A size relabel is the decision to keep a garment's pattern exactly as it is and change the name on the label, so that the size a dancer normally buys is the size that fits her. We made that decision in a June team meeting, before a single pair was sold, because the samples ran small and the survey confirmed it. This post is what that meant in practice, why we chose it over recutting, and why our size chart is still not published.
How did we find out the samples ran small?
Testers told us. One said it outright, that the sample ran a bit small. The clearer signal was the pattern across the whole round: dancers who normally wear a US 2 were wearing our medium or large. When every small-framed tester lands two names up the range, the range is mislabeled, not the testers.
Why relabel rather than recut?
Because the fit was praised. Three of four testers would buy the short as it was, and coverage was the thing they named. Recutting the pattern to make the medium bigger would have changed the garment people had just told us worked. Renaming it costs nothing in fit and only asks that the label be honest. So the current medium will be called small, the large medium, and the extra-large large.
What is still unsettled?
The top of the range. When you shift every name down one, the old extra-large becomes large, and the question of what sits above it, and whether it exists yet, is open. We would rather leave that honestly open than print a size we have not made.
Why is the size chart still dark?
Because a size chart is a set of product facts, and we have a rule that product facts are published only after labels and samples confirm them. The relabel is a decision, not a confirmation. Until the relabeled garments exist and have been measured and worn, a chart would describe an intention. There is a sizing page on this site. It has been drafted and it stays unpublished for exactly this reason, alongside the rest of the reasons in Why our shop is not open yet.
What does a relabel not fix?
It does not fix fit across body types. Dancers told us early that a curvier frame with a small waist and a petite frame need different proportions, and no relabel changes that. Renaming sizes answers the question of which label to reach for. It does not answer whether one pattern can serve both ends of the range, and that is a question for more testers and more prototypes, not a label.
If you want the general version of why brands run different, and how to measure yourself so a chart is useful when it arrives, that is in Polewear sizing: why brands run different and how to measure.
Quick answers
What is a size relabel? Keeping the pattern as it is and changing the size name so the size a dancer normally buys is the one that fits.
Why did Sen MovesWear relabel? Testers who normally wear a US 2 were wearing our medium or large, and the fit itself was praised, so the names move rather than the pattern.
When will the size chart be published? When relabeled garments have been measured and worn. A chart describes confirmed facts, not a decision.