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BTW, when I suggested in my previous post that you should improve the lighting of the T-shirt, the  attached image shows the sort of improvement that one can achieve using  pro lighting, instead of passively accepting whatever lighting happens to be  there. 

As an example, just this past weekend, I was covering a  panel discussion here in DC, and took this shot of an imam.  Look at the  texture in his sweater.  I used four strobes to light him, three off  camera, and one very weak on-camera strobe to put catchlights in his  eyes.  Other than a minor correction for white balance, and another very  slight correction to make the brightness of this image match the  brightness of the other images in the series, this shot is almost  straight out of the camera.

Unfortunately, when I took this  shot, it never occurred to me that for teaching purposes, I should take  another shot using only only available. ambient light, or only one  on-camera flash.  However, I can assure you that if I had done so, the  texture of his sweater would be almost invisible, much like the texture  of the cloth in your T-shirt shot.    

Tom M