The Pirate Way Bali

Flat shirt vs wearing a shirt

Why a print looks smaller on our flat pictures than on a person - and the print sizes that look right when the shirt is worn.

Sample of tshirt flat vs wearing

All our shirts are shown flat, as if they lay on a table. On a person the shirt goes around the body, so the same print looks bigger when the shirt is worn than on the picture. Don't make a print bigger just because it looks small on the screen.

Sample of tshirt flat vs wearing
Sample of tshirt flat vs wearing

Flat vs hanging vs wearing a t-shirt

The front

The chest is round, and the sides go under the arms. A big print on the front is about 20 to 25 cm wide - wider than that and the edges fall under the arms.

The back

The back between the shoulders is flatter, so a print there can be wider: about 28 to 30 cm for a big print.

Check it yourself

Lay a shirt you like flat on a table and hold a ruler across the chest: that is the width your print will have. See the standard printing sizes for what each size looks like when worn.

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