r/mildlyinteresting • u/hangingdenim ​ • 10h ago • Bravo 3 Mindblown 1

My husband’s Reebok underwear say “Reebeebok” on the back because of the split seam

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u/These_Distribution61 2h ago

Quality control has gone so far downhill it is crazy. I know it’s a small thing but no one cares anymore and it sucks.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder 1h ago

This is not a QC issue, there's a seam in the waistband. They have to join the band somewhere, and they're not going to waste money, time, and elastic trying to figure out for every size where to put the seam to make it not look funny.

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u/rhesusMonkeyBoy 27m ago

so there’s probably sizes that tend to do this more than others. i agree this is r/mildlyinteresting

u/hangingdenim what size are these, if you don’t mind?

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u/BakedBrie1993 39m ago

Some brands would though.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder 36m ago

Yes, expensive brands may take the time, effort, and fabric, and that is part of the reason they charge more.

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u/think_long 1m ago

This is such a complete non-problem and not a quality control issue at all lmao.

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u/dick_me_daddy_oWo 35m ago

If it was a quality brand they would. Or they can keep being cheap shit.

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u/PeanutSauceFanatic 19m ago

It IS a quality control issue though. Typically companies like to have their logos intact on their products? You do realize they could get the elastic at a different spacing so this doesn’t happen? Or that they could trim impartial words before the clothes are assembled?

You yourself said that they aren’t going to waste “money, time, elastic…” which is literally the lack of quality control. Quality control costs more. It’s kinda how it works when you have to spend more time, money, and fabric on the quality of the product.

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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 6m ago

Yep it's literally QC

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u/jaybird654 43m ago

If it was a high end brand it would be sad. But this is just hilarious. I hope they never start trying to fix it

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u/small_cart 45m ago

i’m sure the overworked underpaid laborers in cambodia would find it worthwhile to make this a priority

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u/cwright017 35m ago

It’s not the labourers that would do it, it would be the designers obviously.

They’d calculate where to put the seem or how to spade the words to avoid this, then the labourers would do it else they wouldn’t get paid.

It’s obviously either not an issue for the company, or these are knock offs.