It’s a pink shirt
Yesterday I wore a plain light-pink shirt to uni. I received no less than 5 comments about it.
Two were from girls who said, “Nice shirt” or “I like your shirt”. I think they were serious.
The other three were from male friends of mine who said well-informed, open-minded and educated things like, “Nice shirt you fag”. Like I said, open-minded.
In response to the general theme of, ‘You can’t wear that in Townsville’ the “It’s a pink shirt” was born.
If you’d like one of these shirts (and would like to help keep shirts on Andy’s back, and this site running) please email me. They’re $50 which includes the shirt, your custom print and postage to anywhere in Australia.
Soon I’m going to open a section on the site with other tomandzoe.com t-shirts.
June 8th, 2005 at 11:04 am
I too am ostracised from the world for my metro/pink/salmon choice of shirt.
Even at the metrosexual hub that is UNSW library lawn. Comments and stray eyes find their way to me.
Only colour blind people and friends of ‘the pink’ approve.
Tom… I approve.
June 8th, 2005 at 11:28 am
$50 seems a bit steep.
June 8th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
If you go to a store in Sydney (Surf Dive ‘n’ Ski for example, or General Pants maybe) you’ll find a number of shirts (Billabong ones for example) that are basically the same; with the same stupid logo printed on the left shoulder. Even on eBay they’re $30.
In addition to being fairly lame, these shirts retail for about $50. They aren’t even of particularly good quality. If you go to a designer store on Oxford St, you won’t find a t-shirt for less that $80. If you get a custom shirt, say goodbye to a greenback (that’s $100).
If you want a limited edition custom shirt in your size delivered to your door, then buy one of my shirts. If you don’t like it you can send it back. You also get to support your friends in the process, but that isn’t really what it’s about. These shirts are better.
You also get to have a daily battle with those who think that a t-shirt defines who you are.
From a manufacturing standpoint: I have to go and buy the shirt for you, spend time printing it (about an hour), set the ink by cooking the shirt in the oven, and take it to the post office.
I make about $10 out of the deal, which I was going to give to Andy anyway for the money that he’s put into this site out of his own generosity.
The shirts are $50 for a reason. Do you still think it’s “a bit steep”?
June 8th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
wow!!! settle!! small man.
I’m sure any size you get for me won’t fit me!! hmmm… yes? yes? son?
well yes I thought so
June 8th, 2005 at 2:02 pm
Probably won’t fit into your tight wallet.
June 8th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
My comment is not a reflection on your T-shirt. $50 seems ‘a bit steep’ for any T-shirt. This is simply my view, others may have different views and they are entitled to them.
Thankyou for presenting the facts on the current state of the T-shirt market. You seem to be all over it!
June 8th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
What happened to the invertibrates?
June 8th, 2005 at 6:35 pm
No probably not!
But 4-6ft Lakey Peak for 1 month probably will!
haha suckers.
p.s. yes yes I know I’m going to gaol for the rest of my life with the tonnes and tones of amphetamines I’m going to smuggle in my surf board bags.
So fuck off and stop talking about it!!!
June 8th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Don’t even joke about it!!!
June 8th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
can i get one in red?
June 8th, 2005 at 10:39 pm
Spineless: This is my point.
June 9th, 2005 at 9:25 am
What are ‘invertibrates’ (sic), Spineless?
timtim, no you can’t have one in red, but i could make you a green one that says “It’s pistachio, if you don’t mind!”.
ahahaaa
June 9th, 2005 at 9:28 am
also, the t-shirt was very well received here on campus.
the next one is going to be called “Pre-emptive”. This is because the horizontally striped polo shirt was becoming trendy in Sydney at xmas time. I think that it’s slowly going to become the new trucker cap up here so, I feel that the following shirt would be appropriate.
June 9th, 2005 at 10:07 am
Oh, and Phil.
How much do you spend on t-shirts?
June 9th, 2005 at 11:08 am
I wear shirts
June 9th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
I am sport a ‘Salmon’ Joe the Taxi Driver shirt today. Bout as pink as 1 gets before getting fluro.
Only 2 positive comments:
“I like the pink shirt’ and ‘My you are looking very metro!”
Although many looks have been cast my way. I’m going to take them as HEAVY scoping!!!
June 9th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
Hey Phil, what does that mean… “I wear shirts”? I should hope you do. Are you going to be giving us a guest report from London??
Dunc. It’s def. HEAVY scoping.
Oh, and you boys would be proud of the getting-big-ness that I’ve been doing this week. Been the last 4 days. Legs, shoulders, arms, legs. Come on.
June 9th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
it means nothing - just geeing u up.
I will find out soon if i am going to Old London Town. I think a guest report is needed!
June 9th, 2005 at 4:46 pm
For some reason no-one commented on my blue shirt today, nor do they on any of the other 500 days when I wear a blue shirt - but when I wear what I call my sombre mauve shirt (also called lilac - I just asked people in the office what colour it really is) people say “hey I like your bright pink shirt” and these are ordinary people not uni students - go for it - $50 for original Australian art and creativity. One day it will be worth, oh, $45, or maybe even $40.
June 9th, 2005 at 7:08 pm
Purchased a $100 lilac shirt, then was whipped by mum to promptly return it (it is her $$$ after all).
But it was on sale for $65 when returned it 3 days later. Bastards!
and just to clarify, a better branded shirt (not Quiksilver, Bong, etc) are bout $70!!! stinge!!!
June 9th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
p.s. A pink shirt got the most comments ever on tomandzoe.com!!!
June 10th, 2005 at 7:57 am
“sombre mauve” what a classic!
The “Pre-Emptive Stripes” shirt takes shape:
June 10th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
Kath has a cardigan the colour of which is defined as ’split pea’. As far as I can tell it’s a little on the light side of ‘olive’ but perhaps more subdued than ‘pistacio’. She looks good in it and a friend went so far as to say “Split-pea is really your colour”. Personally, I think ‘kumera’ is the new black.
June 10th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Oh, and Duncs, try the Hinchinbrook page - 66 responses and counting…
June 10th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
Here you go lach:
June 10th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
I like it, although perhaps my screens gamma settings are wrong… I’m seeing poo-brown, Tomo, not the rich, warm orange that I associate with the tasty tubers.
June 10th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
69 comments now small man. It looks more like Mr Hanky Tomass
June 13th, 2005 at 8:25 am
Here it is.
June 14th, 2005 at 9:08 am
Nice shirt. I like the way you’ve had the collar turned up in both the shots - a clear indication as to the intended method of wear. It’ll go well with your faux hawk, Tomo.
June 14th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
and a shell fragment necklace from a street vendor in bali
June 15th, 2005 at 9:28 am
It’s actually turned up because i had to mask it for the stripes. If you want to be a throbber, go ahead!
June 15th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
It’s just a shirt, Man. Get over it!
June 15th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
So… over it. Like, whatever. Collars are sooo this morning!
September 16th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
No apparent connection but here are a couple of T-Shirts being put out by one of the sydney couriers, some of them are pretty funny. http://www.fyxomatosis.com/cgi-bin/pro/emAlbum.cgi?c=show_thumbs;p=TSHIRTS