The clothes should be free if they include advertisements.
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Around 2000 sort of time I bought some baggy jeans with "coca cola" on the back pocket. In the shop I thought this was great. I wore them once then realised why the fuck and I'm wearing these. Never wore them again.
BIG upvote from me. i do exactly this. especially when it's prominently placed.
i bought a blank product, i want it to look blank. a logo is aesthetically jarrinf, it's like it breaks the plain design.
i even go the effort of buying blank 59fifty baseball caps ans painstakingly use a thread ripper to remove the "new era" logo.
I feel the same about a lot of products, especially cars lately (in Europe). Huge brand symbols and some even light up. What's next RGB? Having a huge brand logo on something feels... cheap.
I feel just as passionate about plastic bags. I make sure never to take the correct one to the store I'm visiting.
Interestingly enough, the German big 3 usually offer debadging in terms of model and engine size as a free option and it seems most people take it unless they want to boast that it's an M5 or something AMG. But that's just to hide that they have a 2.0 diesel I think. Nobody offers their cars without the actual logo though, as far as I know. I suspect most buyers don't want to hide that it's a BMW, only that it's a 520d with an M-sport package rather than an M5.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who takes the logos off things!
There's dozens of us!
And even a famous fictional character! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel)
Let's not forget, putting a foss-related sticker over the Windows/Super key.
Funnily enough I have opt | start there, with start not being common on Windows keyboards (the opt is from Mac keyboards though). I got the Mac version of the Logitech MX Keys because I didn't want to see any windows logos lol
I replaced mine with an "any" key.
I just buy plain color t shirts to begin with, this looks like a lot of work and risk nicking the fabric. Plus, they're cheaper, too.
Plain t shirts that aren't garbage are difficult to find.
Mmm one would think there would be some way to tell the quality manufacturer from the shitty ones. How would that work right? Would they put on a little tag to make it easily identifiable? No no that's fuckin crazy
Ps wrangler specifically sells the same workwear shirt with no tag for printing, you just gotta order it from the website by request.
Itβs really easy and takes like five minutes. Everyone should have a seam ripper. Not just to remove brands but also annoying tags. Also I imagine most on lemmy donβt care about this, but if you buy a suit coat/blazer/whatever youβll need a seam ripper to open up the pockets.
speaking as someone who modifies clothing and sews patches and fabric and stuff a lot, sometimes for work, thread rippers are surprisingly elegant for this sort of thing
I just avoid purchasing clothing with visible branding
I also try to. But those shirts are 100% cotton and a fair bit thicker than what you get from other brands. They remind of pre-enshittified Carhartt shirts. They're kinda hard to pass up over something you can cut off in a minute or two.
Nice. Fuck branding.
I share the same sentiment towards corporate. I'd also remove/conceal big brand logos like this when I can, or I'd shop for things without visible logos to begin with.
I do, however, like to wear band merch. Bands that are just as happy to see me as I'm happy to see them. People I can go and talk to at the merch stand. People who, funded through merch and shows, will have the means to record another album.
I do this with wrangler too, I actually appreciate they make it simple to remove, instead of stitching it into a seam. Wrangler makes the only 100% cotton lightweight work/cargo pant that I can find. The rest are synthetic.
carhartt b01!
Yeah I own a few pair of those. I'm saying wrangler has the only lightweight ones I can find in 100% cotton. Carhartt are the heaviest weight I own.
One thing I learned from punk rock: it's OK to cut things off your clothes, or sew things on, or attach things with safetypins, etc. In fact, it's encouraged.
First thing I do anytime I purchase a vehicle is to remove the dealership decal... I should do this with my clothes as well.
I'm glad whoever made this did such a good job censoring out the brand, I might have thought it was subtle advertising otherwise.
Yeah, I thought about turning face down, but I wasn't sure it would be clear what I was doing. So, this is how I chose to do it. I did think about the irony.
Good thing you really censored that logo so no one will know it's wranglers you're advertising for in this post.
I do this or black tape over logos on electronics. Feels so good you look around your house and not see any logos.

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