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Hollister Slip On Sneakers Logo Graphic Classic Fit Boardshort Logo Graphic Classic Fit BoardshortJanuary 6, 2016 | We washed, dried, measured and weighed 800 of the most popular men's t-shirts available online. The shirts included a wide variety of price points ($5-$50), sizes (XXS up to 6XL) and fits ("slim", "tall", "relaxed", etc.). After compiling the data, we worked with beta testers in NYC to develop an algorithm that could recommend t-shirt brands and sizes for a wide range of body types. We're still tweaking the math on that algorithm, but in the meantime, we thought we'd share some of the data that has surfaced from our project so far. T-Shirts Widen and Shorten Over Time T-Shirts change in consistent ways over time. Each time a t-shirt is washed, it shrinks, and each time it is worn, it expands. The expansion in the chest is almost 2x more than the expansion in the length and most of that expansion happens in the first two hours of wear. What surprised us was that over the course of many wash cycles, the chest and waist will drift wider and the length will drift shorter.

The chart below shows the evolution of 10 different t-shirts over 16 washes, averaged to one line. (We calibrate our search results to the dotted lines shown below). A Zara XL is like a J. Crew Medium No two brands have the same sizing system, and the differences between them can be vast. The chart below provides a breakdown of chest measurements for sizes Small, Medium, Large and XL. The chest is measured as the distance between the shirt's arm seams. Expressed as chest x length, the average Small is 19.0" x 26.3", the average Medium is 20.5" x 27.1", the average Large is 22.0" x 27.8", the average XL is 23.5" x 28.6". The length breakdown is provided below. Fabric Weight and Price Have No Relationship One of our assumptions going into the project was that cheaper t-shirts would weigh less (per square yard). In fact, heavier t-shirts were less expensive, on average, than lighter ones (overall the correlation is very weak). Commodity cotton is cheap right now (only $0.70/lb), so raw materials comprise only a tiny portion of a manufacturer's cost structure.

The culprit is manufacturing variance You may have had this experience before: You buy two identical articles of clothing. They are the same brand, style and size -- maybe even the same color. They are exactly the same except that one fits, and the other does not. The problem is manufacturing variance. To test manufacturing variance, we measured 20 identical new t-shirts. These shirts were priced in the $20 range. The graph below depicts the distribution in chest width and length, which each have a standard deviation of about one fifth of an inch. It's probably more helpful to think about the size of a particular of shirt as a distribution, rather than an exact number. Maximize your chance of success as a consumer by buying t-shirts where the average produced is a very good fit. This way only extreme outliers won't fit you very well. It's the dryer, not the washer, that shrinks t-shirts One thing you hear everywhere is that washing clothes in hot water will cause them to shrink.

While hot water may cause shrinkage in wool garments, for cotton and polyester t-shirts, the washer settings don't make a big difference. The biggest determinant of shrinkage is whether the shirt went in the dryer or not. (We wash and dry all t-shirts using a warm wash and normal/warm dry cycle).YOU ASKED FOR IT, SO WE ADDEDULTIMATE-COMFORT STRETCHTO MORE STYLES. AN UPDATED CLASSIC MADE FOR OUTSMARTING MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS EXPERIENCE UNPARALLELED RANGE OF MOTION IN YOUR BUTTON-DOWN EVERY GUY NEEDS JACKET OPTIONS, GO FOR THE MOST COMFORTABLE: OURS EXTRA COMFORT+ ADDED FLEX= YOUR NEW FAVORITENON-JEANS THE O.G. STRETCH PIONEER, STILL AS CRAZY STRETCHYAS EVER ONLY YOU’LLKNOW YOURFIRST LAYER ISYOUR FAVORITEWhat's your favorite Abercrombie & Fitch item in your closet?I have this jumpsuit in a floral print that's very subtle and not completely in your face like a lot of the floral prints that Abercrombie uses. It's one of my favorite things to wear. I just throw a cardigan over it and wear it to work when it's nice out. 

Do you ever work on the men's side of store?Yes, I work on the women's side, the men's side, and at the cash register.How do you help the guys find what they need?Helping male customers is always great because I do a lot of flirting, to be honest. Just because it's so much easier to sell to a guy if you tell them they look good in what they're wearing, whereas with a girl, it isn't always so cut and dry because they can be more particular about the fit of clothing and colors. Guys are so easy. Guys come in all the time and ask me really basic questions about clothing, and I'm just like, "Oh my gosh, I can help you! Come with me," and I'll just take them around the store and give them things to try on and it usually works out pretty well for them in the end.Have you ever been hit on while working?What was that like?Being hit on while I'm working is always super uncomfortable because I'm the kind of person who wants to hit him with a sassy, witty remark, but I have to remember that I'm at work and I have to uphold the level of customer service that we have at Abercrombie. 

Usually when I do get hit on at work, I try to laugh it off or deflect the attention. Sometimes if it's busy and I'm being hit on, I'll find someone else who needs my help and focus on that. What was your creepiest experience getting hit on at the store?I had a guy who had come into the store before and hit on me and had just been very creepy. I came in to open the store once with my manager. We go in and keep the doors locked until it's time to actually open for customers. I was in the front of the store vacuuming, and this guy who I recognized who had tried to hit on me before walked past the store and saw me. He circled around and came back and just stood outside the store watching me vacuum. This lasted for maybe 10 minutes until I walkied my manager and she came out. He got the message and got scared off and left.What's the most someone has spent in one trip?A guy bought, like, every single men's outerwear jacket or coat that we had along with denim and cardigans. He came up to the cash register with all this stuff and kept going back to pick up more, just 'cause he couldn't carry it all.

He was really sweet about it though. I was just looking at this pile of clothes that I had to scan and put into bags, and I was like, Wow, this is going to take a while, but I had someone else help me bag everything. I think he left the store with eight or nine bags that day.Do you think he kept it all?I think he was Canadian. We have a lot of people from outside of the country come to the store because Abercrombie & Fitch isn't everywhere else. When tourists come to the store, they tend to spend a lot of money so they can take things home for their friends and family.Speaking of tourists, I always see people in New York taking pictures with the models. Do tourists ever ask to take pictures with you guys?No, and I think a big part of that is because our male models aren't shirtless.One thing I find characteristic of Abercrombie & Fitch is the dim lighting. Does it ever bother you after a long shift?Definitely the lighting affects me when I'm in the store. The lighting is very dim so when I'm working a shift, and I'm coming out and about to go home or something, as I'm leaving the store and entering the mall that has bright fluorescent lights, my eyes hurt.

I don't think my eyes adjust until I get home, to be honest. You're in this dim light for so long that it does take a toll on you a little bit. I also always notice the loud music when I'm walking past. Does that ever give you a headache?The music can either be really good or really bad. The music playlists each go for about an hour at a time, so you hear these songs and then you hear them again and again and again. I'll probably hear a full music track seven or eight times in one shift. You tend to have favorite songs that you can hum along to and then songs that you just hate and want to be over. I've actually looked up some of the tracks on my phone, so I can put them on my playlist because some of the songs are pretty good.Does the perfume bother you at the end of the shift?When I first started working there, it was terrible. It made me stuffy and I would leave the store and still smell like Abercrombie & Fitch, but now I don't even notice it. Do you have to walk around spraying it around the store?No.

If you go into Abercrombie & Fitch and you pay attention to the ceiling, which I don't know why you would, there are fixtures attached to the ceiling. Usually they're in corners near closets. Every few minutes they release the perfume so that it falls along the clothing in the closets. It just keeps everything fresh and smelling like Abercrombie, 'cause we all want that, right?Do people like the smell so much that they ask what the perfume is?Yeah, all the time. Sometimes people just come into the store to smell the perfume and then they leave.What's your favorite type of Abercrombie & Fitch customer?My favorite type of customer is the type of customer that tries on clothes and then puts it back in their respective places. It's one thing to leave clothes in the fitting room and have me put it back because I'll do that, that's my job. But it's another thing to pick up clothing and leave it in a random spot because then it not only ruins the look of the store but also I have to walk around and actively search for the things you dropped along the way.

Is that the most annoying thing people do?Does that happen a lot at your store?Clothing and especially fragrances get stolen on a weekly basis. I catch people trying to pull sensors off all the time. People come in with booster bags, which are essentially old shopping bags that they've lined with foil on the inside so that way they deter sensors at the door. They'll come in with these bags that are easily noticeable because they're so stuffy and they'll start to put things in the bag and try to get away with it.What's your strategy for handling shoplifters?I usually make sure the manager knows what's going on so I walkie her. We have a code word that we use and then I will keep an eye on them. I don't exactly follow them because that can be weird, but I definitely stay in the same room as them and we're trained to use recovery statements. A recovery statement is basically when you go up to a customer who is trying to steal and you keep asking them if they need any help, if they need a fitting room.

If I see someone who has just put an orange shirt in their bag, I'll go up to them and ask, "Hey, do you need help finding anything to go with that orange shirt you just put in your bag?" Or, "Do you need any help picking out some T-shirts to go with the sweatpants you just grabbed?"What are some misconceptions about Abercrombie & Fitch or the employees?That's a very difficult question. It's kind of hard to talk about that for me. Even though I work there, I don't really find their business strategy, their branding, to be very smart. I think the general view that Abercrombie is not inclusive is very true. I think that hits the mark about Abercrombie and what it is. I think the brand tries to be very exclusive. The people that work there are attractive because that's what managers and recruiters look for to try to maintain the brand. I wish that wasn't true. I wish Abercrombie would be more inclusive and more diverse in its recruitment, but that's the way it is.What's your favorite part about working there?