I’m sure this is one of those instances when I’m going to get accused of being a t-shirt snob (I write about tees, of course I’m a snob!). I wouldn’t actually wear this tee from
KosherHam, and not just because its way too small for me, I’m just not too into tees with this kind of phrase on it, but I know there’s a
big massive market for this kind of thing, so I can’t just ignore them.
I’ve noticed that a couple of my friends parents are on Facebook, what’s all that about? It might seem odd to me because my parents can barely use e-mail (I’m requested to read all of them before sending to make sure they’re ‘right’), but there’s just something a little bit weird about the idea of middle-aged people posting on each other’s walls and tagging each other in photo’s, and I don’t even want to think about what would happen if they found out about some of the
dumbass applications that are floating around out there. I guess that on a certain level, I do find a tee like this kinda funny, but I think that the part that’s funny is that someone would have the audacity to wear a t-shirt suggesting that the wearer would “poke your mom” and not just on Facebook. I guess it takes a very, very special kind of person to pull off wearing a tee like this, and I don’t think I’m that special yet.
Usually, when you see a tee with a joke like this on, you aren’t really expecting much in terms of quality. Facebook are the current over-valued flavour of the month in the web-world, and you’d expect this to be an equally flavour of the month style t-shirt. But its not, the quality level is impressive, its printed on an American Apparel blank t-shirt, and the printing quality feels top notch. Oh, and of course, KosherHam have
their own page on Facebook.
Costiness=$19.99 Tee Link
Whenever I see the term ‘up to 70% off’ in an e-mail from a brand I like I wonder if I’m going to wipe the cobwebs off my credit card and actually buy a shirt or two, rather than just waiting for the sample tees to come to me.
Congrats to Glarkware’s customer service manager Leah on the (early but a-okay) arrival of her first daughter Olivia! It threw our schedule out a bit but now that we are back we’re looking to move our office around and that’s easier when there’s less shirts to move with it! So we’ve set prices really low for the month of July! Check out the bargoons!
* You can snag Glarkware shirts at up to 70% off our regular prices ($6 shirts!)
* 2XL and 3XL at base prices
* Big savings our our entire kids line
* Last chance at many Limited Edition leftovers (at $12!)
* 25% and up discounts from our Friends stores (Cute Overload, Go Fug Yourself, Cho Stuff)
In addition to that we are adding a small 5% discount to top things off. Your discount number is summer-4276t4a
Enter this number in the discount area (on the summary page after you choose a shipping option) and be sure to hit recalculate before continuing checking out! The discount number is good until 11:59pm ET on July 11th.
Please note — sale shipments start July 16th.
I don’t know when they released it, but
the tee in the picture seems pretty apt for this time of year (though admittedly a few days late). It’s a design which has the Declaration of Independence on it, except signed by one of the lesser-known founding fathers, Zartram the Merciless, who wasn’t a human but a “nine-foot alien from an unknown planet from beyond the stars.” Beyond the subtle joke (would you notice it if someone walked past you wearing this?), I really like the idea of putting a historical document on a t-shirt, especially when they’ve done it in a way that doesn’t give it a novelty or souvenir look.
Glarkware
I don’t usually write about the “
Threadless Loves” themed competitions, but I really like the idea behind this one since its so open ended and has a lot of potential. Here’s the blurbage:
TELL THREADLESS YOUR STORY
Threadless, Fray.com, Blurb.com and Stephen Tobolowsky Challenge Designers to Incorporate True Stories Into Works of Art
Community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com is asking designers to turn the true stories of their lives into works of art in its latest “Loves†campaign. To help lead the way, Threadless has partnered up with original, personal storytelling site Fray.com, self-publishing site Blurb.com, and the film Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party, written by and starring famous character actor Tobolowsky (Groundhog Day, Deadwood, Heroes) as he tells fascinating stories from his life on-screen and off.
Threadless, Fray, Blurb.com and Stephen Tobolowsky are giving submitters the chance to prove that extraordinary things happen to ordinary people, and run wild with this challenge; tell their stories through design. The chosen design could become the cover of Fray’s third volume of tales titled “Sex and Death,†so the design must incorporate these two topics into its art.
“Threadless Loves†challenges give designers an opportunity to flex their skills and design to a particular challenge. Challenges are sponsored and supported by companies relevant to the idea. Previous “Loves†partners include Hot Chip, Moby, MTV’s Human Giant, and the Lomographic Society International.
The designer of the chosen true story will also receive goodies from each partner including a personal subscription to Fray quarterly and two additional subscriptions for friends, $150 to go towards a personal Blurb book, an outgoing voicemail message recorded by Stephen Tobolowsky himself, and an autographed copy of Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party DVD and poster. In addition, the designer chosen gets $2k in cash, and of course, his or her design on an awesome Threadless tee.
Deadline for entries is July 23, 2008. For more info on the design challenge and all its partners, hit the links below:
http://threadless.com
http://www.threadless.com/loves/truestories
It’s a pretty cool theme, the first that I’ve got excited over for a while (although the Loves Lomography one was pretty cool).
