# The size of people and the size of T-shirts at tourist stops

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-size-of-people-and-the-size-of-t-shirts-at-tourist-stops/627638>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-size-of-people-and-the-size-of-t-shirts-at-tourist-stops/627638 "2012-07-08T22:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-size-of-people-and-the-size-of-t-shirts-at-tourist-stops/627638/21 "2012-07-11T17:37:25Z")

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> [@janeslogin](#):
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> We often see and read of overweight and obesity. On a recent brief vacation I stopped at gift shops and looked at T-shirts. There were very few 3XL T-shirts at popular tourist stops to and in Yellowstone and SLC.

Check out truck stops. Plenty of supersized folks lumbering around among the bottles of Diesel Treat, logbooks, CB radio displays, and chrome reclining titty lady silhouettes, and plenty of XXL, XXXL, and XXXXL t-shirts depicting howling wolves, motorcycles, Indians, Dale Earnhardt (Senior, of course), Confederate flags, and “Lord’s Gym” on the shelves.

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**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-size-of-people-and-the-size-of-t-shirts-at-tourist-stops/627638/22 "2012-07-11T17:56:44Z")

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Some stats from one mfg (demographic is older and well off, not young) from a large number of units shipped  
Women’s

```auto

XXS	2.7519%
XS	11.5124%
S	23.8672%
M	29.6669%
L	20.7260%
XL	11.4747%
XXL	0.0010%

```

Men’s

```auto

XS	0.0147%
S	5.1304%
M	17.8179%
L	33.3477%
XL	30.3354%
XXL	13.3522%
XXXL	0.0015%

```

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**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-size-of-people-and-the-size-of-t-shirts-at-tourist-stops/627638/23 "2012-07-11T18:40:50Z")

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Walmart sell $5 fruit of the loom shirts at the 2x-4x level that fit like a 3x-5x (pocketless fits better, idk why) shirt in those paper bins that are on the shelves in the men’s department.

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