Well, it would be if you had it Vinyl or Screen printed!

I’ve learned a lot since working with Joe here at Reinspire towers, one big huge important fact being that T-Shirts don’t just appear in the stores as if by magic (a very disappointing and shocking experience for me as you can imagine! Like the time I was told Santa didn’t exist and that Mum wraps them! Thought I recognised the paper folding technique!), they are in fact made by someone! Yes I know, mind boggling isn’t it!

Be it a single t-shirt printer or a large scale printing warehouse, they’ve all come from somewhere and from experience, I can tell you it’s NOT THAT EASY!! You’ve got heat to deal with, too much or too little can ruin a garment, and once that’s done, there isn’t much you can do to rectify it! Making sure that someone’s poor grandmother’s head is positioned straight and at the right height on the t-shirt (queue trembling hands trying to make sure that granny’s head doesn’t end up in someone’s armpit!), is the image too big or too small, is it straight? Is the t-shirt the correct size? am I printing on the correct side? These are all questions that will crop up during a normal day of printing t-shirts! And unfortunately as all newbies do, I have had to learn the hard way and learn from my mistakes…luckily nothing too horrifying but there is always that element of disappointment when you extract the shirt from the heat press (all very technical!) and you realise that (GASP), the print is still attached to the heat press, or the image is reversed and the text doesn’t make sense or…the worst of them all…there’s a ridiculous spelling error, resulting in Scotland being spelt with an “X” (which for me coming from 10 years of being a Personal Assistant, a role that prides itself on grammar and spelling abilities, is a liiiiittle bit of a shocker!)…

Anyway, the fact is people, when you buy and wear these t-shirts, just take moment to remember where they came from, who made them and perhaps take another moment to think about all those poor lonely little t-shirts that are just waiting, unprinted, unloved, hoping that one day some lovely person will see them and buy them and wear them with pride…

AWWWWW, just makes you tingle doesn’t it?

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Well, unless you are a complete hermit, don’t watch TV or have left the planet, as you will no doubt know, it’s Christmas!! Countdown stands at 10 days, so I’m racking my brain and stressing out trying desperately to get the perfect gifts for my friends and family, which in this time of the dreaded Credit Crunch/Recession(GULP!) is all the more terrifying when you make that brave journey into the unknown (also known as the High Street) we at Reinspire.co.uk have been pleasantly surprised to learn that a few of you have decided to go a little further this year and actually have something made for your loved ones, mainly in the form of something to wear! In the last few weeks we’re produced a few t-shirts and hoodies with various puns and well wishing slogan’s along with some pretty embarrassing photographs! This novel approach is a sweet and personal touch that let’s face it, as embarrassing or “naff” as it could be, is a great gesture and it is pretty nice to know that someone made the effort, that you have a one of a kind present that no one else has

(oh and that you have an extra t-shirt to add to your wardrobe to wear around the house that no one else will ever see on those days when the laundry is being done and there’s nout much left to wear!) unless of course the gift giver has particularly gone to some lengths to make your t-shirt something fun, funky and wearable in public!

I have seen some amazing designs cropping up recently on t-shirts, whilst searching for presents of course (no harm in looking for things for yourselves now is there?!). A new range recently hyped at Republic aptly named “Money”, nice, simple and fun range of t’s with a metallic and edgy finish on them, some literally with MONEY written across the front in various funky fonts and colours…whether they’re trying to be ironic or perhaps referring to the price of the garments is anyone’s guess but according to the site, a number of celebs seem to have cottoned on to the label and are loving it…and it occurred to me, that pretty much anyone with an idea could potentially have the next trendy label on their hands…Criminal, G Star, Superdry.. they all started somewhere and now look at them…so come on guys, get designing and let us know if Reinspire.co.uk can be of any help!?! Hint hint!