I wish this trick worked with some of the XL shirts I have... I have a few great shirts from when I was 16 that for some odd reason I decided that XL was "THE" size to get for a 120 lbs guy who was close to 6 feet tall. lol... oh being a teen in the 90s lol...
I have washed and washed and washed those shirts to kingdom come and they just won't shrink. Only the shirts you DON'T want to shrink, will shrink.
Ain't that the truth! I hope there are some non-black shirts this time around. I'm trying to buy less black t-shirts because I have like 100, but it's difficult because almost every time I go to a concert, black is by far the dominant color, if not the only color. Iron Maiden: all black. Metallica: all black. Ghost: all black. The A perfect Circle and Tool shirts I got earlier this year were both a charcoal grey, which is better, but most were still black. I'd love a sweet new NIN shirt in red or a light grey or charcoal, but I don't buy white shirts because they get dirty so quickly and they get pit stains in the summer.
THIS! So much! I have a lot of cool shirts I found while thrift store shopping, but so many of them are XL and no matter how many times I wash them, they won't shrink! Some of them I managed to make into tank tops, but only if they're not vintage.
Yeah, when I started going to a lot of shows I used to make it a rule to pick a shirt from each and every show. Over the years I mellowed out on that. Now, I really think about whether or not I really like the shirt and how much I'll wear it. And that's why I didn't get the Physical World event shirt. I liked that it had my city on the back, but that's about it. I didn't like the design otherwise, so I decided I better save that $25. I bought a pin instead :P