# I'm not gonna wear your logo, thank you.

It's been a while since I last wrote anything in Turni, and that is so not because I lost interest, rather I was so much preoccupied with stuff that when I found a moment or two once in a while—I couldn't bring myself to make me sit and write something that I imagine someone might find interesting. To be perfectly honest, I'm unsure about the nature of this writing as well.

So, I've always been fond of custom design shirts. The idea is to provide your own design, may it be some artwork you created/designed or a slogan, or a motif, etc to a t-shirt vendor and they'll take that design, produce t-shirt in their own time and sell the final products back to you. The reason why you'd prefer custom design over the premade, ready-to-buy stuff you see on the showcase is a no-brainer one. A custom t-shirt speaks for you. It's like a personal canvas of a sort. Instead of sporting Nike or Adidas on your outfit, you boast your own likings.
I see this equation in a much simpler way. If I want to show any pattern or design on my wearable, why the hell am I going to advertise for someone else?
This is why I always avoid buying clothes with brand logo showing. Plain shirts and t-shirts are much better—unless it's something I actually want to show. Like t-shirt of my favorite musical band. I'm advertising for the band in this case, but I'm also advertising myself—showing everyone what kind of music I listen to.

But making a custom t-shirt has its own caveat. Vendors won't simply sell a single t-shirt to you. You want to make your design come to life? Sure, make 100 t-shirts. That won't do. And if some vendor or service agrees, they will charge you way more than average. But hey, when you want to buy clothes as a hobbyist, you can't complain. The real problem was Covid though. The only vendor I knew who provided a single custom t-shirt wasn't making t-shirts anymore due to supply shortage and I had to buy plain clothes only.

A few days ago I found a new business page on Facebook and it looked like they provided custom t-shirts. I talked to them, provided a couple of designs I preselected quite some time ago, made the payment first. I was a bit skeptical as there was no review, and I think I was their first customer lol. But they actually surprised me with their amiable behavior and when I finally got the products about a week later, I was delighted by the quality! And they are actually cheaper than the previous vendor I used. Of course, I wrote a positive review for them and hoping to make some more t-shirts.

For the first two, one of them is Cahiers Du Cinema, the French film magazine from the 1950s and another one is Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein—one of the greatest films ever made. The film is already in the public domain, and the magazine poster is over 70 years old.

Now, do you think they speak for me? I think they do. :)