Shirts for the People
I enjoy people watching. In the summer, I see hundreds of creative T-shirts with an amazing variety of images and messages. At a recent conference I attended, Paul Fromberg of San Francisco wore a couple of the most intriguing T-shirts I have ever seen. He said they came from an interactive web site called. Threadless. Threadless hosts an ongoing T-shirt design competition. Using templates provided on the site, anyone can submit a T- shirt design on line. The designs are pictured and submitted to a public vote. Winners get $2,000 for their designs, which are printed on shirts and offered for sale on the site. Purchasers are encouraged not just to write their responses to T-shirt designs in the blog area of the site, but also to send in photographs of themselves in Threadless shirts. A T-shirt of the month club is available for folks with a sense of adventure. According to Wikipedia, “the Threadless community favors artistically provocative and humorous designs. Designs can range from political and personal opinions to abstract or surrealistic.”
Threadless shirts come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but they are printed in limited batches. When shirts are sold out, customers can “vote” to request a reprint. New shirts are released on Mondays, so check out the site then.
Kathleen Capcara
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Great website--thank you for sharing it with me. Sue