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?’

Last year we created the Spreadshirt Exclusive Line to add some great items from super cool clothing lines to the Spreadshirt apparel collection so you could customize these great items with the Spreadshirt platform.

For Women we have some great tops and jackets from LillaP and IVEE. For the men some t-shirts and jackets from Barking Irons. And for everyone some bags from Timbuk2.

Just intime for the holiday season we have added some new apparel items to the Exclusive Line…

Women’s Zoe Jacket by IVEE
IVEE presents Zoe as a very fashionable jacket with sharp color contrasts. The eye-catcher is certainly the ring on the right upper sleeve as a contrast to all long-sleeved stripes of the past. This precious jacket is cut from an elastic material which is not uncommon for training jackets in the retro style. The front zipper along with short zippers on the sleeve cuffs are made from metal and harmonize visually with the small sliver IVEE logo on the front. This jacket combines well with the women’s Hannah pants from IVEE (or with your favorite jeans). 87% nylon and 13% spandex.

continue reading ‘Some New Additions to the Spreadshirt Exclusive Line’

The other day I was reading a blog of someone who is looking to buy a new house and she shared a bunch of photos of houses she and her husband are looking to check out titled “house porn” - well I think it is fair to call this awesome list of Online T-shirt Stores from Smashing Magazine (an awesome blog that shares great examples of websites) “t-shirt porn.”  We are honored to be included in this great list of online t-shirt shops.  It is really fun to see all of these screen shots on one page.  Plus there were some shops here I had not seen before and some more good ones in the comments.

Here are a few of my favorites from the list…

• Spreadshirt - of course
• Storenvy - this looks really cool way to share and find online shops
• Ampersand Shoppee - I just like the ampersand
• Yellow Bird Project - I haven’t seen these guys in a while - nice site that sells some cool t-shirts for charity (or maybe I should say charitee!)
• Shirt Pizza - I like how the shop is styled like a pizza shop menu
• 200 Nipples - clever name.  I like the idea of limited edition numbered t-shirts - they sell 1 design at a time and 100 of each design.

Lots more great designs to check out.  See the entire list here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/20/showcase-of-online-t-shirt-stores/

And check out an even bigger list of Online T-shirt Sites here: theteedirectory.com/

A few weeks ago we posted about our Facebook Fan page and invited you to share if you have a fan page for your Spreadshirt shop. It has been really great to see all of these Spreadshirt shop so I thought I would post a little round up of the links here:

• Recursive Tees - Shirts for CS Majors and Geeks
• USN Chic’s Armed Forces Fashion
• Scotland Rocks
• 4th Cult Tees
• Homebrewed Tees
• Van Tribe
• Monkey Pickles

Don’t have a Facebook Fan page for your shop yet? Not a problem - just click this link and fill in the form - Fan pages are free and easy to set up. Here are some more posts about ideas for setting up and getting more fans for your fan page…

• Mashable: How to set up a Winning Facebook Fan Page - don’t forget to add a link to your website, contact info!
• Holly Hopper: How to Get More Facebook Fans - invite your friends and get them to help you support your new page
• Mashable: Killer Facebook Fan Pages: 5 Inspiring Case Studies - I know these case studies are larger brands like Pringles and Coke, but the ideas here can apply to all kinds of fan pages too.
• Particularly Pretty: Do More with Facebook (via Kellybot ) - really nice list of tips with photos! Don’t forget to add photos of your shirts and products to your fan page. Also add a link to your fan page on your website.

We have had great success with the user tests over at Spreadshirt.net (that’s the European side of Spreadshirt) so we are excited to launch this here at Spreadshirt.com too!

We are looking for a few good testers to check out some products in the Spreadshirt apparel collection. We are going to give away 1 of each of these items to a few lucky twitter followers (or leave a comment below).

• Women’s Jonano Fitted Tee
• Men’s American Apparel Henley Tee
• Baby Sleeper

On Wednesday, Novemeber 18, 2009 we will select 3 people to receive a coupon valid for the item, a design and shipping. Once you get the item - try it out - wear it, wash it and then tell us what you think!

If you want to test one of the products - send a tweet with a link to this post AND the hash tag #tweetntest. If you are not a twitter user - just leave a comment below.

I was browsing through some of the headline t-shirts in the CNN headline t-shirt gallery and this one caught my eye last week - “Boy returns lost heirloom to WWII vet” - this is just one of those great stories that reminds you that there are some really nice people in the world.

You can read more about the story here at Omaha.com. Ted Mogil lost his prayer book 61 years ago, this year 12 year old Wil Beach found the prayer book at a used book sale and decided he had to buy the book and return it to Mr. Mogil. One of the most amazing parts of the story is that the book belonged to the first Mr. Mogil Wil called on the phone.

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What do Neo Rauch and spreadshirt Marketplace designers have in common? Correct, they both create artwork and offer them up for sale! Given, the commissions on the Marketplace don’t usually rake in $1 million of Brad Pitt’s money, but rather “only” $1.95 on average. But don’t give up on the Marketplace just yet: compared to Rauch’s work, these designs can be sold more than once, namely 7,832 times (the current record holder “I heart” design). That’s how the top 100 Marketplace designers are still able to earn an average of $180.97 per month. Take that Neo!

But how can you make it into the top 100 of the spreadshirt Marketplace? continue reading ‘How to become a successful Marketplace designer at Spreadshirt’

It is election day here in Pennsylvania and in a bunch of other states today. This morning, I tweeted a photo about my t-shirt today but I was thinking about election day and the fact that is has been a year since Obama was elected. We had a lot of fun following the 2008 election via t-shirts and putting together this post of 100 Obama T-shirts last spring. A few weeks ago I got to participate in a walk through of the Shepard Fairey exhibit Supply and Demand with Shepard Fairey (check out the write up of the walk through from the Pittsburgh City Paper) which just opened at the Warhol museum here in Pittsburgh - which got me thinking about the power of t-shirts and elections all over again.

So today I am wearing my “Gots to Vote” t-shirt by MNKR that I bought at the Unique LA craft market in May. This was just a few weeks after I had finished the 100 Obama t-shirts post and I just could not stop looking at Obama t-shirts. There were tons of amazing t-shirts at Unique LA and the reason I stopped at the MNKR booth was this Obama t-shirt - which Matt from MNKR was kind enough to send me a better photo of the t-shirt. I love looking back at all of the Obama shirts from last year and how many different designs there were.

Here is the t-shirt I am wearing today - I know this isn’t the best photo - and the shirt is a little wrinkled - which is funny because I just had a big conversation with the other Spreadshirt bloggers about ironing t-shirts yesterday.

I also wanted to show off the inside of the t-shirts because I really like how they screen printed the tag area - and marked the size with a little baby button. I think this is a really great example of an awesome one color design and nice use of font and spacing.

Want to see more from MNKR check out the nice post about their Fall 09 Collection from T-shirts Around the Internet.

Are you wearing a t-shirt for election day today? Share your election day t-shirts with us!

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