Day 215

Well, I've made it to August and the THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge is still looking great. I haven't run out of T-shirts, I haven't accidentally repeated wearing any T-shirts, and I most definitely haven't given up wearing nothing but T-shirts. In fact, I feel very confident in gathering the 150 T-shirts I need for the remaining five months of the year, especially if donations continue to crawl into my Post Tube at the steady rate they currently are. This counters the feelings I had back in January when I predicted I may begin to struggle at around this point in the challenge. Of course, five months is still a long way to go, and retailers will soon be making their transition into their Autumn/Winter collections, which for me, will mean one of two things.
It could mean that a massive tidal wave of T-shirts is heading my way as stores will be keen to shift their remaining summer stock, in which case the only moron in the country still looking for T-shirts during the snow storms is a pretty great person to encounter.
Or it could mean that all T-shirt supplies will go extinct from the retailer shelf displays as end-of-summer bargain sales are hovered up by the credit-crunch casualties who've been languishing all summer long waiting for the prices to drop.
It could go either way- these will certainly be unpredictable times.

For now though, I have a healthy pile of garments in the corner of my office, including donations made towards my Reading Festival appeal. Thanks to the e-flyer I sent out to retailers a few weeks ago, I now have my Festival Threesome in place – three fantastic T-shirts donated specifically to be worn across the Reading Festival Bank Holiday Weekender. An audience of potentially thousands will gaze upon these T-shirts and thanks to the THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge, they will know exactly who donated them and where to buy their own. Keep an eye out for that at the end of the month.

I am in high spirits today and so a bright and cheery T-shirt is in order. This exciting O'neil number should do the trick – it's certainly bright enough.
I bought it from a TK Maxx store several years ago purely because I found the placement of the print intriguing. The layers of black and beige/gold typography forming the cursive yet destructive logo composition are forced up around the neckline in a haphazard manner, as if the tee got yanked downward during each press. The location of the print, along with the presence of a gold coloured transfer makes the garment pretty unique; like a surf-style homage to Mr. T.