This website for a documentary about how donated clothing has destroyed local textile industries in Africa has a nice infographic. The Salvation Army profits off selling donated clothing to Africa.

The takeaway from this puff piece on Nike subsidiary Converse is that designer John Varvatos's new boutique occupies the site of former punk club CBGBs.

A blogger has noted that Target is selling t-shirts bundled with games from the Experimental Gameplay Project, which began as a grad student project at Carnegie Mellon. I think this is an interesting use of the retail channel for distributing games.

Rob Walker ponders tractor manufacturer John Deere's decision to launch a clothing line. It's not clear to him if this is an appeal to irony or if their marketing targets "heartland" consumers.

For folks concerned about wearing sweatshopped goods, this site provides links to vendors with responsible labor practices.

This wiki page discusses the misdeeds of trendy clothing label American Apparel. Although it makes much out of the fact its shops are in the US, AA's labor relations are problematic.

This is old, but good news.This city of Austin will not buy sweated goods in its procurement process. I wish UT - heck the NCAA - had a similar policy.

Matt Haughey says that folks who collect clever t-shirts often face a clothundrum.

A-list blogger Heather Champ had this amusing T-shirt made at Neighborhoodies.

I'm not sure the malady is seeing the president in those fugly plastic clogs, but the fancy personalized socks that accompany them.

These crazy commemorative New Balance shoes appropriate the cover art from "Unknown Pleasures" on the sole design. I can't imagine there are many Joy Division fans that collect sneakers, but perhaps the movie will stimulate interest.

I think I may need this shirt before people start accusing me of "drinking the Kool-Aid."

Ultra lo-fi screenprinting from computer images.

I have a few shirts I want to mash up like this. I just need to get my hands on a sewing machine.

"A textile woven from recycled audio cassette tape." It doesn't come cheap.

This is a nice little tutorial. I've been meaning to learn how to silkscreen for like ever.

"Fashion and survival tips for those Goths that try to find a balance between their Gothic style and the corporate world."

Stay Free! notes that J.C. Penney's new line "Ana" is slang for "anorexia."

I don't doubt that the business world is so shallow to make technology decisions based on administrator sartorial style, but don't you want your geeks to be thinking about computers and not their appearance? What does this say about our culture?