Weekend Wear

I had a burnt orange mesh cotton sweater I would like to replicate and offer on the site. But it's not office wear. It's weekend wear.

If someone feels like wearing it to the office, that's their call and would probably be okay because it's less Sluts R Us than most nominally "pretty" women's clothes. But I'm not selling it as "office wear".

I have lived in men's T-shirts and sweat pants for more than a decade and seen and answered questions on Reddit where women were looking for brand recommendations for good quality T-shirts.

So I'm not the only one who hates the shitty quality of most women's T-shirts. The material is too thin and the neckline doesn't actually come up to the neck in a crew neck t-shirt for women because God forbid we should cover up our ta tas.

So I'm absolutely certain there is a market for better women's T-shirts that are more like men's T-shirts in quality and I'm happy to wear jersey clothing (the material T-shirts are made from) because it has adequate give etc.

I've had other jersey clothing and liked it. It generally trends more casual/athletic than what I'm doing with the knitwear line but would be fine branded as "weekend wear" for career women, though I dressed that way as a college student and homemaker.

Challenge: Women will most likely both WANT and EXPECT the customized sizes like the knitwear line provides AND the system will be geared towards taking their measurements, not asking their "size". I don't know if or how to make that work for sewn clothes, not knitted clothes.

Also I'm not that busty or hippy, I have fairly broad shoulders for a woman and have had terrible belly bloat for years. If it fit over my belly, it fit over my hips and bust.

This is not the case for most women and I know from experience that some men's clothes simply doesn't work for women because it doesn't accommodate hips and bust.

So trying to make better T-shirts for women involves more than just upgrading to the material and neckline used in men's T-shirts. And I'm a consumer of clothing, not a seamstress. I don't know if I can solve this issue.

BUT I would like to work on it and see if I can figure it out. If the MVP succeeds, weekend wear is something I would like to eventually offer to expand the business and ideally that idea gets developed some BEFORE I'm going "Yay! It works! Now to expand the line!"

The half cotton, half silk brown T-shirt I owned that I thought was simply divine and the burnt orange mesh sweater were both part of my Port Aransas wardrobe. So was the pants that could be rolled up and strapped into place as peddle pushers.

I loved those pants except they were normal pants with a zipper etc. That was a problem for me. I'm wondering if I could update the design as knitwear or jersey wear and keep the features I liked but lose the issues I had with it.

My Port Aransas wardrobe would be the inspiration for any attempts to create weekend wear pieces.

That wardrobe was light teal blue (the pants), orange, brown, yellow, white.

That plus the jersey pieces I had when I went to Germany. I don't remember them well, but I stopped to visit relatives on my way from Texas (the hottest place I've ever lived) to Germany (one of the colder places I've lived) and my mom and sister were like "You're going to freeze to death" and bought me clothes and gave me a coat one of them owned. 

It was mostly jersey pieces, some with a flecked pattern. I had off-white and grey as the main colors.