Profile for BearOnFire - Threadless on the cover of the Chicago Tribune Magazine!

BearOnFire aka Brian is a 20.68 year old boy, has been a member since September 9, 2005, has scored 1179 submissions, giving an average score of 3.43.

Sep 10 '06 by BearOnFire

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Threadless on the cover of the Chicago Tribune Magazine!

I'm sure there's an article buried in there somewhere, too. I'll get a picture later.

melston on Sep 10 '06 at 9:48am

Click here.

There is another, but it wouldn't let me open it.

Tialys on Sep 10 '06 at 9:58am

Interesting read. Great find!

death by crayon on Sep 10 '06 at 9:59am

Oooh. I'll have to go check it out when I go upstairs.

Tialys on Sep 10 '06 at 10:14am

http://digg.com/design/Threadless_com_Featured_in_Chicago_Tribune

Help me out if you use digg!

skyash1588 on Sep 10 '06 at 10:29am

its says jefferey kalmikoff when to buffalo grove high school.
I WENT TO BUFFALO GROVE HIGH SCHOOL!!

death by crayon on Sep 10 '06 at 10:31am

I'VE HEARD OF BUFFALO GROVE HIGH SCHOOL!

skyash1588 on Sep 10 '06 at 10:33am

really, where are you from?

kypade on Sep 10 '06 at 10:33am

" The all-time best-selling Threadless shirt certainly isn't cute. Called "Flowers in the Attic," it depicts a svelte young woman shooting herself in the head, causing birds to fly out. The company has sold 30,000 already, compared to a typical first printing of 1,200 shirts, and is printing another 10,000 for the holiday sales rush."

that's kinda fn depressing.

abeadle on Sep 10 '06 at 10:33am

they cost $4 to make.

death by crayon on Sep 10 '06 at 10:34am

Near Joliet

skyash1588 on Sep 10 '06 at 10:35am

ok, i know where that is.

kypade on Sep 10 '06 at 10:38am

that's a great article, though, really informative.

Tialys on Sep 10 '06 at 10:42am

Make sure you digg it!

Here!

BearOnFire on Sep 10 '06 at 10:55am

I GO TO BUFFALO GROVE HIGH SCHOOL!!! :D

SicK PuPPy on Sep 10 '06 at 10:56am

thats an awesome article! Enjoyed reading it, does anyone think threadless will start dying ou tin the nearish future beacause of its growing popularity making it lose its appeal?

skyash1588 on Sep 10 '06 at 10:58am

bear, how old are you?

yion072 on Sep 10 '06 at 10:59am

I didnt know threadless turned down target and urban. That makes me love them more =)

BearOnFire on Sep 10 '06 at 11:06am

i'm 17.48 (according to T-less). I'm a senior.

skyash1588 on Sep 10 '06 at 11:08am

oh yea, i could have looked that up myself. duh.
i just graduated last year.
glad to be out finally.

loserbeech on Sep 10 '06 at 11:32am

'Coudal boils the Threadless idea down to a slogan that might work on a T-shirt: "If they come, we will build it."'

Next Type Tee, anyone?

Prexis on Sep 10 '06 at 11:37am

the shirts are selling out too quickly without all this publicity

WallsReallyWork on Sep 10 '06 at 12:59pm

holy crap, cody petruk is threadies?

rockslide, you tricky bastard, i never knew! or maybe im just iout of the loop

Radioactivejosh on Sep 10 '06 at 1:12pm

I'm glad they turned down Urban and Target, too. ESPECIALLY Target. I couldn't even imagine. The article hit it right on point, we don't just buy the shirts for the design, but for the story, the meaning, the explanation and the excitement of new prints. It all plays a factor. If I didn't read the explanation of Poet-Trees and I just saw it in Target, it would mean nothing to me. Even if i saw Pandamonium, I would probably think it was cute, but just the fact that it was at Target, i don't know, it would just feel very different. If they went to Urban I wouldn't be as sad as Target, but still sad. I LOVE when i see people with threadless tees, because i feel like I know them. They understand the shirts, they visited the site and browsed and saw something they liked. They weren't just trying to be trendy and went into Urban Outfitters ad bought a tee shirt they saw. Threadless tees have a lot more going into them than just buying them. I'm not that surprised they only cost $4 to make. Does that factor in their payroll and everything? Also the bills for the building and the machine cost? I assume it would, just an avg price of the money going into ashirt. Hm. I'm pretty shocked about Flowers In The Attic, also! I never bought it because i'm just not crazed about it. Maybe I just don't understand the meaning? I do see some meaning but its not anything that really makes me say "i NEED that!" Thanks for posting the article.

Outlaw01 on Sep 10 '06 at 1:21pm

I'm interested to see "The Suit" one day.

flourpower on Sep 10 '06 at 1:36pm

I didn't know they turned down target and UO! I hate to sound elitist, but thank GOD. I buy stuff at target sometimes, but I'd hate it if threadless was just a target brand. And with UO's history of stealing designs from small artists and popularity among trendwhores, I'm v. glad threadless didn't sell out to them.

zimfreak on Sep 10 '06 at 1:37pm

It's birds, not butterflies.

zimfreak on Sep 10 '06 at 1:38pm

LOL walls, you didn't know?

BearOnFire on Sep 10 '06 at 1:40pm

you mean butterflies, not birds?

MadTheologian on Sep 10 '06 at 1:47pm

Yea on turning down Target and UO. But a huge boo to rerereprinting Flowers in the Attic.

Jennifurret on Sep 10 '06 at 1:56pm

Yay for the threadless folks being region rats!

I'm from Munster, btw, for anyone in the area.

Outlaw01 on Sep 10 '06 at 2:01pm

I work at Target... and if I was working one day and saw that we sold Threadless tees -- I would have quit that day.

BTW. My mom just walked in and handed me the Chicago Tribune with Threadless on the cover. I was like "Yeah, I already know".

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