White Cotton Straight Fit Tee - Thick Collar Short Sleeve for OEM

A white short sleeve tee from American Vintage, described as straight fitting and slightly thicker than average, with a thick round collar and a mid-weight cloth that is slightly slubbed, listed at 55 GBP with two of three sizes in stock and the L sold out. It is the same tee as the black Sonoma published alongside it in this run, and the two pages together settle a question this run has been unable to settle for fifteen batches. The description is word for word identical apart from the final three words. The measurements are identical to the last digit. And the style code is identical: both pages say SON28GH21, with nothing in it to say which colour you are ordering. What makes that last point sharp rather than merely careless is the image file name, which reads SON28GH20-BLANC-2.jpg: a code with a colour suffix on it, sitting in the brand's own asset pipeline, and never making it onto the page. So the identifier exists, it is just not published. There is a second thing about this colourway that is worth a close look, and it is the one the measurements raise rather than the code: the tee is cut close to the body and it is white, and those two facts interact. The reference is the Sonoma SS T Shirt in White. Dongguan Bafinasa Garments Co., Ltd. develops comparable knit tops on OEM and ODM terms, from yarn and cloth selection to retail or FBA ready packing. We publish this as a development reference and build your own version of it, and we do not supply the branded original or reproduce anyone else's label.

Key Features

• The same style code as the black version of this tee, with no colour suffix, while the image file name carries one. See the note below
• The same three measurements as the black version to the last digit, across the widest possible colour route. See the note below
• Straight fit as stated, with the chest measuring slightly under the body at every size, which on a white tee is also an opacity question. See the note below
• Mid-weight and slightly slubbed as described, with no weight and no opacity figure on a white garment. See the note below
• Thick round collar as stated, with no rib width, no construction and no recovery figure. See the note below
• Short sleeve published at 17 cm on all three sizes, and a length grading two and then one. See the note below
• Two of three sizes in stock, with the L sold out, where the black version has all three

Customisable Options

• Cloth: mid-weight cotton jersey to the reference, with the weight in grams per square metre set to your market since none is given
• Opacity: a stated weight and a stated opacity level for white, or a heavier cloth, or a double front panel
• Fit: straight to the reference, or a relaxed version with three to four more inches of ease, which also helps the opacity
• Stretch: a stated stretch and recovery figure tested and published, or an elastane blend quoted as an option
• Collar: thick round rib to the reference, with the rib width specified, or a fine rib, or a self fabric binding
• Size set: S, M and L to the reference, or an extended set from XS to XL with the equivalence published
• Cloth weight, opacity level, stretch and recovery, collar rib specification, ease, body length, sleeve length, size set, colour development, private label and care labelling

Specifications

Size Chart as Published by the Reference

The chest figures are flat half measures taken with the tee laid down, doubling to 80, 86 and 90 cm around, or 31.5, 33.9 and 35.4 in, and they are identical to the figures on the black version of this tee. Against a body bust of 33, 35 and 37 in, read as UK 8, 10 and 12, the ease is about minus one and a half, minus one and a tenth and minus one and three fifths inches, so the garment is cut slightly under the body at every size; read against 33, 37 and 41 in the last of those becomes minus five and six tenths, which no jersey does, so the first reading is the right one. The chest grades three centimetres and then two, averaging two and a half, which is the grade that holds ease constant against a two inch body step and which tells you the three letters are adjacent sizes. The sleeve is 17 cm on all three sizes and the length grades two and then one centimetre.

Our Proposed Body Chart

Occasions and Styling

Suits everyday wear, weekends and layering. A white tee is the most worn thing in most wardrobes and this one is cut close enough to go under a shirt or a jacket without bulk, which is the case for a straight fit rather than a relaxed one.

Production and Quality Control

The reference publishes three columns for all three sizes, states its fibre, describes the fit, the collar, the cloth and the sleeve, gives a care instruction and names the country of make. It has two of three sizes in stock, publishes no weight, no opacity figure, no stretch figure and no equivalence for its sizes, and shares a style code with the black version of the same tee. Three things follow: what two colourways sharing a code and a table actually proves, why a close fit and a white cloth multiply each other's problems, and what the missing numbers are.

One code, one table, two colours, and the evidence that settles it, and that is the first thing. This run has raised the question of whether one size table can honestly serve several colourways on every multi colour garment it has met, and it has had to argue the principle rather than test it, because it has never had two pages it could put side by side. Now it has. The black Sonoma and this white one publish three measurements that are identical to the last digit: pit to pit 40, 43 and 45, sleeve 17 on all three, length 55, 57 and 58. The descriptions are identical apart from the final phrase. And the style code is identical: SON28GH21 on both. So the house's position is now explicit and can be tested: the colour route does not change the dimensions, and one table serves every shade. Is sharing the table defensible? In principle yes, and this run has said so each time: dyeing changes colour and not pattern, and three tables with three sets of rounding errors would be worse than one. But this pair is the hardest possible case for the principle, because a white and a black are the two ends of the dyeing process rather than two shades along it. A white is normally bleached rather than dyed, and bleaching is a harsher treatment that can change the hand and the dimensions of a cotton jersey; a black carries the heaviest dye load of any shade; and where a deep colour is put on after the garment is made rather than before, it goes through a wet process that a bleached one does not. This run met the named version of that two batches ago on the twill trouser, whose page states that a special dye process was used and then warns that colour will be lost in washing, which is an admission that the route has consequences. These two pages name no route at all, so the shared table is carrying a claim nobody has made, and the remedy is one minute's work: measure one size in every colourway before the table goes up. Now the code, which is a separate failing and a more interesting one. Both pages say SON28GH21, so a reorder for forty more of the white cannot be distinguished from a reorder for forty more of the black, and this run has now met that failure four times in this house, on the Vitow knitwear, on the Sonoma boat neck, and now twice over here. What makes this case worth setting out in full is the image file name, which reads SON28GH20-BLANC-2.jpg. That is a code with a colour suffix on it, in the brand's own asset pipeline, and it does not appear anywhere in the product data. So the identifier exists and is simply not published, and there is a second oddity inside it: the number is 20 in the file name and 21 in the specification tab, so two different base numbers are in circulation for what is apparently one style. None of this is expensive to fix, and all of it is the kind of clerical thing that costs a season when it goes wrong, because goods that arrive in the wrong colour are not faulty and cannot be returned. Three characters at the end of a code, agreed once and used everywhere, is the whole solution, and it is the same discipline this run has been recommending for fibre certificates and shade standards: hold the identifier you approved rather than describing the thing again every time.

Close and white, and the two problems that multiply, and that is the second thing. The chest measures 80 cm around at the S against a body bust of 84 cm at a UK 8, so the garment is cut about four centimetres under the body, and on a jersey that is a close fitting tee rather than a fault, provided the cloth gives and comes back. This run has made that argument in detail on the black version of this tee published alongside this one, and the short version is that a knit needs two numbers a woven does not: stretch, which is how far the cloth extends under a load, and recovery, which is how much of that it gives back. Neither is on this page, so the ease figures cannot be fully interpreted. What is new here is the colour, and it changes the question, because opacity is not a property of the cloth alone. It is a property of the cloth and the fit together. A white single jersey worn with four inches of ease hangs away from the body and reads as opaque at a weight where the same cloth worn skin tight becomes translucent, because the closer the fit the more the cloth is stretched over the body, and stretching opens the structure and lets more light through. So a tee cut under the body is the case where the cloth weight matters most, and it is precisely the case where this page does not give it. Mid-weight is the description and slightly thicker than your average tee, which is the fifteenth or sixteenth unnumbered cloth description in this run, and a comparison whose reference is missing. The two numbers that would settle it are the weight in grams per square metre and a stated opacity, and both belong on a white garment more than on any other colour, because a customer cannot tell from a photograph: product photography of a white tee is lit and styled so that the question does not arise. There is a practical answer for anyone developing a version, and there are three of them: raise the weight, which is the simple one and which this run recommended on the white Apoly tee two batches ago; add a double front panel, which costs a panel of cloth and solves it without changing the hand; or accept a semi sheer cloth and say so on the page, which is honest and which some customers prefer. Whichever is chosen, it should be a decision in a tech pack rather than an accident. And there is a second thing white needs that a black does not, and it is the reason a white programme costs more to make: white shows everything. Every needle hole, every shade variation between panels, every mark from a machine and every speck of dust in the packing is visible on white and invisible on black, so a white programme needs a finer needle, a cleaner room, a slower final inspection, and a packing method that keeps it away from dark garments in the same carton. None of that appears on this page and all of it is the difference between a white tee that sells once and one that sells twice.

The sleeve, the length, the collar, and the stock, and that is the third thing. The sleeve is published at 17 cm on all three sizes, which is the sixth column this run has met that does not grade at all, and it is worth saying again why it matters more here than on most: this table has a chest column that was graded deliberately, three centimetres and then two, averaging two and a half, which is the grade that holds ease constant against a two inch body step. Somebody worked that out. And then, in the same table, the sleeve was left at 17 for all three sizes. An arm grows between an S and an L, and a shoulder widens, and a short sleeve that does not move is a sleeve that was filled in from one measurement rather than graded. The length grades two and then one, so the largest size gains only one centimetre where the middle one gained two, and that irregularity sits at the top of the range, which is where most of the irregularities in this run have been found. Then the collar, which is the feature the description leads with and which is specified by nothing: no rib width, no stitch density, no elastane content and no recovery figure. A thick rib collar is the stretchiest part of any tee and the part pulled hardest in wear, and when a rib loses its recovery it ripples rather than lying flat, which is a fault that cannot be pressed out. It is also, on this garment, the part most likely to stretch as the close fitting body pulls on it, and a collar being pulled over the head twice a day on a tee that is already cut under the body is a collar under more load than usual. Then the stock, and it is worth a line because it completes the comparison with the black. The black has all three sizes and this has two, with the L sold out. So the two colourways of one garment have different stock, which is normal, and the size that has gone is the largest, which this run has noted before is the commonest pattern. On a tee cut this close, the larger sizes are the ones where a customer is most likely to be between sizes and least likely to buy on faith, and with no equivalence published for S, M and L, and with no model to judge the fit from, she has two numbers and a photograph. Finally the two absences that apply to both colourways: no hem width, so a straight fit cannot be checked for whether it hangs straight, and no model height, so 55 centimetres cannot be placed on anybody. Every bulk shipment gets a measurement report against your approved chart.

Optional upgrades include adding a colour suffix to the style code and reconciling the two base numbers in circulation, measuring one size in every colourway before publishing a shared table, stating the cloth weight in grams per square metre and the opacity level, offering a heavier cloth or a double front panel for white, testing and publishing stretch and recovery for the jersey, specifying the collar rib by width, stitch density and elastane content and adding a collar tape, grading the sleeve across the three sizes, making the length grade regular, publishing the hem width, publishing the UK or EU equivalent for S, M and L, a relaxed version with three to four more inches of ease, a fine rib and a bound neck option, cleaner packing for white, more photographs and a model height, size set, colour development, private label, hangtag and care labelling.

Pre-production sample approval, in-line inspection during cutting and sewing, and a final AQL inspection before packing, with measurement reports and photos shared before shipment.

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