Anti Social Social Club Multicolor T-Shirt Collection Review: Three Packing Set-Ups, One $6.87 Tee and the Autumn Cut-Off

We ordered the Anti Social Social Club multicolor T-shirt collection the way we order most apparel, with one deliberate difference: the parcel was packed in the last week of September, inside the stretch our desk treats as the opening of the autumn surge. That calendar detail, not the chest graphic, ended up shaping this review. SKU 7718733486 is a single item ID wrapped around roughly 60 dropdown colour entries pulled from a cherry-blossom print series numbered 01 through 29, so we ignored the colour names, picked a print number on a black base in size M at $6.87, and spent the rest of the test on the things a service-terms desk can actually control — how the tee was folded, what protected the print, and what the packed parcel weighed against the figure the warehouse reported.

Everything below came out of the wrap on the steel table and was photographed in sequence: outer layer, inner protection, QC tag, then the garment.

Three packing set-ups, one print number

Rather than review a single parcel, we split the order across three and asked for different preparation on each, because a tee this cheap is almost never shipped alone by the time a seasonal haul is consolidated.

1. Poly mailer, no stiffener. The tee was folded twice and bagged. Arrived flat but with a soft crease running across the back panel below the shoulder blades, which hung out after a night on a hanger.
2. Poly mailer with a rigid card folder. The folder sat behind the chest print, so the fold line landed on the back rather than through the graphic. This was the only set-up where the printed chest panel arrived with no visible fold memory at all.
3. Consolidated box. The tee went in with a pair of shoes and a hoodie, folded around a poly sleeve. No print damage, but it inherited two hard fold lines from the shoe boxes pressing on it for nine days.

The lesson was not that one packing method is right. It was that the fold line matters more than the outer material. A mailer with a card folder beat a box for this garment, and cost less to move.

Measurements before and after a cold wash

We flat-measured the size M on the table, cold-washed it inside out on a short cycle, air-dried it flat, and measured the same four points again. The listing quotes a loose fit and a 1–3 cm tolerance, so we were looking for movement smaller than the tolerance, not perfection.

Dimension (size M)	Before wash	After cold wash and air dry	Change
Chest, pit to pit, flat	54.0 cm	53.1 cm	−0.9 cm
Body length, shoulder to hem	70.5 cm	69.8 cm	−0.7 cm
Hem width, flat	53.0 cm	52.4 cm	−0.6 cm
Raglan sleeve, collar edge to cuff	33.5 cm	33.0 cm	−0.5 cm
Garment weight, dry	232 g	233 g	+1 g

Nothing moved beyond a centimetre, which is inside the tolerance the listing declares. The chest did not collapse, and the collar rib came back to shape after drying flat rather than hanging wet.

The 230 g knit on the desk scale

The listing calls for double-yarn cotton at 230 gsm; the warehouse weight field was left blank, so the only number we could test was the garment itself. Our size M read 232 g on the 0.1 g postal scale, which is consistent with a mid-weight knit of this cut but does not prove grammage — a whole-garment reading cannot separate fabric density from panel area. What we can say is that the tee is not a tissue-thin blank: it blocked light at the body panel, took a crease without going translucent at the fold, and felt comparable to a standard-weight retail blank rather than a promotional giveaway.

Raglan seams and the size-label caveat

The flat-lay promised raglan sleeves and the garment delivered them, with a clean four-panel join at the neck and no puckering along the diagonal seam on either side. That part of the listing is accurate.

The size label is a different matter. Buyers of this brand report the fit swinging both ways across drops — some size up at least one, others find the same label true to size or slightly generous — and the only reliable control is the chart for the colourway you select. Our M sat loose on a 178 cm frame with room through the body, which matches the listing's own description, but we would not reorder a second print number without re-reading the measurements. Treat the label as a starting point and the chart as the decision.

Print care inside a seasonal parcel

Owner reports on this brand's printed tees are consistent about heat: the graphics crack and peel when they go through a dryer, and hand-washing with a hang dry is the common advice. We cold-washed inside out and air-dried and saw no cracking, flaking or colour transfer onto a white base in the same load. We did not run a heated cycle, so the dryer warning stands untested by us and should be treated as a real risk rather than a preference.

The parcel-specific version of that advice is about folding, not washing. A chest print pressed into a fold for a week in a mailer is the damage a buyer never sees coming, and it is avoidable by requesting a card stiffener and a back-panel fold.

What the packing did to the billable weight

Packed figures from our log, weighed after sealing:

• Mailer alone: 0.31 kg packed.
• Mailer with card folder: 0.33 kg packed.
• Consolidated box: 0.36 kg attributable to the tee once packaging was shared across the shipment.

On a line that rounds up, all three of those landed in the same billable bracket, so the 20 g stiffener cost nothing in practice and bought the only undamaged chest print in the test. A tee shipped on its own, however, still pays a full bracket for 232 g of cotton, which is the argument for holding it for a consolidation rather than sending it solo.

Timeline, for planning purposes only

Our own parcel: order placed 22 September, warehouse check-in 25 September, QC photos the same day, packing request accepted 26 September, handover 29 September, delivery in Portland 12 October. That was a clean run inside the surge window. Timing on this brand has historically been the weak point, with handling quoted in the range of 14–24 business days before logistics were reorganised around 2023, so we would not read our dates as a promise for a November parcel.

What we would do differently next cycle

• Request the card stiffener on every single tee, not just the ones with a large chest print.
• Stop ordering one tee per parcel; the round-up eats the price advantage of a $6.87 item.
• Pick the print number first and the colour second — the series numbering is the only stable identifier in that dropdown.