T-Shirt Times

It was the talk of the town and the nation when Texas Governor Rick Perry made comments last week at a anti-tax day protest about the ability of Texas to possibly secede from the union.

Perry said outside of Austin’s city hall April 15th, “You know my hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb its nose at the American people, who knows what may come out of that.”

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March 24, 2009 06:30 PM EDT

The Madison County woman who was arrested for wearing a John McCain t-shirt to the polls last November returned to court Tuesday morning to see the case dropped.

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Yes, Burger King is using t-shirt art to show that they are cool.

Check it out:
http://www.burgerkingstudio.com/blog/

Don’t miss the online design studio at:
http://www.burgerkingstudio.com/2008/10/29/want-to-make-a-hand-screened-shirt-at-home/#comment-63

Hip or crap? You call it.

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HAMPTON - Phish hasn’t played on tour in nearly five years, but it’s already trying to establish a new tone for its concerts.

The band wants to crack down on the hawkers who sell the band’s merchandise without permission.

Phish — the Vermont-based rock band kicking off a reunion tour at the Hampton Coliseum this weekend — wants a federal judge to bar the sales of bootleg T-shirts, hats, jackets, posters, calendars, books and numerous other items bearings the band’s name and trademarks.

"Since the inception of Phish’s popularity in the 1990s, Phish’s concert tours have been plagued by individuals who sell unauthorized merchandise near, at and sometimes inside a concert venue," says the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newport News by Phish’s attorney, Amy G. Marino of Williams Mullen in Richmond.

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Calling all scrappy artists looking for a fight!

There is a new t-shirt design competition.

Here are some excerpts from an email we recieved…

Normally we have weekly cash prizes of $500, but to celebrate our site launch on March 5th, our first contest will be two weeks long…and the winner receives a whopping $2009!  Plus, we’re going to leak the first contest theme 5 days early to those who sign up at www.shirtfight.com before launch!

•We’ll always keep our community priority #1.  We’re nothing without you guys!  That’s why we’re going to keep the lines of communication open, constantly ask for your opinions and feedback, and do what we can to make this the most artist-focused t-shirt design competition site out there!

•We want to keep the individuality and the uniqueness for our community (the artists *and* the customers)…and to achieve that we’re never going to carry more than 21 shirts at any given time.  It drives me nuts to see hundreds of pages of shirts on a site…it’s like being lost in a sea of tees!  By showcasing the very best designs, we get to focus everyone’s attention to the talents of the artist.  Plus, if we only carry a select number of designs at a time, this eliminates the “Damn, everyone is wearing a Threadless t-shirt!” syndrome.

Looks like a site worth checking out… www.shirtfight.com

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Présentation : Anyone who has honestly reflected on what they know about hiring, will tell you that no matter how locked-down you think you have it, you dont. There is still way too much left to chance and way too much that you just dont know. To avoid this, companies that care about preserving their culture will sometimes adopt a "default deny" approach. It’s ok to miss a potentially good hire rather than to take on a bad one. This isn’t silly geek risk aversion.. It’s because one bad hire can do amazing damage to a culture (an area bad hires can be amazingly productive in). We have been hiring and interviewing people for about 7 years and have learned many lessons along the way but without fail, the one that works best for me, is the T-Shirt test. The T-Shirt test is simply to ask yourself: "how will i feel standing at a conference, with this guy next to me wearing my company T-Shirt". If you don’t like the thought, you shouldn’t make the hire.

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Someone is seeing red:

The New York Newspaper Guild has filed two unfair labor practice charges against Thomson Reuters, saying the media company unfairly barred workers from their long-standing practice of wearing red union t-shirts to show solidarity during labor contract negotiations.

Full release after the jump.

Thomson Reuters Hit by Unfair Labor Charge
Employees See Red Over t-Shirt Ban

New York, Feb 3, 2009 – The New York Newspaper Guild has filed two unfair labor practice charges against Thomson Reuters, saying the media company unfairly barred workers from their long-standing practice of wearing red union t-shirts to show solidarity during labor contract negotiations.

The Guild’s charges to the National Labor Relations Board said Thomson Reuters Corp. (NYSE: TRI, TSX: TRI, LSE: TRIL, NASDAQ: TRIN) violated federal labor law by banning only Newspaper Guild t-shirts and by implementing a dress code without bargaining with the union as required.

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T-Shirt Hell, the infamous online purveyor of obnoxious casual wear, is going out of business because its owner doesn’t "feel like dealing with idiots anymore."

The site, which sells T-shirts with charming slogans like "Tickle my fancy testicles" and "It’s not gay if you beat them up afterwards," generates tons of hate mail, according to site operator Sunshine Megatron. In an obscenity-laced goodbye screed posted Monday, he claims that he’s misunderstood, and rants that he "can’t take the stupidity anymore."

"Rather than cater to the masses, I’m just going to stop making shirts," Megatron writes. "It’s not enjoyable anymore and I have enough money to move on to something more rewarding. Maybe I’ll start my own hooker farm."

Megatron says he won’t sell the 8-year-old business, which he claims still sells 3,000 T-shirts a week despite the recent economic downturn, because no new owner would do the concept justice.

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"Travels of a T-Shirt" author

From Pietra Rivoli.

I once had a faculty colleague whose clothing supply chain ended at his back fence. Harry and his wife Priscilla raised angora goats on their farm not far from Washington, and at certain times of year they would shear the goats, and then spin the wool into yarn and knit it into clothing. This was more than 20 years ago, and while Harry and Priscilla in one sense lived a step back in time, in another sense they were early pioneers in the enthusiasm for all things local that has gripped western consumers today.

I saw a sheep shearing once, and I do not need to see it again: The sheep not only tried to bolt but made blood-curdling noises as the buzzing razor approached. The sheep were clearly unhappy to give up their clothing to have it turned into someone else’s. The supply chain was not pretty, and I’d just as soon not think about it.

For most of us, of course, our clothing is the product of a global supply chain: the sheep or cotton plant might be in one country, the yarn spinners in another, and the weavers or knitters and sewing machine operators perhaps in a third or fourth. While as little as 25 years ago most of this activity took place within a country’s borders – often within a single vertically integrated firm – today production is instead the result of fluid global networks.

Much of the anti-globalisation sentiment of the past decade has been directed at these global networks, whose activities are often described with the politically charged term of “outsourcing.” While perhaps 10 years ago the anti-globalisation movement seemed to be a fringe element, public opinion surveys today show that skepticism about international trade is a widespread and growing “main street” phenomenon.

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