Explaining true T-shirt quality history from @gents.studios
The creator debunks the common belief that heavyweight T-shirts are higher quality by explaining the history of T-shirt manufacturing. He details how original military-wear was made with low-tension knitting for softness and movement, contrasts this with modern high-tension heavyweight shirts that can hide low-quality cotton, and concludes by teasing his own transparently-made product and calling for a more honest conversation about quality.
Creator: @gents.studios on Instagram
Transcript
Have you been lied to about what makes a quality tier shirt? The original t shirt was military wear. It had to be warm, breathable, and move with the bad. And that mattered because one of the only machines capable of mass producing t shirts at the time worse loop wheel knitting machines, the same machines behind that, the better shirt. Here's the part no one talks about. Loop wheel machines had no inbuilt tension. They relied entirely on gravity, the weight of the garment pulling itself down. Th
Topics: Fashion, Textiles, Manufacturing
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