Not what i was expecting.....

I ordered a shirt online a week or so back. This is something i never do. Mainly because, even though my size has change dramatically over the course of the last half a dozen years, my size has never one that main stream clothes designers consider normal. So finding shirts and such that actually fit in a way i want them to do at the time is rather difficult.

While perusing an outdoor liquidation website, i found this rather cool looking shirt. A 'Bamboo' shirt. My first thought is, "That's awesome!! A shirt made of bamboo." Knowing a little about bamboo, and a little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing, i figured it might actually work. Bamboo is a very light long fibered grass. It could in theory be made into a fabric. i mean weirder things have been in the past. And it was dirt cheap!! Cool and cheap, how could i go wrong??

Looking to order the shirt i had to pick a size. I look to the 'handy' little sizing guide, which is a guide to some article of clothing just not this shirt. And compare its sizes suggestion to my own frame. According to the numbers i should fit in a large. Now this took me a little bit a surprise since that many of the last shirts i have bought were mediums. But in the end i went this the guides suggestion figuring that the shirt may have been meant to be snug fitting, and i wouldn't be able to breath in the medium.

So i get in the shirt today and notice some amazing things that i did not know before now. It seems polyester is made from bamboo. This was a shock to me since i thought it was a man-made material. but no; my 'bamboo' shirt is made from polyester. either that or the shirt was made from recycled fake polyester bamboo plants you buy (or don't) from Wally-world. Also another interesting thing is that wherever that sizing guide was made at, they use a different standard for inches. much like there is a different standard for a gallon if you are in the States or in the UK. Cause the shirt fits like a hockey jersey.