5/31/2005 05:38:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|The shipping from Singapore might end up costing you as much as the shirt, but it's worth it for this beautiful specimen from Dive Junkie. They've got plenty of other nice stuff for the diving enthusiast in your life, but this tee is our favorite out of their collection. Besides, twenty four bucks in Singapore's currency ends up converting out to a little over fourteen dollars American. Honestly, that really isn't that bad. Especially when you consider the fact that you're getting a shirt that almost nobody else in your pocket of the western world owns. Just something to keep in mind, y'know... $24.00 SGD | Credit | URL
|W|P|111758743593966430|W|P|Harmony Reef|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/31/2005 03:43:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|We just realized that it's been a while since we've done one just for the ladies. Sorry about that. We'd swear that it'll never happen again but we both know we're just going to forget. You know if Preshrunk were your boyfriend, we totally wouldn't blame you for breaking up with us. Even if the sex is the best you've ever had. Anyhow, Miele Fresca's line of shirts has a whole bunch of cute stuff - but this tee really caught our eye. Nice, blue and red silhouette work on a yellow shirt. It's very primary colors in a way, but we can assure you that the shirt looks outstanding. Now if you'll excuse us, we've gotta get back to writing about guys shirts. But we'll call you, okay? No really, we swear... $36.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111758069231956684|W|P|Rise And Shine|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/28/2005 11:23:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|They say nobody walks in L.A. And while that may be nothing more than a half truth in a silly pop song, there sure are plenty of people that lack a car. A lot of those people - myself included - take the bus. Because I take the bus, I have this kind of love/hate relationship with the L.A. Metro system. It gets me where I need to go, but it often times it ends up making me late. But hey, their logo is elegantly simple. I guess they've got that going for them... So, imagine how surprised I was when I found that they sell a logo tee from their web store. For eleven bucks, no less! If it came in anything bigger than an extra large, I'd be all over it. *shrug* Maybe it's time to start with the walking... $11.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111734963226637191|W|P|L.A. Metro|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/28/2005 03:46:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|I know this shirt may be a bit cost prohibitive to our readers with limited funds, but it's too damn cool to not run. That might just be my inner dance punk talking. *shrug* Who knows? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to cranking LCD Soundsystem and drinking some beers. Man, I love three day weekends... Update: Some people don't seem to get that the price for this shirt is in Canadian Dollars. While we're sorry if this confused anyone, we ask you to pay better attention to what you're reading. Seriously. $48.00 CDN | Credit | URL
|W|P|111732240541267696|W|P|Punk Vs. Disco|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/27/2005 02:05:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|These tees from Bamboosa may be double the price of the ones we ran yesterday, but their store is quite a bit nicer and they have more available sizes. Also, they won't gouge you on shipping if you live somewhere other than the U.S. So they've got that going for them too. What's more, Bamboosa was recommended to us by Cool Hunting contributor and aspiring footwear designer Josh Spear. He seems to be in love with the ones that he owns - which is a good enough seal of approval for me. Domo, Mr. Spear! Update: Morris from Bamboosa writes:
The reason that our shirt costs a lot more than our good friends Bamboo Textile is that our shirt is made in the US and their shirts come from China.
Well, that makes sense. It's also a good thing to know. $24.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111722907516369327|W|P|Bamboo Tees, Take 2|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/26/2005 11:15:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Bamboo. Is there anything it can't do? Bamboo Textile doesn't seem to think so. I mean, hell, they're making t-shirts out of it. No, really. Bamboo t-shirts. Before you go and think that they're made out of chunks of bamboo stalk - a la chain mail - they're not. That would look ridiculous. The process used apparently processes the fibers from inside the stalks. It's a neat idea that apparently yields extremely breathable and soft fabric. Since a shirt would only set me back a Hamilton, I think I'm going to have to give it a try. If the tee holds up to the hype, I may have found my new Summer shirt... Update: Andrew writes:
I would like to point out that if one orders a Bamboo tee, the shipping to anywhere not in the US is about 35 dollars, more than three times the price of the tee. Perhaps if you live across the ocean in an isolated cardboard box in the district of Badgershire or something this might be acceptable, but I live in Canada, and have never seen shipping prices as high as 35 bucks to get packages across the nigh-unpassable 49th parallel. Just thought your Canuckistanian readers might like to know.
Hrmph. That is rather steep. Sorry to all our non U.S. readers! $10.00 | Credit | URL [via]
|W|P|111713398152426120|W|P|Bamboo Tees|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/24/2005 01:47:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|
  • It must be t-shirt sale season. Diesel Sweeties is doing a surprise sale. You give them $7 and your size and you get a mystery shirt.

    Update: Well, they were having a sale. If you missed out, they're offering a deal for our readers... While checking out, mention that Preshrunk sent you in the "special instructions" field to net yourself some bonus stickers. Gracias R. Stevens!
  • Did you know that Old Navy uses random asian characters to decorate their tees? Well, now you do.
  • Preshrunk pal Justin Mason was awesome enough to throw together an RSS feed for the newest tees over at Threadless, with photos. Great job, Justin!
  • Speaking of Threadless... Thanks to their $10 sale, we're now their top ranked Street Team member. Whatever will we spend all that store credit on?
|W|P|111696819552052063|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.24.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/23/2005 01:41:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|It's been a while since we've posted an "I [heart]..." shirt. But after Kristen sent this one on we figured if we were going to break our embargo we may as well do it with this tee from Veer. Hell, "I [heart] T-Shirts" begs to be posted by a site like ours. If there was a brand of calamari named "I [heart] Tentacles" we're sure that the SquidBlog would be all over it. I mean, how can we not link something so self-referential and shoegazingly amazing? We just can't. So we're posting it. And encouraging you to buy it. But, you know, only if you like t-shirts... $22.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111688366418276518|W|P|I [heart] T-Shirts|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/23/2005 11:58:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|
  • What sort of shill would I be if I didn't mention Threadless for the nth consecutive week? A pretty horrible one, to say the least.

    Well, it is worth mentioning that they're selling every shirt in their store for $10 until June 6th. So really it's less of me being a shill and more of me trying to save you some money.

    You don't have to thank me, I'm just doing my job...
  • More bargains ahoy! Neighborhoodies is offering 10% off if you use the coupon code BLOGGER at checkout time. This should be wonderful for those of you who insist on wearing hoodies during the warmest months of the year.

    Or, you could just buy a t-shirt too. It's up to you, really.
|W|P|111687513054695932|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.23.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/20/2005 11:58:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|The Preshrunk staff [hearts] Cory Doctorow. His pimp for this site on BoingBoing - the first post of 2005, we might add - drove a huge spike of traffic our way in our first few days. As far as we're concerned, he helped make us what we are today - and we're extremely grateful for that. Besides writing for BoingBoing, Wired and Make, Cory has a new novel, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" that drops on July 1. He also happens to be the jet setting European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an obessed, yet socially functional Disneyphile. Asking someone as t-shirt obsessed as Cory to jot down his top 5 shirts was a task. How can you choose when there are so many that you adore? So we broke from our usual format and let him send us an inventory of his the shirts that are in his heavy rotation. A few of the tees in his collection were either one-offs, limited runs or not available online. With that in mind, we've tried to provide URLs where we could find them. So without further adieu, here's your peek inside Cory's closet...
Well, I'm at home now long enough to change suitcases [which is practically the only reason I ever come home], so here's a quick inventory. I have too many tees -- more than I can wear for sure -- and every month or two I take 20 or so to the local charity shop and drop them off. Currently Wearing
  • A long-sleeve Disneyland tee that's all distressed and worn looking, with torn pieces of cloth sewn to it.
Top Drawer [not black, not white]
  • A chocolate-brown Blogger/Google shirt from SXSW two years ago
    [URL]
  • Navy blue shirt from monochrom.at: OH MY GOD THEY USE A HISTORY THAT REPEATS ITSELF
    [URL]
  • Navy blue shirt from downhillbattle.org: PEER-TO-PEER KILLS PAY-FOR-PLAY
    [URL | Photo]
  • Kermit green shirt from FxxxPxxx: [THIS IS GOOD]
  • Khaki Fantastic Four tee from Spitalfields Market
  • Olive green Wonder Woman tee from Spitalfields Market
  • Red tee from engrish.com: I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE, with a rainbow. I usually can't bring myself to wear this.
    [URL | Photo]
  • Red Walt Disney World tee A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME with Goofy's hat being blown off by a pirate's cannonball. I can't BELIEVE they offer these for sale!
    [Photo]
  • Light brown Blogger/Google shirt also from SXSW two years ago
    [URL]
  • Chocolate brown shirt from spamshirt.com, with orange writing: FWD: VEDOXHERABAL VIAGRASUPP
    [URL]
  • Orange tee from monochrom.at, featuring a man in a tophat saying: UFO-Beobachtungen muB man skeptisch gegenüberstehen Nur dann er-kennt... ...man bösre Fälschungen"
    [URL | Photo]
  • Khaki B * A * S * H tee
    [URL]
  • Grey downhillbattle.org tee: HOME TAPING HIS KILLING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND IT'S FUN
    [URL | Photo]
Bottom Drawer [black and white]:
  • Black eff.org tee
  • Black Disneyland Paris Pirates of the Caribbean tee
  • Black tee from monochrom.at: DER DOW JONES IST DAS WICHTIGSTE VON DER WELT
    [URL]
  • Black Michael Moore as Che Guevara tee
    [URL | Photo]
  • Black tee from EFFi (EF Finland), take off on Trainspotting
    [URL]
  • Black Second Life tee: PLAY IN THEIR WORLD LIVE IN OURS
  • Black NTK.net tee: I [heart] MY VT-1OO
    [Photo]
  • Black Campaign for Digital Rights tee: CORRUPT DISC INFERIOR AUDIO KEEP THE RIGHT TO COPY
  • Black doombuggies.com tee: TOMB SWEET TOMB
  • Black long-sleeve Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland Paris tee with skulls down the sleeves
  • Black ntk.net tee: Pic of Ben Franklin and THEY THAT CAN GIVE UP GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS FOR THE SAKE FOR A LITTLE EYE CANDY DESERVE NEITHER COMPUTERS NOR EYE CANDY
  • Black downhillbattle.org tee: BRAM COHEN SEEDED MY TORRENT
  • White Cafe Press long-sleeve: MY NGO WENT TO WIPO AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS INFRINGING T-SHIRT
  • White tee red-circle-slash-over-ID from no2id.net
    [URL]
  • Black tee my mom brought me from Tokyo: WHILE IT DOESN'T KNOW RADIOACTIVE DANGER REAT AT HAND IT ITSELF OF YOU AS WELL.
  • Black lenticular anime tee from Cyberdog
    [Photo]
Crap, man... That's one helluva collection. Thanks for indulging us, Cory. Now if you'll excuse us, we're afraid the site will collapse under the weight of this post if we let it go on much longer. Cheers!|W|P|111661788897975229|W|P|What's In Your Closet, Cory Doctorow?|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/19/2005 12:38:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|If you've read the site long enough you'd know that I'm a sucker for nice, simple line art. But sometimes I tire of the calculated perfection of vectors in Illustrator files. Fortunately, Slow Shirts slings loads of gear emblazoned with all kinds of beautifully imperfect, hand drawn line art. As much as I love the calculated perfection of Kraftwerk, there's something to be said for the crunchy, imperfect rock of The White Stripes... You feel me? There are some shirts that you're bound to dig more, but the Powerlines artwork sort of spoke to me. Maybe you'll find something that speaks to you. $22.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111653238713309237|W|P|Powerlines|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/18/2005 11:47:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Y'know, it's been a while since I've thrown our readers in Europe a bone... So here's a little number from the fine folks at Dadawan, a French web store with outstanding tees and accessories from a variety of artists. This tee was designed by none other than super prolific street artist/toy designer/illustrator/web designer KOADZN. It may be a bit busy for some people, but believe me when I say that the level of detail in the artwork requires such a busy design. If you're a fan of graffiti, do yourself a favor and give this shirt a look. You'll thank me later. 24.21€ | Credit | URL
|W|P|111648672583774734|W|P|KOADZN|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/17/2005 02:50:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|It may not be able to get you into any of the hot eateries and nightclubs in a large metro area, but being internet famous rules. You have the relative privacy of an average Joe coupled with a devoted, cult-like following. Perfect strangers who will buy you beers and let you crash on their couch when you're in town. The pay may not be great, but the money shouldn't matter when you've got the adoration of dozens. Especially if a few of those dozens are people who want to sleep with you. I'm just sayin', that's all. It's not as if I've had any offers for sex while I've been doing this goofy site. I'm sure my girlfriend's relieved to hear that. At least I hope she is... *shrug* $17.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111636944155585307|W|P|I'm Internet Famous|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/17/2005 11:44:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|+ Hey, good news. Threadless did a reprint run on Flowers In The Attic. If you're a J.Ko stalker, you could buy this and be one step closer to mimicking him completely. + The Yahoo! Buzz Index did a nice little piece on popular t-shirt searches. + Benkay from the Portland Metblog pinged us with his Flickr set of a recent silkscreen run. The design isn't the all-time best thing we've ever seen, but it's nice to see someone going DIY. Keep up the good work, Ben! + We wouldn't be caught dead wearing it, but this washable shirt with a built in electronic dB meter is rather intriguing. If it came in black I could see this actually taking off at clubs. Muchas gracias to Matthew Brehe for sending the link along.|W|P|111635684759262280|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.17.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/16/2005 03:46:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|I feel mildly weird about running a shirt from one of our advertisers. But it's not as if I'm actually getting money for running their ads or their shirts. I know the cat that runs Enclothe is just a starving student trying to make a little scratch, so I'm letting them run ads in exchange for a t-shirt here and there. I won't do that for just anyone though. So don't go getting any ideas... When I got their latest one in the mail, I felt extremely compelled to run it. It's a beautifully surreal depiction of a whale crashing thru buildings in what appeares to be a metro area. Buildings tumble down like children's toys in a cacophonous ballet. Since I've actually gotten to field test this tee, I must say that it's a wonderful fit and the artwork gets plenty of compliments and questions. Often times I go off the information that I can collect off of a web site, so it's nice to be able to give a tee a physical trial. I'm more than happy to give this bad boy my seal of approval. Beg, borrow or steal if you have to... $16.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111628492192020257|W|P|Destroyer|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/16/2005 11:45:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|A perennial favorite around Preshrunk HQ is the web comic Toothpaste For Dinner. Drawn by a man known only to his fans as Drew, his acerbic wit and ammusing observations make for a great daily read. Drew and friends recently launced Sharing Machine, a distribution service for independent artists. With such clients as Mule Design and Kompressor, the future seems rather bright for them. Since Drew is a self-confessed t-shirt junkie, he's got a whole bunch of great tees floating around his closet. Fortunately for us, he was nice enough to send us some of his favorite shirts for our readers perusal.
Here Comes A Special Boy This is from Achewood, my favorite comic strip, online or off. It has been my favorite for years, because Chris Onstad is a raw comic genius. This shirt is great, because it has a creepily-optimistic message, and then a little otter running around, and I think sometimes people mistake the otter for a weiner running around, and that makes it even better. URL
Hot Dog I bought this shirt off a guy in the netherlands, who posted on a messageboard that he was making these shirts. Sight unseen, I paypalled him some euros, and got this shirt a bit later. If you are addicted to weird t-shirts like I am then sending ten or fifteen bucks out of the country in exchange for a t-shirt is not much of a stretch at all. As it happens, the screenprinter [Probably high, that's the idea most Americans have of the dutch] printed the design upside down and I got the shirt at a discount, and it is even weirder to have a shirt with an upside-down hotdog. If you are reading this, thanks Neils.
Ming & Ping Ming & Ping are a synth-pop duo from California. They make new-new-wave music and they are twins. This shirt was too awesome for me to even think about passing up. I don't really even listen to this sort of music much, but theirs is strangely compelling. Their website is mingping.com, and their album is called mingping.com. Huh. URL
Optigan The Optigan was a home organ manufactured in the 1970s by Mattel. It used these twelve-inch clear acetate disks, printed with amplitude-modulated sound loops - the same idea as the sound stripe on film, but in a circle. These organs were basically failures, prone to electrical and mechanical problems, but were built at a factory in Compton [yes, that Compton] for a few years. I had an Optigan a few years ago. I bought it at a thrift store for $12 in 1998-ish near my parents' house, and my dad helped my tie it into my old Honda with bungee cords. I drove it half sticking out of my trunk back to my ghetto apartment in Cincinnati, where I played it for a couple of years. Then I discovered eBay and promptly sold the thing for three hundred bucks to some cats from New York. Now all I have is this t-shirt, which I bought on a lark from optigan.com at the same time as a huge packet of service manuals I needed to restore the thing to playable condition. The shirt, thankfully, has not required hours of maintenance every few months to remain wearable. URL
Thanks for giving us a peek at your favorite tees, Drew! For those of you that care, we've got another great "What's In Your Closet?" coming up on Friday from one of our favorite weblogging sci-fi authors. Hope to see you then!|W|P|111626976302084956|W|P|What's In Your Closet, Drew?|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/15/2005 12:07:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|I already know what some of you are going to say... "$27.50 for a shirt?!" But if you look closer, you'll realize that price includes shipping. Take into consideration that a few of the places we've linked to charge $5-7 for shipping. Honestly, you're not taking that much of a reaming on this one. So quit pissing and moaning. Besides, this one's clever and well worth the price of admission. Population density represented by Pac Man and Ghost glyphs. I'm sure there's some sort of social commentary about the American territories being represented by an insatiable glutton of a video game character, but I'm far too lazy to dig any deeper. $27.50 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111614198889847693|W|P|Population Density|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/13/2005 01:28:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|If you're an American kid who had cable in the 80's, I'll bet you spent a lot of time in front of the television during Summer vacation. Two and a half months of sitting on your ass playing video games and watching reruns was the fucking life - if you were lazy, that is. When my dad finally got arround to shelling out for the premium channels, HBO and I became inseparable. I probably spent most of my Summers between 1987 and 1993 watching movies. One of my favorites was the John Carpenter flop, "Big Trouble In Little China". It had it all. Kung Fu, Kurt Russel hamming it up, cursing, an evil retarded wookie... I must have seen it 50 times over the course of one Summer. *sigh* Good times. So it should go without saying that when I came across this tee for Egg Foo Yong Tours, I became way more giddy than any grown man should. Even though I can't fit my hefty frame into an extra large, you know what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like this? "What the hell." Update: Tian says:
The Chinese characters on this shirt say "success when horse arrives". It means "achieved with ease".
Thanks for the assist! $20.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111602209639656804|W|P|Egg Foo Yong Tours|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/12/2005 04:19:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Y'know, I really don't fret over trash day so much after our city gave us those handy roll away bins. They really make putting the garbage out less of a chore. The wheels really appeal to my inner and outer lazy bastard. When I was younger, I remember having to drag three cans of yard waste and two cans of garbage to the curb. That's not too terrible, but my folks house is on a minor hill and we'd pack those cans to their bursting point. Heaven forbid one of them actually broke. You see, I am [and was] a bit of a germaphobe. Heaven forbid I'd have to pick any trash up. *shudder* Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this, because I sure can't... Hrmph. Sorry. $25.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111594083938491926|W|P|Trash Day|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/11/2005 05:19:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|This one from Kelly Vivanco's adoreable webcomic Patches is too cute for words. Seriously, I'm not really going to say anything more. Is that cool? Wait, what do you mean it's not cool? What if I can't think of anything clever because my brain is baked? There's just no pleasing you people sometimes, is there? *grumbles* $15.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111585770502895393|W|P|Helmet|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/10/2005 06:07:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Whenever I make it down to Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade I always manage to make two stops: The Apple Store and Kid Robot. Now, while Kid Robot deals mostly in urban vinyl toys, they've still got a few choice tees squirreled away on a very unassuming rack. Last time we were there, the girlfriend fell in love with their stenciled logo tee and had to have one. In the month and a half that she's had it, it has become one of her favorite tees - and that's saying a lot for someone who doesn't normally wear t-shirts. Still, be forewarned... The design is really stenciled onto the shirt. We're not talking about a pseudo stenciled silkscreening job. Also, the person in charge of stenciling shirts is a bit loose with where the stencil is placed and how much paint is used. So while every one is unique, none of them will turn out exactly like the one at left. Some may have a bit of bleed while others will suffer from underspray. At least you'll never run the risk of showing up to a party sporting the same shirt as someone else... $19.95 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111577377941913802|W|P|Kid Robot Stencil|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/09/2005 06:13:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|The fine people at 70six inform us that Hiragino Kaku Gothic is the Helvetica of Japan. I'll have to take their word for it though. Hell, most of the Japanese language and culture that I know comes from anime. I know, I know... Baka gaijin. So even though I couldn't tell you what the shirt actually says, it still looks really cool. I'll probably get a smack on the back of the hand from Hanzi Smatter for saying that, but fuck it. Update: Speaking of Hanzi Smatter, Tian had this to say:
I would like to confirm that the Japanese Katakana on the t-shirt says "Hiragino Kaku Shitusku" with translates as "Hiragino Kaku Gothic". It is a very basic Japanese font.
So now you know... And knowing is half the battle. Update 2: For the definitive translation we go to Chudo from 70six:
The shirt says "Hiragino Kaku Goshikku," so Tian was almost there; he missed the "go" and read the small "tsu" as a full-sized one. (Small tsus are silent "sokuons" which are glottal stops, kind of like hiccups.) Probably more than you wanted to know.
He should know seeing as how he designed the shirt and all. Thanks to everyone who sent in that little clarification. $17.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111568779583373324|W|P|Hiragino Kaku Gothic|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/09/2005 10:24:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|+ In lieu of real content, here are some designs we love that are currently scoring over at Threadless:+ Chris Mitchell's got a nice bit on bootleg t-shirts in Asia.|W|P|111566116006588834|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.09.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/05/2005 02:59:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|+ It looks like T-Shirt Hell has grown up a smidge and removed their "Worse Than Hell" section:
I started this web site on my terms and will continue to run it as I see fit. Removing shirts that affect many people in a negative way is just not exciting to me anymore and that doesn’t make me lame or a sell out. It would only be a sell out if I sold shirts that I no longer agreed with just to make a profit. It would be lame to let someone else tell me how to run my business.
We totally respect the folks at T-Shirt Hell for stepping back and realizing they've been a bit too juvenile. Believe me, we know exactly where they're coming from. + Several readers pointed out that we could run yesterday's Japanese site through an online translator. Since those services are almost always return such wonky translations, we didn't feel right suggesting other people buy something from a site that we couldn't at least offer a decent walkthrough for. Thanks anyway! + Rob Ferrier writes:
I'm unfortunately reporting a problem with Proletarian Threads, and thought you should let readers know. I paid for an Angela Davis t-shirt after following the link on your site. A month later, I got a mea culpa from the company and a promise that the t-shirt was forthcoming. A month after that and they won't respond to repeated emails. It's a bummer because I really liked the shirt. Oh well.
Crap. It really upsets us when a site we suggest pulls this sort of thing with a customer. Even if it only has happened once...|W|P|111533206220867474|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.05.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/04/2005 10:18:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|+ Herr Kottke points to the Wall Street Journal's coverage of the booming online t-shirt market. + Man... If I could comprehended Japanese, I'd do a proper post for this Jewish Star Wars riff in a fucking nanosecond. But I don't, so I won't. [via]|W|P|111522820858510071|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.04.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/03/2005 10:14:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. > open mailbox Opening the mailbox reveals a package. > take package Taken. > examine package The package appears to be from Jinx, an online shop that deals in apparel and stickers. > open package You open the package and notice a blue t-shirt with an Infocom logo inside. It is getting very dark outside. > wear t-shirt As you start to put the shirt on, you are eaten by a grue. At least you died wearing a nice shirt. $14.95 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111518644128114832|W|P|Infocom|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/03/2005 02:10:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Yeah, another squid shirt. I really like squid, alright? Besides, this design is rather nice. You see, I'm as much of a sucker for line art as I am for shirts with squids on them. I'm not so wild about the Gama-Go logomark, but the extra crisp line art and lovely detail is enough for me to overlook it. But if squid aren't your thing - and I can understand if they aren't - they've got plenty of other things for both the guys and gals to pursue. $24.00 | Credit | URL
|W|P|111515496083558202|W|P|Sketchy Squid|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/02/2005 02:03:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|Normally I dislike the sort of shirts that are so ironic that it hurts - but there's something about this tee that sort of makes me smile. Sure, it's an ape on the 36 year old "Virginia Is For Lovers" slogan. And yeah, there are dozens of tees that do that sort of thing at Urban Outfitters. But I don't care about them... Seriously, fuck Urban Outfitters. Is this one is done well enough that I'm willing to forgive all of those bastard designs? Sho `nuff. $18.00 | PayPal | URL
|W|P|111506845912407972|W|P|China Is For Lovers|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/02/2005 10:42:00 AM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|+ Thought the iPod shuffle shirt looked wonky? Well, TuneWear looks much, much worse. [via] + Hey, budding designers... Friends of the High Line are having a t-shirt design contest. + We may not agree with their business practices, but American Apparel has some nifty softcore porn. You know, if you're into that sort of thing... And by "that thing" we mean really thin people in their underwear. Update: Samuel Brewczynski writes...
Here's an update to the whole American Apparel union busting ordeal. It seems that they have changed their ways since the UNITE union called them on their more nefarious conducts. Hopefully this means that they can be in our good graces again.
Hey, that's good news. Thanks for the heads up, Sam! + Remember that Creative Commies shirt we posted four months ago? Well, the kids at Giant Robot Printing have since put the logo on a black shirt and a hoodie. They've also added a slogan tee to the mix. [via]|W|P|111505719126001355|W|P|Hang Tags - 05.02.05|W|P|boogah@gmail.com5/01/2005 03:40:00 PM|W|P|Jason Cosper|W|P|The folks at DISTRO.Y sent in a nice little letter asking us to check out their site - and I'm glad they did. While some of their designs are just okay, they really seem to shine when they play to people's nostalgia. Take their Commodore 64 shirt for example... Anyone in their 20's and 30's who spent some time playing on a C64 is probably melting into a puddle as a wave of nostalgia overtakes them. Memories of hours spent playing and programming all come flooding back and bring a smile to my face. It's enough to break the old girl out of storage [or download an emulator] and mess around a little bit on a lazy Sunday. Man, I'm such a sucker for nostalgia... $20.00 | Credit | URL
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