Questions and Answers
Q: This is a sizing off another company in US. Just wanted to show ya this so you wouldn't have any mishaps in the
coming weeks for holiday shopping. Mike
A: Mike, before getting into the online selling business since 2001, I was a huge collector on the West Coast, most likely I had one of the best collections of game worn stuff from the 60's, 70's, & 80's than anyone I knew. My Senior year at SDSU I wore a different jersey to school every day for the for the entire year. Just to show you how many jerseys I use to have.... and back then, during the mid-late 70's, you couldn't go in the store and buy them. There was no such thing as online shopping. You had to know someone from the teams or uniform suppliers to get your hands on the good stuff.
The sizing that we give are the sizing of the old days. However, approximately 2006, Reebok who use to do the NFL jerseys for 10 years changed the sizing on all of it's stuff. Reebok, who without question was the leader of quality jerseys led the way with the change and other companies followed. I think M&N was the only company who stayed with their same sizes and it's very similar to ours.
Its my opinion that most of those companies dropped their original size small jerseys as it was costing the companies too much $ to product two different number sets and logos for the scaled down version of the small.
If you look at the new sizes (during the so called MacDonalds's age) for companies, the size were really upsized to fit the new generation and to eliminate double work from the factory. For example, if you had ordered a small in that same jersey, there's no way we could have used the same front logo as we did for your size large, the logo would have been too big. We would have had to scale that front logo down as well as the numbers. That's why when we received kids or young adult versions, they actually cost us more and take more time as we have to scale everything down. For example, if a movie actor is not that tall, the company that produces that football jersey will make a 9" front number, not a 10" like they use in the NFL.
I do appreciate the email, all of our regular customers know the sizing, but the new customers sometimes assume that all companies are the same and that's why we make it a point to clearly show the size chart on each and every page of the jerseys to be ordered. We do it the old fashion way, take the actual measurement (at the belly) of the current jersey and multiply by two to get the width of the jersey. If you wonder why we take a belly measurements, most of our buyers are older guys like myself and some of us are totally out of shape, so if it fits the belly, it should fit the chest.
As always, I do appreciate any and all information. I'm glad you like the jersey and we look forward to receiving a photo of you with the boys at the Winter Fest.
coming weeks for holiday shopping. Mike
A: Mike, before getting into the online selling business since 2001, I was a huge collector on the West Coast, most likely I had one of the best collections of game worn stuff from the 60's, 70's, & 80's than anyone I knew. My Senior year at SDSU I wore a different jersey to school every day for the for the entire year. Just to show you how many jerseys I use to have.... and back then, during the mid-late 70's, you couldn't go in the store and buy them. There was no such thing as online shopping. You had to know someone from the teams or uniform suppliers to get your hands on the good stuff.
The sizing that we give are the sizing of the old days. However, approximately 2006, Reebok who use to do the NFL jerseys for 10 years changed the sizing on all of it's stuff. Reebok, who without question was the leader of quality jerseys led the way with the change and other companies followed. I think M&N was the only company who stayed with their same sizes and it's very similar to ours.
Its my opinion that most of those companies dropped their original size small jerseys as it was costing the companies too much $ to product two different number sets and logos for the scaled down version of the small.
If you look at the new sizes (during the so called MacDonalds's age) for companies, the size were really upsized to fit the new generation and to eliminate double work from the factory. For example, if you had ordered a small in that same jersey, there's no way we could have used the same front logo as we did for your size large, the logo would have been too big. We would have had to scale that front logo down as well as the numbers. That's why when we received kids or young adult versions, they actually cost us more and take more time as we have to scale everything down. For example, if a movie actor is not that tall, the company that produces that football jersey will make a 9" front number, not a 10" like they use in the NFL.
I do appreciate the email, all of our regular customers know the sizing, but the new customers sometimes assume that all companies are the same and that's why we make it a point to clearly show the size chart on each and every page of the jerseys to be ordered. We do it the old fashion way, take the actual measurement (at the belly) of the current jersey and multiply by two to get the width of the jersey. If you wonder why we take a belly measurements, most of our buyers are older guys like myself and some of us are totally out of shape, so if it fits the belly, it should fit the chest.
As always, I do appreciate any and all information. I'm glad you like the jersey and we look forward to receiving a photo of you with the boys at the Winter Fest.