Now here is a cause I can believe in

fletchy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:42:29 +0000

I’ve never had a job where I had to wear a Suit and Tie everyday and I never will, its an outdated idea and aside from my making me feel like a corporate whore, and if you are allowing me to get melodramatic a little bit here – tie’s strangle your sole.

So when I opened my Springleap newsletter today I was pleased to read that they’ve team up with P.A.S.T. (People Against Suits and Ties) to design a shirt for Casual Day. Brilliant a combination of two of my favourite things – crowdsourced t-shirts and rebellion. If the prize was kids candy and not 5000 SA Rand (about $629), that’d be all three of my favourite things. Still that would buy a lot of kids candy.

Here is an quote from P.A.S.T.’s manifesto

“Are we not just a bunch of uniformed prisoners, stacked and ranked against each other in a sea of grey, homogenised conformity – worker dogs, leashed to the fascist state of corporate rule?
Is it not the truth that collars are for dogs and that suits are merely the stifling uniforms of an archaic order of servitude?”

And some contest info:

“We believe that the tie is a noose around democracy’s neck.”

Here here, here here!

Link: Springleap

P.A.S.T – People Against Suits and Ties

Other great deals to checkout:

Springleap 50% 48 Hour Sale

coty — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:27:02 +0000

Are you familiar with Springleap? If not, then you should be, because they are having a massive 50% off sale for the next 48 hours. You can get in on the action by using the coupon code “HAPPY009″ at checkout. Springleap is a South Africa based t-shirt competition site that allows members to submit and vote for their favorite designs. Think Threadless and Design by Humans. Every month, Springleap selects the top 21 designs, prints them up and makes them available for purchase.

The prizes that Springleap dishes out is pretty nice, the top winner (1 every month) gets R7000 ($703.11 US), a tee and a poster print with the winning design and each of the 19 runner up tees for that month! Winners also receive R2.00 ($0.20 US) commission for every tee sold. Runner ups receive their design on a tee, poster, plus two other runner up tees of their choice, and R1.00 ($0.10 US) commission for every tee sold. For more information on Springleap, be sure to checkout out their What Is Springleap page.

You might be wondering, 50%, that’s a lot – but what tees should I get? That’s where I come in! I’ve hand picked 5 tees for you. Let me know if you like them! Found a better tee? Post a link to it in the comments! Have fun and enjoy this 50% off coupon code! Thanks to Shirt Spotting for sharing this amazing deal!

Everyone likes a good Star Wars tee! Star Wors was designed by kingslip and reached the top 20 back in October. Someone needs to build that grill pronto!

Here’s a fancy design by by fragment, aptly named, fragment. Lot’s of things going on in this tee, maybe that’s why it was the featured design for December. Anyone here practice phrenology?!

Growing Love by Iblaauw is a straight up cool tee! I kinda wish it glowed in the dark. Reminds me a little bit of Sulley from Monsters Inc.

This one is called Sundae Best by vonmonkey. This one definitely screams Threadless – it could easily be mistaken for one with its cute design and witty name.

MonsieurEureka created this piece, which reached the top 20 last November. Essential tee for whenever you go to the bakery. Hey, I’m just giving you a perfectly good reason to buy this tee!

Other great deals to checkout: