I hate to say it, but DirtyCoast.com is way cooler than her sista up the riva, StL-Style.com.
I am really loving their Crawfish (known to Me as a crawDAD) ...crawSOMETHING shirt. Its cool, and I want to get it for my dad, so he can again be accidentally cool.
Why!? I hope they really use the "everyone loves a good tshirt" (hello Threadless) to the advantage of St. Louis at large, b/c i think they totally could. Why NOT?! New Orleans makes me jealous.
I love the revolving flash banner thing, (Look at the smorgasboarrd over there on the right) whose image changes faster than I change my mind about whether I like StL or NOLA more, and I love the "Be Hot, Be Local" tagline bigtime. I know of quite a few Stlsters who'd be pretty enthused to banner themselves up, not to mention to be hot and local.
Plus Mr. DirtyCoast gave me a nice list of NOLA blogs to read - that was rather kind of him.
StLStyle, you could be such a force for good, and you already are, a little.
Fry the big (craw)fish, already! I just don't think its possible to start up another tshirt company, create dissent, etc... in a town that needs all the unity it could get.
There are at least 20 local foods/traditions/whatever that, with a good design and a clever little somethin', would look nice on anyone's chest.
Sigh.
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Who says STL Style wants to be or should try to be like Dirtycoast? They have their own thing going, and I actually think their stuff is pretty cool. it's easy to be an armchair critic, but the Style guys started something out of pure love for their city.
-DetroitLove
DetroitLove, i could not agree with you more --- but I´d love it if STL Style (real innovators in a little bit of a status quo'y city...at least until NOW!) really took advantage of their position in the community as a force for awesomeitude and for good...and they do, too...Ive been emailin´em for a bit now...now if only they´d take me up on my offer to help them do it --- for free. How´s that for armchair, eh?
Question...does detroit have a similar tshirt thing going? Seems like you´d know...
what makes you think they need your help or anyone's help. i just went to an event sponsored by stl-style and it looks like they have their shit together. they were doing gangbuster business.
Well, anonymous - I'm not hating, just constructively commenting...have you checked out what is going on at dirty coast? StL Style recently sponsored a music event in St. Louis' Cherokee district to raise money to support/save a local building in disrepair...(is that the event you're talking about? Mullanphy? I wish you'd leave your email/profile so we could talk, ps)it's just this sort of thing I like to see. My favorite founding father, Ben Franklin said, "All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." -- I just like to see a company that has class, namely StL style, keep on movin' and living up to its GREAT potential! I love St. Louis, and it deserves nothing but the better than best. And StL-Style, much as I love them - in my lowly opinion - could to better.
i don't ever post my name on public blogs and i don't plan to start now. just allow me to say that your title "dirtycoast is cooler than stl-style" does not sound constructive at all. i think it's bold of you to compare one company to another when you know nothing about their circumstances. my boyfriend knows some of the stl-style people and i know the two brothers who run it have other fulltime jobs, so its not like they live to compete with outfits like dirty coast. "in my lowly opinion" i think you sound like a know-it-all.
Hey anonymous,
I think the StL could use a little boldness, but I do agree - I do sound a bit like a know it all! Mayebe it is me that lives to compete with outfits like DirtyCoast. I still think DirtyCoast is cooler than StL-Style, though.
Maybe you could check out my other blog (this one is from about a year ago) http://lolololori.blogspot.com, and we could continue our conversation there? I admire your fervor for StL and for the Vines Brothers, and you're right to keep me in check. Best, Lori
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