A diagram of the shirt you used to fit

Two t-shirt outlines, one drawn inside the other. The outer one is large, pale, and dashed. The inner one is smaller, solid, and set lower — off-centre, toward the bottom of the space the outer line leaves.

Underneath both, in small plain capitals: STILL FITS.

What is actually being diagrammed here?

A fit comparison, drawn the way a tailor marks a pattern rather than the way a feeling gets described.

A dashed outer line and a solid inner one is construction notation — the kind of mark left on paper before fabric gets cut, showing one size against another. Printed on a chest instead of a pattern sheet, it becomes a diagram of the same shirt at two different points, worn by the same person.

Why does the claim sit underneath the diagram instead of inside it?

Because a diagram states a measurement and a caption states a claim, and the print keeps those two jobs separate.

STILL FITS isn't part of the technical drawing — it's set below it, plain and small, the way a label sits under a chart rather than inside it. That separation is what lets the line do two things at once: read as a fact if it's true, and read as a joke if it isn't, without the diagram itself taking a side either way.

What makes a good one of these?

Deciding, plainly, whether the words are a claim or a dare.

The same three words carry a straight answer for someone whose size hasn't moved in years, and carry something closer to a bet for someone whose has. Neither reading is wrong, and the print doesn't distinguish between them — a plain sans-serif caption reads as sincere until the wearer tells you otherwise.

Do I need permission to print a sizing diagram like this?

No — a nested-outline fit diagram is generic technical drawing, the same category as a cutting pattern or a size chart, not owned by any one brand. The version worth avoiding is copying a specific retailer's actual size-chart layout wholesale, logo and all; a plain drawn outline sidesteps that question completely.

Does this work for a body that changed for a different reason?

Yes, and the print doesn't specify which — pregnancy, growth, an illness and the recovery from it, a change in training, age. A garment that used to fit differently is a common enough experience that the diagram works without naming a cause, the same way a shirt moving sideways through a family doesn't need to explain the family.

Isn't printing STILL FITS just drawing attention to a body that changed?

That's one reading, and it isn't the one the diagram forces. It states a comparison; it doesn't editorialise about which direction is better. For a lot of people, wearing the comparison rather than hiding it is the point — a private measurement made public on their own terms is different from having it noticed by somebody else.

Does it print well?

One ink, two line weights: a dashed, lighter outer line and a solid, heavier inner one, so the two shapes stay legible as separate outlines rather than merging into one blob at a distance. The caption underneath needs to stay small and plain — a decorative typeface on three words this dry would fight the deadpan the diagram is going for.

How do I get one made?

Describe the comparison at JustOG — what changed, and what the caption should say. Pick a direction, drag the crop frame, see it composited on the real garment, and it's made to order and shipped.

Designs other people have published are in the shop.

The inner line sits lower than the outer one. Nobody drew it wrong.