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Ad7 wrote:What brand are they?

I wanted to get a classic Adidas one but those Nike swooshes look awesome

I just need a new pair of Nike trainers to go bouncing in town with now.
I particularly like these :wub:

Mafro wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:
Mafro wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:The worst thing with importing tees is sometimes the handling charge alone works out more than the tax you owed. Happened to me with Threadless.

Of course now I just put whatever I want on a t shirt. It's nice to get a licensed screenprint occasionally but the quality of my own tees is usually better to wear lol

I had an M&S suit once. I got one when I was 16 for a prom. I threw up over it within a year and never wore the trousers again but I did wear the jacket until that disappeared somewhere.

I used to wear jackets all the time but I haven't done so for years. Kind of replaced if with a waistcoat from white stuff. I might change back again since I have so many dinner shirts and can make innoffensive tees to go with them.

You'll know this. What is the specific type of material that seems to be used in a lot of American t-shirts? I've got two free ones from Digital Ocean and an NHL one that are made of the same type of stuff, it's soft and comfy as strawberry float and the colour is always a sort of marbled effect. Never seem to see the same stuff over here.

It's a bit tough to say. Here are some suggestions:

Triblend. It's a mixture of cotton, polyester and rayon. Increasingly fashionable for its soft feel, nice stretch, rebound and hang and easy care nature and more dynamic look. American Apparel seemed to do it quite a while ago.

"Marled/heather" - typically a blend of cotton and polyester (polycotton), differently dyed fibres to create a vintage, worn look from 2 colours. Pretty much just describes what you get above with tri-blend but "marled" can mean more streaky and you have to look at the fabric composition to find out potentially why. You know those speckly grey sports shirts, like white noise? That's a heather blend. It's usually 50:50 polycotton blend because polyester dries faster while cotton is warm and soft. You could also combine single threads of different sizes.

Combed and/or ringpsun - a method of softening T-shirts which while the former slightly reduces the life of the garment, makes it really soft to touch from the shelf. It might make the print fuzzy so it needs to be combined with a good stitch density to get a quality T. The threads are "ringspun" together to tighten them and then "combed" to sort of "fuzz" them up and take out any impurities

(Bear in mind that image comes from a manufacturer so that is pretty biased - carded cotton can be soft as well if it isn't spun that badly and the stitch density is good.)

French Terry - a stitch where tiny loops are pulled through or soft piles of yarn created on one side to give it a luxury, squishy sort of fleece-like feel (without being fleece, which is generally polyester). More typical on pullovers than shirts. I think these loops are created by "Ghiordes or Senneh knots" but I'm way deeper than I need to be now.

Jersey knit - your standard >>>>> shape stitches usually running from top to bottom of shirt that gives it a slight stretch - about 95% of shirts are stitched this way

Ribknit - Is what it sounds like. Stretchy and I guess has less contact with skin so can seem softer but also rubs if its a carded or course spun thread

Combine some of those together and you'll probably get what you want? But what Chocolate-Milk says has me intrigued..

Generally how soft your garment is, is a mixture of weight (grammage measured in Oz2 or gsm2), stitch density (how thick each "single" thread is determined by how many fibres are included per thread, for example 32 fibres twisted together is pretty good, 18-20 is standard cheap shirt) and it can be "single face" which means flat on one side and piled on the inside - so softer inside than outside), pre-softening treatment and generally the quality of the cotton and how it has been dyed, dried and treated at the factory, before or after its assembled.

Edit: I've found something else I've never heard of being used in traditional T-shirts before, Boucle - "A knit or woven fabric with small curls or loops that create a nubby surface. The fabric has a looped, knotted surface."

If the manufacturer does these kinds of techniques with a high stitch density it might look like a normal shirt but zoomed-in it's actually much more complex to get the different / comfier feel than you are used to with typical shirts.

Edit: Having found this, I'm pretty sure what you guys are talking about (and may not be the same thing) is a form of French Terry shirt but which also happens to be a marled/heather look by mixing separately died threads for a textured look. Very few brands are going to use that unless it's a £25+ tee or they're pushing huge volumes (like Uniclo).

For example American Apparel do one, my trade supplier is wanting £18.50 each

That said, American Apparel themselves are asking for £27.50 stateside so let me know if you want one lol https://www.americanapparel.com/en/fren ... irt_tf402w

Had a look at the labels, one is definitely triblend and the others are marled/heather I guess since they're 50%/50% (or 52%/48% in the case of one)

Do you do prints on those?

I'll print on anything, but unfortunately I can't do screenprint for quantities less than 10 or DTG, other than that though the fabric constitution doesn't matter. I use professional heat transfers and gear (of course).

New DTG (full colour ink (including white) directly on garment so no glue/transfer component as such) printers are coming to market around the 3-5k mark so that would be basically the same feel as a screenprint... I am looking at that. For logos and text etc textile vinyl (polyurethane) is absolutely fine, and looks really good because the opacity is 100%, in some cases better and much more durable. It doesn't wear away. A lot of sports shirts, varsity jackets / hoodies etc. are branded that way because it lasts ages.

I might get into screenprinting one day but I would need a lot of space and nobody will do a one off that way anyway, so DTG is the way forward for me. Shame it's so strawberry floating expensive as eventually I'll get priced out for it all but can't make the investment

DTG doesn't necessarily last all that long either. Screenprinting has it's place but it'll only really work for large volumes, business wise, so people wanting 1-offs also get shut out from that process.

I don't do shitty laser transfers, they are naff and last like 2 washes before looking gooseberry fool. That's what you get from high street "print a shirt, photo printing" type places. I do transfer films or pigment ink printed on those which is then melted into the film itself.

There's stuff on my instagram which is @bjumuk

The main edge I have is crazy gooseberry fool like metallics, glitter, swirly colour and other special effect, glow in the dark etc. which are best with heat transfer films, and that doesn't have to be gaudy as strawberry float. Same stuff used by high street/fashion, superdry etc., they put it on a hoody and charge like 1000%.

Obviously the other advantage I have is design so I will always make sure it will look great, just printing it is at most only 50% of the work. If you print gooseberry fool graphics it's still going to look gooseberry fool.

Supreme sell one of my hoodies with embroidery for £120 :lol:

it's pretty nuts finding out what the cost actually is for some of this fashion stuff people buy and how much of it is rebranded generics.

Obviously I'm more about making things you can't get on the high street.

So if you legit want a word/logo/icon/pattern or something in any colour/effect on any garment give me a shout as I do 1-offs more than anything.

I really need to re-launch GRcade shop, I've learnt so much since then and gotten better supplies as well 8-)

Do you have an online shop Green Gecko?

I bought myself a pair of Marshall Monitor bluetooth headphones recently as I was getting a bit sick of using wired in-ear ones that kept getting tangled or caught on something resulting in them getting ripped from my lugs. I also think in-ear phones have contributed to my ears getting waxier than they should be, bit gross really :dread:

They're the first wireless headphones I've ever used and it was a bit unsettling at first, it's amazing how ingrained your muscle movements are to not move your head too suddenly in case you snag the cable, no more of that :lol:

. It's great to be able to be listening to something or watching youtube on my phone, but it down somewhere and then just walk off still enjoying the sounds. Hardly novel these days, but as a late adopter I'm finding it very liberating.

The headphones themselves are really nice quality, sound is great (currently enjoying the Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack whilst at work :datass:

) and they're really easy to use in terms of pairing with my phone and the actual controls which are hidden away on this little notch on the left can.

I like them :wub:

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Do you have an online shop Green Gecko?

I have a few things in etsy but most of it is custom, I'm figuring out whether a separate brand is the best idea for my own fashion stuff at the moment. Just google BJUM, I'm more of a custom shop at the moment but I can actually make a lot of the stuff you see in the high street.

Sorry if this all sounds salesy, I'm genuinely interested in what people are buying in this thread because I can think about how it's made and if I should think about trends developing.

For example your last purchase would fall under "athleisure", that covers a general trend a the moment for wearing gym wear and sports stuff for everyday purposes but with more casual features and fit. In response to that to blank leisurewear and rebrandables industry is offering similar things that are the same quality.

Raspberry Pi 3 - £Free

Won this at a Hackathon at work! Now I just need to think of something to do with it!

Jenuall wrote:Raspberry Pi 3 - £Free

Won this at a Hackathon at work! Now I just need to think of something to do with it!

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:nod:

Jenuall wrote:Raspberry Pi 3 - £Free

Won this at a Hackathon at work! Now I just need to think of something to do with it!

Cover it in Union Flags and use it to rest your iPhone on?

Runs most 16 bit games better than anything else (except for the NTSC originals). So do that.

Jenuall wrote:Won this at a Hackathon at work! Now I just need to think of something to do with it!

Paperweight?

Green Gecko wrote:
No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Do you have an online shop Green Gecko?

I have a few things in etsy but most of it is custom, I'm figuring out whether a separate brand is the best idea for my own fashion stuff at the moment. Just google BJUM, I'm more of a custom shop at the moment but I can actually make a lot of the stuff you see in the high street.

Sorry if this all sounds salesy, I'm genuinely interested in what people are buying in this thread because I can think about how it's made and if I should think about trends developing.

For example your last purchase would fall under "athleisure", that covers a general trend a the moment for wearing gym wear and sports stuff for everyday purposes but with more casual features and fit. In response to that to blank leisurewear and rebrandables industry is offering similar things that are the same quality.

O cool sounds really interesting. I hope your sales are going well on etsy. I just googled it.
Yes gym wear does seem to be a big trend at the moment. Which moved me towards getting this tracksuit as I love to wear my gym clothes with it being so comfy and casual.
Another tread seems to be street wear brands like Champion which used to be really cheap to buy but now the prices are sky high.

Hasn't wearing gym and sportswear as everyday been a thing for years?

Ad7 wrote:
Jenuall wrote:Raspberry Pi 3 - £Free

Won this at a Hackathon at work! Now I just need to think of something to do with it!

t:i-convert-my-old-ion-icade-into-a-bartop-raspberry-pi-powered-arcade-machine-how-to-guide-inside?f=2&hilit=Ion+icade

Ooh! Now that's interesting. I'm sorely tempted to have a go at something ambitious like this!

Green Gecko wrote:Runs most 16 bit games better than anything else (except for the NTSC originals). So do that.

So I've heard, I think emulation is definitely my most likely target. Is retropie still the goto option for this?

If all else fails there's always the backup option:

Moggy wrote:Cover it in Union Flags and use it to rest your iPhone on?

Mafro wrote:Hasn't wearing gym and sportswear as everyday been a thing for years?

Not according to my super interesting and not remotely dry monthly magazine that details all the latest most exciting trends in... blank clothing.

Yeah it's been a thing, but not so much them being made fashionable in other ways and different materials. It's not really my area.

Don't forget this is an industry that literally just makes gooseberry fool up all the time so people have new stuff to buy.

It's to do with the whole gym and social media thing.. You can't just go to the gym. You've got to dual purpose all of your gooseberry fool so that you can do stuff on the way to and back from the gym, you can get out of bed and go right to the gym, put your work down for the day and head right to gym, you finish up your gym routine and head straight to the club (maybe not in the same clothes, but you should look like you just got back from the gym).

gym gym gym gym. did I mention I go to the gym?

(I've never been to the gym.)

Edit: bonus picture, this is athleisure:

Left is a tri-blend cropped hoodie top, right is a "sporty interpretation of a classic style [dress]"

£9.00

I have a few of these but I needed one in the retail packaging for my collection

£20.00

I got this so I can try the AirPods wireless case on Tuesday until AirPower finally gets released

RichardUK wrote:
£9.00

I have a few of these but I needed one in the retail packaging for my collection

How much for the box?

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