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20% Off Underwear – Thanks Mr. Valentine!

Now’s your chance to treat your privates to a nice piece of custom undergarment! For those out there who prefer to go commando, might I suggest giving a pair as a gift? Still not sold on the underwear idea? Well, then enjoy our scantily clad models!

You’ve read correctly. There’s not much more you can take off underwear – so we thought: why not lower the price by a healthy 20%?

So, if you are looking for a Valentine’s Day gift (only 4 weeks away!!), then I highly suggest creating a pair of custom underwear. A little goes a long way. Think up a funny text, profess your love, or add a design – and poof, you have something really special.

Get 20% off Spreadshirt underwear until the end of January. Simply use the code CUPIDWEAR when going through checkout.

Bring it, 2011 – We’re off to a Good Start!

So, boys and girls, we’re officially all back on board to take on 2011.

The first two weeks of the year weren’t as uneventful as they may have seemed. At least around here.

We were finally able to get rid of our Christmas tree which was losing needles by the ton. It got as far as the atrium. Our snowman melted away into oblivion. And our atrium has been turned into a a colourful collection of strange pipes. Kind of reminds me of my screensaver of old.

It would be cool if those pipes had something to do with a new t-shirt printing technology. Or if we had discovered oil beneath our HQ. No, we simply had a pipe burst in our heating system. This created an unnaturally beautiful waterfall to our production below. These pipes are drying out the damage beneath and simply look ominous.


What else is new?
Yesterday we chose the winners of our “Shoplifting” Spreadvent post. Kes von Mauseohr won the top prize, CSS improvements, while Trill and Dodisdodat won banners and Crafty Designs a vector graphic. Today we are also going to get working on our T-Shirt Frames and we’ll be sure to show you some pictures of our DIY project.

What to look forward to?
First the weekend. Then you can start looking forward to International Sweatpants Day – next Friday 21 January. Here’s the “official” Facebook event with over 400,000 already planning to attend.

We’ve also got something the Germans call a Schnitzel Hunt prepared for you next week. Something like a treasure hunt through the Internet. But with a cooler name. Stay tuned.

WOW! Wear – Wear Your Words of Wisdom Interview

WOW! Wear is out there to inspire and contribute to a wiser world. Sounds like a tall task, but that didn’t stop Robert from opening the shop. We asked him a few questions about opening his shop, his designs and any suggestions he would have for Spreadshirt.

What inspired or motivated you to open a shop and how long have you run the shop?

I opened my WOW! WEAR webshop in the summer of 2010 after I had the strong feeling to start a new inspiring project. During the last four years I published positive news online on a daily bases and organised the National Good News Day in the Netherlands. After I finished this positive news work in 2009, I felt like doing something inspiring again. So I started WOW! WEAR to inspire people with Words Of Wisdom to wear.

How did you learn about Spreadshirt?

A friend of mine who already had such a webshop, told me about Spreadshirt. When I found out how easy it was to open your own shop, I started right away.

How much time do you invest in your shop? Do you create designs yourself? Read more

Buying High End Fashion – Boutique or Online?

When shopping do you tend to buy online or from the store? There are obviously benefits of both such as convenience and endless options when buying online and seeing and trying on the items when buying directly from the store. There also tends to be more of a urge for an impulse buy when shopping in a store as you see something you instantly fall in love with which doesn’t tend to happen as often when shopping online. Also, especially with big ticket purchases we tend to be more inclined to purchase once seeing the item in person.
 
However when it comes to high end fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and Gucci is it better to buy online or direct from the store? Gucci offers it’s complete collection online and even offers web exclusives on handbags not found at their retail locations. Web exclusives like these are very common for many brands and retailers as it makes the online shopper feel special and also allows the brand/retailer to test their markets and offload some excess or off season stock.
 
While Louis Vuitton shows their complete collection online many pieces are not available for purchase through their site. Items such as their fine jewelry collection, and most of their clothing collection are only available at select store locations. Louis Vuitton’s strategy of not making everything available online is a good move for the fashion brand since it still leaves some exclusivity to their store locations and keeps customers coming in to see the “goods”. Net-a-porter.com a premier luxury brand retailer offers hundreds of high end brands. The ease of their site offers the ability for those not located near a large city to get designer goods shipped directly to their home in a short few clicks.

Have you bought high end fashion online?