Method, out loud
Why the ladder is lopsided
One rung holds 143 pieces and another holds fifteen. We could have evened that out. Evening it out would have made it useless.
The temptation to make it tidy
A four step scale looks best when the four steps are the same size. It would have taken an afternoon to push the heavier jerseys up to Midweight and the lighter fleeces down, and the ladder would have come out looking deliberate.
It would also have meant that a rung no longer told you anything. If a piece can be moved to balance a chart, the chart is describing our filing and not the cloth. So the counts are what they are, and one of them is small enough to look like a mistake.
Where everything actually sits
Read the share column rather than the count. Half the catalogue is Light because most sleepwear in the world is cotton or jersey, and the two heaviest rungs are small because heavy cloth is a specialist request. Midweight is the thinnest rung we have. Flannel and french terry are simply not what most of this range is made of.
| Rung | Pieces | Share | Price band | Biggest shelf on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warmest | 89 | 31% | $14.24 – $54.99 | Onesies (31) |
| Warm | 32 | 11% | $14.24 – $19.99 | Thermals (15) |
| Midweight | 15 | 5% | $9.99 – $27.99 | Lounge dresses (6) |
| Light | 143 | 50% | $9.49 – $29.99 | Nightgowns (39) |
Seven pieces sit nowhere
Seven of our pieces carry no fabric detail we can read, so they sit on a shelf and not on a rung. They show up when you browse a shelf and they never show up when you filter by warmth. We would rather leave a visible hole than guess and be quietly wrong about seven things.
If you are looking at one of those and want to know, the listing carries the full specification. Ours is a summary of it, and a summary of nothing is nothing.
