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> The shirts come in a men's small, medium or large. Because women never get hot, right?
by edent 7y ago
> The shirts come in a men's small, medium or large.
Because women never get hot, right?
- schrodinger 7y agoWomen don’t have the traditional social pressure to wear suits.
- gshdg 7y agoIn professions where a suit is de rigeur (law, banking, consulting, etc.) they sure as hell do.
- pavon 7y agoThe fact that they are targeting this toward suit-wearers makes even more snake oil. This thing will be cooling a small patch on the back of your neck, while dumping far more heat into the air gap between your shirt and suit.
- dade_ 7y agoIt's related, because men are usually wearing suits, women tend to complain it is too cold. In the summer, the A/C is too high and in the winter, the heat is set too low. Generally women were told to put up with it and wear a sweater, now it looks like men just need to just go wear an air conditioner.
- GordonS 7y agoI'm convinced this is not just about suits, and also bear in mind that a lot of women will wear suits or skirt-suits - I've worked in office environments for almost 20 years, but where men in suits isn't really a thing; men wear a shirt, and very seldom a tie, and the women are kind of smart-casual. I've noticed that the vast majority of women are complaining of being cold, whereas the men are complaining of being too hot. I've noted the same with female partners too - they always seem to be cold when I'm hot. My guess is this is a function of 2 things: 1. Body mass 2. Hormones Regarding body mass, the outliers on both sides (men that feel cold, and women that feel hot) tend to be small and slim men, and taller and larger women.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoYeah, anything targeted only at men is obviously 100% sexism. For example, dresses don't come in men sizes either. Not like men can't wear dresses. There's really no reason for that other than sexism. Also by the way, I'm not using sexism here to conduct random witch hunts and finger pointing at companies/people who obviously have zero interest in being sexist. Don't get the wrong idea.
- jotm 7y agoLikely because only "men's sizes" have a semblance of a standard. So called "women's sizes" is an absolute chaos. Some companies' small is another company's large, and so on.
- krick 7y agoI don't have an experience buying female clothes, so maybe I don't appreciate the scale, but it's not like there is common a standard for male clothes either. Sometimes M is literally XL, depending on the company and the country of origin.
- ceejayoz 7y agoWhen I buy pants, they're available in sizes like "32x34", describing the waist and inseam in inches.
- GordonS 7y agoAt least in the UK, pants is about where the simplicity ends :( For T-shirts, sizing is an arbitrary XS, S, M, L, XL etc. Most times, I'm a L, but often an M is too small and an XL is ridiculously big - it really is arbitrary. For shirts, it's based on the neck size. Which is a bastard, as a I have a large neck, so shirts that I can actually button up are extremely baggy on me :/
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments and especially not flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html