Rhude Multicolor T-Shirt Collection Review: Black and Apricot Bodies Under Our Booth Lights

Both tees in this review came out of a mixed black-and-apricot order and went onto the bench before they went onto a body. Our desk photographs samples in a matte-black booth for beam and glare and a white booth for colour rendering, with the camera locked to a fixed white balance. A garment does not emit anything, so we used the booths the other way round: the same two source temperatures, 2700K and 5000K, aimed at the fabric to see how the print and the body colour separate. Then the tape measure and the laundry came out.

What we ordered

Two tees, RH236 in black and RH233 in apricot, at $8.36 each. That figure is one tee, not the assortment: the listing runs 42 option lines that resolve to 35 distinct RH codes, mostly black and apricot bodies with a handful of two-tone prints — RH201 in black-blue, black-yellow and white-green, and RH203 in apricot-green and apricot-red. Both samples are crew-neck pullovers in what the listing calls combed cotton, print decorated, cut loose, with a stated 1–3 cm measurement tolerance and sizes S through XXL. The listing shows the tee marked down from $9.20 and in stock.

One detail worth naming: the specification sheet describes the sleeve as a half or mid sleeve, while the English description says short sleeve. On our two samples the sleeve hem sat roughly two centimetres below the sleeve of a standard tee laid over the top. It is a short sleeve with a little extra length, not a three-quarter.

Flat measurements against the published chart

We measured the apricot size M flat, twice, on separate days, and averaged the readings.

All three fall inside the 1–3 cm tolerance, which is the good news and also the warning. The published chart moves the chest about 3 cm between M and L but leaves the shoulder at 58 cm in both — the shoulder plateaus while the chest keeps growing. A tolerance that can reach 3 cm sitting on a 3 cm size gap means a large M can measure like a small L on the chest. Read the shoulder number and the back length, not the size letter.

There is a second problem with trusting any chart here. A separate Rhude-furnished table for a different tee lists a medium shoulder around 51 cm and a flat chest of roughly 52 cm — figures that sit far outside the tolerance this listing quotes, and likely describing a different line. Two tables under one brand name disagree by more than the margin the seller allows, so the garment on the unboxing bench is the only measurement that means anything.

Under 2700K and 5000K

The black body behaved the way black fabric always does on our bench: it absorbed almost everything the booth threw at it, and the ink edges of the lettering print stayed visually crisp because the contrast was already high. The apricot body was the interesting sample. Under a warm 2700K source it shifted clearly toward peach, and the separation between the print and the ground narrowed; under a neutral 5000K source it settled back to a light sand tone and the print read cleanly.

Neither body showed ink bleed through the shoulder seams or a visible halo where print met fabric. If the apricot is going to live under a warm lamp most of the day, expect the colour to look warmer in the room than it does in the listing photographs.

Five wash-and-dry cycles

Warm wash, low tumble dry, five rounds on the apricot sample. The print held: no flaking, no cracking along the letterforms, no lifted edges. The hand softened noticeably after the second cycle, which is what combed cotton does. Back length came in half a centimetre after the first wash and then stayed; the chest held within half a centimetre across the remaining four. That is a single-sample result on one colourway, and general Rhude discussion around heavy untreated cotton suggests shrinkage in the 3–5 percent range is normal for the fabric type, so treat our figure as one data point rather than a guarantee across all 35 codes.

Sizing: the buyer reports only look contradictory

Buyer discussion conflicts. Two reports advise sizing down because the body is boxy and slightly long; one reports a regular medium wearer needing an XL and notes that the smaller sizes feel tight around the bottom hem. Both can be true at once if the bottom hem is the binding constraint at the small end while the shoulder and drop govern everywhere else. The reported heavyweight hand that buyers praise for streetwear is consistent with the fabric description, though the listing itself only commits to a 180–250 g band rather than a single figure.

Our advice is to size by shoulder and back length first, hem circumference second, and ignore the letter on the tag. If you are between sizes and want the loose intended cut, the shoulder is where the difference shows up least — which is exactly why it is the wrong number to grow.

What we could not verify

We could not weigh the fabric to confirm where in the 180–250 g band these two tees actually sit, and we cannot say whether all 35 codes share the same hand. Colour names in the listing are code numbers, not photographs, so the print you receive is the print shown for that code and no other. Our score reflects two samples of one design family on a five-point scale, not the whole run.

The tee earns its price on the bench work: a print that survived five cycles, three flat measurements inside tolerance, and a sleeve that sits where the spec sheet says it does. What it will not do is forgive a size guessed from a letter.