Today we’ve collected some brain-busting feats of t-shirt daring and human textile achievement from the Guiness World Records and other corners of the t-shirt universe.
No doubt you’ve all seen the timelapse video of the sponsored by a Swedish t-shirt company who achieved a Guinness World Record for wearing 237 total shirts at one time. Wearing over 100 pounds of t-shirts at once looks a little uncomfortable. Their record was beaten on May 22, 2010 by Krunoslav Budiselić of Croatia.
The largest t-shirt on record measured 236.88 feet in length and 159.78 feet in width and was achieved and displayed by the Qatar PetroChemical Company (QAPCO) at ASPIRE Park, Doha, Qatar on November 23, 2010 in support of Qatar’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022. This massive t-shirt weighed in at a whopping 6 tons!
The most people folding T-shirts simultaneously was 275 set at Westfield Shopping Centre in an event organized by Retail Trust as part of the annual fundraiser during Retail Trust Week in London, UK, on 14 May 2009.
The most t-shirts put on in one hour is 94 and was achieved by Jonathan O’Connell (Ireland), assisted by Vincent McQuarrie, on the set of Tubridy Tonight, RTE, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland, on 30th May 2009.
The most people arranged to form an image of an animal was 1,311 who formed an image of a white stork by wearing printed t-shirts with part of the image in an event organised by Ptaki Polskie (Poland) at the school of Goniadz, Poland, on the 19 September 2010.
UNIQLO UT, a massive Japanese T-Shirt brand has just opened an entire store which is essentially a giant vending machine. Set in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, the “shop” vends T-shirts in tubes, like tennis balls.
