I wrote once before about the little-known fact that America’s stockpiles of used t-shirts mostly ends up in the third world as cheap second-hand clothing for the global poor. Now along comes the notion of Project Repat that wants to exploit hipster demand for the double-irony of used t-shirts from Africa by buying these shirts at developing world markets, shipping them back to the United States, and using the profits to finance charitable activities:I'm glad the profits are going to charity. But how they top this one, will be fun to watch. Digging up used t-shirts from DEAD Africans, maybe?
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Wow.
To their credit, just when you think hipsters have his the "oh, this is fucking ridiculous" ceiling, they go and top themselves:
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