{"id":4449,"date":"2010-07-17T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:52:02","slug":"plus-size-soccer-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/07\/17\/plus-size-soccer-jerseys\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus Size Soccer Jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some things are easy to buy online.\u00c2\u00a0A few times in the past month I’ve gone looking for a soccer jersey for\u00c2\u00a0any of the many football (soccer to my fellow Americans) team I follow. Three futile hours later, I am considering changing which football I follow since stores can carry appropriately sized apparel for it. I’m someone who wears a fairly rare to find size of 3XLT. (Or 4XL when tall is not an option. Or sometimes 3XL for teeshirts, but that usually means exposed back when I sit.)<\/p>\n

It annoys me to find a design I like for a reasonable price only to discover there is no size available to me. In bricks and mortar stores, it means never returning until I hear they have a “Big and Tall” section hidden somewhere not obvious.<\/p>\n

Here is a place where the Long Tail<\/a><\/em> falls down. According to it, online stores, with their enormous warehouses can better afford to carry a more broad selection of less frequently selling items. They give us more choice. Therefore, it means I ought to find more choice online. For things not in my size, this is true. There is tons of choice. The same stores in a mall who carry clothing in the right sizes seem perfectly capable of offering a wider selection. Yet, an online store like Amazon can’t make it easy for me to find clothing that fits?<\/p>\n

My main beef with Worldsoccershop.com<\/a> is the lack of product in a size I can wear. (The one jersey would make me a Chelsea supporter.)\u00c2\u00a0They do get a couple things right.<\/p>\n

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  1. Quality search:<\/strong> I can put 4xl in the search and get back items with a size of 4xl.\u00c2\u00a0All these sites have a search. However, for many sites, size doesn’t appear to be a relevant word. The term “4XL” lands items with “XL” in the name. Useless!<\/li>\n
  2. Narrow results by size:<\/strong> Brand, price, and seller are options Amazon offers for narrowing the search to more useful options. How is size not important enough to include? Useless!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ultimately, I guess not enough people my size have enough interest in soccer jerseys. They end up American football or basketball or baseball fans which have clothes large enough for me. Maybe I should switch sports allegiances? It would help my political allegiances<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some things are easy to buy online.\u00c2\u00a0A few times in the past month I’ve gone looking for a soccer jersey for\u00c2\u00a0any of the many football (soccer to my fellow Americans) team I follow. Three futile hours later, I am considering changing which football I follow since stores can carry appropriately sized apparel for it. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,38],"tags":[252,1244,1246,1247,1242,169,1245,141,888,1243,1015,889],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-sports","tag-america","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-brand","tag-bricks-and-mortar","tag-football","tag-long-tail","tag-politics","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-jersey","tag-teeshirt","tag-world-cup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-19L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}