Robbie Weinberg
January 13, 2025
Having been in the promotional products industry for 25 years, I have witnessed the challenges that come from a seemingly simple task: the need for a known quantity of apparel, but in a variety of unknown sizes, not to mention the possibility of all genders, and don't forget extended sizes, too. So, either you decide to just "wing-it" and go with a "standard" run size of 1, 2, 4, 4, 1 (per dozen, size small thru 2X) or you endeavor to the world of "thankless tasks" and begin to email everyone requesting their size.
If you wing-it, and your company's best (and biggest) client is Shaquille O'Neal who wears a size 4XLT (tall), it would do you no good to hand him a company logo'd size 2XL golf shirt. Similarly, the lead exec from another big client who wears a woman's XL may actually feel slighted if you hand her a men's size XL, signaling that you didn't care enough to contemplate that not everyone wants to wear a men's version of their size.
A "standard" run size also brings with it the nearly 100% certainty that you will run out of sizes that you need (ever have to say, "sorry, we're out of your size") and have plenty of extras leftover, after the event. Your unwanted sizes will eventually end up being no more than an additional item of textile waste ending up in your local landfill.
Ok, so then lets try the thankless task method to collect the sizes we actually need for an internal company wide gift. It starts with a simple email to company employees requesting a reply with your needed size. Some (responsible) employees will respond immediately, but others (recalcitrant) don't. Do you send the email again, this time in bold requesting "whoever didn't respond, please respond ASAP" This will only invite confusion among the responsible employees who will email their selection again ("I thought I sent it, but here it is again").
Frocket can help gather the precise sizes you need, whether you want to wing-it or try your hand at the thankless task. No wasted effort, no shirts ending up as textile waste.