Editorial Standards

These are the standards santinystore.com is written to. They exist so that a sentence on this site can be held against something.

Where the figures come from

Lengths, pocket counts, size runs, colourways, UPF figures and prices come from our own product data, and a page prints them out of that data rather than out of a paragraph somebody typed. Where a piece gives no length or no fibre content, the line is left blank rather than guessed. A measurement we do not have is not invented.

What a card may claim here

A card describes a garment: how long it is, where the pockets are and which one zips, whether a liner is built in, whether the knit is lined with fleece, what the label says about sun. Those are facts about a piece and we will print them. Phrases from the product data that describe a body rather than a garment are not printed at all, and no page on this site turns a cut into a claim about yours.

Claims about sun, labels and safety

Anything here that touches sun protection, fibre labelling, care instructions or the flammability rules clothing is sold under is written under a named public source, listed on the page that makes the claim, with the date it was read. A UPF figure is printed as the label gives it and described as a property of dry, unstretched cloth; a fabric is called certified, tested or graded only where the label sewn into the garment says so.

Photographs

Every piece is shown in the colourway being sold. A photograph with a size chart, a slogan or a performance claim printed into the image is kept off the page, and a picture that contradicts the text beside it comes off rather than getting a caption to explain it away.

Comments from buyers

Quotes on the front page are real, public and attributed to a verified buyer rather than to a name and a town. They are shortened for length and never reworded; a complaint stays a complaint. A quote that makes a claim we would not make ourselves is not used, however good it sounds.

What gets pulled

A piece that sells out leaves the site at the next build. A figure that turns out to be wrong is corrected on the page and the correction is noted on how we update the catalogue. Write to shoreline@santinystore.com with the page and the figure.