ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I just had to return some shirts to LL Bean. They have finally succumbed to size creep. My new "large" was a good 1-2 inches bigger in every dimension than the exact same shirt in large from a couple years ago. The replacement Medium I got was close to the old large, but it's now about an inch to narrow across the shoulders. I'm apparently a non-standard size - skinny (relatively so), short (ish), apparently fairly broad shoulders, and I want the waist of my jeans to be somewhere close to the waist of my body (or at least above my hips). 

 Manbird wrote: 
People collect those Tommy Bahama shirts like baseball cards. Weird.
 
They have cool silk shirts at Costco for $20 and the XL is way XL. By the way. 

 Manbird wrote: 

I stopped at the thrift store yesterday and bought 3 shirts: 2 are cool because they're so krameresque
and cheesy but the other one is just plain awesome. So I was looking it up to see if they still make them and
if I can get some more. Forget it! It's a 120 dollar designer shirt and even used shirts go for
$60 on ebay. So, yeah, I really love my 5 dollar designer shirt. How big are they? big enough to contain
my thorax and abdomen in a way that flatters my toad stools without revealing my foldicous veins.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Ha! That exact scenario happened to me yesterday. Well, except for a few details, but yeah.