Top amputee tee
Friday, August 15, 2008 5:50I‘ll tell you what I hate,
what I really really hate …
When somebody suggests a tee for Teejunkie to feature and I track down the designer and ask for some images so that we can see if giving him some free publicity is what we want to do and he says he’ll send images, BUT NEVER DOES!
Which is why today’s uber-powerful T-shirt is not brought to you by Tom (who might be reading this and should be ashamed of himself) from Hereford, but by somebody else entirely.
We do not do good causes here – only good T-shirts and if that sounds harsh, tough titties! But sometimes the two come together, as in this awesome design. It’s a screenprint of Melissa Stockwell: 28 years old, Olympian and the first US female amputee of the Iraq War.
She’s done an amazing amount of stuff in the four years since having her amputation: 8 triathlons, 2 NYC Marathons; set 3 US Paralympic swimming records and qualified for Beijing. Makes the rest of us look feeble – and so we should. Coming back from this kind of injury must be shit-hard and deserves a T-shirt at the very least. Which is what she’s been given by TakePride - btw guys, the site name is interesting – I assumed it was going to be a gay tee-shirt for sure – maybe you are reclaiming Pride for the world, but hey, it made me giggle.
But that’s not why we like the tee (even Mikey likes it, and he has a heart of asbestos and concrete). We feature it because it’s coooooool! Great image, and the block print of text that tells her story is a f****** wonderful idea. Instead of the mass-marketing hoo-ha around big sporting brands, this is a blow struck in the direction of the athletes who make those brands stand out - yeah!!
The whole design has a kind of Samurai feel to it which seems entirely appropriate to Melissa’s struggle and the price is a steal at $25 – so props to Melissa and really bad eggs to Tom from Hereford who should go and bang his head against a wall for a while – daft sod.
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lbs says:
October 15th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
i just heard about these tee-shirts on NPR’s Here and Now program today, Oct 15. I logged onto the TakePride.com site when I got back from lunch and am very impressed with this idea. As they said on NPR, it’s a great way to support the troops without supporting the war. I’m glad you have spread the word on these awesome tees. I think they would make a cool x-mas gift.