A few weeks ago, an Australian startup offered to send me a T-shirt. I’m not normally on the T-shirt beat, but this one was special. The 100-percent cotton garment featured “patented hydrophobic ...

That means the T-shirts, made in collaboration with British lifestyle company The Lost Explorer, will come out of the washing machine differently in London than they will in New York or Buenos Aires.

That form-fitting shirt you absolutely adore went into the washer a perfect fit, but came out looking like it belongs to a toddler. Before you scream, holler and throw it in the garbage, give it a ...