Every day is Earth day at Zen-oh-tee

Since I'm taking a huge leap back into writing for the blog, I thought I would post a little something for Earth day. What better day to waffle on about how good my hand printed tshirts and hoodies are! Seriously, they are good for the earth, and here's why:

Sustainable Clothing 

Each geeky T-shirt, gamer hoodie and every piece of anime clothing I sell is sourced from a supplier who practices sustainable garment manufacturing. I will soon post a "Why choose Zen-oh-tee" article that will list the suppliers and their policies and standards so you can see for yourself. :)

Ethical Clothing

I ensure all the manufacturers of the blank T-shirts have high ethical working and living standards for their workers. My suppliers help their local communities and believe in safe and fair working conditions and wages. Sometimes helping the environment can begin with something as simple as taking care of your fellow man.

Made to order, not mass produced. 

That's right, I only make what is ordered. This is why items can take a few days to be posted. Your gamer T-shirts are being made just for you! They are not mass produced on the cheap and stored in a warehouse to sit and rot, and so there is no way any unwanted designs are going to end up in a landfill when the latest fad has been forgotten. This also means less energy and materials being wasted.

Better printing materials

The printing media I use is PVC free and so it's better for the environment, its also perfect for my made to order policy. Printing and the chemicals involved can have a huge affect on the environment, I save every off cut and again as I only make clothing to order, this further reduces the negative impact that printing textiles has on our planet.


Degradable mail bags

I bet you didn't know this one! Yes that is right, all gaming t-shirts and geeky hoodies posted are sent in a mail bag that is degradable. It took me a long time to source these but to me they are worth every minute spent trawling the internet. I also don't bag items individually in garment bags. I mean what's the point of putting a bag in a bag?


Seriously though, these are beautiful selling points for my geeky t-shirts and hoodies that I hardly touch on. I must admit I'm not sure how many people out there care about this sort of thing, or even look for it. But I know I'm one of those people, so hey! There's at least one :)

So there you have it, sustainable geek T-shirts, organic anime clothing, environmentally friendly gamer clothing. Geek and gamer clothing that we can be happy to wear! I've always been a sort of casual hippy I guess. In my circle of friends I am the most eco-conscious, I care about being wasteful and recycling, I like the planet I live on and the animals I share it with. So its something that is always on my mind, in a way a sort of hobby, and something I wanted to incorporate into my little business.

When I first worked for one of my suppliers, one of the clothing manufacturers came in and did a presentation on a new brand they had introduced. The brand was, plain and simple, organic clothing. They explained that for every T-shirt there is a cup of pesticides used, we're talking a cup the size of one you might get from the water cooler at work, so when you consider the amount of clothing in the world, that's a lot of dangerous chemicals going into the soil, and some of that cup of pesticides stays in the clothing, and ends up on our skin.

It was something I had never considered. You never do consider things like this until you are actually told about it. As a species we produce a lot, and sadly we are wasteful. So when you think about all the clothing out there, all the damage done to produce it all, it's something to consider when you are looking to help the planet.

When I started my little clothing company, being green is what I wanted to do. That brand that produced some of the worlds first organic T-shirts was an inspiration. I could actually make a conscious effort to have an environmentally friendly business. And so my Etsy shop started out with sustainable and organic geek and gamer clothing.

As time goes on things do change, and the brand that I used for my organic and sustainable T-shirts no longer produce those specific items I sold all that time ago, or in one particular case they stopped making the women's styles. I wasn't happy. But that didn't stop me!

So anyway that was about 4 years ago now, and today I can celebrate Earth day in my own little way, knowing I've built a little company that cares about our planets future, and I certainly wont stop here. I'll always be sure to keep an eye on my suppliers and their practices, and every time I find a new supplier that is green I will introduce a bit more to my geek and gamer clothing range. Happy Earth day people! I hope you are all doing your bit :)

One Punch Man

ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!

This manga/anime is amazing. go watch it. I don't care if you don't like reading subtitles.

Saitama is the hero we all need. So powerful, he can end a fight with one punch. But that is the start of his frustrations as a hero. If you too roll your eyes at your usual lengthy character back story you get with every anime character, you will love One Punch Man.

Its been a long time since I had a series I had to watch week by week, and felt so much frustration in having to wait for the next episode. This has been one of the best anime's I've found so far. So of course I had to make something for it. Fan's will (hopefully) recognise the clenched fist and text from the anime's opening sequence.

One Punch Man hoodie. Available in black and Yellow (if you think you can pull it off like Saitama himself) The One Punch hoodie has been added to the Anime hoodies section of the site, and shall hopefully make it's way into the Anime T-shirts section soon :)

Just Saiyan....

I have a lot of love for Dragonball Z, like many it was something I grew up with. So although its by far not the best anime out there, it will always be my personal favourite and every Dragonball related item I come across will always ignite a certain giddiness within me. I've even promised myself once I reach a certain goal I'll be purchasing this little item for my work desk.

So during the time I have been self employed I was able to download and watch every bit of Dragonball that is currently available. While peeling vinyl and cutting designs I've managed to make it though every episode and film, including GT. And like many fans out there I must say for me GT was god awful. 

Which is why I was quite happy to see Battle of the Gods seems to be set on a different story line, and I'm much looking forward to the new film Resurrection F, and of course the MMO - Dragonball Online Revelations

For any fans out there who haven't done their homework. Dragonball Z did have an online game which was somewhat similar to the Dragon ball Xenoverse that was recently released. At the time it was only available in I think Japan and Korea. If you knew what you were doing (thanks to the online guides and youtube vids provided) It was possible to download, and play in a very bad English translation. 

Now that's not to say the good people who translated it did a bad job, they actually did a brilliant job, its just that so little was translated by the time the game was closed, and using the google translate file for the whole game made it almost impossible to know what was really going on. 

But anyway, the wonderful people at Dragonball Online Revelations are slowly piecing together a private server and an English version of the game for all those who were sad to see it go. And I must ask that you please don't stop. I was worried that when Xenoverse was released all work on Revelations would come to an end. But I'm sure like myself, many of us still want to see DBO back up and running, even while we furiously click our way through the battles in Xenoverse for that Z rank. 

Anyways, back to clothing. Having finished GT I thought this was a brilliant time to bring back some of my Dragonball themed items. 

My Personal favourite for a good while now has been my capsule corp T-shirt. I'm not much of a T-shirt wearer, I really prefer vest tops. But this is still in my wardrobe even after all this time. 

So bearing in mind I much prefer to wear vest tops and zipped hoodies, I decided to make a Capsule Corp zipped hoodie. Complete with the logo on the shoulder. The midnight blue is currently only available in small and XXL, but once my supplier gets more stock of this colour I'll bring in the full size range for it.  

  

I've also added in the original women's capsule corp T-shirt and the men's capsule corp tshirt too in a selection of colours. The T-shirt will not feature the logo on the sleeve. Just because its too awkward to do!

Keeping in with the keep calm theme. (Because I'm sure most fans have tried to turn super saiyan at some point) I've also added a Keep Calm Super Saiyan T-shirt

The King Kai hoodie has been around here for a while, so I thought it time to introduce the Turtle Hermit hoodie. 

  

And for the last one, a design that was on Etsy but somehow hasn't made it anywhere else yet. Just because for some reason I keep losing the design images. Just Saiyan T-shirt, with the one and only Goku in SSJ 1 form. 

As I've just tweeted, this puts the shops number of products at 99! So that can only mean that number 100 has to be the Attack on Titan hoodie that has been promised for so long. The alternative green hoodie I chose arrives tomorrow, so it will be up this weekend :)