White Women's T-shirt vs Women's White T-shirt

Which way of describing a women's t-shirt is grammatically correct out of the following two descriptions? 'A white women's t-shirt featuring a flowery design.' or 'A women's white t-shirt featuring a flowery design'.

I think 'white women's t-shirt' is correct as I read it as a women's t-shirt which is white but my colleagues disagree as they read it as a t-shirt for white women.

Any help help settling this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Solution 1:

The noun "t-shirt" is modified by the adjective "white" and the noun adjunct (a noun that modifies another noun in the same way as an adjective) "women's". Therefore adjectival order is not the source of the error.

The source of the error lies solely in the ambiguity, where the adjective "white" can be understood to modify wither "women" or "t-shirt".

You can resolve the ambiguity via the use of a comma e.g. "white, women's t-shirt" or by changing the word order "a women's white t-shirt".

Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noun_adjunct http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsANounAdjunct.htm