Binary Clothing Labels

Outlines of two white tshirts on a rainbow background. White text at the top: We've dispensed with the idea of binary genders, yay! But now... Text at the bottom: What do we call the different fit types? On the left tshirt is a question mark, and below it says: Womens? Fitted?  On the right tshirt is a question mark, and below it says: Mens? Unisex?

When trying to label my tshirts and whatnot, I keep coming to this problem - like most of you, I don't buy into the gender binary, but the clothing makers do. The closest you can get is some of the shirts being labeled "Mens/Unisex."

So what should I be calling the sizes/fit types? Fitted and unisex? "Mens" and "Womens" with annoyed quotes around them? Something else?

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