The clothes should be free if they include advertisements.
Yeah fuck everybody that wants to know where you got a quality shirt!
I feel the same about a lot of products, especially cars lately (in Europe). Huge brand symbols and some even light up. What’s next RGB? Having a huge brand logo on something feels… cheap.
I feel just as passionate about plastic bags. I make sure never to take the correct one to the store I’m visiting.
Interestingly enough, the German big 3 usually offer debadging in terms of model and engine size as a free option and it seems most people take it unless they want to boast that it’s an M5 or something AMG. But that’s just to hide that they have a 2.0 diesel I think. Nobody offers their cars without the actual logo though, as far as I know. I suspect most buyers don’t want to hide that it’s a BMW, only that it’s a 520d with an M-sport package rather than an M5.
I’m glad whoever made this did such a good job censoring out the brand, I might have thought it was subtle advertising otherwise.
Yeah, I thought about turning face down, but I wasn’t sure it would be clear what I was doing. So, this is how I chose to do it. I did think about the irony.
Yeah I’m sure the kids will be flocking to the Wrangler store after seeing that Lemmy post, it was definitely worth their marketing execs developing such a sneaky ad campaign
/s
What’s fucked up about this world is that here we are, discussing the brand, using the name, leaving a footprint on a public message board. It is not even remotely unrealistic in this new reality that you could actually be in the employ of the company who manufactures this clothing to engage me with this “sarcastic” response (and you might not even be a real person). That’s what the Internet has become: unlimited marketing opportunity where no mention of your identification is worthless and no press is bad press.
Of course, you could also just be a sarcastic human pointing out that you think this is an idiotic comment. This is one of the reasons why it works so effectively. I can’t really make a judgment about what is true here and neither can anyone reading it.
All I’m doing is just pointing something out: if they wanted to censor the brand… why didn’t they? Because they didn’t. They pretended to. Barely. It could just be a sloppy OP, but obviously I don’t think so.
Just because not everything is a conspiracy doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
BIG upvote from me. i do exactly this. especially when it’s prominently placed.
i bought a blank product, i want it to look blank. a logo is aesthetically jarrinf, it’s like it breaks the plain design.
i even go the effort of buying blank 59fifty baseball caps ans painstakingly use a thread ripper to remove the “new era” logo.
I share the same sentiment towards corporate. I’d also remove/conceal big brand logos like this when I can, or I’d shop for things without visible logos to begin with.
I do, however, like to wear band merch. Bands that are just as happy to see me as I’m happy to see them. People I can go and talk to at the merch stand. People who, funded through merch and shows, will have the means to record another album.
I’m a band shirt guy as well. Only beef I have is so many of them are Gildan and feel like a burlap sack. Sometimes I’ll buy the shirt, and then steal the design and print it on a shirt of my choosing. Kinda like ripping a DVD I own to keep digitally. It’s fine. It’s fine!
Yeah, I wish there were more higher quality shirts out there, even if the price is higher, but I’m personally fine with Gildan too.
Going the DIY route, which method you’re using and are you happy with the results? I’ve tried DTG before and it’s fine at first, but it starts to deteriorate after some time. I haven’t tried screen printing (ordering a design by myself), but I’ve heard from a friend of mine who does merch that it’s just not cost effective for a one off.
My wife does Cricut but she also orders from Ninja Prints from time to time, and she heat presses. The majority of band shirts I get aren’t built to last, and so these end up kind of on par with those. The sublimation prints come out a little nicer, but my wife’s gotten pretty handy with her machine thing and has put together some decent enough designs. Sometimes I’m able to find her BMPs or PNGs, and if not she can vector JPEGs. But this was something she was into and doing and then I was like hey, while you’re at it.
If you have access to the equipment, yeah, by all means go for it.
I thought I was the only one who did this!?
Let’s not forget, putting a foss-related sticker over the Windows/Super key.
I replaced mine with an “any” key.
where’s my Tab?
Funnily enough I have opt | start there, with start not being common on Windows keyboards (the opt is from Mac keyboards though). I got the Mac version of the Logitech MX Keys because I didn’t want to see any windows logos lol
Good thing you really censored that logo so no one will know it’s wranglers you’re advertising for in this post.
Well, you’re the only one who typed out the name for the search engines to find.
Didn’t know how to do this without showing the tag. If I really meant to advertise for them, I wouldn’t have censored at all, right?
I just buy plain color t shirts to begin with, this looks like a lot of work and risk nicking the fabric. Plus, they’re cheaper, too.
Plain t shirts that aren’t garbage are difficult to find.
Mmm one would think there would be some way to tell the quality manufacturer from the shitty ones. How would that work right? Would they put on a little tag to make it easily identifiable? No no that’s fuckin crazy
Ps wrangler specifically sells the same workwear shirt with no tag for printing, you just gotta order it from the website by request.
I get shirts from tshirtwholesaler.com, there may be a hyphen in there somewhere. My preferred t-shirt is next level 6210, fantastic shirt, soft, great fit. There’s a couple other companies I like too.
Anyway, the whole point of this is I buy like a dozen or 20 shirts, they end up costing like 4 or 5 bucks a pop, max, and I wear them til they die. They’re in various colors. Sometimes my wife will press some odd design onto them with her Cricut and whatnot.
I’m a big fan of band tshirts, but the majority I find are terrible quality shirts with sometimes just a generic logo. So I like to get creative with a shirt of my choosing.
Website seems to be t-shirtwholesaler.com, gonna keep that in my back pocket for later, thank you!
Bookmarking that, if you don’t mind me asking do the sizes run pretty standard?
I’m sorry, but I can’t accept that much responsibility. I’m 5’8, guy, pretty average build, and the NextLevel 6210 comes about mid biceps, and probably an inch or so below my belt line. It fits me great.
There are decent enough sizing charts on the site, IIRC. I’m the kind of guy who buys the same shoe for the past 25 years, so when I find something that works, that’s it, forever.
Makes sense, what size did you order at 5’8 if you don’t mind me asking
Large.
Uniqlo
I buy mines on Amazon, I restock every black Friday, between 6 and 8 euros, depending on the color/sale.
I also wear a lot of merch t-shirts, but if I get a free t-shirt I find the advertising fair, and it’s usually for things I like anyway.
It’s really easy and takes like five minutes. Everyone should have a seam ripper. Not just to remove brands but also annoying tags. Also I imagine most on lemmy don’t care about this, but if you buy a suit coat/blazer/whatever you’ll need a seam ripper to open up the pockets.
I don’t know, it takes 0 minutes and 0 dollars in tools to buy a t-shirt without branding. Plus the t-shirt itself is cheaper.
speaking as someone who modifies clothing and sews patches and fabric and stuff a lot, sometimes for work, thread rippers are surprisingly elegant for this sort of thing
Nice. Fuck branding.
But how else will anyone know i hold credit card debt in a fancy bag purchased simply to carry my credit cards?
"I drop my kids off in thr vehicle that could’ve paid for their college! It only costs me 2 years of potential retirement savings! Maybe I just felt like I deserved a Benz!
- someone
I do this with wrangler too, I actually appreciate they make it simple to remove, instead of stitching it into a seam. Wrangler makes the only 100% cotton lightweight work/cargo pant that I can find. The rest are synthetic.
carhartt b01!
Yeah I own a few pair of those. I’m saying wrangler has the only lightweight ones I can find in 100% cotton. Carhartt are the heaviest weight I own.
ah okay, yeah for me they are light enough, but my comparison is even heavier denim stuff. the japanese hipster stuff.
Japanese type censoring I see
I wonder what it was!
Wang-ler
I thought this was only done because of sensory issues lol
My sensory issue is that I hate sensing advertisements.
Around 2000 sort of time I bought some baggy jeans with “coca cola” on the back pocket. In the shop I thought this was great. I wore them once then realised why the fuck and I’m wearing these. Never wore them again.
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