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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Did you read the fine print on your purchase contract? They're entitled to that advertising space. They are now legally permitted to tattoo their logo on your forehead.
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
While this is logical, 90% of the normies want people to know that they overpaid for shit that was made in the same factories as the cheap stuff, on the same machines, with the same adhesive and near identical designs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
"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!
I do this with wrangler too, I actually appreciate they make it simple to remove, instead of stitching it into a seam. Wrangler makes the only 100% cotton lightweight work/cargo pant that I can find. The rest are synthetic.
Yeah, I won’t advertise on my body, full-stop. My outfits are designed to look like I’m from way somewhere else, another world entirely, and immersion and worldbuilding is broken with any logo ever.
I do this to Carhartt pocket tees, they are well made but the logo makes me think of the chuds who wear it as a fashion brand and I can't allow myself to be associated with that.
Which is wild to me. First thought was also inside. Then I thought, I'm looking at the back pocket of some pants. But to have that ugly tag in the middle of your chest is ridiculous.
(the protagonist of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition only wears un/de-branded clothing because she is literally allergic to advertising)
Yup, I do this too. Have an old work half-zip fall jacket that I'd like to wear, but it had one of those large fully sewed in patches. Now 75% of it is gone, but it's a bit of a project and I've mangled the entire area in the process, so I'll need to choose a new patch if I want it to look nicer.
it aint about showing "them" its about what i choose to show on my body, or on my stuff. i think branding is fucking ugly and go way out of my way to avoid brands who make their branding visible. if youre payomg me, ie work, or youve specifically treated me well, or i strongly agree with you, eg bands or charities (i tagged my bike with my bike shop's sticker and give them word of mouth recs as often as i can) thats one thing. but im not a fuckin billboard.
i think its the same mentality that motivates my ad aversion. ive gone way further out of my way than anyone in my life to avoid being advertised at.
You go way out of your way to avoid brands who make their branding visible, so you buy brands who make their branding visible, then strike out the branding of the brand and make a post about it on the internet where you can still see the branding.
Okay buddy.
EDIT: My bad, you're not OP. But my point still holds.
Coming soon to a dystopia near you: You don't own the product, you're only renting it, and by removing the branding you're breaking the terms of rental.
nah, f that. You're not confined to the binary of "be a compliant consumer" or "dismantle capitalism in its entirety". Mocking people for only doing a little bit plays right into the hands of the Epstein class.
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The clothes should be free if they include advertisements.
Yeah fuck everybody that wants to know where you got a quality shirt!
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.
I thought I was the only one who did this!?
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.
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,
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.
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 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.
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
Well, I get my thick shirts from
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
And for about the same price too. Thanks, I'll have to try one out some time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 do this with a lot of things too.
I do this or black tape over logos on electronics. Feels so good you look around your house and not see any logos.
Yes, the reason that I put black tape over my electronics is
because they're old hulks of shit falling to piecesto hide logos. Yeah, that!your reminder to wash your electronic pcbs (with 99% Isopropyl Alcohol of course) and learn to solder and replace stuff
At least once a year put them in a dishwasher for a deep clean. Comes out running like new.
I bow to your superior cheapness. I am but a worm
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.
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.
If you have access to the equipment, yeah, by all means go for it.
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.
Did you read the fine print on your purchase contract? They're entitled to that advertising space. They are now legally permitted to tattoo their logo on your forehead.
Good thing you really censored that logo so no one will know it's wranglers you're advertising for in this post.
Well, you're the only one who typed out the name for the search engines to find.
Didn't know how to do this without showing the tag. If I really meant to advertise for them, I wouldn't have censored at all, right?
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 was a teenager when I came to a similar conclusion. They should be paying me to wear a swoosh, not the other way around.
While this is logical, 90% of the normies want people to know that they overpaid for shit that was made in the same factories as the cheap stuff, on the same machines, with the same adhesive and near identical designs.
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.
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.
Uniqlo
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
Japanese type censoring I see
I wonder what it was!
Wang-lerBut HOW are other people supposed to know that its GENUINE [COMPANY]?!
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!
I do this with wrangler too, I actually appreciate they make it simple to remove, instead of stitching it into a seam. Wrangler makes the only 100% cotton lightweight work/cargo pant that I can find. The rest are synthetic.
carhartt b01!
Yeah I own a few pair of those. I'm saying wrangler has the only lightweight ones I can find in 100% cotton. Carhartt are the heaviest weight I own.
ah okay, yeah for me they are light enough, but my comparison is even heavier denim stuff. the japanese hipster stuff.
I thought this was only done because of sensory issues lol
My sensory issue is that I hate sensing advertisements.
You reminded me, I need to do this with one of mine!
Yeah, I won’t advertise on my body, full-stop. My outfits are designed to look like I’m from way somewhere else, another world entirely, and immersion and worldbuilding is broken with any logo ever.
My outfits look like I shop at target but with the tags and logos all taken off.
I do this too. I like Dickies shirts because they are comfortable. But I always take the logo off. I thought I was the only one!
Wrangler makes good shit at a good price point.
Hmm maybe I'll buy one of these shirts based off of the comments on this non-ad post.
I love that they crossed out "Wrangler" - so we know they aren't picking on a specific brand!
Did you use an AI to figure out what it said under the cross out?
the cross out is a single line, you can pretty much still read it
I'm pretty sure they used I.
If it's on a shirt or jacket I'll find an iron on patch I like and cover it sometimes.
Thanks for crossing out the brand name, no free advertising here either!
I do this to Carhartt pocket tees, they are well made but the logo makes me think of the chuds who wear it as a fashion brand and I can't allow myself to be associated with that.
I get what you mean, but isn't that the tag that goes inside the shirt?
no, its an outside tag on one of the corners of the titty pocket
Oh yeah, I think I've seen something similar, but it was tiny
the one in the picture is the size of maybe a nickel
Which is wild to me. First thought was also inside. Then I thought, I'm looking at the back pocket of some pants. But to have that ugly tag in the middle of your chest is ridiculous.
I just got wrangler jeans, they're really good. As to your point, I'm with you, fuck the system and fuck their free advertising.
And they are always in scratchy places!
This one seems to have been on the outside (otherwise pretty bad advertising)
Cayce Pollard moment
iykyk ig
(the protagonist of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition only wears un/de-branded clothing because she is literally allergic to advertising)
You didn't even give people time to guess.
Yup, I do this too. Have an old work half-zip fall jacket that I'd like to wear, but it had one of those large fully sewed in patches. Now 75% of it is gone, but it's a bit of a project and I've mangled the entire area in the process, so I'll need to choose a new patch if I want it to look nicer.
Jumping Caesar's catfish! That's how people know you're wearing Wrangler! What's the point of wearing Wrangler if you can't show it off?
I wish logos didn't mess up leather
Used to do that with jeans in high school, but haven't did it to anything since (although, I rarely get anything that is blatantly branded anymore)
would be ironic is this post goes viral
you know, like seen by 55 people on Lemmy
That’ll show em.
it aint about showing "them" its about what i choose to show on my body, or on my stuff. i think branding is fucking ugly and go way out of my way to avoid brands who make their branding visible. if youre payomg me, ie work, or youve specifically treated me well, or i strongly agree with you, eg bands or charities (i tagged my bike with my bike shop's sticker and give them word of mouth recs as often as i can) thats one thing. but im not a fuckin billboard.
i think its the same mentality that motivates my ad aversion. ive gone way further out of my way than anyone in my life to avoid being advertised at.
You go way out of your way to avoid brands who make their branding visible, so you buy brands who make their branding visible, then strike out the branding of the brand and make a post about it on the internet where you can still see the branding.
Okay buddy.
EDIT: My bad, you're not OP. But my point still holds.
i mean, why not? if i like the product but not the branding, why not scratch the branding out, or cut it out, or whatever?
Coming soon to a dystopia near you: You don't own the product, you're only renting it, and by removing the branding you're breaking the terms of rental.
us currency
I almost forgot the first rule of the internet.
Don't feed the trolls.
Actually exactly my thinking. This might even be guerilla marketing by wrangler.
nah, f that. You're not confined to the binary of "be a compliant consumer" or "dismantle capitalism in its entirety". Mocking people for only doing a little bit plays right into the hands of the Epstein class.
As you advertise for them to social media.... That's a great cover-up of the brand name you did there 👍 really did a good job 😂