Shock: Your Co-Workers

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Do you want reasons to talk about roleplaying games with your co-workers, but can’t get them to ask you about it? They’ll definitely ask you about this shirt. Inspired by a railway worker’s safety shirt, it’s 100% cotton and made domestically by American Apparel, so be forewarned that sizes run a little gay.

It comes it Caution Orange, just like Shock: does — a color that doesn’t exist in any natural environment; the color of astronauts bailing out of space shuttles and impending cyberpunk industrial disasters. It comes pre-marked with a robot-readable QR code that links to a special goody that will only be visible in October, when the Italian edition of Shock: premiers at Lucca Comics and Games, a convention that puts Gen Con to shame.

Orders are only open until the end of September, so order quick!

Size (remember that they’re a little tight)

0 thoughts on “Shock: Your Co-Workers”

  1. A QR code, but it doesn’t just link to a site with information and an order form? And whatever it does, it’ll do after the Italian edition premieres?

    So, an AR piece, right?

    Well, whatever the case, I’ll take it!

  2. Late, late response… I have three reasons:

    1. Their ad campaigns (which they blanket Seattle in) generally feature girls wearing nothing but underwear in badly-photoshopped suggestive poses. The two times I’ve seen men in their ads, they’ve been fully clothed and looking at the camera straight-on. This is annoying.

    2. The owner has been sued a few times for sexual harassment of his employees, and apparently none of the policies that provoked said lawsuits (hitting on employees, sleeping with employees, promotions based on appearance) have changed. A lot of this is rumor, so by itself wouldn’t stop me from buying from them, but it does add to my general negative impression.

    3 (and this is the biggest reason). Their clothes aren’t sized well for women. Their “youth” large (boys up to age 12) is larger in the chest than a women’s large. Their women’s sizes also run very small and then they don’t offer very large sizes, cutting off women much larger than me. I own a handful of AA t-shirts and they all fit horribly, because despite claiming to be women’s shirts, they seem to be cut for adolescent boys. The only woman I’ve met who likes AA clothes and isn’t unusually slender only wears them after making extensive alterations.

    This makes me sort of sad, because a lot of my favorite webcomics sell AA shirts, as do places like shirtwoot and threadless. But I don’t like supporting their ad campaign, and anyway, their shirts look terrible on me. Oh well!

  3. Since you wrote your post above, I’ve looked into it further and, though I like their products, I have to take into account at the very least their sizing, if not the other douchery.

    In the future, it might wind up making sense to offer different manufacturers the way John Harper does so people can get different fits, but this order’s already in the works. It also might make sense to not offer AA at all, if the douchery turns out to actually be real.

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