by Andy on March 22, 2011
It wasn’t so long ago that I was musing over whether Eric Terry’s Linty Fresh had bitten the dust after several months of silence and little in terms of news from his store. Then at the weekend I randomly saw a message about LF belts on my twitter feed, I even retweeted it I was so shocked. Then yesterday came news from Eric that he had released some new tees. He’s back in the game!
Of course, seasoned LF veterans will notice that these designs aren’t new, so what’s the big deal? The shirts are cut to the exact specifications that Eric wanted at a factory he has visited several times in China. Beyond that, the materials are even matching the same pantone colour of the original design, which I think is a really neat trick. The cut is the same dimensions as an American Apparel shirt (good idea), but slightly thicker to make it more durable (which may affect how it changes in the wash compared to an AA tee), and Eric is now using “Japanese fashion ink” which apparently won’t crack peel or fade. I don’t know what Japanese fashion ink is, but all the shirts I’ve received from Japan have good printing, so it’s probably no bad thing. The new shirts are $22.99 each, which is a slight rise on the old tees (I think), but as it is all custom I can see where the extra costs come in.
Hopefully soon we’ll start seeing new designs from Linty Fresh.
by Andy on March 15, 2011
I’ll preface this article by saying that this is blind speculation, I’ve seen something and it made me wonder.
A few days ago over at Cottonable there was a post about t-shirts going on sale at Linty Fresh for $14.99 (which may or may not be news, it could have been this way for a long time). All the shirts there are $14.99 except for the most recently released tee, Ukulele Kid, which remains at $19.99. If this were any old tee company I’d post that and leave it, great designs on sale, what’s more to want?
Well, I want to know what has happened to Linty Fresh, and if this sale is just a way of clearing out stock before LF shuts down for good. The brand was growing at a decent rate, everyone loved Eric Terry (the brands founder) and followed him on his journey to China, where I believe he still lives. It’s entirely possible that he’s fallen in love with his new life in China, or perhaps it’s a struggle to communicate through the regular channels due to the Great Firewall of China, but it seems strange that someone that was so embedded in the t-shirt community would just just fall completely silent and abandon the brand that he spent so much time and energy building.
Has anyone heard anything from Eric? It would be good to hear what he’s up to and why Linty Fresh appears to be a zombie brand now (still in business as the tees stopped being shipped by Eric when he moved to China, but with no new information).
by Andy on March 29, 2010
You guys know me, so you know I love t-shirts, travel, and food. So in this interview you can expect me to ask Eric Terry, the man behind Linty Fresh, about his clothing company, what life is like in China now that he has lived there for almost a year (with a bit of a break in the middle), and what weird stuff he’s eaten. I don’t really feel like Eric or his company need an introduction since they’re such a regular feature on HYA, putting out lots of great designs, and being something of an inspiration for the tee community, so we might as well get straight into it.
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by Andy on March 23, 2010
Everything is on sale (I think) at Linty Fresh from now until some point in the future. Tees are $14.99 and hoodies are $35, go! go! go!
by Andy on February 25, 2010
I know this hoodie has been out for a while, but The Most Fantastic Things is one of my favourite Linty Fresh designs, and lets be honest, I don’t post enough hoodies on the site nowadays. The design is also available as a tee in quite a few colourways.
Costiness=$35 Buy it at Linty Fresh
by Andy on November 27, 2009
Not exactly a huge BF offering from
Linty Fresh, but as Eric is in China trying to run the American side of things and get the Chinese arm of LF up and running I’ll let it slide. It had taken me until last week to realise why Eric had stopped tweeting and blogging, I’m pretty sure that Twitter and blogspot (the old LF blog host) are banned in China, and whilst there are ways around everything, it’s probably for the best that Eric doesn’t try and test the lenience of the authorities, even if he is just tweeting about how good of a time he’s having there.
He has got a ‘proper’ blog now, not hosted by blogspot, so you can keep up with the weird stuff he’s been eating that way.
