Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Day 22



The twenty-second T-shirt of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge is a donation from Jenna all the way over in Brooklyn, New York. She represents a retailer with a very unique and niche selling point - Out Of Print transplant the illustrations from classic book covers straight onto T-shirts, tote bags and a handful of other products that you can purchase from their website. The stunning final result is a vintage looking graphic with title, straplines and author credits intact, spanning the full canvas of the T-shirt front - celebrating the world's great stories through fashion.

Tales of the Jazz Age published in 1922, so the folk at Wikipedia inform me, is a collection of short stories of various substance, mainly concerned with the subject of wealth and its effect on society.

To push the context of the garment further, the tag that came fixed to it is designed to look like a library card – a very clever touch indeed.
I have opted to keep this tag attached, so that I can more convincingly attend a fancy dress party as a library book. However, due to the limits set by my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge, I will need to find said fancy dress party this evening…

See more from Out Of Print via their Twitter account

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