Radioactive Shirt
Nice, I ordered a “radioactive” t-shirt from Assault last week and it was just delivered. Here’s the design:
Looks like a pretty nice piece of fabric, doesn’t it?
The shirt is made by American Apparel — usually I don’t like AA, but I gave them another try. Why I don’t like them? Because the shape of their shirts is kind of weird, and they are usually way too small: In particular, when I get an M it fits pretty well the first day, but once I wash it, it shrinks far enough to resemble a small, making it a perfectly fine… cleaning rag. A colleague of mine once got a Women’s S and after when it arrived, it turned out so small she passed it on to her 7-year-old daughter (!). They even offer women’s XS and XXS. These must be either baby clothes, or they want to cater anorexic hollywood stars. Either option weirds me out.
So anyway, judging by this logic, I ordered an L, which is just a little too big on me right now — let’s hope it shrinks to a perfect M when I first wash it. If it shrinks further than that (and no, I am not washing it on “hot”), I’ll have to take it to the office and put it up for grabs–somebody sure has a kid at home it’ll fit.
For none of my other shirts I ever needed such elaborate considerations, so I am sorry but American Apparel sucks. While they are perfectly aware of their shirts “running small”, it will probably forever remain their secret why they don’t just go ahead and make shirts in the right size from the get-go…
June 16th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
As far as I remember my Firefox jacket is also made by AA. (BTW: the Googlers have a jacket with almost exactly the same design but of course the writing “Google” instead of “Mozilla” on the shoulder — funny thing when I came home and me and my roommate were wearing the same jackets, but anyway…)
I guess the AA clothes are “shrink to fit” :-p V. complains that the jacket sits too tight and that’s not because I gained a few pounds! :-p *ahem* birthday *ahem* soon. *ahem* The Highland Bay Fleece looks nice… *ahem*
June 17th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Cool shirt!
Yeah, I’ve never been impressed with American Apparel, either. Threadless used to use their tees, and I was much happier when they ditched that idea.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Thanks for ordering our design! Send us some pictures and let us know how it looks and we’ll put the pictures on our FlickR!