Threadless
30 September 2004, mid-morning
Threadless sells cool t-shirts. I found out about the place through either Dave or Mezan, though I can’t recall who now. I own one t-shirt from the store, titled Monkey Attack. You can see a picture of me wearing it in the gallery now. This picture earned me a “Threadless Point”, which translate into some store credit. If you frequent the site, it may be in your interest to submit photos of yourself in your t-shirts.
Threadless is an interesting idea for a online t-shirt store; essentially Threadless is community driven. People submit ideas for t-shirts, and the rest of the community votes on the designs. Popular t-shirts will be printed, and the creators win money and credit at Threadless for their submission.
I’m a fan of the t-shirts, if only because you probably won’t bump into someone else wearing the same t-shirt as you. Soon I will be the owner of Corporate Zombie and Mmm… Oranges. If you live in Toronto, don’t buy these two t-shirts. Well that is if you and I are prone to bumping into one another.
Other t-shirt sites of some note are: the controversial t-shirt hell, which is probably not safe for work, and the sometimes funny Busted Tees. Now and Zen make some great t-shirts, and I own several. You can buy their wares from Bluenotes if you live in Canada. Their t-shirts usually aren’t as interesting as those from Threadless, but are generally quite funny. My favourite simply has the phrase “I’m like a superhero with no powers or motivation”.
There is a world of interesting clothing out there, so stop shopping at the Gap already.
Oh, and if you place an order, use my name “funkaoshi”, because then I get more points, and I really want them. If I get 20 points I will apparently start getting Threadless propaganda in the mail.
I suppose Threadless is also community driven in its marketing, since I dedicated a whole post to the site, and this post is basically an advertisement. Damn!
by ramanan on September 30 2004, 4:32 am #
I already own corporate zombie! DIBS!
by Dinu. on September 30 2004, 5:33 am #
You son of a bitch. I ordered it over the weekend. We’ll have to coordinate or something whenever we might bump into one another.
by ramanan on September 30 2004, 3:28 pm #
I think I saw you and shima from across the plaza the other day. I think it was yesterday or Tuesday. I waved but you didn’t respond.
I was heartbroken and have cried every half hour since then.
my world is pain.
by Dinu. on October 1 2004, 2:28 am #