I love T-Shirts. I should wear them more often, but I find myself “neckline challenged”. Guys may think a shirt is a shirt, but for women I think it is a little more complicated. Slim-fitting or loose-fitting, crew cut vs. v-neck vs. scoop neck, what the heck!!! So many choices and the wrong ones make me feel like a 10 year-old boy or a frumpy old woman.
One thing; however, that is never wrong is how witty and utterly hipster T-Shirts are becoming. Anyone can come up with an idea and it will surely (don’t call me Shirley) get printed. I personally love a couple of websites that offer clever yet not-from-Urban-Outfitters-so-the-masses-won’t-be-wearing-them type T-Shirts (black rimmed glasses and corporate angst not required).
Threadless is far from an obscure site, but it has a lot of choices ranging from cute to strange. They have low price points and allows you to accumulate points. So if you photograph yourself with their shirt on, you get Threadless points. If you see a shirt, refer it to a friend, and the friend buys the shirt then you get points. Combine that with following them on Twitter for sale notifications and your new T-shirt is practically free! If you are feeling particularly giving, you can score new designs and help an artist get printed or submit your own designs. Here’s one that I think is absolutely adorable called “We are on the same level” that has been reprinted several times.
The second is of a similar genre with Mis Nopales Art. This California-based designer has an interesting point of view that blends Mexican/Latin American influence seen through his cutesy El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) type characters. He also has, of course, cute animals doing quirky things - mainly various dogs with angel wings and an awfully cute raccoon with an umbrella flying off with a fish under his arm. I’ll be scoring one of these for the boyfriend (aka “the b.f.”).
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