Editing variant picker text for product page

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Goal: Change the variant picker label from “Size” to “Size (please order one size up)” on hoodie product pages only, without affecting other product templates (caps, T-shirts) in a Shopify theme.

Context: The merchant already displays sizing warnings elsewhere on the product page, but customers still order too-small hoodies. They want the notice embedded directly in the size selector label for better visibility.

Suggestion offered: Rename size variants for affected products to reflect +1 sizing (e.g., adjust the variant values). This would not require theme code changes.

Merchant’s reaction: Appreciates the idea but worries it’s too subtle and won’t sufficiently prevent sizing mistakes.

Status: No implementation details or code provided for conditionally changing the label by template. Key open question: How to add template-specific label text in the variant picker within the Shopify theme so it applies only to hoodies.

Summarized with AI on December 25. AI used: gpt-5.
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I’m hoping I can explain this properly.

Currently the text that is displayed on my website’s variant picker for a product is ‘Size’, with a drop down box for a customer to choose a size.

I want to add a piece of text after the word ‘size’ which says ‘(please order one size up)’ as the sizing is a little smaller. I’ve added this as a note all over the product page but customers are still ordering hoodies that are too small.

Now here’s where it gets annoying. I want this to only apply to the template I use for the hoodies, and not other templa caps, T-shirts, etc.

If anyone can help with this, that’d be amazing. Thanks!

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One idea is to go the products that you want to have one size up and change the ‘Size’ variants to be +1.

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It’s not a bad idea. But since the current warnings are still causing issues, I’m worried that’d be too subtle to prevent the issue further.