Thursday, 12 December 2013

Day 346



Christmas is now inescapable.
It's here, it's hungry and it's swallowing all of our bank accounts.
The penalise-period of addressing the season prematurely has long since subsided and around 13 days remain until the main event kicks off. 13 days of bludgeoning people in the street during the heated last minute shopping battles (which can absolutely be avoided by making your purchases bludgeon-free from my online shop by the way), 13 days of trying to disinfect yourself from awful, crippling flu, and 13 days to humiliate yourself at various raucous Christmas parties.

I'm currently at a raucous Christmas party myself actually, (though you'll be reading this the following morning when I have wifi/consciousness) and the dress code is understandably 'Christmas Jumpers'. Had this have been any other year, I would have panicked at the attendance criteria as I am typically without such attire, but this is the year of the THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge. This is the year that I am trapped inside T-shirts rather than seasonably themed jumpers. This is also the year that Jolly Clothing has ensured I'm prepared for such an eventuality.
Helen from the brand has donated some more festive fibres to my project; a grey comfort-fit T-shirt with a snowman print across the full canvas designed to emulate a knitted Christmas jumper. In fact, all the Jolly Clothing stock emulates knitted Christmas jumpers, thus the basis of their appeal this time of year.
The beauty of course is that this isn't actually a Christmas jumper. It's a light-weight, cotton, airy, mock Christmas jumper, which means that once the alcohol and embarrassing dance moves take hold, the soaring bodily temperatures won't. I'll be cool in terms of both style and Celsius (I'm certain there's a marketing strapline to be made out of that).

So if you need some last minute festive threads, this is where you need to go.

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THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE Project

Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.

People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do.

But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is obviously not true, but it got me thinking - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?

Challenge accepted

I have created project THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE which, beginning January 1st 2013, will track my pro gress sourcing and wearing a different T-shirt every day for the next 365 days – and I’m going to need your help to do it…

TAKE PART HERE