
after twenty-five washes


same shirt, same position, twenty-four washes apart. the colour softens a little. the collar and the hem don't move — that's the pre-shrink and the taped seams doing their job.
how it fits

Rahul wears S — 168cm, 65
s
Rahul usually wears better one

Someone wears M — 173cm
m

Someone wears L — 178cm
l

Someone wears XL — 183cm
xl

Someone wears XXL — 188cm
xxl
what makes it different
240gsm combed cotton
heavy enough to hold its shape off the shoulder, light enough for a Bengaluru afternoon. combed, so the short fibres that pill are gone before it's knitted.
boxy, dropped shoulder
cut wide and short rather than long and slim — the seam sits on your arm, not on the point of your shoulder, so it falls straight instead of pulling.
ribbed collar, taped seams
the collar is knitted ribbing rather than folded jersey, and the shoulder seam is taped. those two are what stop a tee going wavy at the neck.
pre-shrunk
washed before it was cut, so the size you buy is the size you keep. see the twenty-fifth wash above.
how it's made
knitted and sewn in Tiruppur, in a factory we've been to. the cotton is Indian, the dyeing is done in-house, and the run is small — a few hundred pieces a colour, not a container. nothing about that makes it cheaper; it makes it a shirt whose maker we can name.