Threadless is so yesterday?..
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- differenz
Is skinnyCorp's Thredless finally passé or is it still IN to wear Threadless.
I'm judging from my own experiences here.
I used to order some tees from Threadless back in 2003-2005. They were cool and all but I kinda got bored with them. These "quirky", "wise" and just plain and simple "I'm shouting at the whole world that I'm a designer or am in the industry and in some way connected with the design world" kind of t-shirts became totally ridiculous to me.
I must say they do have some nice tees these days but I'm kind of far from wearing them.
I remember when I used to wear Threadless t-shirts, other (I guess designers) that would wear them all looked at my t-shirt and they knew "I was one of them". It's silly I know .. but that's the truth. Whenever someone is wearing Threadless t-shirt, others (who know where it's from) look at him as if he was God you know; "He bought it there - that same design I didn't want to buy". You go to a design school and almost every single one of them is wearing a Threadless, as if the Threadless factory is behind those school gates.
Isn't that kind of stupid?
My "theory" is not based on pure fiction, others I talked about Threadless t-shirts had the same experience.Exactly that is why I stopped wearing Threadless t-shirts, I felt just about like everyone else wearing them. So that is why I think it's slowly becoming passé.
Thank god we are all created unequal.
To cut the cord here, I think alot of "designers" wear Threadless to make them feel more designerish (non-designers excluded), and threadless became sort of designers statement. You know like, even if you suck at design - others see you wear Threadless and instantly think "Woah he must be a designer.. maybe even a great one"!.
Your opinions.. if any..
- CALLES0
they have a 5$ special right now
- Nairn0
lol
- jfletcher0
I've never ordered a threadless shirt... I'd like to hear about the quality. I've got sucked into Diesel shirts. Really soft.
I haven't seen as many lately as I used to... and I never thought someone was a good designer for wearing them.
- ukit0
I guess I bypassed the era when everyone was wearing a Threadless T shirt to be cool.
- lazerbass0
buying tshirts on the internet is stupid to begin with so i hope people are smartening up. But i think making your own 'art' tshirts by yourself is still cool just everyone without a brain thinks they're from threadless.
- why is it stupid? if you go to stores most of the shirts are lame and over priced.Meeklo
- online you can buy directly from you favorite designer, supporting the industry that supports youMeeklo
- you go to the wrong stores obiviously, try used, tshirts are meant to be sweated in.lazerbass
- the whole ironic weird tshirt came from buying used tshirts and making your own not buying from trendy online internet stores. fuk il.lazerbass
- ...stores.lazerbass
- who said anything about buying from trendy online stores?
Meeklo - see comment number 2Meeklo
- "supporting the industry that supports you"?differenz
- you said, I'm going to the wrong stores.. I say.. I know sites with better deals than the sites you might be talking aboutMeeklo
- buying from your favorite designer directlyMeeklo
- 'supporting artists or buying a good tshirt for 5 bucks? i know plenty of local artists i can buy from without threadless. they make tshirts too.lazerbass
- ....make tshirts too.lazerbass
- I wasn't talking about threadless man! my comment was directed at you saying buying shirts online is stupidMeeklo
- the last shirt I bought from thredless was in 2003, but I buy %98 of my shirts online, just to get original stuffMeeklo
- haha shit - lazerbass = annoyingquamb
- vote for Meeklo on this fightRavdyk
- MSTRPLN0
I wonder if cowboys face the same dilemma when they talk about their jeans.
"you know, these are some pretty good jeans, but I don't know if the other cowboys can distinguish my level of cowboyness from them, what do you think? do you think they make me look fat?"
- Meeklo0
It beats wearing ed hardy/ affliction/ abercrombie ANY DAY
- I'd go naked before wearing any of that shit. Man, you do NOT want to see me naked.dMullins
- hahahaMeeklo
- too late for that... :o(
err what!?!VectorMasked
- dMullins0
I have a "CONFORM" shirt from the original first line or two of shirts, and I still wear it from time to time, just to let bitches know.
But yah, the last Threadless shirt I got was a gift from someone I gave a font to, which he had been searching for quite a while.
I wouldn't buy another probably, unless it was truly great. Most of their stuff is too cheeky and retarded-emo-rainbows-and-unicor... nowadays. Not sure what happened...crowd-sourcing to fledgling hipsters happened I guess...
- Josev0
I bought them early on because I liked the designs. The earlier illustrations were simpler. When I go to that site there are only a few shirts that i would consider wearing.
- francoisfido0
http://www.threadless.com/profil…
(is amazing)
- designbot0
I think it may have started off as something small, and pretty cool for those who knew about Threadless. Now however it's definitely turned into a sort of trendy superstore (like Zoomies). I read an article on the guys who started Threadless, and they are super rich now...which is fine, it just changes the Threadless persona.
I still think they have cool shirts, it's just not the same as ordering from smaller boutique style shops.
- version30
she's got a birthday coming up on the 15th, we should all wish her well
- Meeklo0
you DO NOT want to get caught on the same room with that lady, wearing the same shirt she is wearing..
see?
now I'm considering not buying threadless ever again- ^Meeklo
- why not, afraid it will lower your level of "consumerism cool"?version3
- I dig this http://www.threadles…ukit
- ukit0
Most of them just look like your generic surf/ skate shop T shirt with a snarky graphic on it.
- CALLES0
this shirt was a total success when the pig flu brokeout
- That tat on her neck should be updated to a small pig.designbot
- you mean sars?version3
- pig flu recentlyCALLES
- that tattoo could've been a lot better. placement is off.juhls
- Saw a bulimic looking designer dude at the supermarket wearing that while picking zucchinis. Looked pathetic.VectorMasked
- instrmntl0
i liked nifkin's and jemma's shirts. since then it's gone downhill.
- digdre0
give us a link to a cooler shop then
- lvl_130
there is some okay stuff on there. i own a bunch of threadless shirts, and honestly most of them were bought when they have their $5 and $10 sale. I mean you can't even get a fucking white hanes t for $5 that fits as well as (most) threadless garb, let alone a colored plain t.
i will keep buying them as long as they have their $5 sales. most of the time i don't even give a shit what is printed on them. i usually just pick them out by color anyway...it's justa shirt. a $5 shirt. not a statement.
