Pay It Forward Shirt Supports Cause for Africa

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In line with its tradition of supporting worthy causes, Pay It Forward has released “PIF Africa”, a cause t-shirt intended to raise funds and awareness for the needs of Africa. In partnership with organizations that already have established presence in Africa, PIF, together with their customers, hopes to have an impact to positive changes in the region.

PIF is able to do this by donating 25% of proceeds from their t-shirt sales to one of the twelve non-profit organizations that it represents. Customers buying their shirts can choose which among these organizations to donate to, thus allowing them to give to a cause that they closely associate themselves with. These organizations are all known for their solid financial track record.

The new PIF shirt features the company logo in a yellow and blue variation with watermarked background on the canvas of a white crew neck tee. It is made of combed cotton and jersey material, and is of tailored design fit. The unique design is highlighted by the shirt’s olive green color.

According to Jana, PIF’s Operations Director, the shirts are designed to be a show stopper so that people would want to ask about it and what it means, thus raising awareness for causes that supports African women and children. For its wearer, the shirt also represents how they helped change the world.

Beyonce’s Statement – In a Shirt!

Something to say?: It looked like Beyonce might have been referencing her recent lip-synching scandal when she shared this photo on her Instagram page

She may have kept quiet about the issue of lip-synching the National Anthem at President Obama’s recent inauguration ball, but Beyonce have not kept mum about the issue at all. In a recent Instagram post, she shared a photo where she is seen wearing a shirt with a phrase ‘Can I Live’ printed on it. Although she has not given her side on the lip-synching scandal, the photo is taken as referencing it as much as it referenced her husband Jay-z’s song having the same title, according to the Mail Online.

The photo posts precede Beyonce’s scheduled performance at the Super Bowl. Another image shows the singer-actress sporting a shirt with the name of her husband’s basketball team, The Brooklyn Nets. There is also a photograph that shows a wide black and white shot of her backup dancers in position. These photos were taken during her rehearsals for the Super Bowl show.

Beyonce will reportedly be performing onstage with her Destiny’s Child band mates, and she is set to sing their most famous songs as well as her hit song ‘Crazy In Love’. The singer have yet to air her side about the lip-synching issue, which exploded when a member of the Marine Corps Band claimed she did not sing in real time, but a Marine spokesman later backed off the claim. It appears the issue was a result of the misunderstanding about having a pre-recorded track. The use of these tracks as a backup is very common in live events.

Beyonce’s band mate Michelle defended on a segment of the program Good Morning America, saying that people should rather look at what can Beyonce bring in the future.

Finally! A Shirt for Healing Back Pain!

If you love to have that fabulous body shape but hate going to the gym, then this is just the news for you – a new shirt designed to cure back and shoulder pain caused by poor posture. Announced over the program, World News Now of ABC News on January 23, the shirt is sure to attract the attention of fitness enthusiasts.

The secret to the shirts back pain healing effects is the use of compression panels that are intended to pull the body back to a correct and supportive posture. This in effect makes your muscles work harder and results in toning up your stomach.

Working like a back brace, the shirt supports good posture by keeping the shoulders from sloping forward, as much as it keeps the spine in correct alignment. Back pain is then avoided because pressure is taken off the muscles that connect the neck to the shoulders. A panel around the middle also supports the core muscles, helping the wearer to keep from slouching.

Designed by a physiotherapist, the shirts panels, which are actually ‘tension tabs’, were placed where they will pull the body into an aligned position. Curbs in the shirt also make diagonal pulls, an important action for many muscles such as rhomboids found between the shoulders. The tabs on the lower part compress the abdominal muscles from the front to the back. Apart from making the abdominal muscles work harder, the compression also has the secondary effect of making the wearer think more about their posture,

Plane Crew Finds Shirt Intimidating

"The Princess Bride"

Fearing that passengers will be offended and intimidated by his shirt, a flight attendant at Qantas airways asked Wynand Mullins to change his shirt. The shirt has the words ‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.’ Mullins argues that the crew never understood the humor behind the shirt, and said that passengers next to him are laughing at the crew’s request because they know the movie from which the line on his shirt was taken. The quote was taken from a 1987 cult film entitled ‘The Princess Bride’.

Other airlines apart from Qantas have also been known to harass passengers on the issue of what they wear during flights. They don’t usually publish a specific dress code to follow, but they authorize attendants to decide on what is offensive or inappropriate. Last year in May, for instance, a woman in an American Airlines flight was told by the pilot that she should not be in the plane because she wore a shirt that had the F-word printed on it. In yet another instance, a man was barred from boarding a Delta flight in Buffalo, N.Y., last August for wearing a shirt that has a the words ‘Terrorists gonna kill us all’.

While this policy of the airlines may seem to violate a passengers freedom of speech, airplanes are considered as private property, and they have the right therefore to set up and enforce their own codes.

Tees To Marvel At

New Year, New WeLoveFine Marvel T-Shirts

Looking for some ways to make this New Year marvelous?

At WeLoveFine, the new year comes with a fresh collection of new Marvel tees that are designed with various styles, the better to keep you Marvel-ling which design to pick up for a celebration.

To keep you stunned, a tee featuring Jamie McKelvie’s latest Captain Marvel cover is being offered. You can even go higher, up to the stratosphere if you will, with a Carol Danvers wear. The best thing about all of this is that these tees are available for both men’s and women’s sizes.

Manga fans are not left out, with WeLoveFine’s lovable ‘chibi’ characters demanding attention from the cool Galactus, The Silver Surfer and The Watcher. The marvel doesn’t stop with cute chibi-style characters added into the scene such as Kitty Pryde, She-hulk, and Dark Phoenix.  Both guys and gals will surely love to have these new items: Rogue, Storm, The Punisher as well as the reflective SHIELD logo tee.

See for yourself these wonderful tees at the Marvel category of WeLoveFine.

T-shirt Truck: Coming in Cleveland

If it’s about selling goods in trucks, then you’re sure to have it in Cleveland. It was food trucks a couple of years back, and this time around, it’s a truck for selling shirts.

Tony Madalone’s Cleveland based Fresh Brewed Tees decided to include retail trucks in its clothing retail operations when the clothing store couldn’t decide where among Cleveland’s hotspots such as East 4th/Gateway, Warehouse District, Ohio City, Tremont, etc., to open another retail store in. The company purchased a box truck that looks similar to food truck and has called on Clevelanders to help it get on the streets.

Madalone also enlisted the help of Kickstarter, a website that lets people fund a project in return for something from the owner when a project turns successful. Currently, he is hoping to get v$5000 in the next 24 days and has so far raised $1600.

Madalone also worked with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman, who worked with the City Council regarding food trucks before, to get a legislation allowing such a truck in major city events. He said the biggest challenge is obtaining permits to sell from a truck in the streets of the central business district. The current arrangement is selling from a private lot with its owner’s permission as well as a $300 permit per location. A petition for signing by Clevelanders is now on the rolls to convince city leaders to allow clothing trucks to sell on the streets just like food trucks.

Psalm 91 on Ray Lewis’ Postgame T-Shirt

Ray Lewis

It is quite normal for people to print just about anything in their shirts, from different designs to opinions. But when what your T-shirt says on it stirs a whole lot of people off their seats without criticism of what it conveys, then it’s definitely a worthy statement.

This is exactly what Ray Lewis did. The soon-to-be-retired linebacker of the NFL just recently took off his jersey after a game to reveal a black sleeveless T-shirt on which is printed on a gold font the Psalm for Protection, Psalm 91, also known as a psalm for hard times.

The shirt received much attention as Lewis made a victory lap around the M&T stadium, sending many to consider what message Lewis’ is trying to put across. Lewis, who is said to have taken refuge in the Lord, says he hopes that his action has been uplifting for people, especially those who need to push through no matter what circumstance they may be under. He also said that he felt no pain in recording a game high 13 even after suffering from a season-ending triceps tear.

Spreadshirt Collection – What’s New In A Shirt?

The wait is over for cotton enthusiasts – the Spreadshirt Collection is finally off and running. This new collection offers colorful T-shirts for men, women, and kids. What makes it different, though, is that there is no middleman to contend with, so stocks will come in steady.

What makes Spreadshirt different? Prior to the shirts making, Anne, Spreadshirt Apparel Manager, has made an extensive travel around the world to search only the best manufacturer for the line. She has flown all the way from Europe to Asia, and then back again before settling for Switcher, a company in Portugal which she says is a dependable partner and a certified manufacturer.

Spreadshirt does not stop there, though. Every piece has its own DNA code that allows its owner to trace all desired details regarding the production of the shirt. The code has just to be entered at www.respect-code.org, and you will get all the production details that you would like to have.

These shirts come in specifications that are intended for men, women, kids, and teenagers. The fabric weight, color, size, and cut have been carefully tailored out to fit this different user groups.

And not to forget, you’ll surely love that cute little love tab attached to the shirt’s left sleeve and on the inside of the back of the collar.

Racist T-Shirts

By all indications, Taco Cid in West Colombia is a Mexican restaurant rather than a political hotspot. But just recently, it has attracted national attention on the issue of illegal immigrants, reaping both criticism and praise from different people whose opinion on the issue are as diverse as the American population.

The controversy started out when the restaurant owner, Snelgrove, decided to make and sell T-shirts printed with the phrase “How To Catch An Illegal Immigrant”, accompanied by a drawing of a box with a stick held over two tacos, resembling a makeshift trap.

Sandy Jones, a pastor at a predominantly Hispanic church in the Midlands, complains that the shirts are being very racist in its comment, and is asking the restaurant to stop selling the shirts and to publicly apologize.

Snelgrove, however, averred that they created the T-shirts as witty and comical statement regarding illegal immigrants, and that no element of hate or racial remarks is intended towards any ethnic group.

Snelgrove states that she got the inspiration for the shirts at a cruise in Key West, where she saw similar shirts being sold. Selling for $35, she says that she has been mailing the shirts all over the world.

She further added that it’s not racist but just a shirt about immigrants, illegal immigrants that is.

Toxic T-shirt

Calvin Klein, GAP, Victoria Secret and H&M all have something in common.  Their clothes were found to have toxic chemicals by Greenpeace International.  They found several chemicals in these brands clothing lines, but they aren’t enough to harm consumers who purchase the items.  The concern is in the manufacturing, where it was found in two textile manufacturers in China that dangerous substances were being dumped into the water.

That same water is used to wash the clothes once they are created, thus the reason there are chemicals on the threading.  Some of these substances were once used in laundry detergent, thus more reason why they are being found on these garments.  Research has shown though that after two washes, 99 percent of any toxic chemicals were removed from the clothing.