8 Pounds. That's the price difference between our least expensive t-shirt, car t shirt - the "B&C Comfort T" - and our premium t shirt from American Apparel.

8 pounds for what? For the US-based hipster brand putting half-naked women's backs and hairy men's chests on the back of shiny magazines? Well, to a certain extent. For AA paying its production workers relatively high wages? Yep, that, too.

But at the end of the day it's different quality t shirts (fabric of t shirt and t shirt cut) that cause the differential in the prices of our car t shirts. At least that's what we were told...

In order to find out how good the AA t shirts actually are, we our car t shirt to Spreadshirt Testlab for the very first time. Markus, a guy from production, took a bunch of black American Apparel car t shirts, washed time up to 20 times and checked how the length of every one of those car t shirts, the lengths of the t shirt sleeves, the chest and the waist widths developed.

It's a nice side-effect of the shrinking test, that one can also see how the color and the fabric of the t-shirt changes over time. A single car t shirt or a whole stack of car t shirts reacts...

(Full Car T Shirt Article Here)