Hello David. Having looked at your online shop, I can see that you use 'Fruit of the Loom' t-shirts. At the risk of sounding pernickety, is there any chance that you could provide a 'women specific' t-shirt of us female pilgrims. Although I would buy a man's version if there was no choice, they are very unflattering to most women and I would only ever wear it around the house or for gardening. Fruit of the Loom supply a good range of women's t-shirts and I am sure there would be a good uptake for them.
Am off to the airport shortly - see you soon!
ps, regarding your photos, if you are taking new ones, can I suggest the garment is ironed first?
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Camino Frances with my daughter:
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Hi Maggie - I understand your feelings about styled fashion figure hugging t shirts and this may happen in the future if the t shirts sell (being a chap I'm not very good with the concept of fashion and body hugging and not going out unless I look just right and so on and see these shirts as being loose and casual fitting - the sort of way people dress when they go for a long walk).
It was a lot of money to have them done and I thought it safer to go for 'unisex' rather than splitting the types for what is really a tentative experiment. Perhaps I was wrong. I often am. Though I did do a lot of research on the net, looking at printed t shirts for sale and all of them were 'unisex', not shaped.
The 'wrinkles'? Ah, yes, I took the photographs outside in the sun, late in the day. The shirts aren't actually wrinkled but straight out of the bag from the printer. When you hold one they don't appear wrinkled. The reason they do look wrinkled is that the sun was low and every raised bit has been given a shadow (most marketing photos are on manikins and stretched tight from behind and properly lit, or pinned to a white board, then photo enhanced). I thought that this would be ok as they look more 'real', more 'gritty' - how they would look when in actual use, perhaps out on the Camino, (which is why there is one photo of the shirt on a washing line) but they do indeed look much too wrinkly, which is why I am doing them again - but when the sun is overhead!
There used to be a saying "real men don't eat quiche" -
..... I quite like "real pilgrims don't iron"
No chance of transfers I'm afraid as the images are printed onto the shirts - no shirt, no image! (though a good idea!).
Safe journey - see you next week.