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1. SALE!
We’re having a major “end of summer”/ “back to school” / “economic bailout”
sale to help make some room before our next batch of designs show up.
Take a look. Sizes are limited. http://www.thequietlife.com

2. GOOD CAUSE CHARITY T-SHIRT - NEW DESIGN!
A new “Good Cause” charity t-shirt is now available in our online web store.
This season we decided to dedicate our best-selling Fall 08 design - “Sphinx”-
to the cause. http://www.thequietlife.com/ql_store2.htm

“Good Cause” is a continuing program of The Quiet Life’s,
where 100% of our profits from the sales of “Good Cause” shirts will
be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ( http://www.cff.org ).
So it’s a win-win. You get a good design and at the same time help
generate a donation for the CF Foundation. Last season we were able
to donate $6,800 to the foundation - thanks to your support.

Keep an eye out for our entire Fall/Holiday 08 line coming soon…

The Quiet Life

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Do you remember designgive? They’re the guys that sells tees and give part of the proceeds to charity, a process which isn’t all that unusual, but what is unusual is that the person buying the tee gets to decide which charity gets given the donation. Tee designs are donated by artists to ensure that the charities get given as much as possible, but even though the tees are printed on American Apparel blanks they still come in at an extremely reasonable $13 a piece.

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The funny thing about this tee is that its not just worn by Local Celebrities, its worn by actual celebrities, like Hayden Panettiere, American Idol winner (right?) carrie Underwood, Spencer Pratt, Stacey Keibler, Andrew Bowness, and many more. Fair enough, after Hayden Panettiere that list is hardly filled with global megastars (though Pratt may have a good year in 2010 - the year of the douchebag), but its fair to say that when you’re wearing this tee then it does come with some genuine bonafide celebrity credibility.

This tee isn’t a case of green-washing either, I had wrongly presumed that since the rest of the Local Celebrity catalogue was made up of tees that you’re more likely to find in a frat house than a drum circle that this design would have its heart in the right place, but basically just be a regular t-shirt. Happily, I’m very wrong, the tee itself is organic, and proceeds from the tee (I’m not sure how much per sale) go to a charity called Global Green USA, who are apparently Hollywood’s favourite green organisation, and celebrities are always harping on about how much they do for the environment, so Global Green must be good!

As I mentioned in the last paragraph this tee isn’t like the many, many other Local Celebrity tees that I’ve reviewed over the past few weeks (and last year), its organic, which is nice, but it feels exactly the same as a regular tee from LC. I think that’s a good thing, it helps the planet in a small way (or harms it less, at least), and has pretty much no impact upon the feel and longevity of the shirt, everybody wins!

Costiness=$28 Men buy it here/Women buy it here

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Tags » Celebrities • Charity • environment • Environmental • global green usa • green • Local Celebrity • organic • review • Reviews • T-shirts

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I’m really starting to get into Karmaloop’s Daily Loop, the short news show which covers items from the world of streetwear, new stuff they’re selling, technology and regular stories from the news too, basically stuff I’m interested in. I don’t plan on posting it every day, but I liked yesterday’s clip, so here it is, that and any post I write which has “fake Sarah Palin nudes” in the title is blatantly going to be pageview-grabbing-gold!

Video is NSFW for the aforementioned boobies (nothing too graphic though) and some fairly salty language, but you don’t watch videos at work anyway, right?

The Daily Loop 02/10/08

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Tags » bearbrick • Charity • daily loop • hats • Karmaloop • medicom • new era • sarah palin • streetwear • video • videos

In a move that seems almost extremely reminiscent of the Marc Jacobs ‘protect the skin you’re in’ campaign which involved getting as many famous ladies naked as possible, Devilock (whose website is surprisingly NSFW) have teamed with up with Red Ribbon (a charity established by Yahoo! Japan to educate people about AIDS) to create a series of t-shirts to raise awareness about growing rates of HIV in Japan.

Since my love of Japan extends to food, robots, and massive buildings, and not to some of the most famous women in the Japanese adult industry (that I’m going to admit publicly, at least), I don’t recognise the names of any of these AV Idols, but just for accuracy, the ladies involved are: Akiho Yoshizawa, Arisa Kuroki, Honoka, Yuma Asami, and Rio (as I would assume you’ve guessed, some of those links are fairly NSFW). I can’t decide whether its bizarre or brilliant that the women chosen for this campaign work in an industry which is notorious for sexually transmitted diseases, but either way I’m happy that there are naked women on t-shirts and that the proceeds will be going to a good cause.

Apparently the tees are on sale here, but since the site is in Japanese I struggled with it and eventually gave up looking for them. Story and pictures via Wrongwroks & Freshness Mag

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Remember back in late May when I told you about the guys that were hoping to raise $1 million to help with earthquake relief in China by selling 50,000 t-shirts (which was the estimated death toll from the Earthquake at the time when the idea was born), well, it may have taken some time and they may have had to jump over numerous stumbling blocks but the tees are finally on sale, and whilst some people may well describe charity tees as being a badge to show how generous and awesome of a person you are, I’m all for them… because, and you may have noticed this before, I’m all for almost every t-shirt… except this one.

Fifty Thousand T-Shirts

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When you hear the name Miss Do-Gooder and its someone actually describing themselves, you know that person is pretty willing to firmly plant their tongue in their cheek whilst they’re trying to save the world. Miss Do-Gooder, also known as Susan Wildes, started her t-shirt line because she wants to help bring an end to problems that injustices in the world, and she’ll be doing that by giving away part of the profits from the tees she sells. The first issue to be addressed? Animal cruelty. The way that people treat animals seems to have been big news recently, whether its thinking that its fun to watch and bet on animals fighting with each other, finding out how where the meat in your burgers comes from, or trying to give the chickens that end up on our supermarket shelves a better deal (like not having to walk around in their own crap), hopefully this tee can help do some good.

I really like Susan’s idea of making a superhero cartoon character based upon the alter ego that she’s created for herself, and for the character to be so cute makes it a lot easier to like, unlike the time I turned myself into a superhero and just got drunk. The image reminds me of illustrations from Roald Dahl books, which is definitely a good thing in my eyes, and that look of self-satisfaction on the face is totally priceless (actual price $25). Just having an outline print for the blue body and filling in all the other spaces is quite a cool design choice too.

This tee is printed on a 50/50 American Apparel tee. I don’t think I’ve received anything else from the 50/50 range in the past, but I’m sure I own a tee from AA that is a cotton/polyester blend, possibly from some kind of sports/athletic range, that I assume is fairly similar to this in terms of fabric that has lasted really well, keeping its shape and not losing any colour, so I’m pretty sure whichever of my lady friends is the recipient of this tee will be getting a shirt that lasts a long time. The print quality feels pretty decent as well, so a good product all in all. A quick warning to my non-US compatriots, Miss Do-Gooder isn’t quite ready yet for international orders (which makes me receiving one all the more special, I guess), so you’ll have to wait a while to buy a tee, but I’m sure you’d be able to give money to a local charity to help prevent cruelty to animals, or perhaps provide care for animals that have been mistreated in the past.

Costiness=$50 Tee Link

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Here’s an idea that makes you tip your head on its side and go “huh, that’s clever.” Shirts For A Cure wants to fight breast cancer using one of my favourite mediums; the t-shirt!

Rock bands (mostly pop-punk/emo) donate a t-shirt design to Shirts For A Cure, who then sell the tee and give the proceeds to charity. The tees are a very reasonable $12 a piece and I *think* that all $12 goes to charity. The range of bands is pretty impressive too, here’s a little selection from the range of more than 150:

Alkaline Trio
Blink 182
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Midtown
Plain White T’s
hellogoodbye

Those were the ones I thought were pretty notable (Midtown aren’t really that big, but I love them), so clearly this project isn’t just little bands no ones heard of, they’re bands that have large followings, so hopefully they’re raising a boatload of cash for charity.

Shirts For A Cure

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Isn’t it annoying how even with 24 hour news, stories are just forgotten about? I would imagine that a few weeks after being struck by cyclone Nargis, Burma (sorry, us Brits still call it Burma) is still in a pretty desperate state, but do we see anything about it on the news? Nope.

Luckily, the folks over at Brute Labs haven’t forgotten about the Burmese plight and want to do something to help. 100% of the proceeds from this t-shirt will be given to IDE who are hopefully being a lot more successful than some other organisations at getting their aid distributed in the country.

Rumplo have an interview with the designer, Rebecca Shostak, who explains what its all about.

Costiness=$25 Link

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(I thought you’d rather see that nice image from Don’t Panic rather than a bull being killed in the name of sport)I’ve never actually watched a bullfight, but I have visited many arenas where the events are held (I really liked this one). In the south of France and Spain, Roman arenas that have stood the tests of time have been converted from man/man combat to man/beast combat, not much of a change I guess, and in some places you still sit on the same pieces of stone that Romans would have. I don’t think I could ever bring myself to watch a bullfight at one of these arenas, even the blood-coloured sand that can sometimes be spotted on the arena floor makes me feel slightly uneasy.

Luckily, t-shirts are here to save the day again. Don’t Panic (who’re usually more accustomed to printing posters), in conjunction with the League Against Cruel Sports, are running a design competition to find a great t-shirt design for their ‘Balls to Bullfighting’ design. There is no prize for this competition other than having your name and skills associated with what I deem to be a good cause, and also raising money for the cause (all the profits from the tee go to the League Against Cruel Sports), which would probably be prize enough for most of you.

The competition is open from now until July 15th, after which time the top 20 designs will be put on the Don’t Panic site and then judged by a panel.

Check out the current entries and get a more detailed design brief and explanation here.

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