More expensive women's clothes..

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Can anyone tweet this to redbubbles page for me? I wanted a feminist t shirt, and then noticed the difference in price for women's t-shirts! I'm pissed off, contacted customer services they seriously didn't care. I don't even want the t-shirt anymore, just want to draw attention to the higher price for the sane thing in women's size!

Another example of not being able to see the evidence that is right under their nose! Tweeted it.

Thanks 😊😊

Wha.....?????

Except not the same, men's sizes are likely to be bigger, therefore more material, therefore surely men's should be the more expensive item?

Bet the men's are better quality too.

Urgh, I'm so SICK of this insidious, blatant, sexist nonsense. Grumble, grumble, grumble.....

I can't see any good reason for it, just blatant sexism. I recently tried to replace some sippy cups for DD and noticed that the option on amazon under 'colours' were labelled boy and girl, and the boys ones were £2 cheaper! Needless to say she has the cups with robots and dinosaurs! The blue bath support we bought when she was a newborn was cheaper than the pink version too.

This is so often the case. Maybe the colouring to make items pink and purple is massively expensive compared with sludgy 'boys' colours. (doesn't apply to the t-shirts)

Perhaps I’m making excuses but having some limited experience in clothing manufacturing, I would imagine the “unisex” t shirt is produced in much greater numbers and therefore cheaper.

It is so ironic though, could considering the slogan. What a joke. I am glad this has been tweeted.

I think they need more material for the boobs. Sometimes us mums have to pay a price for having such a curvy physique!

The cut and shape are different and, as noted above, produced in different numbers. But if you think there should be no difference then just buy the cheaper one.

mumside seriously?

I'm being serious. Look at the dads shirt, it's just a flat piece of material but the mums one has to be made in a way to accommodate breasts

Fucking lol! Not known for being a thinker are you mumside

I don't appreciate your comment this is not the kind of atmosphere I've come to expect from this website

The women's t shirt may actually require more work and a different fabric. Given the Sloan though, you'd think they could price in the middle and call it even.

I genuinely think more work goes into making the women's shirt, because the men's is straight up and down, one straight seam at each side. The women's is shaped and would require slightly more skill to manufacture.

I agree there are examples of micro-sexism everywhere, but I think this one may have a legitimate reason.

It's because of the different fit. Men's are a simpler shape. You could buy a men's if you like

pinkyredrose
Fucking lol! Not known for being a thinker are you mumside

Does being so rude make you feel good about yourself?

Whether it justifies that price difference mumside is correct that there is more work involved in making a styled t-shirt to fit a female body.

I sew my own clothes. It's a hobby. The mens shirt is easier and quicker to sew. I wouldn't see this as sexism.

From a look at the t-shirt though, it's not a shaped t-shirt - the women's one just has shorter sleeves and a slimmer fit (ie narrower body tube). They're both 100% cotton (ie. it's not that one has lycra).

I would think that the difference is more likely explained by quantity ordered - but then that would be a self-fulfilling prophecy to some extent if someone can save 2 bucks by ordering the small men's rather than the medium women's then you would, wouldn't you - hence more men's ordered.

But then, we don't pay a difference from the small to the XXL - which also would clearly be more expensive due to more fabric and heavier weight so greater shipping cost.

Why is it OK to even out the t-shirt cost when the difference in price is due to size, but not OK to raise it when the difference in t-shirt cost is due to order volume (or potentially, effort to sew, although I don't think this is the case here personally)?

I sew my own clothes. It's a hobby. The mens shirt is easier and quicker to sew. I wouldn't see this as sexism.

These aren't hand sewn. I am no expert in this stuff but I can't see how more work goes into the women's one particularly, not when mass made in a factory. I'd assume they are run through the same machines the same number of times?

Yeah - when making a plain t-shirt, there's really no difference beyond the physical size. The trickiest bit is putting the ribbing on the neck, and to a certain extent attaching the sleeves (basically any bit with a curve is marginally tricker than a straight bit) - but yes, it's 5 seams max (neck, armholes, then up each side) and 3 hems (arms, bottom - TBH, the neck is very hem-like too) done on an overlocker.

And actually, a lot of t-shirts are made from a tube of fabric for the body, so you can knock off the side seams too (although you'll still need to do the sleeves.

T-shirts are not a lot of effort at all.

Oh, I see what you mean - actually I think a lot of places do use humans to put the stuff through the machines, but it'll be a production line, so one person will do the neck, another will do the sleeves, a third will fold it in half and do the side seams etc.

A couple more cm on any seam will make very little difference, switching styles (and size to a certain extent as you have to check you've got all the same size bits) does, so it's easier to make 100 identical than 10 each of of different styles.

the womens shirt looks shaped to me and I would think that would make it harder to machine stitch, you'd have to guide it more carefully as opposed to just whizzing it through

Not really any need to be so rude to mumside, was there?

It's possible that the women's tees are genuinely more expensive to produce, but someone with a bit of commonsense should surely have spread the costs over the mens and charged the same for both.