hand-painted tshirts and apparel woes

[cimorene]

Here's the silver fluffy heart shirt I painted for myself (freehand sponge-painting) and here's the bleeding metal heart shirt I painted for Wax (with a freehand-cut stencil).

I really want to make some shirts that say 'I <3 tea' and 'Make tea not war' and I'm thinking also something with a stencil of an antique teacup, but I'm getting tired of Because, dude, at any given time they're just as likely to have, like, three colours as to have a full range¹. Then I remembered that Threadless's women's shirts were until recently printed on American Apparel, and looked them up to discover they ship about 50 different colours from Germany. Now I'm dying for some, even though they end up costing about 5 times as much after shipping. But really, those colours!

In other apparel news, I discovered yesterday that the difference between my jeans (all of them)² and the little girls' size 170 is 1 cm of length and ½cm in the waist, 20 bucks vs 40 bucks! I could get duplicates of my black skinny jeans in red, white, a number of pastels, or several colours of denim for 20 bucks each. On one hand, it's a little exasperating to fit children's clothes all the time most reliably (especially for shirts - boob seams, or in technical language, bust darts, are the bane of my flat-chested existence), but on the other, the children's are always cheaper.



1. According to the website the current line has yellow and hot pink for women, pastels for girls, and navy, crimson, and army green for boys. Why yes, the gender division is sickening!

2. Women's size 27/32, and I have a few pairs of Star and a pair of Sqin, both of which styles they make for little girls as well.

Comments

[futureperfect.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you'd be interested/how much the procing would be, but I was at the Jay Jays (http://www.jayjays.com.au/) "clearance" store in DFO tonight, and they have plain t-shirts (with the good kind of not-ribbing, fine fabric that I've found tend to take paints well) where it's 3 for $10AUD. I'm just trying to remember what colours there were, but I think there was a good range - particularly pastel/lighter colours & black - not like AA of course, but not so bad. I don't know what the sizes were like due to it being a bargains table, but you know, if you wanted me to suss it out I probably could?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is good - even cheaper than H&M - but of course, shopping clearance is always the best. I'm sure a plain coloured cotton shirt only costs like 1 buck to make unless it's like, organic and made in a developed country. On the other hand, Australia is just as far away from here as the US is!