Rant time. It's a small thing but it bugs me.

lihpster · Apr 20, 2025

Something that grinds my gears is tagless t-shirts. Hear me out. I understand being irritated by the tag, even thought they don't bother me. I agree that printing the information on the inside of the shirt near the collar where the tags used to be is an acceptable substitute. Just please, for Pete's sake, use a contrasting color. My vision isn't that good anyway, but trying to see a dark grey print on a black shirt is pretty darn hard in the morning. If it was say, yellow, I could see it. As it is, I spend time trying to find which way the shirt goes on. I don't care if it's in "Pretty, Pretty Pink" as long as I can see it. Rant over.

I know it's a pretty weak rant, but it's really an annoyance and a first world annoyance at that.

375hh1973 · Apr 20, 2025

lihpster said:
Something that grinds my gears is tagless t-shirts. Hear me out. I understand being irritated by the tag, even thought they don't bother me. I agree that printing the information on the inside of the shirt near the collar where the tags used to be is an acceptable substitute. Just please, for Pete's sake, use a contrasting color. My vision isn't that good anyway, but trying to see a dark grey print on a black shirt is pretty darn hard in the morning. If it was say, yellow, I could see it. As it is, I spend time trying to find which way the shirt goes on. I don't care if it's in "Pretty, Pretty Pink" as long as I can see it. Rant over.

I know it's a pretty weak rant, but it's really an annoyance and a first world annoyance at that.

If its that hard to see, maybe it doesn't matter if its inside out?

LVSteve · Apr 21, 2025

375hh1973 said:
If its that hard to see, maybe it doesn't matter if its inside out?

For me it's more about the laundry information. I have to be leery of stuff my family in England send me as all too often it is stuff that cannot go in the tumble drier.

soFlaNative · Apr 21, 2025

Pocket tee shirts only fit one way.

glenwolde · Apr 21, 2025

Sew your own label in.

WardenRoss · Apr 21, 2025

My daddy was in the Army.

He was taught how to use a laundry marker. I think it was in 1942.

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Bekeart · Apr 21, 2025

No for me to SEE!

I have several shirts where the printed label has faded away.
Sizes are a mystery. Try on and see ? ? ?

Bekeart

Baxter6551 · Apr 21, 2025

I welcomed tagless tshirts like a new model from S&W. Tags bother the heck out of me (really really bother me so rant understood) to the point I generally cut them out. I’ve ruined several shirts trying to cut too close to the shirt with scissors. But … once I cut the tags out I then too have the problem of putting the shirt on the right way.
I think the laundry marker suggestion above is very good. Get a bright Orange or something that will work with all colors.

Alk8944 · Apr 21, 2025

Lihpster, " As it is, I spend time trying to find which way the shirt goes on."

Wear Vee neck tee shirts and you won't have that problem.

jeffrefrig · Apr 21, 2025

Do what the Warden said up in Post #6. Even a Permanent Ink marker works. Thinking about it now, I have that same issue sometimes. I've dropped down a bit from XXL to XL, so replacement shirts still have legible printed tags. I'm just happy I can still dress myself!

CH4 · Apr 21, 2025

Who looks at the tags/labels once you own it?

zeke · Apr 21, 2025

The ruffer seam goes on the inside with any type of clothing am familiar with

Maddog 521 · Apr 21, 2025

The weird sleeves are hard to like also. When did they stop putting the longer sleeves on short sleeve T-shirts?

NYlakesider · Apr 21, 2025

Thank you very much OP!

My normal casual uniform of the day is a Tee shirt and dungarees. Been that way since about 1966.

Many of my Tees are pocket type but I still have plenty pocket less and those new ones with no tags and very light printing in the back you spend a little time to get right. A couple washes and its disappeared for the most part!

My solution is a marker line down on the bottom front, no one sees it and it makes it a lot simpler for a 1/2 awake senior get going.

Wow its nice to see I'm not the only curmudgeon here with that problem.

tops · Apr 21, 2025

Hold the shirt by the seam that runs from the collar to the shoulder. The low side goes in front. Larry

Protocall_Design · Apr 21, 2025

I wear collar T shirts with a pocket. To me, they are more comfortable and look better. The pocket is for reading glasses.

Martyk · Apr 21, 2025

Tags never bothered Minnie Pearl. In fact, she embraced them. YMMV

30-30remchester · Apr 21, 2025

Another similar rant from me. Manufacturers of bath products, shampoo, body wash, conditioner, have all conspired to write the description of their product in the smallest print known to man. Around home you learn which is which but go to a family or friends house or motel and you can't figure out which is which without glasses, and who were their glasses in the shower. Why not put one large, W or C of BW on the front of their product for us with vision problems?

raljr1 · Apr 21, 2025

My rant is short zippers on trousers...charge me more if you must, but at least let me get the horse outta the barn without strangling it.

Rustyt1953 · Apr 21, 2025

And here I thought I had it rough.

Rant time. It's a small thing but it bugs me.

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