Wtf? That's sexist!

[bending_sickle]

Sickle's Rant on Sexist Online Shop Choices: At the Threadless website of awesome shirts, at the bottom of the main page, there's a line saying, Chek out a jillion more designs! All very well and good until I see there's two buttons, Shop Guys and Shop Girly.

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[rex_dart]

Glad I could be of some help. :D

Babydolls are really nice, tbh. They're more common online because most of the sites that sell t-shirts are owned by the printers and not the designers - I'm thinking of places like TeeFury, shirt.woot, Threadless, and the site that sells our shirts (sharkrobot.com). Since they're the ones printing, they can print a wider variety of sizes for cheaper, whereas a designer ordering shirts with their designs (like we used to and still do for convention sales) has to basically take a larger gamble on what will or won't sell. Three of the four sites I just named print to order, actually, whereas Threadless does quantity printing in batches. Printing to order is especially cheap and versatile. So that's part of why you see babydolls online but not as much in stores.

I really prefer babydolls, actually. I have a big chest and a small waist, plus a long torso, so they tend to be much more flattering on me than a standard size, which just ends up being kind of a sack that makes me look like a skinny lumpy thing and always hangs too short in the front.

[poisoned_sleep]

Interesting. I've never heard of a women's tshirt being called a babydoll- I've only ever heard that term refer to nighties. That said, a fitted T is WAY BETTER than the standard boxy T- as well as having no shape to them, I despise how high the crew necks generally are on a standard T. I find them very uncomfortable.