It’s only June, but I can already smell sulphur and gunpowder in the air. The hiss of fuses and the crackle of sparks push forward in memory. My fingers start to tingle. It’s almost the 4th of July. Just as kids dream of sugarplum fairies at Christmas, I dream of earth-shaking booms, neighbor-rousing whistles and…
Three Wolf BlueCotton Moon
Just the other day, Tom, our General Operations Manager, was seen wearing a new shirt he designed using our award winning Design Studio. Tom, of course, chose his favorite shirt, the American Apparel BB401, as the canvas for his Three Wolf BlueCotton Moon masterpiece. When asked about his new shirt, Tom simply listed the pros…
The Six Ton T-shirt
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….
BlueCotton.com Gives Back
Our founder and CEO, Mike Coffey, will be participating in a golf-a-thon fundraiser on June 20th. The event will be raising money for the tornado victims in Alabama. This is a “pledge” fundraiser, so Mike will play as many holes as possible. He wants to play at least 72 holes of golf and perhaps even…
What Your Band T-Shirt Says About You [Infographic]
Summertime is here, and the music festival season has officially begun. In our last post, Leann described her experience at last summer’s Bonaroo music festival and shared some tour shirts for the 2011 Bonaroo lineup. Anyone that calls them self a music fan has at least one t-shirt featuring a favorite musical artist. The kind…
My Summer Set-List: 10 Hot Sounds & 10 Hot Shirts
Last summer, in the year two-thousand-and-ten, BlueCotton’s Creative Director, Angie Norrod and I embarked on a summer extravaganza to Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Spending four days with the top names in music sounded like a fantastic way to blow a few of our hard earned vacation days. AND- I had actually…