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hiiii it's devin again with a preorder announcement
we are making a change to the button-up shirt
we are removing the hook & eyes
why?
they cost $2 more per garment and half of them don't work very well
one of the main complaints we've received about the shirts is they're too expensive, and sales numbers have reflected this issue. this is the only place we can cut costs without changing the fabric or structure of the garment
is there a price difference?
yes, they will be $5 cheaper
more info:
what if i preordered already?
you will be receiving an email notice from ash notifying you of this change as well as a refund of $5 per shirt ordered. if you didn't leave an email on your order you'll receive a mysterious $5 refund. mystery solved!
what about my tits?
sorry
since the hook & eyes are all or nothing you'll also have them on the underbust and all the way up and down. the shirts are straight-cut so if they have enough tension at the bust to merit the hook & eye, they'll have no tension on the underbust and the hook & eyes will just kind of hang open
we'll release a video explaining how to add a hook & eye later. if you're unable to add your own hook & eye, a tailor will usually be cheaper than the $5 price increase the hook & eyes add, and they can add them exactly where you want them
additionally, these shirts are made out of a stretch cotton that behaves differently from our previous shirts. we've noticed gaping is less of an issue
can i cancel my preorder?
yes
a short explanation
the factory can add hook & eyes between every button or none at all. we thought this would be chill because some folks expressed interest in hook & eyes over the belly region as well
the wear tests were ok but anywhere that didn't have tension pulling at the gap between buttons had the hook & eyes just kind of hanging out. we were supposed to get samples with smaller hook & eyes but that didn't end up happening and we were like well it's probably fine, but after some hindsight, hardcore weekend problem solving, and learning how much they increase the price by, we were like, why did we do this? so we're undoing it
Latest reblog reminds me of how much it pisses me the fuck off how every queer person alive has to adapt to the usamerican style of queerness lest we get shunned by the community for being too different. I bring this up a lot but bro that time I got death threats for having ele/dele in my bio bc "by using neopronouns I was making a mockery of REAL trans people" when those are literally just my pronouns in my native language, and when I said that I got hit w the "well you're on the internet so speak english" I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.