Cannibal Cloths

The distance from onepitcher might be simply because it has stopped agreeing with me. Consider my absence one long hangover, during which time I unfaithfully traversed other forms of media - Instagram, Youtube, and even – horror of horrors – the written word. However, at long last, I'm back, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt*:

This isn't just any t-shirt, little one! It's an organ donee - the pocket comes from an older tee that was on its way out. You see, I now need spectacles for reading, the glasses performing the functions of making me older, and visor. But since I don't need them all the time, I needed somewhere to slip them in. At the same time, my old graphic tees (many of them of long beloved metal bands) were faded, stretched out or torn, though not as much as I was about tossing them out. So I made a pocket-template and started selecting bits of the old tees and hand-stitching them on to new blank tees.

The result: Brand new tees with one-of-a-kind graphics and a pocket for my glasses. Once I figured out a workflow, I used the services of a local tailor in the very interesting but ramshackle Arihant Plaza building. A few more examples below, since you couldn't be bothered to click to a separate folder in this day and age.

*The concept being so lousy that the Wikipedia article is deleted but the discussion is retained as a reminder for future gimmicists (gimmnasts?)