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Started by Doktor Howl, March 27, 2010, 07:37:50 PM

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Doktor Howl

March 27, 2010, 07:37:50 PM
http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/65937#

$1625.00 Tee shirt.  No shit.

Looks like this.



$1625.00.

:lulz:
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Nast

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March 27, 2010, 07:39:25 PM
Give me some scissors and I can make it in 2 min.

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March 27, 2010, 07:40:30 PM
yeah but you couldnt get someone to pay that much for it cause you dont have a famous lable attached

Doktor Howl

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March 27, 2010, 07:40:42 PM
Quote from: Nast on March 27, 2010, 07:39:25 PM
Give me some scissors and I can make it in 2 min.



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Doktor Howl

#4
March 27, 2010, 07:41:05 PM
Quote from: Fredamir Putin on March 27, 2010, 07:40:30 PM
yeah but you couldnt get someone to pay that much for it cause you dont have a famous lable attached

This.

You fashion peeps are scam artists.   :lulz:
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#5
March 27, 2010, 07:46:06 PM
byahahaahaaha

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
March 27, 2010, 08:03:16 PM
It's like the burnout look combined with the zombie look and an exorbitant price tag.  :lulz:

If anyone wants to make their own burnout shirts (and I have to admit I really like them because they're so thin they fit very pleasingly) you can soak a regular cotton/poly 50/50 shirt in a sodium metasulfite solution. I haven't tried it yet but I was thinking of trying it this afternoon, if I can find my stump remover and a couple cheap T-shirts.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Triple Zero

#7
March 27, 2010, 08:05:51 PM
though to be fair, if you look at the zoom pics, at least it seems they stitched the edges of the torn bits.

what's a stump remover?
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#8
March 27, 2010, 08:16:45 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 27, 2010, 08:05:51 PM
though to be fair, if you look at the zoom pics, at least it seems they stitched the edges of the torn bits.

what's a stump remover?

It's sodium metasulfite... comes cheap in a tin at the hardware store and is meant to rot out dead tree stumps. It eats away the cotton in the T-shirt, leaving a polyester "skeleton". You end up with a very, very soft and thin T-shirt.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Triple Zero

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March 27, 2010, 08:32:03 PM
sounds interesting!
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March 27, 2010, 09:07:21 PM Last Edit: March 27, 2010, 09:11:11 PM by Calamity Nigel
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 27, 2010, 08:32:03 PM
sounds interesting!

I've got one soaking right now... I'll let you know how it turns out! I have no idea how long to soak it for.

ETA: Well, I have SOME idea, based on how long you're supposed to leave this stuff on a stump, which is 4-6 weeks. Basically I'm going to check it every few days until it looks "done". If this one works well, I'm going to do a whole bucket full of different colors.

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Triple Zero

#11
March 27, 2010, 09:33:55 PM
Hm I would also just try soaking one for just a night .. A treestump is a lot harder, I think. Also you know what happens when you get bleach on clothes, right? Sometimes the holes fall in weeks or years later.
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#12
March 27, 2010, 09:51:25 PM
I'll probably check it in the morning. I'm not very concerned about over-soaking it, though, because it dissolves the lignin in the cotton and doesn't affect the polyester fibers, which is why you have to start with a 50/50 T-shirt.

It seems like a very passive process. You put the shirt in the bucket, walk away, and eventually come back & throw it in the washer.

I'm really hoping it will work; I have one burnout T and love it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Suu

#13
March 28, 2010, 04:58:03 AM
Now you all know why I've gone into fashion.


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#14
March 29, 2010, 03:05:24 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 27, 2010, 07:37:50 PM
http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/65937#

$1625.00 Tee shirt.  No shit.

Looks like this.



$1625.00.

:lulz:

Ahh yes, that looks like a vintage Hanes Olive T-Shirt, aged on a 1956 Homeless Vietnam Veteran.  That's a steal!
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