Boom, that’s a sensationalist headline!
Yes, sensationalist, but there are more than a few grains of truth to it. Tee Lotto, which I think might be an offshoot of recent daily tee upstart (and advertiser on HYA) 5quidink are going to sell up to 33,333 t-shirts for $12 including shipping, $15 for us shifty looking foreign types, take $3 of each sale and throw it under a metaphorical mattress, and after 90 days, or sooner if they sell out, they’ll give all of those $3s to someone that bought a tee.
Or in other words… it’s a raffle. You buy your t-shirt ‘ticket’ and you might win a decent amount of cash. You can’t actually buy your shirt yet, they become available tomorrow, but I thought I’d let you know ahead of time in so you can be there at the first opportunity in case all 33,333 tees sell out, which I’m sure will happen within a day or two.
I must say that I’m not too impressed with the design that is on the site at the time of writing (maybe they’ll pop something else up when the sale starts), but with a concept like this I think that it’s less about the design and more about the idea.
First off, Worn Again is a damn good name for a company making clothing out of Virgin hot air balloons, admittedly they’re in something of a niche, you can probably count the amount of companies doing that on one
hand finger, but they got there first and they probably got the best name, though of course virginity-pun-based business named are very much welcomed, encouraged even, in the comments.
They aren’t particularly cheap (especially for second-hand fabric!), but they look good and you can’t deny that the idea is very cool.
Worn Again Hot Air Balloon Clothing [via notcot]
They’re only $25 a pop for kids, and adult sizes are in the works too!
Oh, and the company that makes them was founded by an original member of Journey!
Mouthman [via BoingBoing]
Please don’t give me bother about whether it’s spelled Legos or not, I don’t know what the official term is, and really, is it that important when there is such a ridiculous t-shirt to be talked about?
Yes, I think ridiculous is most certainly the word. If this was a t-shirt for kids then I think I could let it slide, but they don’t even sell kids sizes, this tee is intended for adults, well, people old enough that they should be adults by now. Still, Halloween is coming up, so there’s a decent real-world, non-ironic-hipster use for this tee. I guess I’m going a little bit overboard, it is quite a clever concept, but I just can’t imagine anyone actually wearing this.
Costiness=$19.99 Available from Think Geek
