How come you don't have like digital threadclothes for xbox 360 avatars? It might not be a huge revenue stream but it would be another auxilary stream. idk, seems easy enough to do... and it would be a cheaper way to get those select styles few want to pay an arm and a leg for. Think about it.

What ever happen to it? "You're welcome" that is...
I feel like nowadays everybody's trying to out thank each other.

Take the gratitude, no diminishing responses necessary, for once. Make it a regular thing. You'll feel better about yourself...promise*

Was wondering if anybody would be interested in a mystery t-shirt giveaway. I have about 4 dozen graphic t-shirts of varying sizes (m-2x) that I've spring cleaned out of my closet. Some of them from threadless, some of them that soft sheer junkfood style; though most of them are just the standard weight. About half of them have never been worn, others have been worn once or twice, and others have been worn more than twice but are far from worn out. I've done the salvation army/goodwill/ebay/buffalo exchange thing in the past and I thought I'd give this a try just for kicks. All you have to do is pay for shipping ($6 via paypal) and I will pick a shirt at random (in your specified size) and send it to a specified address of your choosing (U.S. only).

Any takers...?

How many (relative) successive prints referencing Star Wars should there be before I get sick of them? Because I would hate to get sick of them prematurely and get chastised or worse yet be sick of them after being sick of them has already gone out of style. If there's a median number I'll hold off until it's been reached but if this is some type of sure fire ego boosting shortcut way to get printed let me know. I would've submitted one a long time ago then...Nah, probably not, but why not just have a Star Wars Loves competition or one week a year dedicated to Star Wars prints. I mean, Tron had a competition and that franchise only has 2 movies...

Did I just totally miss the Threadless update making it okay to submit designs without a t-shirt mock up. I've been seeing designs without them in increasing numbers lately and the mocks do help when evaluating a design. If we were just scoring for wall prints I could understand but...

Is Threadless getting a tad complacent with their choices when it comes to getting printed? Like they're not really taking their time to try and find the really exciting designs. I can understand getting design submissions with redundant and overused themes and styles (even when they are nice) but the Tless judges seem to be slackin' when it comes to weeding through the promising candidates.


Maybe I'm confused. Maybe I'm too picky. Or maybe I've reached my Tless marginally cool t-shirt saturation point. I don't know. All I know is Tless had a black friday sale that was pretty darn reasonable but when I went to checkout there were only 2 shirts in my basket (speaking of which, what's the deal with the 11-15 day processing time on domestic orders). I'm not asking to be wowed by a shirt every week (once a month...maybe?). I just think threadless could do a better job of saying, "yeah this is definitely print worthy but let's hold off on that one and use this one because it's print worthy and has style," or whatever it is that happens to make a design pop.


Forgive me if this has been discussed fairly recently already.

Is it so hard to get your make-up on and done before you start driving; to get up an extra 15 minutes early or wait until you get parked in your jobs parking lot?
I mean, today, did you have to risk your car, my car, injury and/or your death and mine because you can't multitask

Ladies, can you explain yourselves because right now you're getting a F- for your poor performance.

So I recently read this article about threadless (probably like 2 months ago but the article is way older than that) and they were talking about how they wanted to expand into user designed tote bags and coffee mugs like they wanted to be a better cafe press or something and it had me thinking...Would this model work for shoe design?

Sneaker culture is pretty huge these days. And boutique shoe companies are getting way more per shoe than they should. Why not let users choose and design, and keep the number of pairs sold limited cuz sneakerheads are all about those limited editions. I'm not saying have 5 designs every week (i don't think that would be sustainable) maybe 1 new design every month or like 2 or 3 for every fashion season. Just an idea, i don't have details worked out.

I just know the shoe design profession seems like one big secret society, like the illuminati, that nobody wants to share information about for some irrational fear. this is slowly changing though, i believe adidas has a design program for students and recent grads and more schools are given shoe design it's own course curriculum but...hey, this blog is about the business idea not the tangent i just went on.

Feasible? Not feasible?

Is it me or does it seem like everybody wants every design to get printed. I feel people are really afraid to be honest and say "no" and "try again" with maybe an explanation if you so feel like it. For the most part that's not a problem in the slogan area (that's debatable though) but that's probably because of the anonymity of voting.

Now, I'm not saying flood a design page with comments of "this sucks" when it does in fact suck, that would suck for anyone and be damaging to the self-esteem and i know we all are not here for that. I know that's what the critique section is for but let's face it, everybody doesn't use that nor do some people want feedback prior to submission.

We could just leave a "this sucks" zero or 1 vote and be done with it and move on and let the score speak for itself but is it weird to think that a design has way too many positive comments; like $5 and other affirming words are thrown around like the community members are the yes men in someone's entourage.

I guess it doesn't really matter since the "No" from threadless is the only one that really matters and reading what i've typed now, it just resembles nonsense but i'll post this anyway (for a little while) to see if this strikes a chord with anyone.

Any thoughts?

i don't get it. anybody think they can put forth a better explanation because threadless is real good at being abstract (read too vague) with their descriptions...