An estimated 2 billion people around the world will tune in to see the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Here are a few T-shirt designs you could wear while waving the Union Jack and watching the royal nuptials. Don’t forget to download your free royal wedding program here.
Folding your t-shirts can be a real pain. And, if you’re like me, you may not even know how to “properly” fold your t-shirts. Instead of that fancy “department store fold–as I like to call it–I usually just end up folding them right down the center leaving that unsightly crease over the length of my torso. Yeah, I could always build one of those t-shirt racks I recently posted about, but even then I would still have plenty of t-shirts left over in need of folding.
T-Shirt Folding Boards: Buy One, or Make One
Some of you might have seen one of those “professional” t-shirt folding boards–like the FlipFold (pictured right)–on a late night infomercial. Such a device will definitely make folding your shirts much simpler, but can be relatively expensive. If you have some spare cardboard boxes, a ruler, some duct tape, and a pair of scissors, you can just make your own! Check out this video to show you how.
The Japanese Folding Method: Fold Like a Ninja
Of course, there is another method worth trying that requires no additional equipment at all! The video below demonstrates an amazing folding trick that originates from Japan. It requires some practice to get the hang of it, but it’s a pretty impressive and effective way to properly fold your shirts.
Antique oil cans arguably feature some of the best graphic design ever created. Coming in a close second are the logo designs of vintage automobile and motorcycle manufacturers. The bold use of font and simplicity of colors compose a striking aesthetic. I found 12 of the best t-shirt designs featuring motorcyle manufacturers or motor inspired logos.
Show your “green” side and wear an organic shirt today – after all, it is Earth Day. I wanted to show you some different brands and styles of organic shirts we carry and talk about what exactly organic cotton is and why it is important to use.
Our most popular organic shirt is the 2001 organic by American Apparel. It has a fashion forward fit you expect from American Apparel but made with super soft organic cotton.
Another company that is a player in the organic market is Anvil. Anvil has introduced numerous products to help reach their goal of conducting business that positively influences the environment. The OR420 is their 5 oz., 100% organic cotton “go-to T”.
In recent years, as the general population has become more environmentally-conscious, many “green” habits have taken to the mainstream. One such example is the proliferation of reusable grocery bags–a simple, but effective way to reduce waste and our reliance on non-degradable plastics. Continuing our anticipation of Earth Day 2011, I’m going to show you how you can jump on the reusable bag bandwagon without having to buy any of those expensive store-branded bags sold at the store.
As detailed in my previous post, The T-Shirt Lifecycle, some t-shirts inevitably fall out of our rotation for one reason or another. There’s no need to throw such a shirt away! Why not use it to create reusable grocery bag? Oh, and did I mention there’s no sewing required for this? That’s right. In this segment from NBC’s Today Show, author Jodi Kahn shows you how to complete this project with no more than an old t-shirt, a roll of duct tape, and common office stapler.
For more ways to recycle your old t-shirts, check out our previous post Earth Day 2011: Repurpose Your T-shirts.
Earth Day 2011 is coming up this week – April 22nd, so I’ve been thinking about ways to reuse t-shirts whose fashion services are no longer required. As posted earlier in the blog – there are ways to juice up that old boxy t-shirt into a more flattering, girly garment, but some of us (me) aren’t too crafty or should even be trusted with scissors. So I dipped over to Etsy.com to see what the more talented humans have come up with in terms of repurposing and reusing t-shirts. Here are a few cool things I found:
Recycled T-shirt Scrubbers
Rugs Made From T-shirts
T-shirt yarn being woven into a guitar strap:
Dryer Sheet Replacement Sachets:
Dog Clothing:
Hey – if you’re not the crafty-type, most these folks take custom orders – and will accept YOUR t-shirts to purpose for your very own commissioned custom item. If you can’t do it – you can certainly hire one of these good people who can.
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