On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:56 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently preparing an order of GUADEC t-shirts. Looking at the > design [1], I and the vendor agreed that the most fitting colour is real > turquoise. So we chose a kind of t-shirt that has this colour [2]. The > problem is that this kind only has unisex cuts. Is unisex OK or should > we look for kinds that have women's cut even at the cost of having to > pick another colour?
IMVHO, Women's cut is a must. We want them to wear those t-shirts and to say visually "we care". We have been doing it since 2006 and it makes a difference. Kathy Sierra wrote about this after being our keynote in 2006: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/12/tech_tshirts_ar.html The relevant part is this one: Yes, you could argue that as a web-focused show rather than a pure programming event, Webstock was likely to have more women than JavaOne, so it made sense. And that's true, but doesn't explain why I also got a fitted, flattering, rather sexy blue tee at GUADEC (the GNOME user's and developer's european conference) which was not expecting but a very few women attendees. But they treated us like we mattered too. Like we weren't the tacked-on not-really-target-audience people. Besides, this isn't even a gender thing... it's a SIZE thing. There are plenty of men who don't look that much better in an XXL Hanes Beefy T than I do. Personally, I rarely buy conference men t-shirts because I have too many. But if there are nice women t-shirts, I buy for my wife. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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