Hey guys!

So if you’re reading this blog entry you are probably wondering who or what we are.

Rotten Thread is an up and coming clothing company based out of San Antonio, TX (although we hope to be moving to Austin SOON). Our shirts have more of a grunge and cartoon style to them.

First things first, the shirts are all designed by us! – Me (Shannon) and my husband Javier. In fact, we don’t only do the shirt designs, we do EVERYTHING else too. Javier is a graphic/web designer so he takes care of the website, blog, photography, photoshops, shirt designs, and all the other technical stuff. At this point your probably wondering “does Shannon even do anything?” well in defense, the answer would have to of course be “YES!!!! I do a lot! Thank you!” haha. I handle all of the writing (website content, blog entries, myspace content, facebook content, etc.), communications, promotion, research, and I help in brainstorming ideas. I’m also Javier’s handy little assistant and keep us organized and on track. We are a great team. Totally made for each other.

A little about us:

Javier and I are both 20 and have been married for almost a year (November 3). I’m currently enrolled in a community college here in town, attempting to actually finish school… I recently came back after deciding to drop out last year (took the year off). Javier is a high school dropout who was constantly told by his teachers that he’d never succeed. In fact, one even told him he might as well just go get a job at McDonalds because there wasn’t much else out there for him (way to inspire your students, eh?). He failed his senior year and had to repeat. He had a hard time focusing in school because he was always busy drawing all over his notes and was creating websites at night instead of doing his homework. So, sick of school he decided to leave it and pursue his dream (haha that sounds so lame). He got a job working at a local ad agency and then later we decided to create our own ad agency. And so we did. We named it IDS (Innovative Design Solutions) Advertising. It is slowly beginning to make us money but not quite enough yet so Javier still freelances for another agency.

For the past year or so we kept talking about how awesome it would be to own our own clothing line. We’re both pretty creative so we were constantly bouncing t-shirt ideas off of one another. One day we sat down and actually started drawing them out. We thought to ourselves “We should print these, I want to wear them”. We started showing a few close friends what we had and they told us they loved them (Umm… Hopefully they aren’t just lying to us… haha)

So that brings us to now. We spend every waking moment (that Javier isn’t working which is pretty much full time) sitting at a desk in our apartment hovering over our computers and working hard at making this dream become a reality (sorry about all the cliche lameness! I don’t know what’s gotten in to me today!).

We’re not the richest people in the world (actually… we dont really have a whole lot… ok we’re freakin POOR! haha) so we’re fixing up Javiers old SUV to hopefully sell so we can get the start up funds to invest in the shirt printing. Once we get the cash and print the shirts we will begin selling. We’re hoping by November or so.

In a few weeks we will be launching the website complete with an online store. Here you will be able to view all the shirts we plan on printing, as well as all the info (size, price, etc.) just like a normal website store. The only difference is that instead of selling (remember they wont be ready till Nov. or so) we will begin taking reservations for the shirts (no money down). This will help us to estimate how many shirts we should order, and which ones are more popular. Once they are available to purchase we will send all the people that made reservations an email notifying them that the shirts are available for purchase. We’ll do this a few days before we actually put them online to the general public so that those who made reservations have top priority. It will be a first come (or I suppose I should say reserved) first serve type of thing. From there we will keep investing our earnings and printing more shirts. And we will begin releasing new designs as well (we’ve got tons of them!) So did you get all that? Or did I confuse you like crazy?? lol

Recap:
In a few weeks we will begin taking reservations for the shirts
In a few months we will begin printing and selling.

YAY!

So please support us in one of the following ways:

Become a fan of our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/pages/Rotten-Thread/147539516954?ref=nf

Add us on myspace:
www.myspace.com/RottenThread

Follow our blog:
www.RottenThread.com/blog

And keep checking our website, it will be going live soon!
www.RottenThread.com