Hi All,

I just want to introduce myself. I’m Big Al. I’m a late 20-something Threadless fan. The whole way Threadless does business is awesome. It’s fun and addicting. Over the last few months I tried to become as involved with the Threadless lifestyle. I came to know one of Threadless guys in Chicago and Chris of lovesthreadless.com. Since this is an introduction of myself, I just want to drop a few t-shirt that are really special to me:

One of my friends gave me See You At The Show. It’s a Type Tee on a Fruit of the Loom shirt. It’s a really loud design on a natural colored shirt. This is what started my Threadless love.

The Battle of E-5 is the first shirt that I ever purchased. I was looking for a dark colored shirt and the whole detailed chess theme caught my attention. It has a fallen bishop on the side, knights coming out of the King mobile and it has tank wheels! So much detail. I also was curious about the Threadless tee. I’m a fan of American Apparel cloth and the Threadless tee material is just as good, if not better.

This last t-shirt You Sank My Battleship is one of my first reprinted t-shirts that I ever purchased. I liked the whole Battleship game concept and the design was offset on the upper-left of your chest. I’m a big fan of offset designs.

I was sitting down with one of my friends and we discussed the philosophy of reprinted t-shirts. His belief is that Threadless should not reprint t-shirts. He feels that part of the fun is to buy t-shirts when they come out and be rewarded with that somewhat rare shirt that nobody else can ever get. If a shirt is so popular, it raises the bar for other designer to create an even more kick-butt design. I agreed with my friend. I used to collect Air Jordans and it didn’t sit too well that they reissued (aka retroed) the older Air Jordans. The shoes that I kept in prestine condition now became less special because people could walk into the store and pick up almost the same exact shoe. As I become more attached to my t-shirts, I feel that I will have that same feeling once some of my older shirts get reprinted.

Big Al