# A diagram of the shirt you used to fit

> Two nested outlines, one drawn inside the other, with the words STILL FITS set beneath them in small type — a garment printed like the diagram a tailor marks a pattern with.

August 22, 2026 · https://justog.club/stories/sized-for-who-you-used-to-be

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](/stories/passed-to-a-cousin).

## 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](/shop).

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