Comfort Colors 1717
Comfort Colors 1717 size chart
The 1717 is a boxy, heavyweight tee, and the thing that trips sellers up is that its length runs shorter than its width suggests. A Large is 22 inches across and 29.4 long, where a Large in a slimmer blank is narrower and about the same length — so the 1717 reads cropped on a tall buyer and oversized on a short one, from the same garment. The numbers below are the manufacturer's, with the sleeve column most charts leave off.
- 6
- sizes
- S–3XL
- range
- 18.25–27.75″
- chest width
The chart
Every Comfort Colors 1717 size, in inches and centimetres
The manufacturer's measurements, cross-checked against a second published source. Both units in every cell, so nothing has to be converted before it goes in a listing.
| Size | Width | Length | Sleeve |
|---|---|---|---|
| S | 18.25″46.4 cm | 26.6″67.6 cm | 16.25″41.3 cm |
| M | 20.25″51.4 cm | 28″71.1 cm | 17.75″45.1 cm |
| L | 22″55.9 cm | 29.4″74.7 cm | 19″48.3 cm |
| XL | 24″61 cm | 30.75″78.1 cm | 20.5″52.1 cm |
| 2XL | 26″66 cm | 31.6″80.3 cm | 21.75″55.2 cm |
| 3XL | 27.75″70.5 cm | 32.5″82.6 cm | 23.25″59.1 cm |
Width is the garment laid flat, which is half the way round. Double it for the chest measurement a buyer knows from their own clothes — a Large at 22″ flat is a 44″ chest.
Where each measurement is taken
Published size charts for the same blank often disagree, and it is almost never because one of them is wrong — it is because they measure from different points. These are the ones used above.
- Width
- Laid flat and measured across the chest, one inch below the armhole — seam to seam. It is half the circumference, not the whole way round.
- Length
- From the high point of the shoulder straight down to the bottom hem. Charts that measure from the centre back neckline instead read about an inch shorter, which is where most of the disagreement between published charts comes from.
- Sleeve
- From the centre back neck, out along the shoulder seam, then down the outside of the arm to the end of the sleeve. It is not the length of the sleeve on its own, which is why the number looks large.
The Comfort Colors 1717 size chart, ready for your listing
The same measurements as the table above, laid out as a square image that reads at thumbnail size. Add it to an Etsy gallery and it answers the question buyers message about most, before they message.
- Full resolution, no watermark, yours to use in any listing you sell
- Square, so the gallery thumbnail does not crop the numbers off
Free, no card. The account is also what the mockup generator runs on.
Fit
How the Comfort Colors 1717 actually fits
Garment-dyed and relaxed through the body. Comfort Colors' own guidance is to go up two sizes for a genuinely oversized look, which is how most Etsy listings for this blank are sized. It shrinks a little in a hot wash even though it is pre-shrunk, almost all of it in the length.
FAQ
Comfort Colors 1717 sizing questions
- Does the Comfort Colors 1717 run big or small?
- Big through the body and short in the length, relative to a standard unisex tee. The width at each size matches most blanks; the length is where it differs. Comfort Colors suggests going up two sizes for an oversized fit, which is why so many Etsy listings for this shirt say so.
- What size is a Comfort Colors 1717 Large?
- A Large measures 22 inches across the chest laid flat and 29.4 inches from the high point of the shoulder to the hem, with a 19-inch sleeve taken from the centre back neck. Doubling the flat width gives a 44-inch chest. In centimetres that is 55.9 wide, 74.7 long and 48.3 along the sleeve.
- Does the 1717 shrink?
- A little, and mostly in the length. It is garment-dyed, which means the shirt is sewn and then dyed, and most of the shrinking has already happened by the time it is sold. A hot wash and a hot dryer will still take something off — which matters more on this blank than on others, because its length is the measurement with the least room in it.
- Why does your chart differ from the one I saw somewhere else?
- Almost always because of where the length is measured from. This chart measures from the high point of the shoulder to the hem. A chart that measures from the centre back neckline seam reads about an inch shorter at every size, and neither is wrong. See the measuring guide above the table.
- Can I use this size chart in my Etsy listing?
- Yes. The image on this page is made for exactly that — square, legible at thumbnail size, and free to download with an account. Put it in your listing gallery and it answers the most common pre-purchase question without a message.
- What is the chest measurement in the chart?
- The width column is the garment laid flat, which is half the way round. Double it for the circumference a buyer will recognise from their own clothes: 22 inches flat is a 44-inch chest.
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The other half of a Comfort Colors 1717 listing
You have the measurements. The colours are the other decision, and every hex on that chart is sampled from a photograph of the garment rather than from a spec sheet.
The listing photos, from the same account
The account that downloads this chart also runs the mockup generator. Place your artwork once on the Comfort Colors 1717 and download a finished mockup in every colorway you sell, each file named by its color.