Tomorrows Laundry Helped Me Find My New Favorite T-Shirt
I own too many T-shirts. Hand-me-downs, concert tees, jerseys, novelty finds from Goodwill, shirts from breweries, shirts enthusiastically fired out of cannons, shirts ironically or earnestly supporting a political candidate, shirts that I have no memory of acquiring in the first place. I find it difficult to part with T-shirts for some reason, awakening my latent hoarder tendencies as I fabricate reasons to keep dozens of them buried in the bottom of a dresser drawer. When I find a shirt that’s way too big, or has a 3-year-old stain on it, or has found some other reason to fall out of rotation, I’ll earnestly tell my wife, “I should save this for when I paint.” I don’t paint. I don’t know the last time I’ve painted (walls, watercolors, anything) and I certainly have no shortage of T-shirts I could wear for such an endeavor.
That being said, as I’ve adjusted to work-from-home life, I’ve become a little more particular about what I’m wearing to “the office” (the room around the corner from our kitchen). I’m not wearing button-downs and jeans, but I’ve found it’s difficult to get into Work Mode wearing an old graphic tee that I received in exchange for writing my email on a clipboard at an art fair. I need something a little classier with a more tailored fit, but that doesn’t sacrifice on comfort.
Enter Tomorrows Laundry, a new subscription box that I’ve been testing for the past 6 months. The whole setup is pretty simple: You give your color, fit, and size preferences and the stylists and Tomorrows Laundry throw together a monthly Essentials Box featuring two T-shirts.
I’m typically between a medium and a large depending on the brand. For Tomorrows Laundry, I initially selected Large, realizing after trying on my first shipment that the shirts were a little too big. They were super responsive in exchanging the large shirts for mediums, and sent me a shipping label I could print out to make things as easy as possible.
Once I received the proper size, I was really impressed with how the shirts looked and felt. I have shirts in two different styles for Tomorrows Laundry: the “Classic,” which is a little more fitted, and then the “Modern,” which is a boxier fit. All the shirts are muted colors, with some of my favorites being granite grey, rose taupe, and sagebrush. They’re also 100% cotton and very soft. I don’t love it when cotton T-shirts are too thin, especially because they tend to wrinkle easily in a short amount of time. The Tomorrows Laundry shirts kept wrinkles at bay, and looked pretty much as good in the morning as they did when I was signing off in the evening. Plus, they’re pre-shrunk and machine-washable. The tees held up really well over time, which is probably their clearest signal of quality.
I’ve started wearing Tomorrows Laundry shirts so frequently that it’s probably time to dig through my overstuffed dresser and get some bags ready to donate. Unless of course I'm inspired to finally pick up that paintbrush, in which case...
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