Charming City T-shirts

This blue Sharp Shirter t-shirt was, er, a hit at a weekend luau we attended in Bethesda… I was dressed appropriately in a faux lei and flowery shirt (albeit in gloomy black-and-white) but for others, this new acquisition from a booth at Artscape was too tempting to leave in a drawer. Sharp Shirter owner/designer Dan [...]

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I Vote for Fuzzy T-shirts

Anna and I made these rocking t-shirts in honor of our voter registration drive at Artscape this weekend. We are on the lookout for youngsters not registered, and oldsters with changed names and addresses–and any sleepy-eyed people just waking up to the need to rock the vote big time in 2008. (If you match any [...]

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Retro Tees Doing Good

Two impulses divide me. There’s the style bug that compells me to buy stuff, cute stuff, like an 80s-violet Marc by Marc Jacobs t-shirts, and a pair of distressed jeans that look like hand-me-downs but cost $319.
Then there’s the internal admonisher saying those three Benjamins will do a lot more good in the hands of researchers working on the [...]

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Wear the block on your sleeve

People wear their heart on their sleeve, so why not wear our block?  I was reading a TrendWatch brief about companies using their customers to create “status stories” and saw this new Dutch fashion company is making techy t-shirts.  You point your phone at this logo on the shirt and it opens up a site on your [...]

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