Enough With the $20 T-shirts

By: HagenDaz | Dec 18, 2007 |  3

Categories: T-shirt Art & Design

I just joined your site and I’m glad to see you are focusing on better quality, organic T-shirts. There are so many sites out there knocking them off for $15-$20 bucks, and most surprisingly, artists willing to put their work on them. I hope this catches on.

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Right on! Think about it people… what percentage of that $15 actually gets to the farmers, laborers and sewers that made it, and what were they forced to do to the environment to get it?

By: Janet
posted: December 19, 2007 at 05:58 PM

$15?? I see lots of printed Tees on sale online for $10 or less. Shop less. Buy better quality. Shop responsibly!

By: Garrrr
posted: December 19, 2007 at 07:37 PM

Actually 20 bucks in other countries of the world is a lot of money. Here in Portugal it is very hard to sell t-shirts with that price.

Nonehteless I think this is a great intiative but personally I can’t afford a t-shirt for 30 or 35 bucks right now (or even later even if I get a good job), that’s the price I would pay for a large jacket or even a pair of snickers.

At the moment these are products not evryone can afford and you have to keep that in m ind before going all against other t-shirt sites.

I also advise you to make some mathematics on that issue of “who gets the money” on those sites, keep in mind that they pay the designer prize and royalties, pay the print, pay the t-shirt itself (most of the brands used on the contests I know have started social and ecological resposability programs) so it’s only normal they expect some profit (and I tell you that it is less than what you imagine, even if they sell thousands instead of hundreds).

Why “artists” (most of them are not artists but illustrators and designers) put their “art” there? Well you have to keep in mind nowadays you need money to even brethe, there are rents and mortgages to pay, food to buy (yes, there are people who skip meals because they can’t afford them, myself included) and in my personal case, school to pay, books to study, materials to buy, etc… What difference do 1000 or more bucks do for these persons?

You should avoid that kind attitude of diminishing people who are not as “ecological” as you because it is not productive, instead you should try to make people see the bright sides of being in tone with good practices and they will get active if they can.

I personally think that there are far greater issues than organic clothing, like excessive use of excessively pollutant cars (I don’t own a car and my usage ratio is less than once a week, use public trasportation instead) and meat consumption (the co2 ammount needed to produce meat is far larger than car pollution).

So I would say that before going all biblical on traditional clothing instead start to walk more, use public transportations and become a vegetarian.

By: menosketiago
posted: December 22, 2007 at 04:15 AM