Frequently Assked Questions

We’ve had countless conversations with strangers about our clothing, which is incidentally what this brand is all about! Here are some sample responses to common questions, with the option to choose your own level of spiciness:

🌶️ Worldclass is short for “world class ass.” It’s a foundation devoted to colon cancer prevention and colonoscopy awareness. You should check them out.

🌶️🌶️ Did you know that colon cancer is the leading cancer death in men under 50?  And that more people die from colon cancer each year than from breast cancer or prostate cancer? But getting a colonoscopy is a super smart way you can prevent it if you get one early enough.

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Yes, the asterisk in “Worldcl*ss” is supposed to suggest a butthole. Isn’t that wild? The brand is all about how colonoscopies prevent colon cancer; if your doctor sees any polyps that can grow into cancer, they remove them.  

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Oh yes, this says “ass,” and it’s also meant to sort of look like a colon. The point is to start conversations about colonoscopies, which I'm a big fan of. They’re essentially a fast, a cleanse, and medically-induced nap - and you come out of it all having maybe prevented cancer. Did you know that Ryan Reynolds filmed his colonoscopy and put it on the internet? You should definitely check that out.

It's important to us that our apparel is super high quality and actually comfortable. We handpicked factories in LA for our signature items - our sweatshirts and hoodies - so that we could feel good about the fit and quality being top notch.

We hope you'll agree that our production partners have succeeded! The hoodies are super thick, soft, and cozy. And we're hearing that women are wearing our signature sweatshirt ALL THE TIME (we are too!) because the fit and weave are amazing, and it goes with just about anything. We plan to make a men's cut next!

Since the hoodies and sweatshirts are made in LA, they cost a little bit more...but in our opinion, it's worth it!

And hey, your money's going to a good cause in the end ; )

Within the US, shipping is free for orders over $75. For everything else, we ship economy for $5.

We do our best to get on your order immediately, with a goal to ship within 3 business days of receiving your order. We’ll send you a shipping confirmation once it’s left us, complete with tracking information so you can get excited and be up to date about your package’s ETA!

Outside the US, we ship to Canada, the UK, Germany, and France. Other markets may open up in time!

At this time we are not offering a gift wrap option.

While we hope you love your order just the way it is, we of course understand that sometimes you need to do a little switcheroo and/or send something back. We accept returns within 30 days of receipt. You can begin the process by logging in with the email you used to check out and requesting a return. If you run into issues, just email us at hello@worldclassclothing.com.

Worldclass was founded by two colon cancer survivors who were diagnosed with late-stage cancer when they were still both in their 30s. Sarah and Brooks both beat the disease and, once they had processed this life-changing experience, decided they wanted to create something that would help change the status quo around one of the quickest-growing cancers nationwide, and help others avoid getting the same devastating diagnoses they did.

And Sarah’s background in fashion and Brooks' background as a technology entrepreneur/behavioral economics geek seemed like good prerequisites for founding a brand just like Worldclass!

Why are you not? : ) Asses are amazing for so many reasons, and our brand is a celebration not just of the beautiful, versatile body part (it sits, it shakes, it’s necessary for survival!) but of the unique colonoscopy procedure that can prevent cancer and save lives.

You can’t get to that colon without going through some ass, and the health of your ass might depend on that colonoscopy, so we’re here to talk about both, and encourage some back end love!

Fashion inherently sparks fun and self expression, but at Worldclass, we think it can do more than that: it can also be a canvas for creating awareness and communicating important ideas. We’re not just here to look cute, but to start conversations we hope will lead to increased health and longevity in our culture as a whole! 

And of course, our fashion is also meant to aid those struggling most with the threat of colorectal cancer. All net profits from our fab tees, sweats, and things will go towards supporting someone underinsured in getting a colonoscopy they have proven medical need for. Pretty cool, right?

You bet your ass! Click here to make a donation - and thank you! Full disclosure: this is not tax-deductible yet because we are waiting for our 501c3 status.

If you want to support our cause directly, but need it to be tax-deductible, please send your donations to our partner fund at UNC Lineberger! All your dollars will still go to our colonoscopy efforts from this landing page.

All of our clothes and accessories are designed in Los Angeles and many of them are currently manufactured in the USA.

Sweats and hoodies are made in LA!

Socks are made in North Carolina!

Totes, hats, & tees are made in China, Bangladesh, or Vietnam.

It is indeed! We’re a small, dedicated team of health-conscious ladies who want to make a difference in the lives of everyone, regardless of gender.

You know it! Find and follow us on Instagram @worldclass_clothing, and please feel free to post and tag us!

It's complicated. Let us explain:

- For something to be tax-deductible, you can't get anything of value in return. This means that our merch doesn't qualify.

- Donations are not currently tax deductible because we haven't received our official 501c3 nonprofit status from the IRS yet. We should get it before the end of 2025, however. If you donate in 2025, we'll send you a receipt for your donation as soon as we receive our status, but it won't count in 2024. Sorry about this! : (

- If you want to support our cause directly, but need it to be tax-deductible, please send your donations to our partner fund at UNC Lineberger! All your dollars will go to our colonoscopy efforts from this landing page.

We think they’re better than nothing when it comes to checking out your ass, but they’re not as reliable as a colonoscopy, nor do they actively prevent colon cancer like a colonoscopy.

Cologuard, for instance, only has a 42% chance of detecting a big, nasty polyp that might even transform into cancer before your next check-up, which bothers us because it can give many people a false sense of security. On top of that, no poop test can actually remove anything from the colon that looks concerning like a colonoscopy can, so there is less actual prevention value.

Colonoscopies are cutting edge, advanced technology, and provide a more detailed and personalized picture than you can get with a stool or blood test, which are crude in comparison and usually not good at detecting polyps. Both colonoscopies and stool tests are covered by insurance starting at age 45, so go for the gold and schedule your colonoscopy as a birthday gift to yourself on your 45th!

Happy to! Here are some great reasons why you don't need to sweat it:

🍑 Colonoscopies are painless. You're asleep the whole time!

🍑 They're also safe. Complications are rare.

🍑 You're usually only under anesthesia for 30 minutes or so. Most people wake up quickly, and you'll be monitored very closely by a skilled anesthesiologist.

🍑 The prep has dramatically improved in the last decade. If you're afraid of vomiting or the taste of the prep drink, talk through this with your doctor. Prep pills exist now, and there are lots of different ways of personalizing the prep sequence.

🍑 The pooping (AKA the flush) is No Big Deal. You're not going to cramp like you might with food poisoning, for example. The flush is gentle; you'll just need to be near your toilet for a couple of hours. Stories of adult diapers or any other nightmares are exaggerations!

Our culture has stoked a lot of fear for the last few decades by implying that a colonoscopy is an awful experience. This may have been true in the past, but it simply isn't anymore. Ask around for recent experiences, and you'll find that the fear and anticipation was much worse than the actual prep and procedure for most people. We can't tell you how many times we've heard that a colonoscopy was "MUCH better than expected."

The good news and the bottom line: YOU CAN DO IT!! We're with you on this one.

Colonoscopies prevent colon cancer because they physically take out polyps from your body. Polyps are the cause of colon cancer, so...taking them out prevents it.

A study has shown that a colonoscopy reduces your chance of getting colon cancer by up to 89% as long as you get one before you have any symptoms. This is a powerful case for cancer prevention. Since more people die of colon or rectal cancer each year than breast or prostate cancer, it's totally worth it to get in front of this terrible disease.

Get ready to impress your friends and colleagues with all this knowledge:

🍑 Polyps are the cause of colon and rectal cancer. They're slow-growing, "pre-cancerous" clumps of cells that begin as harmless, but have the potential to mutate into a cancerous pattern at any point.

🍑 Polyps look like little freckles, bumps, skin patches, or warts. They have no symptoms, and look a lot like regular colon skin. You have no way of knowing if you have one until you get a colonoscopy.

🍑 Polyps run in families. It's a good idea to ask your parents if they tended to have polyps in their colonoscopies, and if they did, you might have a solid case to convince your doctor you should have a colonoscopy earlier than the recommended age of 45. If your doctor finds any polyps in you, you're likely to keep growing polyps in the future and will need to go back to remove them more often.

🍑 In the case of colon cancer, it's extremely rare for someone to develop it without having a pre-cancerous polyp first. No polyps = no cancer. But if you do have polyps, you want those suckers found and out of your colon ASAP!

🍑 A colonoscopy is an amazing technical feat because the doctor literally sends an advanced, high res camera up into your body in order to search for these potential polyps. If they find anything requiring removal, they will send tiny, scissor-like equipment (called a snare) to snip off the polyp and suck it out! This is painless and frankly really cool to witness (but you won't see it done on yourself...you'll be snoozing).

🍑 Polyps are really common. A good GI specialist - called a gastroenterologist - should be able to find a polyp in 50% of her patients. This is an official metric (called ADR or 'adenoma detection rate') and is actually a measure of her skill. Since most of her patients are older, this metric is based on an older population. But recent data show that already over 28% of people in their 40s have at least one polyp. That's almost 1 in 3!

🍑 Maybe this goes without saying, but polyps should be removed BEFORE they cause any noticeable trouble. And if you have symptoms (blood in your stool or pain), you need to get a colonoscopy ASAP as it can save your life by finding the cancer before it has spread.

We would LOVE for everyone to be able to get a fully-paid colonoscopy whenever they wanted one. In reality, there is a limited supply of colonoscopies, and the healthcare system wants to make sure that people with the highest risk get first dibs.

Even though colon cancer rates are going up very quickly in young people, the absolute numbers are still pretty low: currently the risk of a person getting colon cancer before age 50 is still only 1 in 260. On top of that, no one has stepped up to pay for research to learn how likely it is for people in their 20s and 30s to have polyps. Without those data, it's difficult to create guidelines to determine whether recommending widespread colonoscopies makes sense.

So, until we have the data we need to change the system, you're on your own. Listen to your body and advocate for yourself if your intuition tells you you need the procedure. If you have persistent blood in your stool (like Brooks and Sarah did), go straight to a gastroenterologist and demand a colonoscopy: that serious symptom qualifies you for one now, and it's essential you get that ass checked out ASAP.

One of your best bets for getting an early colonoscopy is to ask your parents if you have existing "family history" for either colon cancer, rectal cancer, or large polyps. This matters, because having family history will give your insurance and doctors the evidence they need to mark you as 'high risk', and therefore open the doors for you to get a fully-paid, early colonoscopy.

You're never technically too young for a colonoscopy because you can have polyps or gut health issues at any age. And colonoscopies are safe at any age.

But if you're under 45, you're going to have a harder time getting private insurance to pay for one without offering a "good reason" (such as symptoms or family history). Sometimes it's simply easier for a doctor to brush you off than give you a monologue about insurance policy, so it's important to advocate for yourself and research any cost implications carefully if you're looking to get an early colonoscopy (which of course, we always support!).

If your doctor is not budging after repeated efforts, consider seeing a new physician!

Colonoscopies are very, very safe. Complications occur in .01% to .3% of cases, and usually under the following conditions:

- The patient is older than 75.
- During the removal of a very large, complicated polyp.
- The procedure is being performed by a non-specialist (such as a general surgeon, primary care doctor, or advanced practitioner).

So if your colonoscopy is being performed by a board-certified gastroenterologist, the odds are in your favor!

The current medical guidelines recommend getting your first colonoscopy when you turn 45.

If you have symptoms (such as blood in your stool or anemia), you should talk to a doctor and consider getting one right away, even if you haven't turned 45 yet. Blood in your stool can have multiple causes, but it's also often the first symptom of colon cancer.

If you have a parent or sibling that has had colon cancer, lynch syndrome, or FAP, or if there are other high-risk family histories, you should talk to your primary care doctor about when you should get your first colonoscopy. You might even be able to get one in your 20s.

Boy, do we have tips. While this information should not be considered as nor does it replace professional medical advice from your doctor, we’re happy to share our experience and opinions. Read on...

We think it’s important to understand not just HOW to prep, but WHY to prep. Right before your colonoscopy begins, your doctor is going to ask you to back that ass up before they send you to dreamland via full anesthesia. Once you’re asleep, your skilled physician will feed a small, very expensive camera up your back end (hot) to get a close look at your colon: your large intestine. Pre-cancerous polyps are not only super common (like in 30% of 40-somethings), but they can occur at any point in the colon or rectum. If your doctor finds them, she will remove them! This is why we are obsessed with this procedure - it's because it literally snips the things (polyps) that cause colon cancer out of your body on the spot. If that doesn't scream cancer prevention, we don't know what does.

As you might imagine, the camera can get a clearer image of the lining of your colon if the colon itself is clear of all debris. Polyps can be hard to see, so it's in your interest to get as clean as possible, which is why it’s important to flush your colon prior to procedure: to clear that shit out, literally. Challenge yourself to get the most sparkling clean, camera-ready colon so you can have the best colonoscopy possible!

Yes! Starting this soon will ensure great results. Three days in advance, you only want to put things in your body that are easy to digest with the end goal of completely flushing your system. Stop eating healthy foods like raw fruits and veggies, nuts, or seeds, which are the most resistant to the prep and can even mess up the camera equipment. If you’re not allergic to gluten or dairy, gorge on pizza, meats, bagels, and cheese. Anything low fiber is good! (And if you do end up eating something healthy, don't worry about it…you can still have a great flush). 

Get your prep liquids from the pharmacy and stick them in the fridge. If you got the new “prep pill” instead, congratulations. 

Go shopping for your colonoscopy diet today! You want your fridge ready for you first thing in the morning. Tomorrow is "clear liquid diet" day, so you'll want your favorite liquids within reach.

But what is a "clear liquid," exactly? This isn't as intuitive as it sounds. Liquids should be transparent but don't need to be literally colorless, just skip anything that adds pulp or bulk (more difficult to digest). Coffee counts as clear, thank the colonoscopy gods, and so do most sodas. But you need to avoid red or purple liquids (more on this below).

Keep in mind this is not necessarily a low calorie day, so don't feel like you need to suffer unnecessarily.

Here’s what we shop for:

🍑 Root beer or any favorite soda

🍑 Chicken broth (not STOCK - stock has pieces we don’t want, but broth is clear). We like Swanson's or College Inn brands for taste.

🍑 A bunch of Gatorade or similar electrolyte-replacing drink. This is great as a chaser for post-prep hydration. We like Glacier Cherry flavor (it's white).

🍑 Juice or teas. Any type...straight water isn’t necessary, just transparent liquids with no pulp.

🍑 Gummy bears or worms. Whatever kind you get, choose a brand with the fewest red/purple/blue bears because you can't eat ‘em (they can stain your pretty pink colon, give a distorted impression of your otherwise clean lining, and sabotage all your careful prep!). The white, green, yellow, and orange ones are ok, although gummies are best to avoid entirely on Colonoscopy Day itself. We love the Albanese brand of gummies.

🍑 Your favorite candy for your post-colonoscopy wake-up. It's wonderful to be able to break your fast from the post-op bed. We personally like some peanut butter cups because there’s protein in there as well as sugar, but to each his own candy!

🍑 Preparation-H cream or similar. Lube up that sweet butthole before the purge begins - rush hour is coming and there will be a LOT of traffic on that exit ramp, so be nice to your back door! If you have a bidet, tell him he’s gonna be working overtime for about the next 36 hours.

Today is Fast & Flush Day! (This is the title of the next colonoscopy-themed film in the Fast & Furious franchise, in case you were wondering). Even though you won't eat for the next roughly 36 hours, we find it's only annoying between lunchtime and evening. Once you start your prep, you might be too distracted to feel hungry, but tiredness/crankiness can kick in after lunchtime. 

We recommend sipping on fluids ALL DAY LONG, even if your instructions don't call for it. This makes it more likely you'll have a successful flush and honestly keeps your stomach full and happy.

Here’s a tested Fast & Flush Day game-plan you are welcome to use or adapt:

🍑 Morning: Go for a sugar high to get some energy. Grab your root beer, etc. plus other fun liquids and go to town. 

🍑 Lunch: Gummy worm time! Make a game of separating out the Untouchables (reds, purples, blues) and eating the other colors. After not having eaten any solids all day, you might be crashing or getting jittery from all the cold liquids and sugar. After lunch would be a good time to switch to the savory drinks...heat up the chicken broth and start sipping it like hot, salty tea. We like to keep to the savory stuff until evening time.

🍑 Evening: Around 5:30, it’s finally time for the prep sequence. Ready your preferred chasers, like Gatorade. Drink the full amounts of your prep liquid that your instructions call for - we know it’s not delicious, but you can wash it down with something tastier. Then, you can continue with your hot soothing broth if you feel like it. You probably won't see any toilet action for an hour or two after you drink the prep, so we like to hang out, read, watch a sitcom, watch Ryan Reynolds' and Rob McElhenney's colonoscopies.

🍑 Potty time: Once your bum begins rumbling, it’s go time, and it should take a couple of hours for the momentum to slow down. Don't forget to lube up that butthole before the action starts! But don't worry, this flush is gentle. You’re essentially ‘peeing’ from your butt because you've had so much liquid, and every 10 minutes or so, you’ll get to feel a wonderful sense of relief, curiosity, and accomplishment! Never fear: this is not the shit-on-the-wall drama you might be worried about.

Go to bed at a reasonable time (you have a colonoscopy the next day!) and prepare to sleep like a baby who has spent all day chugging soda and chicken broth and candy-colored sports drink.  

You're almost there! In the morning, expect to be back on the ol' toilet again per your doctors’ orders. But you're a pooping pro by now, baby. Your goal is to have the bottom of your bowl looking like weak brewed tea by the time you're all done. You want to see no residue, but things won’t be completely colorless. 

If you’ve done your homework here properly, your colon is camera ready! Clean colon achieved! Now, pull on your pants and step away from the liquids. Your doctor will have given you a time to STOP drinking anything. This is sort of confusing, right? But the reason here is they want your stomach to be totally empty of all fluid by the time they knock you out so that you don't spit anything up accidentally during the procedure.

And guess what: if you stop drinking, you also stop pooping! Water stimulates your bowels, so stopping the H2O or his other friends will also stop the action. That should keep you from having to worry about shitting your pants on the way to the doctor’s office. We call that a win!

The work is done and now the spa day begins! Get to your doctor’s on time and slip into a comfortable hospital gown. When you're all set, the doctor is going to come by, make sure you're comfortable, and the next thing you'll know...BOOM, best nap you’ll have all year!

The drug the doctor will use is extremely safe and also out of your system pretty quickly, so it shouldn’t leave you groggy for more than an hour or so after you wake up.

And you probably didn't even realize you were asleep (the drugs are that good, and the procedure was probably only around a half hour anyways)! When your doctor comes by, she’ll give you a report on what she found, and might even give you a high def photo of your colon. Radical!

And, if she found and removed a polyp, she might have just prevented you getting colon cancer down the road. Let her give you a high-five, then celebrate by eating your first solid foods again.