{"id":5358,"date":"2008-08-20T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5358"},"modified":"2008-08-20T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T23:52:49","slug":"mutinous_fashio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/mutinous_fashio\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutinous Fashion: T-shirts for the political season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005300.html\" target=_blank>offered a challenge to SM readers<\/a>: Design t-shirts for me to wear at the Democratic National Convention next week and I&#8217;d buy them from you and publicize them:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>design a t-shirt that features a political or social (but non-partisan) message and I can order it using Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Press, Threadless, or one of many other internet t-shirt companies. Send me the design at abhi [at] sepiamutiny dot com. I will narrow it down to the best entries and have SM readers vote on the finalists. I will be at the convention for three full days so I will purchase up to three winning t-shirts to wear on the floor. The more clever\/funny\/relevant\/socially conscious your t-shirt, the more likely it is to grab attention and communicate your message to all the varied citizens expected to be in Denver<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Well, a handful of you did take up the challenge (and I thank you)&#8230;<strong>but none to my satisfaction<\/strong>. What can I say, I am very hard to please and my standards are quite high (as the interns at our North Dakota headquarters know all too well). The response was also much less enthusiastic than I had hoped for. Thus, the always creative <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ultrabrown.com\/\" target=_blank>Manish<\/a> and I <\/a><font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\"><span class=rp_highlight>joined forces once again (<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/2004_08.html\" target=_blank>he did co-found SM in case you forget<\/a>) to come up with <strong>our own original designs to sell to you all<\/strong><\/span><\/font>. Below are two that I will be sporting at the convention next week. <span class=rp_highlight><font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\"><strong>These two are ready for sale now<\/strong>, but a few others will go on sale <strong>as early as next Monday<\/strong>, <font size=4>exclusively through SM and <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ultrabrown.com\/posts\/dnc-tees\" target=_blank><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ultrabrown.com\/posts\/dnc-tees\" target=_blank><font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\" size=4>Ultrabrown<\/font><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/ultrabrown\/Political\/_s_221186\" target=_blank><img class=picture height=248 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/We%20are%20all%20macaca_1.jpg\" width=324 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/ultrabrown\/Political\/_s_221186\" target=_blank><img class=picture height=241 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/D-Punjab_1.jpg\" width=259 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Hopefully everyone understands the references but if not remind yourself <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003683.html\" target=_blank>here<\/a> and <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/004510.html\" target=_blank>here<\/a>. Tell your friends.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I offered a challenge to SM readers: Design t-shirts for me to wear at the Democratic National Convention next week and I&#8217;d buy them from you and publicize them: design a t-shirt that features a political &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/mutinous_fashio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}