Life is getting tough. Folk can’t afford to buy clothes for work and home, so what to do?

One answer is to upgrade, not downgrade, your wardrobe and on that basis the T-shirts sold by Nau are an investment. They are not cheap. I’ll say that again. They are not cheap. $55 for a basic tee sounds crazy, I know, if you can’t find $10 for a pizza, but bear with me, there’s logic to this.
Cheap tees are not an investment. They look good for a couple of weeks, a couple of months if you’re fussy about how you wash and store them, and then they are only fit for TV nights in. But a top quality T-shirt should last you several years and if the styling is absolutely classic, will look good for that whole time.

So to Nau – this women’s T-shirt is made from 100% organic cotton, which is planet saving, so that’s already an investment in karma. More fashion-focused details are that it has slight pleats at the neckline and a three-quarter length sleeve that is also slightly gathered so that the effect is more tailored and snugger where it matters, eliminating the risk of sag and drag, those twin markers of Tee senility. In black, white and dark gray (they call them caviar, pure and twilight – pretentious, eux?) it’s a good start to a capsule wardrobe that could carry a cash-light fashionista through the tough year ahead. Worn with jeans this will look good, but with an office skirt, it’ll upgrade to smart without looking like you’re trying to double up your wardrobe use, even if you are.

Post by Kay who knows where her money goes … but still can’t stop it going.

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I’ve always had a downer on organic Tees. It goes back to the days when they were designed by beard-sprouting hippies who lived in caves – and that was only the women – and were made out of cotton that seemed to have been harvested and spun by blind beggars with something against teeshirt wearers, because they always left chunks of unprocessed cotton balling in them, that destroyed silkscreen designs by making a lump over which the image didn’t take properly and made the garment as itchy as buggery.

If, like me, you think design and fit are the whole point of a tee, then this didn’t exactly make organic teeshirts an interesting alternative to the mainstream.

Time moves on. Kay keeps swanning around in organic T-shirts that seem almost reasonable. She persuades me that 2009 might be the year of the organic tee and Mikey forming a relationship. I go browsing. And this is what I find.

Not just a teeshirt, not just an organic teeshirt, but an organic teeshirt with a bloody brilliant design and a sale price! Don’t say I’m not good to you.

Spunky have redesigned their website, and as they won’t be strutting their stuff at Glasto in 2009, perhaps this new design will focus their attention on customer service, which varies from excellent to weird, depending on who you talk to and how close they are to going to/freaking at/recovering from Glastonbury. Still, this Tshirt is a bargain for the cash-strapped fashion and environment fan and long may they keep up their standards.

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