How to Pick the Right Sized T-Shirt, Sweatshirt or Hoodie Online
Tips for how to be sure that you buy the right sized t-shirt, sweatshirt or hoodie at 1923MainStreet.com
Buying clothes online can be a challenge, especially when it comes to picking the right size.
Obviously, you can’t try-on the items from an online shop and virtual change rooms aren’t very accurate, so you often have to go by general sizes. It gets even more challenging because sizes are not always consistent across brands. You can go by instinct, but that’s not always reliable. So your best bet is to use the size guides offered by the shop.
But how easy are size guides for shoppers?
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Here at 1923 Main Street, we want to be sure that you get the right-sized product whenever you shop here. So we try to make our sizing options as simple and straightforward as possible to ensure that you pick the perfect sized t-shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie or whatever you are buying.
How to Use the Size Guides at 1923 Main Street
At 1923 Main Street, we do our size guides a little differently than many other shops and we believe that our approach to size guides will help you to get the size that you want, with no surprises when you open the package.
When you shop at 1923MainStreet.com, there are two ways that we make it easier for you to ensure that you pick the right size for your 1923 Main Street t-shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie or other item.
Here’s what we do to help and how you can focus on ensuring that the size you receive will be just what you’re looking for.
1. Clearly Identifying the Base Item in Every Product Listing
We’re all about transparency for our shoppers. For t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies we use a variety of blank base apparel items from well-known and established blank manufacturers. These blank items (basic t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies that are ready for graphic printing or embroidery) are widely used by the majority of casual wear clothing companies, big and small (only a select number of clothing companies actually make their own t-shirt or clothing blanks). So to make the sizing selection easier for you, we always tell you exactly what the underlying base item is for each article of clothing. We don’t try to hide it, we make sure that you have full transparency into what you are buying.
Why?
This way, if you already own a piece of clothing that was printed on that same blank garment, then you will know which size to choose (or whether you want to size up or size down). This takes the guessing out of sizing and makes your shopping experience at 1923 Main Street much more pleasant. We believe that informed shoppers are our best customers. So, we are very transparent about the clothing we sell so that you will have a better purchase experience when it comes to size and quality.
This is the first method of ensuring that you are buying the right size. But what if you don’t have any shirts from a given brand, or if you can’t tell from the label whether it’s the same item? That’s where our helpful size guides come in.
2. Providing a Size Guide That’s Easy to Follow
The second method we use is our unique and easy-to-use approach to size guides.
For every item we sell, you will find a size guide as the final image on the item’s product page. For our size guides, we use the measurements provided by the blank item’s manufacturer.
So, if you don’t know (or own anything) printed on the blank base item for the product you want to buy (method 1, above), then the next best thing is to find a t-shirt, hoodie or sweatshirt that you already own – and that fits the way you like – and use that as a baseline.
We use lay-flat sizing in our size guides.
Sample Size Guide on 1923MainStreet.com
How to Use 1923 Main Street Size Guides
Here’s what to do (we use t-shirts as an example here, but take the same approach for all other apparel):
Take a t-shirt that you already own (and that fits the way you like) and lay it flat on the floor.
Have a tape measure or ruler on hand.
Then, use the size guide for the 1923 Main Street t-shirt that you want to buy and measure your t-shirt along the straight lines noted in our size guide. Make a note of the measurements of the shirt you own.
You can then compare the measurements of your shirt to the options shown in the size guide.
This is a great way to find the size that is as close as possible to what you want. It’s also helpful to use this method if you want to size up or size down (for example if you want an oversize fit or a more snug body-hugging fit).
Always remember that any shirts from any manufacturer can also have a margin of error from production (they can vary in size by an inch wider or taller, for example). We note this in the size guides as well, so that you have full awareness of the potential variance in size due to production and fabric variances.
Casual Clothing That’s Custom Made When You Order
Custom produced apparel such as what we create at 1923 Main Street means that every item we sell is custom made for you when you order.
As an environmentally responsible business that does not want to send unsold clothing to landfills in far off countries, we do not keep any items in stock or have a large inventory of unsold sizes. Instead, we follow a production-on-demand model. This means that the item you receive was custom made just for you. When you order it, we make it (this is why it can sometimes take a day or two longer to ship). This is, in our opinion, the most sustainable and environmentally responsible approach to fashion and apparel.
It also means that because everything we sell is custom made, we cannot offer returns, exchanges or refunds. We do not keep any items “in stock” and we have no inventory. Custom-made apparel is final sale (as is the case with most other clothing companies that follow this environmentally and ethically responsible model).
This is why we have a very clear policy of no returns, refunds or exchanges. We make sure to post this in several places (including at checkout).
Full Transparency for Your Shopping Satisfaction
Full transparency throughout the purchase process is very important to everyone at 1923 Main Street. It’s how we do business and how we like to be treated by others when we shop.
As a result, it is very important to us that you take the time to get the right sized item when you order. Hopefully this article will help you to make the perfect size choice on your next order from 1923 Main Street.
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