Fashion

[glmama]

I am with you on this. I am on the eternal search for longer tees, it seems, every year. Either they shrink up, or in my case, are not meant for a larger bod.

[tulips]

It's good to know that I'm not the sole person in the universe with this problem! I do wash tees in cold water, dryer for a few minutes & then on the rack or on a hanger. Thanks for the suggestion of various fabrics. I may try LLBean. It's just so frustrating. I'm considering ordering tunic lengths & then when they creep up, they may turn out to be a good length! Oh how I wish I still could wear skinny tees, but sadly, those days are long gone.

Keep the ideas coming!

[Kachina624]

My solution would be to buy Denim &Co. I haven't had a shrinkage problem with them.

[boonies]

I finally gave up fighting this battle and started only buying tees in Tall. I'm 5'3" so when the inevitable shrinking happens, the length is where I wanted it to be in the first place. Seems silly but I'm not going to baby along a t-shirt in my laundry. I don't have time for that.

[luvdoodles]

I have had good luck with Lands End long sleeve tee's over the winter. I am going to try some of their short sleeve tee's this summer. No shrinking anywhere. I wash and dry them in the dryer. They have sales quite often.

[jonbon]

On 4/5/2014 luvpoos said:

I have had good luck with Lands End long sleeve tee's over the winter. I am going to try some of their short sleeve tee's this summer. No shrinking anywhere. I wash and dry them in the dryer. They have sales quite often.

I have had good luck with the fitted tees from LE (cotton/modal/spandex) and with the relaxed supima tees (all cotton). I haven't had such great luck with the shaped 1x1 rib tees (again, 100% cotton) -- they always get shorter and wider, no matter how much care I take with them. I will say, though, that I am sometimes able to reshape problematic cotton shirts a bit while they're damp by stretching them lengthwise as far as I can and letting them hang dry the rest of the way.