Tshirts (discussion thread)

All shirts should be different, or why get one?

I suggest doing the "art" shirt as the only one available at con, as per most cons, and sell just the logo one as a promo at room parties, ect. Full color is nice, will $20 be too high for our attendees?

My $.02
Edgar

I'm OK with black for shirts--just look into my closet, it looks like a black hole.

That said, I do rather enjoy the khaki brown. It's a nice neutral color that I think sets the colors of the logo nicely. I'd wear that. :D

Begging your forgiveness, John. I have no idea what you have in mind for the shirt design. I just wanted to see what the logo looked like against the khaki.

The volunteers are NOT in shirts this year. We are wearing vests.

I need a ConCom shirt, size medium please.

I vote for the art shirts only and if we have any of last year's con shirts still around we could sell them at a reduced price after this year's shirts are gone.

Any color other than peach or pink is fine with me, although, I'd like to have a woman's version available sooner or later.

Dana

It's a great idea. I did recommend female shirts last year, but money came up too short for that to become a reality. I think it helps SpoCon to have female shirts. First, it shows we know what we're doing. Second, it demonstrates to the fan ladies out there that SpoCon cares specifically about them and put some thought into their needs. Finally, it gives the fan boys out there something to pick up for wives/girlfriends/moms/sisters/etc out there. In my experience, us fan guys just don't look at a pile of t-shirts or other loot withhout thinking "mememememememememe" first. We need to get them thinking about who else they can also buy for, and female shirts could get them leaning in the right direction on buying stuff for other people. It's been said many times, and it's very true: Fans are by-and-large impulse shoppers. Which equates to more people walking around wearing our logo--we get more money this year, and it can't be a bad thing for the next year's attendee numbers.

Okay -- here are some ideas for the Womens T's:

Fitted, v-neck, Navy Blue:
http://bit.ly/19fZ7L

Fitted, crew neck "Heather Sand"
http://bit.ly/pfLnA

These would be for the logo and "Fan Enough ~ July 31 - August 2, 2009" on the back (or wedge it all on the front, I'll work with Brunette's on this).

I have asked Randy to contact our guest artist regarding and Art Shirt. I like Stan's idea of the kahki shirt as the "logo" shirt this year. Let's be different.

Hmm... sounds like I'm going to end up being the master of the Mad Marmot Market -- where ever it is we set it up (near but separate from Registration -- perhaps were we were going to set up the fan tables? In the nook area in Cataldo? Makes sense to have it right there .. yes?

The key will be "how many"

Art shirts (if any) will be "Limited Run" -- 100 or so.
Logo / Con date shirs (not black) will be how many? and then how many will be Men's t's and how many women's t's. I'll start the pricing going and we'll go from there.

ConCom shirts will be same as last year (blue)
Additional security shirts...Red
GM shrits... yellow?

So, let's have some fun -- for the above 3 shirts we I say we have "ConCom Enough", "Security Enough",a nd "GM Enough" on the back for the 2009 editions ... yes... no... maybe?

Interesting to see some of the differences. I won't buy another logo shirt, already have a couple, not something I need more of even if different colors. Even concom shirts should have something other than logo on front and concom on back. Been there, done that, literally got the shirt.

I buy shirts from different cons because they have something cool and different on them. Ideally this is created specifically for the con for the shirt, part of the GoH gig for artists.

How about "I Am Fan Enough"?

Thanks for the shirt links Tim. I think I like the V-neck best, in whatever color. Although if we are going with a khaki or brown version for the men, the women's should be of the same family but a different shade.

I agree with Dawn in that the color of the art shirt should compliment the colors in the art. I would love to have an art shirt with the same design used for our badges. Maybe, instead of a solid block of color though, it could be modified by the artist into a line drawing for the tshirt specifically? Last year's art shirt is a bit stiff.

I like the Lord/Lady of Fandom for the logo shirts. Put that on the left front breast and the logo/date on the back? But then that creates the problem of what to do if a woman wants the regular/men's shirt style.

As far as how many to order of each, I'd look at last year's numbers, this year's pre-regs and whether or not we can tell who is female, add 10% to the pre-reg number and see how many that is. It can always be adjusted down before ordering. I'd also find out what Brunnett's policy is on short-notice orders.

Dana

For ConCom, I will have blue shirts made for those needing one.

For Security, I will have red shirts made, but will need quantity and sizes.

For GMs, I will have yellow shirts made, but will need quantity and sizes.

-- for the Con shirt:
1 - we need clearance from our Guest Artist to use his work and incorporating our logo into the artwork. For cost, all screening should be done on the front.
2 - we will need to pick a color. I am leaning towards a lighter color since we are a summer Con. I talked with Kevin and Greg at Brunette's and based on our logo, the khaki (or similar) will work very well. Only thing is they will need to screen the black as necessary.
3 - How does and 80 / 20 split on the Con shirts sound for "normal" and "baby-doll"? Can do less.
4 - Quantity: How many do we want. We may as well go full color on all of them since that is what we do.

Reasonable "Mad Marmot Market" (MMM) items besides the "Con" shirt (in the process of getting pricing ... do not want to break the bank)
- Do we want a "logo" shirts to sell?
- Do we want an "extreeeeemly" limited quantity of a special shirt? (or the beanie)
- Do we want "other items" to sell?
- - Shot glasses or mugs (or sell these only at the MMSC?)
- - beanies (seriously, get a dozen of these embroidered) - http://bit.ly/15AtJ6
- - hats - emboridered logo (hey, it WILL be summer time) - http://bit.ly/OSsO7

All shirts will be picked up from the MMM (ConCom, GM, Security, etc.) with proper ID and matching to a master list.

I am suggesting to use the coffee nook area for the MMM so registration can do registration and not have to worry about selling things. Yes? No?

I guess I am the head of the MMM now huh?

That is an awesome damn idea Tim!

I like the khaki/brown shirt. I want it to be different from last years too. I am hoping for a cool "art shirt." I really did not like last year's art on a shirt. It was great on a print, not-so-great on a shirt.

For my concom shirt, I'd like a Large please. I also want to get 4 female style shirts. Two smalls and 2 mediums.

Hi there Elizabeth, haven't seen you around the boards yet, so Welcome! I've added your shirt listing to the ConCom shirt requests thread.

I'm going to mention that I've heard a lot of people express the desire to have the guest artist's art printed on paper or canvas rather than a shirt. I still like the idea of doing a limited edition print instead of a shirt, it's classy and it doesn't horribly degrade the artist's work, which I think is really an insult to our guest. IMHO