Bella+Canvas 3001C size chart and published specs

A Bella+Canvas 3001C Medium publishes a 20.0" chest laid flat, a 29.0" body length and an 8.5" sleeve. The published Bella+Canvas 3001C size chart below runs S to 3XL in exact steps — 2.0" of chest and 1.0" of length per size, no exceptions. Against the other seven blank styles in ShirtMath's catalog it sits at the narrow end of a tight band: identical to the Gildan G500 at every shared size, 0.5" under the Comfort Colors C4017, 1.0" under the Next Level 3600 at S. What separates it from those shirts is construction the spec sheet never records.

This is one of the style sheets on the blank tee comparison shelf; which blank runs biggest ranks all eight edge to edge.

Three points are published, all in inches laid flat: chest taken one inch below the armholes, body length from the high point of the shoulder to the hem, and sleeve from the shoulder seam to the cuff edge.

The grade itself is data. Chest advances by exactly 2.0" per size, length by exactly 1.0", sleeve by exactly 0.35". A run that regular is a graded specification — one measured base size projected outward by rule — not six sizes each measured off a rack. Which is why the stated ±0.3" tolerance matters more than the third decimal: two shirts from one carton can differ by more than this chart's whole gap between the 3001C and most of its competitors.

A tubular tee is knitted as a continuous cylinder: the body carries no side seam because there is no side to sew. A side-seamed tee is cut as flat front and back panels joined down each side, which hands the pattern maker what a tube cannot offer — the freedom to change width between armhole and hem, and to shape the shoulder line independently of the chest line. The 3001C is built that way, to a retail silhouette rather than a printer's blank silhouette. That is the mechanism behind its reputation for wearing slimmer at the same published chest number.

None of it reaches the chart. Chest is one horizontal line an inch below the armholes; length is one vertical line from shoulder to hem. The taper between them — what decides whether a shirt hangs off the ribs or follows the body — is never measured, so two shirts can agree on both numbers and hang differently.

One shortcut is worth killing. The catalog carries a hem sweep for this style, 19.51" at Medium, and a sweep narrower than the chest looks like proof of a taper. It is not: the 3001C carries the same sweep, shoulder, bicep, cuff and neck values as the Gildan G500 and Gildan 5400 at every size, so those five points are graded from a shared block here rather than transcribed from Bella+Canvas's own sheet. Chest, length and sleeve are the load-bearing columns; the rest cannot tell one style from another.

The same data as the delta you would feel — how much wider or longer the other style is at the same letter. Positive means the other shirt is bigger.

A column of zeros is the finding. The Gildan G500 publishes the same chest and the same length as the 3001C at all six shared sizes — and the same shoulder, sweep, bicep, cuff and neck. Switching between them changes construction, price and hand, not dimensions. The Champion T525C and Hanes 5250T match on chest too, diverging only at the top of the run: both publish 33.0" at 2XL and 34.0" at 3XL against this style's 32.0" and 33.0".

The Next Level 3600 is the interesting one — a full inch wider at S (19.0" against 18.0") and half an inch wider at M, then converging exactly from L up, because it grades in 1.5" steps at the small end before switching to 2.0" while the 3001C holds 2.0" throughout. Weight your order toward smalls and that gap is real; from L up the two are the same shirt by the numbers. The Comfort Colors C4017 is the consistent outlier: half an inch wider at every size, 0.5–1.0" longer from Medium up, on a stated ±0.8" variance nearly three times this style's ±0.3".

Two fields look informative and are not. The catalog records this style at 180 gsm with a knit construction — but all 53 blank-spec rows, every style and every size, carry the identical 180 gsm and the identical knit value. They are defaults, so they cannot tell you this tee is heavier or lighter than a Gildan. Fabric weight, hand and shrinkage are absent from the data; anyone ranking blanks on feel from a spec sheet is inventing it.

Pricing is thin the same way. Only the S row carries a listed price, $6.44, from the source listing these specs were read off — the a2zclothing 3001C listing, captured in the catalog snapshot of 24 August 2026. The other five rows carry none, and blank pricing moves with quantity, colour and season, so read it as a stamp on one row rather than a quote.

And the letter carries less than the numbers do: a size is a position in one brand's ladder, and ladders shift between cuts and over time — the pattern documented in vanity sizing. All eight styles sit side by side on the t-shirt measurements chart; the pit to pit measurement guide gets you a number of your own to hold against this one.