LaFraise now sell organic t-shirts

Our favourite French t-shirt store, LaFraise, is selling eco-friendly, organic cotton apparel for the first time. Also, free shipping with promo code: ORGANIC. In case you didn’t already know, Indigo Clothing offer a wide range of organic and ethical clothing which can be customsied with your logo.

Messing with CNN Shirt

Tom, Indigo-2’s new lead web developer, has noticed, thanks to the 37signals blog, that you can have fun with the CNN headline t-shirt maker thingy we posted about yesterday!

Getting the point of twitter

Starting to get the point of twitter – some good stuff from those I’m following: CNN Headlines printed on t-shirts on-demand [via tCritic/twitter: karllong] London bike shop Velorution have Bagaboo messenger bags (photos on Flickr) – designed by messengers, very tough, great colours, in stock from £100 [via Velorution/twitter: _velorution] Also, via traditional email this … Read more

Apparently white people like vintage t-shirts

To carry on the vintage t-shirt theme (see last post about 1976 t-shirt from ISO50) I came across a controversial site the other day called “Stuff White People Like” (SWPL). It has been getting an extraordinary amount of media coverage in the US and it seems the reaction it has generated has been pretty heated … Read more

1976 T-Shirt

Vintage t-shirts are still fasionable and as usual Scott Hansen’s newsletter sparked my curiousity, his designs for both t-shirts and posters are so distinctive. This 1976 tee is available in 3 retro designs, printed on the American Apparel Heather Grey Tri-blend; just $23.

Hong Kong Tailor

A trip to the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament left me reflecting on the state of my wardrobe. Despite being involved in the t-shirt printing industry, it does not mean I come into work every day sporting a Gildan Ultra T-Shirt or whatever is lying around the samples cupboard (though I do confess I am … Read more

Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts

As t-shirt lovers, we were excited to see a trailer for a new BBC programme on the subject, called Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, airing on 22nd April 2008! A new four episode series is starting on BBC THREE where six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to make … Read more

British Library

I used the British Library for the first time last Thursday. An incredible building not far from the Indigo Clothing offices and near Kings Cross train station. Did you know they receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland and the collection includes 150 million items, in most known languages? Trying … Read more

Woody Allen sues American Apparel

The famous actor and director, Woody Allen, is suing American Apparel for more than $10m (£5m) after the US clothing company allegedly used his image on advertisements without permission. According to the Guardian newspaper: American Apparel claimed “the image of Allen dressed as a Hassidic character alongside Yiddish text was meant strictly as a social … Read more