn’t people aren’t buying shirts with pockets, the problem is that people aren’t buying shirts with shitty pockets. The cause of the problem is the people designing and making shirts with defective pockets, not lack of consumer demand.
Use coupon “DEALNEWSFS” to save on shipping
Better check the shirt size…not what I’m used to. X-large has chest size of 42 - 44…
Standard 2XL is 49-52. These are made for tiny people!
@alanfrishman That’s another dead giveaway that they’re from China, in my experience. In US letter-sizes, I’m an L most of the time, or an M or S in Men’s shirts. In Chinese sizing, I’m a 3X. Some savvy US sellers insist upon the product getting US-appropriate size labels, and even then, sometimes the manufacturers “misunderstand.” I have to wonder if that’s how these ended up with Meh…
Good enough!
/giphy quotable-skinny-clove
$3 each at Badwill or the Salivation Army. And you only have to buy one. Or wait 'till the good ones go on sale at Land’s End (down to only double what they’re worth), and they won’t have your size or color in stock. Think of the moolah you’ll save!
Gotta Have Pockets.
Where else am I gonna put my slide rule?
@mike808
It you’re putting it in a shirt pocket, either you use a comically short slide rule, or you like having it poke you in the ear just before it falls forward and lands on the floor.
@werehatrack
Is that the plot of your sex tape?
@werehatrack
It’s not the length that matters, it’s the circumference.
At least that’s what your mom told me.
No pockets. Double meh.
These seem to be the same as the ones I got on Woot! last week. They were SUPPOSED to be Galaxy by Harvick, but instead sent me some brand called “jump/Start”. They are so terrible I demanded a return… so bad they said, “here’s your money back, keep the shirts, we don’t want them either”. I would NEVER buy these. Never. Ever. all of mine are supposed to be XL, none of them are actually the same size and fit. the material is totally threadbare and thin. weird fell too.
These are so much less than Meh.
@armerius
That sounds very much like a certain container load of shirts that one of the local importers brought in from Pakistan about 25 years ago. The labeling and the actual shirt size were pretty much random. And they were cotton, but not even partially pre-shrunk. I wondered, at the time, if the reason he got them so cheap was that the Pakistani supplier had actually imported them from somewhere else, and been so horrified that they relabeled them and turned them around without even trying to sort them first.
Polo shirts were meant to wear collar up. Sorry if anyone already posted this, I just saw the boss and I don’t want to work this weekend.
IRK!
ORDER contagious-knitted-glass
The decscription on my order. What the hockey pucks does that mean?
@DianeGreco
That’s just the order number.
@DianeGreco @FreePasta
It’s meh’s order “number”.
The fun is posting whatever image /giphy pulls up for one’s order “number”. Let’s see what hilarity ensues… (if you don’t like it, you can edit and save and it will pick a new image until the edit window times out).
/giphy contagious-knitted-glass
These shirts are ungraciously long, though they fit my chest and arms like the rest of my polos in this style. I could probably conceal carry an AR under this, not just a .45.
@fuzzmanmatt
What about a …
M A C H E T E !