Consumer Investigations with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

I seem to have been buying plain black Gap t-shirts for some considerable time. And, since I'm of the slightly gig-going persuasion, I have an imperial arseload of t-shirts that I wear in a wonky sort of rotation, which means that individual shirts last for quite a while.

Admittedly that's bloke values of 'quite a while', but still.

Anyway, here's a handy chart (Or it would be if LJ allowed tables, or divvies or whatever's in HTML5. God. I remember HTML 2) that shows the weight of bloke's medium black Gap t-shirts.

Early 90s - 250g
Mid 00s - 238g
2011 - 138g
2012 - 178g

There's a big, er, gap between the first two examples because I was mostly too lardy to fit into medium t-shirts, so the first one was stored in the bottom of a box.

I'm not quite sure what this proves, other than Gap used to make nice things that lasted for quite a while and that I can't even spell fashnio.

Comments

[smogo.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked that someone as usually anally-technical as you has confused weight with mass!

[reddragdiva]

He's listing what he's actually measuring!

[hsb.livejournal.com]

You are not the only one who has noticed that Gap's t-shirt weight has gone down. I switched to buying mens' Ts there at one point because the rot was not as bad there: the womens' Ts are practically seethrough now and barely last a couple of washes.

I sometimes check their sale for Edward, but otherwise they are a dead duck as far as I'm concerned.

H

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone else does wonky t-shirt rotation. I can't comment on mass degradation - I have some many, and my ex-in-laws bought me workish ones so often, I've not bought any in about a decade.