by Andy on March 20, 2011
PalmerCash (don’t click the link, it’s another auto-generated affiliate link, and I don’t want to earn from a company giving to charity) have a deep connection with Japan by the sounds of it, after the US it’s their second biggest market, and whilst that all sounds a bit corporate, it means that they’ve forged relationships all over Japan with individual customers and hundreds of retail stores (hundreds? PC are huge!). Here’s what they have to say about their range of Japan relief aid tees:
We are hoping to make a big impact with these shirts that can give people a way to donate money, but also show solidarity and support as things hopefully get better over there! We are using the Prefecture and City symbols from the hardest hit areas on the tees so that people can represent a part of Japan that was devastated and also have a nice looking shirt!
ALL PROFITS from the sale of these shirts will go directly to Japanese Relief Efforts! Help us help the people of Japan in this time of need!
Have you noticed something about these tees? They are seriously sexy, those symbols are gorgeous, hopefully that will help people to open their wallets and slap $19.97 on the counter (digitally speaking, of course).
[If you're wondering why this post has come up just a few hours after this one for a
20% off coupon at Simplified Clothing, I actually wrote this post about two weeks ago and forgot to publish it, so here it is!]
When I was in Philly, I actually kind of looked forward to doing my laundry down in the depths of my building, there was something about the domesticity of it that made me feel more like I was living in America rather than just on an extended holiday. But, and here’s the thing, whilst I enjoyed it in one way, there was no way that I was going to do more than 1 washing session a week, so I’d load up two machines set them off on cold, and if I owned anything that didn’t get clean on that cycle, well, it was just going to have to wait until next week when I’d give it another go (well, in extreme circumstances I might soak something in the sink, but that was as far as I was willing to go). Basically, I took as little care over my garments as is possible, a situation that probably came from the attitude of “meh, if I ruin it I’m sure someone will send me a new tee at some point.”* Internet, you’ve made me lazy! (but please don’t stop sending tees)
Costiness=$25 Available from Simplified Clothing
*As I was typing that sentence my brother walked in and handed me a new t-shirt, seriously. [well, at the time it happened, but as I said, this post is a couple of weeks old now, so it's kind of not true now]
by Andy on December 18, 2008
I know that this tee was featured in my “
10 Great Tees from 10 Great Webcomics” post, but that was written well over a year ago, and HYA has more than double the amount of readers since then, so hopefully this tee will be fresh to a lot of you.
In case you hadn’t worked it out, the text on the tee says “Chinese is not my native language”… in Chinese, presumably. Or perhaps they’re throwing us the old switcheroo, and we think it’s funny because of the tee riffing on designers using Chinese and Japanese symbols because they look cool rather than being necessary, and the tee actually says something like ‘ham sandwich,’ which would actually be kinda funny too.
The tee is designed by Dorothy Gambrell, the lady behind the riotously funny webcomic, Cat and Girl.
Costiness=$19 Buy the tee at TopatoCo
by Andy on August 24, 2006
I always feel a bit uneasy when I see clothing that has political meaning, especially if it is Che Guevara or something derivative of him, but sometimes these crazy activists and non-violent freedom fighters actually come up with designs that I quite like.
Bureaucrash have achieved just that, and whilst I may well have picked their least obviously political hoodie, I still think it’s a bit of a winner. The symbols are apparently an ancient expression of liberty, if you’re willing to believe them, the only thing I can promise is that it doesn’t say ‘super homosexual‘. The blurb says that it’s printed on a 50/50 blend, which is usually code for Fruit of the Loom.
Costiness=$29.76 URL
