sperera asked me to post my PM to him on the forum for the laugh content…I just want you all to imagine a Marine Corps captain running across the base wearing one of these shirts and hats…I may get voted off the island for this one…
"Put me in for one (1) black running hat, and one (1) of the black shirts with the white stitching and underarm panel…size Medium. What is the payment method? I am Paypal enabled. :->
I still can’t wait to wear these things in front of my Marine Corps peers…oh the questions they’ll have in their minds!"
Make that another Ooomph, and the hat on the right. Also, whoever the blonde model is, unless its your wife, in which case if she is a triplet, I’ll take the other two. I’ll have them back by Monday.
hahahahaha…yes, it’s the wife…she has the one sister only…but we know all about this and I wouldn’t want to be indirectly accused again of starting OT’s again…
I asked if this would be a problem with the design on it…the answer was: “No problem. I wish I could send you a sample, but we don’t have one yet as they are all in production right now. Brand new T. It will be fine though. Mesh will hold a screen regardless – you will just continue to see the texture.” Chris Artibello, www.oomphsports.com
For those of us who get pit stains on their shirts, the Oomph style with the white area right at the arm pits would truly be a disaster waiting to happen.
If you want a shirt that is a comfortable T-shirt, that’s the Leslie Jordan one - far right. The fabric is technical, the design is traditional. I like mine a lot.
I asked Hincapie about what sublimation meant, this is the answer:
Sublimation means that the ink is inside the fabric. This differs greatly from a screen printed t-shirt. When you screen print a t-shirt you “glue” a bunch of ink to the outside of the fabric. We sublimate the t-shirt and put the ink inside the actual fabric.
It’s the same technology we use for cycling jerseys. compare your cycling jersey to a screen printed t-shirt and you will quickly see the extreme difference between the two.
The benefits of sublimation are enormous:
-You can go crazy with design, printing on any surface of the shirt with almost any pantone color, because there are no screens to set up. We don’t have specific printable areas on the shirt. You can print the entire shirt if you want to. You can’t have designs that cross the seams, but you have extreme flexibility in design. We print all the fabric before we assemble the shirt, so you can “go crazy”, as you said.
-The ink will not crack over time, even if you print the entire shirts, because the ink is inside the fabric. The shirts are very fade resistant and hold their colors nicely.
-You retain the performance properties of the fabric. In our case, the Hincapie DryBody shirt will wick moisture in the printed areas. This is great for athletes, but works well for non-athletes too. Athletes are usually the only people in tune with fabric performance, but it’s not hard to win over non-athletes with the comfort of a performance t-shirt. Screen printed shirts are like sweat magnets under the screened areas, because the ink that is screened on doesn’t let the fabric breathe like it should.
I will try to take a photo of a plain white t-shirt, but I don’t understand why you need that. We will make the shirt look exactly like your artwork. It will look like what you sent to me. We can also make something crazier if you want to. You can print anywhere on the shirt. We can do fades and background images. You can print the sleeves, collar, chest, belly…for the same price I quoted you! No screen charges. No set up charges. It’s pretty simple really.
STOP THE PRESS - Craft have come in with a quote…to be fair to them, our man SuperDave contacted them directly for me so hence why they have not replied earlier…I will post their price and image asap.
I’m looking at a decision by Monday…that’ll give any weekend Tribe members the chance to see this…
…stand by for their quotes. Man, we are trully flattered by Oomph, Hincapie, Craft, Cervelo, LeslieJordan interest on this…they are coming in off their own accord…
I work for Craft now as well and have all the new news regarding their custom active T, their custom sublimated Nordic and Cycling wear, and their soon to be released CUSTON triathlon clothing. We’re doing custom base layers too.
Very nice stuff, and certainly not Hanes T-shirt pricing.
