Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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internet, why is it that only two percent of shirts can do what this shirt could do? We've been making shirts in civilization for a long, long time. Are you telling me that this one shirt company, the only one, the only one figured out how to make a shirt that doesn't wrinkle and feels good and looks good? Only one? Are you freaking kidding? What is going on? So everybody asks me who makes that s…

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ybe one of them was pretty good, and the others were just different material, different shirts. They all have the same fit, so that part's good. But I don't understand why people can't make a shirt every single time. Do you know how often a shirt-making company should be able to make a great shirt? Every time. Did nobody put that shirt on before they took it to mass production? Just put it on, see how it fits. It can't be that much of a mystery.

Likewise, I tried forever to find a good T-shirt. And I think this one is Clean Fresh Tees or whatever it is. They advertise on the internet. So there was a company that said, hey, every T-shirt in the world is terrible. Why don't we make one that i

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sn't? How hard can it be? It turns out it wasn't hard. It was pretty easy to make a T-shirt that wasn't terrible. And so they made them, and apparently they're doing well. So Untuckit is pretty good, but I would say I still don't understand. Why just make all their shirts like the best one? All right, that was a detour you didn't care about. I saw a tweet from somebody named Comrade Bridget, a w…

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