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I cannot comprehend T-shirt manufacturers. I’m not talking about shirts you’d walk into a store and buy: those brands seem to have grasped female anatomy. I’m talking about shirts you buy for screen-printing for your choir or team or club, and the organizer offers you a choice of S to XXL. I remember the days when those sizes were unisex, which meant that the S was a straight-sided tube so long you could have sworn it was meant for some sort of mutant with an elongated torso. It would have reached halfway down my ass…had I not had an ass, which inevitably stopped it cold in an ugly bunch of wrinkled fabric just below my navel. I knew a woman who for choir performances where we’d only be seen from the front, would fold up the hem four inches and then take a hair claw (those confused see here<\/a>) and gather a gigantic fistful of fabric up with it at the small of her back. It improved the look immensely.<\/p>\n

But now there are often Ladies cut T-shirts. The one I was trying on today for my choir was one such. However, they still suffer from a fatal flaw. Being a creature of the female persuasion, I have features thusly: 1. Boobs 2. Hips\/ass, and inserted between them, 3. Waist. It is this latter that seems to flummox the manufacturers. Buy a top in the store, and you will notice that it has sides cunningly shaped like so: )__(<\/p>\n

This allows it to pass over the boobs and hips without swathing the waist in acres of extra flapping fabric. Take your club T-shirt and check. You will notice the sides are like so: |_| In the ladies cut, they eeeeever so slightly curve them inwards, but mostly they shorten the hem and move them farther apart. |___| A woman’s hips will now fit! Huzzah! Waist? What’s a waist? Why would a woman want to display one?
\nOn behalf of ladies everywhere, T-shirt manufacturers: ) ( not | | Trust us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot comprehend T-shirt manufacturers. I’m not talking about shirts you’d walk into a store and buy: those brands seem to have grasped female anatomy. I’m talking about shirts you buy for screen-printing for your choir or team or club, and the organizer offers you a choice of S to XXL. 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