Kai, The Informologist

So I discovered the joy of Threadless lately.

Customization of t-shirt has been booming in recent years, with randomized words, phrases, and of course images being printed of t-shirts of all colors. Websites such as CafePress allows you to design not only your t-shirt but your own mug, your own stickers and all that good stuff. Personally, I have been to many online t-shirt stores but none were as high-quality as Threadless, in terms of shirt design (nothing nasty or offensive) or services (including its addictive web features).

How are the t-shirts selected? With established reputation and a good number of customer base, user submitted designs were voted on by other users, and determined by the staff before printing, and those that landed on the shelves are A-class coolio stuff. So send in a design or two if you have the crave!

What other features? Like some of the other e-commerce retailers, there’s the ‘Street Team’ feature that motivates user to promote the shirts to friends and family. If a friend bought a shirt through your recommendation, you get credit for it that you can use towards your future purchases. (Thanks to my host mum, I’d received my first credit!) And if you are inspired to take photos of yourself in that t-shirt you’d just bought from Threadless, you get credit for just submitting the photo and if it were featured – more credit!

I’d just purchased a pair of ‘You Really Grate On Me‘, but I’d to return mine because of sizing issue – I thought I’d fit into a 20, but guess not. So I’m gonna get an exchange for it and just be happily green.

I recommend Threadless for y’ll t-shirt fans out there. And what’s more – everything (excluding da hoodies) is only $10 all the way until December 16th! So shop your hearts away. The only reason that’s stopping me from shopping for more is because of the size, so we’ve concluded that even though I’d hope I’m a medium, I’m not. Now the question is to large or to x-large?