Retailer PacSun found itself at the center of a Memorial Day controversy on Monday, after a customer snapped a photo of a mannequin wearing a T-shirt featuring an upside-down American flag on the front. The ensuing backlash on social media has led to the chain apologizing, and removing the shirt from its shelves both in physical stores and online. [More]
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Shoplifting Suspect Wearing ‘Won’t Be Caught’ T-Shirt Remains At Large
By 4.29.15
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida want to make sure that the prediction made on a woman’s t-shirt doesn’t come true. The message in huge white letters on her black t-shirt was clear: “Won’t Be Caught,” it said. Unfortunately, she was caught on camera while allegedly scooping up almost $1,500 worth of perfume and cologne bottle at an Ulta store in Tampa. [More]
Dept. Store Sorry For Selling Decidedly Unfunny Rape Joke Shirt
By 9.23.14
There are certain topics that don’t lend themselves to jokey T-shirts, and rape is pretty high on that list. Yet that didn’t stop one department store chain in the Philippines from selling a rape-joke shirt that even the most jaded person would find cringe-worthy. [More]
8 Things We Learned From Planet Money’s Cotton Seed To T-Shirt Project
By 12.4.13
Have you ever wondered about the people who made your clothes? Not just the people who sew the fabric pieces together, but the people who produce the fabric, transport it from place to place, grow or extract the raw materials, and every other phase of creating a single item of clothing? [More]
The Very Long Journey Of A Cotton T-Shirt Before The Fabric Is Even Woven
By 11.21.13
Over at NPR’s Planet Money, they’ve had a dream for a few years now. That dream: to make a t-shirt for their listeners, and sell it to them. Not just to design and make a t-shirt, but to follow the entire supply chain from the cotton farm to the final silk-screening. This year, they finally achieved that glorious and nerdy dream. [More]
All Retailers Should Stack Their T-Shirts This Way Because It’s Awesome
By 10.7.13
This one of those moments when the world seems to actually shift on its axis and the truth beams out through a puffy cloud in the heavens: Everything about the way retailers fold shirts has been completely wrong, and this is the one true path to shopping enlightenment. [More]
Woot Changes T-Shirt Sizing Without Warning, Is Still Totally Awesome
By 4.18.12
Wendy is a fan of deal-a-day site Woot’s shirt-a-day site, and owns quite a few of their shirts. She wrote in with two purposes: first, to warn other people who love the company’s shirts that the sizing has changed, and also to praise the site for sending her out a shirt in the correct size with no fuss. [More]
How A Shirt With 'Made In The U.S.A.' On The Front Can Be Made In India
By 4.12.12
The design on a T-shirt can have very little to do with where the garment itself was made. Today, for example, I’m wearing a Cute Overload shirt that was made by American Apparel and is made of cotton, not from winged hamsters. But Jeremy thought it was strange that a shirt his girlfriend bought at Kohl’s has “Made in the USA” in fairly large print on the front, but was made in India. [More]
Mac Cloner Psystar Sells T-Shirts, Vows Comeback
By 12.28.09
You may not be able to buy Mac clones from Hackintosh-maker Psystar anymore , but if you’re looking to relive those glory days of running OS X on generic hardware, Psystar has a t-shirt for you. And it looks like they even designed it themselves, rather than modifying the fabric of some other company’s shirt so that it would work on their loom. [More]
Database Bug At Woot Leaves Reader Wary Of Ordering
By 10.31.09
Robear wanted to order from shirt.woot, but something strange happened when he went to register. After choosing a username and entering his e-mail address, he noticed that all of the forms were pre-populated with another customer’s information…including that user’s credit card information. He contacted Woot to try to find out what could have happened, but Woot either hasn’t figured it out yet, or just isn’t responding. (UPDATE: Response from Woot below.)
Reckon Offers 12 Months of Excuses, Still No T-Shirt
By 5.5.09
Reckon is a company that sells silkscreened designs of celebrities on various articles of clothing. Seriously, where else can you get a Morrissey onesie? Dan ordered a custom t-shirt with a design of Larry David on it in April of 2008. He’d like to report on the fit and quality of the shirt, but he can’t, because he hasn’t received it yet.
Create and Vote For The New Consumerist Tshirt Slogan
By 3.6.07
Hey kids, let’s make a tshirt! You write the slogans, you pick the good ones. The winning slogan gets made into a tshirt. If we pick your slogan, you get 3 free shirts and everlasting fame and glory.
Kmart’s “Domestic Violence” T-Shirt Irritates Shoppers
By 12.19.06
A shopper at an Augusta Kmart was shocked, shocked to see a children’s t-shirt featuring “two panels of stick figures, with a male figure pushing a female figure out of a box.” The shirt is captioned “Problem Solved.” Shoppers offended by the shirt have been complaining to the manager.
Consumerist T-Shirts On Sale!
By 11.9.06
You voted, a reader designed, and now, The Consumerist T-shirt are available! $20 at Gawker Shop.
Consumerist T-Shirt Prototype Unveiled
By 10.17.06
Hey remember we had that tshirt contest and y’all thought up slogans? Well, we finally beat a draft out of our designer.
Buy A Gawker Shirt Or We’ll Shoot This Euphemism
By 7.28.06
Ever the guardians of commerce, we had to bring your attentions to the latest addition to the Gawker t-shirt stable.
Urbanely Renew Chest Space
By 5.17.06
In a never-ending quest to provide you with attractive ways to shield your body from water, sun and wind, we stumbled across a trove of graphic shirts sure to make lesser t-‘s shiver themselves into threadlessness.
