The Honest Machine — Tee
The machine with a mirror for a face, and a whole 1970s sunburst behind it. It's not a monster — it just shows you exactly what you fed it. That's the scary part. Wear it: to shows, to funerals for brands, to the kind of party where someone asks what it means. Will outlast the trend that made you buy it. —spz
What it costs
- Blank garment and printing, paid to the print partner, at the base size
- US estimate — shipping is quoted live at checkout by weight and destination.
- Larger sizes cost the printer more, so they cost you more — still at cost, never a markup.
- 2XL+$2.00$21.94
- 3XL+$4.00$23.94
- 4XL+$6.00$25.94
That is the whole sum. $15.45 for the item, $4.49 to ship it, and nothing left over — the shop is wired so a sale can never bill the studio and can never pay it either. Larger sizes run to $21.45 for the item, because the bigger blank costs the printer more — the studio’s take is still nothing. The book spends twenty-four doors on the line between a signal and its merch, and the only honest way to sell a shirt off the back of that argument is to show you the arithmetic.
Paying over cost is a separate, deliberate act — any amount you choose, never a markup folded into a garment. Skipping it is a completely acceptable answer.
- Garment
- Full-colour groovy, black
- Plate
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