
I wrote about this t-shirt
ten days ago, and then it turned up in the mail a couple of days ago, so I’m going to ask again, Ferrari, if you want me to review an Enzo, I’ll gladly have one for the weekend. You have eight days to respond!

For those of you that are unaware, the slogan on this tee comes from a speech made by Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and even though it isn’t mentioned explicitly, I think that the quote clearly relates to his sounds-nice-but-doesn’t-mean-a-thing messages of ‘hope’ and ‘change’. When I first wrote about this tee a
commenter, Carl, said that the design was lacking since there was so much wasted space. At the time I thought that Carl might be right, especially as we all know that
huge type looks sweet, but now that I’ve had it in my hands I feel a bit different, the size feels about right, perhaps not having it dominate the shirt is meant to make the message seem a bit calmer and less shouty than it would with a large type tee? Also, I really like the use of a full stop to try and reinforce the message.

This is an organic tee from American Apparel’s ‘
Sustainable Edition‘, which presumably means that the cotton plants get massages just like the AA employees famously do. This is actually the first AA organics tee I’ve received, and I must say I’m impressed, it feels pretty much the same as a regular AA tee, which I guess is what you want, no reduction in quality whilst producing an environmentally conscientious product. I don’t know how they last through various washings, so if anyone has experience with them I’d appreciate an opinion. Print is fairly thick, I think its plastisol ink.Costiness=$18.50
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7 Responses
Carl
March 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
1well i suppose its all if you want to get the message out or look fly. i’m not sure how effective t-shirts are at spreading propaganda, consider running an experiment or something lol
MiNGLED
March 30th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
2T-shirts are as good a method of spreading propaganda as any, they are there the whole day it’s worn and it can sneak under the radar a little as it’s only a t-shirt, not a TV broadcast or press ad.
As for the message, it’s a little ambiguous and could refer to almost any group. Surely it would be better to read “We are the people you’ve been waiting for”?
Carl
March 31st, 2008 at 12:25 am
3ah but how effective? i’m sure not everyone is like us looking at what is on people’s shirts..
Andy
March 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
4I’d wonder how it’s even possible to gauge how effective it is. On a slightly related point, I wore this tee on Friday night and told all my friends that I’d buy a drink for whoever was the first to guess what the quote referred to, but not one of them had a clue (we’re English though, so its kind of to be expected, but none of them thought it was a political tee either).
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