Presentation is very important when selling merchandise. Instead of a discussing the design elements of a particular bar t-shirt, here are some ideas on how t-shirts are displayed. It’s hard to make any piece of clothing look good when it’s dangling from a knob, or a pipe from the sprinkler. Most bars just put their t-shirt on a white plastic hanger behind the bar. I believe a t-shirt is the canvas of a graphic artist and the bar is the gallery space where they mount their art. Bars should frame their shirts and hang them right above the bar like some famous guys’ sports jersey. Since bars t-shirt designs have sports themes anyway, it wouldn’t be out of place. Or they can get busty mannequins; they could always put on one of those girly shirts with the capped sleeves. Or they really shouldn’t be mounted at all; there should be a t-shirt gun at last call every night.
Woody's Tees
Woody’s the bar/club on the corner of 13th and Walnut has a kind of merch table. It’s a glass display case with t-shirts in different styles. It’s nice idea ,but I couldn’t get a shirt. The bartender told me he didn’t have a key to the case and to come back at four. I came back at four. Still no shirt. They told me to come back at night and that made sense because at night Woody’s is a humpin’, pumpin’ and bumpin’ club and that’s when you’d get a t-shirt. I returned the next night and didn’t go in because Woody’s is a humpin’, pumpin’ and bumpin’ club and the line was too long.
Some of those shirts were pretty cool too. One said “Woody’s” all Sailor Jerry-style inside a ribbon, across a red heart. The rest of course had a sports theme. I came back to this place three times and still didn’t get a shirt. Maybe Woody’s has the best t-shirt because you gotta work for it.
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