What happened to the women's shirts on Mediocritee?
3I just went over there to pick up “Eat The Rich”, and there was no men’s vs women’s selection enabled. I ordered M based on the assumption that the industry default would apply in such a case, i.e. “‘generic adult’, a less gendered way of describing what we used to call ‘men’”, but I’d rather have had the women’s cut in an XL.
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@riskybryzness should have some info on this.
@Thumperchick I thought @ExtraMedium was the shirt staffer.
@yakkoTDI I hang out over there, but @riskybryzness is the master of that domain.
What no more women’s sizes? Ain’t this some gender bullshit. How about you start selling all women’s sizes and men can pick from that!
@Star2236 agree but in fairness the womens sizes were teeny tiny
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974 since many manly sizes are huge, I fail to see the issue…
It would make my moobs look sexier!
I saw that too a couple weeks ago when I went to buy some shirts. I was very disappointed but loved the designs. I had to guess what size I might wear in a men’s shirt. I didn’t want to buy something too big but i have no idea how the shirt will fit around “the ladies”. Odd are that it will fit poorly (as will the other shirts I picked up as gifts for other women) and they will just become around the house shirts.
@LadyLeela
Whenever I buy a mens shirt from kohls it ends up not fitting me right. Men have longer torsos and no boobs. As someone who wears a 34dd I need that extra space in the chest. The longness in the torso just ends up looking funny. I guess that’s the end if me buying shirts from Meh
I should have bought the last mehathon shirt deal shirts bc they probably still had ladies sizes.
Confirmed: Mediocritee has dropped the women’s shirts from their selection entirely.
Response from Mercatalyst:
They really should delete the women’s size chart, then.
This site just gets worse and worse
Reality check I regret having to cash…
Okay, full disclosure time, I have a tiny little T-shirt sales site and a screen print shop myself. But 99.9% (or more) of my shirts are sold in-person at fan conventions and related events. And in 30 years of being a dealer at such events, if there’s one thing that has been driven home to me over and over and over, it’s the hard fact that trying to supply shirts in a women’s cut is a trap. There’s no standard cut, because there’s no standard woman. I’ve tried having women’s cut shirt for certain designs that seemed likely to benefit from it, and when those were on the display in a stack right next to the regular cut ones, women would buy the regular cut in nine out of ten purchases, and another one or two women would look at both and find neither style acceptable. So in too many instances in-person, having the extra stock (at greater expense per shirt than the regular ones) generated far too little in extra sales to justify their presence.
On the other hand, on a website, if you’re supplying via Print On Demand, then all you need to have on hand is the blanks, reducing the inventory costs - until you hit the other major problems, one of which is the supply side. Lots of styles and colors of women’s shirts won’t be reliably on hand at every supplier. But let’s say you pick a historically popular style (Anvil 880) and a top-5 color (light blue); surely one of the largest suppliers in the nation would have those in stock in Dallas, right? Umm, no. (In fact, the supplier I checked, the one where I used to obtain these, has none closer than Atlanta.) So to run an efficient P.O.D. system, you’d end up having to order a different brand and style and they won’t be the same size as what you have been selling before. (And in this case, they’ll also cost more.) This is due to the fact that women’s apparel is subject to the vagaries of fashion, not because women’s tastes are actually all that ephemeral, but because the buyers for the big retailers compulsively read the Fashion Industry News in order to see What Women Will Be Buying Next Season, and those information sources totally ignore what women actually want. (Pockets, for one thing.)
But the real problem comes in when you try to choose the style to order. There is a morass of different body shape cuts, different shapes and sizes of neck openings, and different sizes in general, which makes it impossible to pick one that’s going to be perfect for everybody. “Acceptable for at least half” is even questionable. (I’ve tried. And failed.)
And all of that said, the women’s shirts formerly supplied by Mediocritee were of a style and cut that I liked, and a “generic adult” Medium is not a perfect replacement. It’s merely “the one I can get”.
Rats.
@werehatrack Great explanation and detail.
I bought an XL woman’s shirt in the very beginning days from meh and when it arrived, it looked more like a child’s small. There was no way that Mrs. cengland0 could even get her head into that XL neck-hole. So now when I buy shirts, I get mine in Men’s XL and hers in Men’s L.
I’m not a big guy but I do like having my shirts loose. I can buy a medium shirt at Old Navy but when buying at Aeropostale, I need the XL size. It is strange to me that there is that much of a difference between sellers. Anyway, I cannot buy any more collared shirts because there’s no more room in the closet but I can stack my t-shirts on top of the dresser so I still buy those if there’s a good theme on them.