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Brand Investigation

Reading what brands publish about their petite blocks, and what the gaps reveal.

4 of 4 parts published

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A pinboard of overlapping research sheets, some rows filled in and most left blank, with a shirt and a trouser pinned among the paper and a tape measure across the foot.

The argument

What this series claims

A brand that redrafts a petite block publishes different shoulder measurements for petite and regular. A brand that simply shortens a standard block publishes identical ones. That single comparison separates real petite ranges from relabelled ones, and it is the method this series applies systematically: brand by brand, from published data only, with every figure attributed.

Reading order

The parts

Published in order. Each part assumes the ones before it, so reading them in sequence is worth more than picking one out.

  1. Petite Range or Petite Block? The Label Does Not Tell You7 min readTwo brands can both sell “petite” and mean entirely different things by it. Here is the published difference, and how to read it in ninety seconds.
  2. Which Brands Actually Say How Their Petite Block Is Drafted9 min readOf twenty-one researched petite ranges, seven describe what changes. This is what those seven say, in their own words.
  3. Petite Workwear: What Four Tailoring Brands Publish8 min readStructured clothes are where petite drafting either shows or fails. Four ranges, compared on what they actually state.
  4. Fourteen Petite Ranges Publish Nothing About the Cut9 min readThe silent majority of the directory: ranges that run petite lines and say not one word about how the garments differ. What that silence permits, and how to shop it anyway.

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