Hair – there’s a shirt for that. Depending on where you find it on the body, some people love it, others hate it; many shave it, others let it grow. Chops, dreadlocks, perms, mullets, chest hair, moustaches, afros, comb-overs … there are plenty of great hairstyle names. Even the lack of hair goes a long way (think Homer, Sean Connery or William Shakespeare). Hair can also be iconic, and the prolific Jeremy Kalgreen of Amorphia Apparel has dedicated a shop for hirsute personalities aptly named Hirsute History. There you can find some of the most famous hairstyles known to modern man.

The Spreadshirt Marketplace and our Partners certainly have a wide variety hairy interpretations, too. There are still plenty of styles out there to cover. Anyone out there have a good tip on some other great hair shirts?

December has arrived, which means that many of us are starting to get serious about Christmas shopping (aren’t you?). How about another promotion to help make shopping that much nicer (on the wallet)? Our 12 Days of Spreadshirt have little to do with ten lords a’ leaping or eight maids a’ milking, and more with getting great savings. From today to the 12th December you can save 25% on 12 selected products (with a minimum order value of £25). Here are the products and their voucher codes which you can enter when going through checkout:

1. Children’s Long Sleeve Shirt: 12DAYS1
2. Kid’s Apron: 12DAYS2
3. Women’s Long Sleeve Hoodie from American Apparel: 12DAYS3
4. Messenger Bag: 12DAYS4
5. American Apparel Light Scarf: 12DAYS5
6. Men’s / Women’s Sweatshirt: 12DAYS6
7. Blanket: 12DAYS7
8. Men’s Long Sleeve Shirt from American Apparel: 12DAYS8
9. Small / Large Dog Shirt: 12DAYS9
10. Retro Sports Jacket from American Apparel: 12DAYS10
11. Wine Tote: 12DAYS11
12. Bathrobe: 12DAYS12

Our Gifts Page is a great place to get started on your Christmas shopping. Enjoy the savings!

Starting today through Monday, November 30th, you can save 25% on all purchases in the Designer and Marketplace at Spreadshirt. Simply enter the code CYBER09 in the coupon field at check-out — good for orders over £40.

This is all in honor of the biggest online shopping event of the year — Cyber Monday. So it’s that time of the year again…get to the starting blocks and go! But instead of joining the masses on the streets and in the malls, take it easy and shop stress-free the entire weekend online. Where else can you create one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on your list and save 25%?

Happy Shopping!

Despite the spring-like temperatures outside, it still marches inexorably toward us: Christmas. There are now just four weeks left and we are in the midst of mounds of gifts. If you are like me and are looking for advice and tips for some great gifts, then perhaps I can help. I decided to turn our product range topsy-turvy. And from all of the brilliant potential gifts, I’d like to present three of my favourites today:

The long-sleeved hooded shirt for women from American Apparel is for me an indispensable part of my personal wardrobe. The combination of long-sleeved shirt and hood can be as good as any stylish athletic look (here I put the blubbles from cute monstR on it). I sometimes wear it to work, on my way to the gym or at night when I meet with my friends for drinks.:-)

The shirt is made of lightweight fabric, the colours are perfectly adjusted to the season and fits perfectly with the right designs and colours. At a price of around £22, I think it really could be one of the great personal gifts to give your best friend, your sister or cousin, or even as a gift for yourself (it’s nice to treat yourself every once in a while).

continue reading ‘Looking for gifts? So am I - and here are my ideas’

One of the things that we often hear is a drawback to online shopping is that you can’t try something on before you buy it. Well now you can, sort of. Fast Company magazine has an article about a new tool called Fashionista - that lets you use your webcam to see how an item will look on you.  Currently the online clothing shop Tobi allows shoppers to use Fashionista - check out this quick video about how Fashionista works.

The Fashionista tool lets you see other items that you might like and you can take a photo of you trying on the clothing to share on Facebook. continue reading ‘The Virtual Dressing Room: Would Your Try on Clothes from Your Webcam?’

One of my favorite things about working here at Spreadshirt and about t-shirts in general are the stories behind the shirts.  Most t-shirts come with a story - maybe it is from a favorite place or it is a favorite color.  Maybe the shirt reminds you of a favorite event or concert.  Some times it is a little weird but when I can I like to ask people about their t-shirts and find out more about why they choose that t-shirt.

Well thankfully, no akward conversations with our CEO Jana Eggers - although it would never be an akward conversation - she is super nice and I know she LOVES to talk about t-shirts! Jana has started a new series of videos on YouTube called What’s Jana Wearing - these are great little clips where she shares the story behind what t-shirt she is wearing.  Check out this video about the “I heart” design

Here are some of the other videos from the What’s Jana Wearing series:

• Vol. 1, Num. 1. - Jana at the Spreadshirt Boston Office
• Vol. 1, Num. 2 - Dewitt Jones
• Vol. 1, Num. 3 - La Fraise (you really should see the hoddie she is wearing!)
• Vol. 1, Num 5 - Partner shirts - check out some of these CNN Headline t-shirts
• Vol. 1, Num 6 - Jana Goes to MIT
  

If you want to see more of what Jana is saying about t-shirts, triathlons and sometimes bacon - follow @jeggers on twitter!  Don’t forget to follow @Spreadshirt on twitter too.

As we mentioned in the last newsletter and blog post, we have a contest running for Shop Partners during November. You still have the chance to qualify to win one of three great prizes. Give your marketing drum a good pang, whack, bang and get some new customers into your shop. Shops with even one sale are automatically entered into the contest. You can find some great tips on how to market your shop on our Spreaducation pages or in our Forum, where you can exchange and test ideas with Spreadshirt employees and other Shop Partners.

Important information for your customers: Christmas Ordering Deadlines 2009
Santa’s elves aren’t the only ones working hard in the weeks up to Christmas: we also have quite the amount of products to produce by hand. As the production times tend to increase this time of year, we would ask you to inform your customers about our ordering deadlines so they know that they will get their gifts before 25th December. There’s a brilliant little chart in our FAQ section where you can find information about all EU countries.

The ordering deadlines for the UK are:
Standard Shipping: order must be made before 10:59 a.m. (GMT) on 17th December.
Express Shipping: order must be made before 10:59 p.m. (GMT) on 20th December.

The tabloid newspaper with the largest circulation in the UK has 40 years of news reporting filled with both success and controversy. The Sun is certainly most famous for its headlines, which can range anywhere from witty to outrageous, can be pertinent to current events or even be seen as blatantly offensive. You might have a clear memory of some of the more iconic headlines plastered across their front page, or maybe seen one framed for its humour on the wall of your local pub.

These headlines are what we talk about at lunch or on the coffee break. They strike up conversation (and perhaps argument) as they mark current news events and opinion. Is that not in essence what t-shirts sometimes do? The Sun and Spreadshirt thought the same. I have been asked countless times about the shirts I wear and I gladly invite this intrigue and conversation: and now you can do the same with The Sun Shop shirts!

You can find a wide range of their famous front page headlines from their very first print (Horse Dope Sensation) up through their September 2009 headline about the Labour Party (Labour’s Lost it). My favourite is certainly the “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster” shirt. Check ‘em out:

Their shop is split into three styles: a Fashion Shop where you get the famous headlines graphically represented; the Front Page Shop where you can find shirts with the exact front page from famous headlines; or you can choose shirts from the Classic Shop with a bold headline font.

Have fun reliving and wearing some of the most famous (and infamous) headlines in British newspaper history.

Yet another review of Spreadshirt’s products has arrived for our Twardrobe series. This time Simon reviewed our Men’s Summer Shirt from Continental. I must say here that girls have the distinct advantage that they can pull off wearing a men’s shirt. You won’t see many guys running around in our Spaghetti Top. Here are the hard facts about the Summer Shirt for those missing summer in November:

Who are you? What do you do?
My Name is Simon and I study Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. I am also a proud Shop Partner at Spreadshirt. My shop °white tees offers designs which are based on graphic design, as well as shirts based on fonts and photography. I’ve only recently put together my shop and am putting a lot of time and work into the new designs. New designs should be arriving over the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.

What do you like about how the shirt looks?
The design: brilliant! But, it is from my shop I like the shirt itself just as much as the design.

How does it fit? continue reading ‘Twardrobe Feedback: Girls Sure Can Sport Guys’ Shirts’

I’m probably not the first to tell you that Facebook has become ginormous. Perhaps you saw that the average user in the UK spends 3 full days a year on the site (with the “addicts” spending more than a week / year). One of the newer trends with Facebook are the number of (fan) Pages set up by companies, and the number of fans flocking to them. Facebook says that more than 10 million users become fans of Pages each day and ReadWriteWeb tells us that more than 40% of people “friend” brands. Well, if those stats are true, then our Page is surely to find some new fans: follow us on Facebook!

What are your favourite Facebook Pages? Maybe some of you have your own pages for your shop or business – if so give us the link and we can “officially” shake e-hands. Here are a few Pages I like:

Ben & Jerry’s
Snikers
Gap
Pringles
Red Bull
Ice Cold Beer

And what are your favourites?