The Best T-Shirt for Dad-Bods Is on a Great Deal Right Now

Black Friday is over, but a lot of retailers like True Classic Tees keep trotting out a rolling cascade of deals. But sometimes you’ve got to hunt for them.

WIRED’s favorite dad-bod shirt, the classic crew neck from True Classic Tees, is on a very nice flash deal right now. A six-pack of shirts is $75, the lowest price we’ve seen in months. The deal is only accessible from True Classic’s rotating “flash deals” page, but for now, you can get the shirts for 25 percent off the expected price ($99) elsewhere on the site, and lower than the discount price ($85) on Amazon.

Tshirts layered on top of each other

Courtesy of True Classic

Wait, is that three different deals in three different places? Yeah—life is confusing now. But the merits of the T-shirt are pretty straightforward: It’s designed to flatter the classic dad-bod shape popularized by off-role Leonardo DiCaprio. This means it’s tight about the arms and chest, to showcase your man-muscles and stout heart, but relaxed a little (but not too much!) about the middle to allow for the passage of time and the love of a hearty meal.

You don’t have to trust just us. Instead, trust a Savile Row tailor. WIRED took a host of other very-online T-shirt brands to a Savile Row tailor for objective assessment, to determine which self-avowed “perfect-fit” T-shirts actually lived up to their name. The True Classic came out the winner for teddy-bear shaped men—the shirt that most flatters the form of men who’ve lived with gusto.

Person in black tshirt jeans and white sneakers

Courtesy of True Classic

This includes me. I’ve been wearing the heck out of True Classic’s black crew-neck, in the belief that the shirt makes a virtue out of a life well-enjoyed. And it apparently also includes WIRED senior editor Jeremy White. “To my shame,” averred White, “the ‘dad bod’ fit is perfect and the neck size is not too big, not too small, just right.”

The True Classic is not fancy fabric, just a basic cotton-poly blend like a lot of the T-shirts currently on the market. Which is to say a bit soft and a bit stretchy, kind of a gym shirt or a muckaround shirt. It’s comfortable, but not embarrassing.

If you have a dad-bod in your life, this may be the time for a gift of a six-pack for those without defined six-packs. You don’t have to tell him why you bought it.

Oh, but note, the current flash deal says it’s “58 percent off.” This is only true when compared to buying six single shirts. However, the flash deal as of December 10 is an additional 25 percent off the standard bulk discount, making for a pretty nice price. When the current $75 flash deal expires, there’s a good chance it’ll be replaced by another flash deal on True Classic’s most popular shirt, but … no guarantees.

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