The clothes should be free if they include advertisements.
Yeah fuck everybody that wants to know where you got a quality shirt!
Around 2000 sort of time I bought some baggy jeans with “coca cola” on the back pocket. In the shop I thought this was great. I wore them once then realised why the fuck and I’m wearing these. Never wore them again.
BIG upvote from me. i do exactly this. especially when it’s prominently placed.
i bought a blank product, i want it to look blank. a logo is aesthetically jarrinf, it’s like it breaks the plain design.
i even go the effort of buying blank 59fifty baseball caps ans painstakingly use a thread ripper to remove the “new era” logo.
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I thought I was the only one who did this!?
I feel the same about a lot of products, especially cars lately (in Europe). Huge brand symbols and some even light up. What’s next RGB? Having a huge brand logo on something feels… cheap.
I feel just as passionate about plastic bags. I make sure never to take the correct one to the store I’m visiting.
Interestingly enough, the German big 3 usually offer debadging in terms of model and engine size as a free option and it seems most people take it unless they want to boast that it’s an M5 or something AMG. But that’s just to hide that they have a 2.0 diesel I think. Nobody offers their cars without the actual logo though, as far as I know. I suspect most buyers don’t want to hide that it’s a BMW, only that it’s a 520d with an M-sport package rather than an M5.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who takes the logos off things!
There’s dozens of us!
And even a famous fictional character! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel)
Dozens!
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I got shit for wanting the dealership stuff debadged off my car. I got what I wanted in the end but having to argue for it was annoying
Those badges are more an east coast or midwest thing. Out west, they just give you a dealership license plate frame that most people shitcan the moment they get home. When I first saw badges in a new car when I was in PA in the late 1980’s I thought it was the most bizarre thing I had ever seen.
That was in RI. Interesting. I didn’t know it was regional. I’m on the west coast now and come to think of it I haven’t seen that
People in Cali would be PISSED if a dealer put an east coast style badge on their tesla or porsche or benz
I don’t buy the things with the logos,
Let’s not forget, putting a foss-related sticker over the Windows/Super key.
Funnily enough I have opt | start there, with start not being common on Windows keyboards (the opt is from Mac keyboards though). I got the Mac version of the Logitech MX Keys because I didn’t want to see any windows logos lol
I replaced mine with an “any” key.
where’s my Tab?
I just avoid purchasing clothing with visible branding
I also try to. But those shirts are 100% cotton and a fair bit thicker than what you get from other brands. They remind of pre-enshittified Carhartt shirts. They’re kinda hard to pass up over something you can cut off in a minute or two.
checkout shirtspace, or any site that lets you order shirts to print on. They’re usually a few dollars each and you can get them in bulk in different colors. Different fabrics, styles, weights, etc. Literally shopping for tshirts by specs instead of look.
Tshirtwholesaler, try a few different shirt brands and styles out. There’s so many that are plain white (or color) tees, only potential branding is against your neck on the inside of the shirt. I actually dontind having something there, because sometimes someone’s like “Hey, what kind of shirt is that, it’s soft, I like the cut, it wears nice,” and then I direct them to the tag or print at the inside collar for information.
Bronson Mfg has some good solid shirts that are 100% cotton.
You were paid for this post we must presume
I wish I was, then I could buy more of their shirts. You want to hear about other stuff I’m a shill for? Too bad if you don’t. If you haven’t already invest in a bidet, they’re like $30 and are a massive game changer in b-hole cleaning.
You’re not joking…mine was 50 but hands down the best money I’ve spent in the bathroom
How much money have you spent in the bathroom, exactly?
Just in tissue paper? Soooooooooooooo much money. Well used to now I just pay a couple extra cents in water
You can say bunghole on the internet, huh huh.
It was short for bumhole obviously.
Sorry “Booty hole” was the correct answer. Thank you for playing.
Don’t be so cynical, lemmy doesn’t have the traffic. This could just be someone sharing info. I need 100% cotton shirts for work safety (I work around sparks, they’ll melt/fuse to plastic clothes) and they get harder to find every year. My coworkers and i talk about this stuff more than you might think and none of us are getting paid
Well, I get my thick shirts from
And for about the same price too. Thanks, I’ll have to try one out some time.
Hmmmm, sounds like advertising…
Sometimes they’re sneaky and hide the branding. Like I bought some socks and the logo was not visible without opening the package.
(so I gave them to my cousin, he was like: whatever, free socks.)
Very smart, giving money to a company and not using their product because it has a logo nobody will ever see…
Heh heh, my cousin was the same way, they were like: is the logo itchy? Does it make the socks less comfy? But I was like: look, I know the way I think, I know that when I wake up and get dressed I don’t want a bunch of corporate logos screaming in my face, it’s just the way my mind works.
Fair enough, good for your cousin, too.
It’s clothing too, but some Nike shoes really, really, REALLY want you to KNOW, they ARE, in fact, Nike shoes.
YOU FORGOT THE SWOOSH BITCH you can almost hear the child laborers yelling at me.
Some shoes like the air force type shoes when it’s the same colour feel more subtle because it only looks like a logo if you recognise it. But most nike stuff it just doesn’t incorporate well at all
yeah I agree, I like subtlety on some of them.
I wish it was only a desirable brand problem. I used to get Skechers and not only have they gotten way too expensive for what they are (like, stay in your lane you’re basically Payless Shoesource) but they put a bunch of tiny labels on their “propriety technology” now. Look at these ugly things. https://www.skechers.com/skechers-slip-ins-go-walk-workout-walker/217196_OLV.html
But so do the knockoffs
I would buy so much more tourist merch if they didn’t plaster the location and branding all over it.
I just buy plain color t shirts to begin with, this looks like a lot of work and risk nicking the fabric. Plus, they’re cheaper, too.
Plain t shirts that aren’t garbage are difficult to find.
Mmm one would think there would be some way to tell the quality manufacturer from the shitty ones. How would that work right? Would they put on a little tag to make it easily identifiable? No no that’s fuckin crazy
Ps wrangler specifically sells the same workwear shirt with no tag for printing, you just gotta order it from the website by request.
Uniqlo
I get shirts from tshirtwholesaler.com, there may be a hyphen in there somewhere. My preferred t-shirt is next level 6210, fantastic shirt, soft, great fit. There’s a couple other companies I like too.
Anyway, the whole point of this is I buy like a dozen or 20 shirts, they end up costing like 4 or 5 bucks a pop, max, and I wear them til they die. They’re in various colors. Sometimes my wife will press some odd design onto them with her Cricut and whatnot.
I’m a big fan of band tshirts, but the majority I find are terrible quality shirts with sometimes just a generic logo. So I like to get creative with a shirt of my choosing.
Website seems to be t-shirtwholesaler.com, gonna keep that in my back pocket for later, thank you!
Bookmarking that, if you don’t mind me asking do the sizes run pretty standard?
I’m sorry, but I can’t accept that much responsibility. I’m 5’8, guy, pretty average build, and the NextLevel 6210 comes about mid biceps, and probably an inch or so below my belt line. It fits me great.
There are decent enough sizing charts on the site, IIRC. I’m the kind of guy who buys the same shoe for the past 25 years, so when I find something that works, that’s it, forever.
Makes sense, what size did you order at 5’8 if you don’t mind me asking
Large.
I buy mines on Amazon, I restock every black Friday, between 6 and 8 euros, depending on the color/sale.
I also wear a lot of merch t-shirts, but if I get a free t-shirt I find the advertising fair, and it’s usually for things I like anyway.
It’s really easy and takes like five minutes. Everyone should have a seam ripper. Not just to remove brands but also annoying tags. Also I imagine most on lemmy don’t care about this, but if you buy a suit coat/blazer/whatever you’ll need a seam ripper to open up the pockets.
I don’t know, it takes 0 minutes and 0 dollars in tools to buy a t-shirt without branding. Plus the t-shirt itself is cheaper.
speaking as someone who modifies clothing and sews patches and fabric and stuff a lot, sometimes for work, thread rippers are surprisingly elegant for this sort of thing
One thing I learned from punk rock: it’s OK to cut things off your clothes, or sew things on, or attach things with safetypins, etc. In fact, it’s encouraged.
I share the same sentiment towards corporate. I’d also remove/conceal big brand logos like this when I can, or I’d shop for things without visible logos to begin with.
I do, however, like to wear band merch. Bands that are just as happy to see me as I’m happy to see them. People I can go and talk to at the merch stand. People who, funded through merch and shows, will have the means to record another album.
I’m a band shirt guy as well. Only beef I have is so many of them are Gildan and feel like a burlap sack. Sometimes I’ll buy the shirt, and then steal the design and print it on a shirt of my choosing. Kinda like ripping a DVD I own to keep digitally. It’s fine. It’s fine!
Yeah, I wish there were more higher quality shirts out there, even if the price is higher, but I’m personally fine with Gildan too.
Going the DIY route, which method you’re using and are you happy with the results? I’ve tried DTG before and it’s fine at first, but it starts to deteriorate after some time. I haven’t tried screen printing (ordering a design by myself), but I’ve heard from a friend of mine who does merch that it’s just not cost effective for a one off.
My wife does Cricut but she also orders from Ninja Prints from time to time, and she heat presses. The majority of band shirts I get aren’t built to last, and so these end up kind of on par with those. The sublimation prints come out a little nicer, but my wife’s gotten pretty handy with her machine thing and has put together some decent enough designs. Sometimes I’m able to find her BMPs or PNGs, and if not she can vector JPEGs. But this was something she was into and doing and then I was like hey, while you’re at it.
First thing I do anytime I purchase a vehicle is to remove the dealership decal… I should do this with my clothes as well.
The amount of dealership license plate frames I see on cars blows my mind. I could see someone not wanting to put forth the effort in properly removing the decals, for fear of damaging their pant job, but the plate frame is a no-brainer.
I’ve taken mine off and they put a new one on next maintenance
that made me angry just to read. I would never be back if someone did that to me.
heat gun, blow dryer or a hot summer day makes the badge adhesive soft and easy to pull off…
I honestly can’t believe it’s legal. It would be like if Target opened up all your kids toys and put Target logos on the toy inside. The car comes wrapped with plastic and protective things all over them. They literally remove that and stick their own fucking logo on them.
It’s completely legal because the dealership owns the car. Same with Target, they could do that if they wanted to.
Owning it has nothing to do with it. It’s legal because there’s not a law against it. Just because you own something doesn’t mean you can do anything you want with it if you intend to sell it. You can’t put poison in it, you can’t sell asbestos. There’s tons of regulations about what you are allowed to do to products sold.
It’s legal because there’s not a law against it
Well, yeah…
For now, anyway 😮💨😭
Dude, save those big brain ideas for small talks. Don’t give those silly managers ideas to keep them employed.
if Target opened up all your kids toys and put Target logos on the toy inside
You’ve got upper management written all over you!
You can just tell the dealer not to put anything on the car. No stickers, no plate frames… You have the right to say “no”.
And they have a right to tell you “sure thing, we’ll get that removed” and conveniently leave it out of the contract and tell you “oh, sorry, remove it yourself.”
And then you leave them a bad review and it stays there for a week and the owner replies saying they’re sowwwy and then Google removes your review.
Then refuse the sale??? Ive done this every time and it has always worked. Sure they get huffy and puffy about it, but when you tell them that they won’t get the sale unless they remove it, they’ll comply.
I’ve never had an issue. New or used.
Yeah, I just bought my fifth car new and none of them have had any dealership info on them. I say “Don’t put any identifiers on the car,” and they say “Sure,” which implies to me they’re not willing to lose a sale over something so stupid.
In my state the dealerships don’t glue their logos to your car, only give you the license plate cover. The first time I bought a car somewhere else I asked them to take it off before they gave it to me. The guy gave me a look but did it anyway, but it was gone when I got possession.
They used to pin metal logos to cars, and the holes they made were the first to rust out.
Nice. Fuck branding.
But how else will anyone know i hold credit card debt in a fancy bag purchased simply to carry my credit cards?
"I drop my kids off in thr vehicle that could’ve paid for their college! It only costs me 2 years of potential retirement savings! Maybe I just felt like I deserved a Benz!
- someone
I’m glad whoever made this did such a good job censoring out the brand, I might have thought it was subtle advertising otherwise.
Yeah, I thought about turning face down, but I wasn’t sure it would be clear what I was doing. So, this is how I chose to do it. I did think about the irony.
Yeah I’m sure the kids will be flocking to the Wrangler store after seeing that Lemmy post, it was definitely worth their marketing execs developing such a sneaky ad campaign
/s
What’s fucked up about this world is that here we are, discussing the brand, using the name, leaving a footprint on a public message board. It is not even remotely unrealistic in this new reality that you could actually be in the employ of the company who manufactures this clothing to engage me with this “sarcastic” response (and you might not even be a real person). That’s what the Internet has become: unlimited marketing opportunity where no mention of your identification is worthless and no press is bad press.
Of course, you could also just be a sarcastic human pointing out that you think this is an idiotic comment. This is one of the reasons why it works so effectively. I can’t really make a judgment about what is true here and neither can anyone reading it.
All I’m doing is just pointing something out: if they wanted to censor the brand… why didn’t they? Because they didn’t. They pretended to. Barely. It could just be a sloppy OP, but obviously I don’t think so.
Just because not everything is a conspiracy doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
