Babydolls are really nice, tbh. They're more common online because most of the sites that sell t-shirts are owned by the printers and not the designers - I'm thinking of places like TeeFury, shirt.woot, Threadless, and the site that sells our shirts (sharkrobot.com). Since they're the ones printing, they can print a wider variety of sizes for cheaper, whereas a designer ordering shirts with their designs (like we used to and still do for convention sales) has to basically take a larger gamble on what will or won't sell. Three of the four sites I just named print to order, actually, whereas Threadless does quantity printing in batches. Printing to order is especially cheap and versatile. So that's part of why you see babydolls online but not as much in stores.
I really prefer babydolls, actually. I have a big chest and a small waist, plus a long torso, so they tend to be much more flattering on me than a standard size, which just ends up being kind of a sack that makes me look like a skinny lumpy thing and always hangs too short in the front.
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Babydolls are really nice, tbh. They're more common online because most of the sites that sell t-shirts are owned by the printers and not the designers - I'm thinking of places like TeeFury, shirt.woot, Threadless, and the site that sells our shirts (sharkrobot.com). Since they're the ones printing, they can print a wider variety of sizes for cheaper, whereas a designer ordering shirts with their designs (like we used to and still do for convention sales) has to basically take a larger gamble on what will or won't sell. Three of the four sites I just named print to order, actually, whereas Threadless does quantity printing in batches. Printing to order is especially cheap and versatile. So that's part of why you see babydolls online but not as much in stores.
I really prefer babydolls, actually. I have a big chest and a small waist, plus a long torso, so they tend to be much more flattering on me than a standard size, which just ends up being kind of a sack that makes me look like a skinny lumpy thing and always hangs too short in the front.