[gmille39]

Here is my beef with ladies tees. Why do they have to have their own color scheme? Most shirts have a maroon color. For women's shirts, they have currant, plum, rasberry, blah blah blah, and blah blah blah.
I decide to order a few colors from S&S to see what came closest to the Gildan maroon. I received a Bella shirt that is pretty nice as a maroon color. I ordered cardinal and currant. The order confirmation I received shows the color currant ordered but the packing slip inside the box shows the plum color was shipped. I ask myself, and S&S, which is correct. I need to order a lot of shirts but what do I order, currant or plum. I look in the catalog and see that currant is almost dead on maroon. Great. I'll order currant.

Not so fast! I then find out that the color codes are mixed up internally in their system and probably the catalog. What shows as plum in the catalog is really currant and what is labeled currant is really plum. WTF! Call something maroon, if it's maroon. Now I'm going to stop at the grocery store to grab a plum and go over to find a jar of currant to see what's what. I'll probably find that plums are out of season. lol! Would you women not buy a shirt that was the color maroon? is Plum, currant, raspberry that much more appealing?

I'm now going to try and scan the shirt that I have, that i like, and send it to the customer service person I've been spending way to much time with, to see what color I received. I wonder if I would get an answer if I went onto the Bella site and asked someone there?

 

[Susie]

Same reason they have Kelly, Lime and Leaf greens. They're three different colours.

 

[kriscad]

i think cause men don't really like to wear " currant, plum, rasberry, blah blah colors" lol

But... I know your problem.

That is why I really like Sanmar's DT104 and DT200 - they match up for male and female cuts.

 

[gmille39]

I also like the District Threads shirts, however, they don't have a maroon. I'm doing parents shirts for a competition cheer event and the squad colors are maroon and gold. My question is, if Gildan has a maroon in the men's style 2000, why can't they throw in a maroon in the 2000L style. There's nothing close to a maroon in the women's cut.
In the end, they did approve the Bella 6000 plum color, which is pretty much maroon.

 

[SunEmbroidery]

I can relate to your maroon issues. We have a customer that needs maroon polos, sleeveless polos (for women), button down shirts and fleece for men and women in tall and extended sizes. Even if a style comes in maroon the range of different colored maroons is great. As far as the different color names are concerned its just marketing. Plum sounds new and therefore is more enticing than maroon.