Our recommended ratio is your beginning point. Then you can aspect in the other matters: cloth shrinkage, the healthy (or cut), your demographic, and the choice to order each men’s and women’s patterns. Take those other things into consideration to ensure your customers, employees, family, followers, and fans are happy.

Fabric shrinkage
If your T-shirts are all 100% cotton, you may need to skew your order barely farther toward the bigger sizes. Although maintain in mind: that if washed properly, cotton T-shirts shouldn’t reduce extra than 2%, and lots of T-shirts are pre-shrunk (search for that in the product description).

If your shirts are a 50/50 poly-cotton blend or a tri-mixture you don’t should fear as much, and in case your shirts are 100% polyester, you don’t should fear shrinkage at all.

Fit (or cut)
Another issue to keep in mind is that a lot of today’s “style fit” patterns run barely smaller than their standard counterparts. Certain styles from American Apparel, Anvil, Next Level, and District, for example, have tapered sleeves and aspect seams for a slimmer fit.

This slimmer fit can be sufficient to make a person who's used to a certain size wonder why it’s tighter than they’re used to. On the alternative hand, humans used to slim fit might keep in mind standard-healthy too baggy for their taste.

Men’s vs unisex vs women’s sizes

Men’s and unisex cuts are essentially the same, with a few mild variations between brands and man or woman products. Women’s cuts are much different: narrower shoulders, contoured torso, shorter and tighter sleeves, tapered waist, flared hips, and relatively longer at the lowest than their men’s/unisex counterparts.
The next issue to ask yourself: Is my goal demographic split evenly between men and women? If so, one way to head about it's far to use the breakdown formula to each half of the order, and wish it all shakes out.
Based on our experience, a few percent of ladies prefer the unisex reduce to the extra form-fitting ladies’ cut. But how many of them? Depends on your demographic. Are they younger or older? More match or not? More fashion-aware or not? etc. Consider this: the “boyfriend tee” is a famous item, and it’s essentially guys cut marketed to ladies.

It also depends on the reduction of the specific item. Some ladies’ styles are baggier, or “relaxed fit”, whilst still preserving a number of the qualities of a ladies’ reduce, such as a wider collar. Check the product description of the item, and look at the sizing chart, as well as photos of models to get a better idea.

One different issue to consider is the manner the same print seems on the two distinctive cuts. As you may see in the photo above, the same size logo seems noticeably bigger on the women’s T-shirt.

If you're printing a huge order that consists of women’s cuts or a huge range of sizes overall, it makes feel to lessen the size of your print. Or print distinctive sizes: one for the bigger shirts (men’s L-2XL) and one size for the smaller shirts (men’s S-M, and all of the women’s).