Fashion for Huckabee Supporters — La Moda para los que apoyan a Huckabee
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
With the rapidly approaching Florida primary election, January 29th, and the even closer South Carolina contest, time is very short. (Welcome to all of our new online friends in South Carolina! – Bienvenidos a todos de nuestros nuevos amigos en linea de Carolina del Sur!) The news from Michigan tonight was no surprise; but considering that Romney outspent Mike 50 to 1 to win in his homestate, the results were not terribly discouraging, either.
Well, as many of us in Miami (a Latin fashion “Mecca”) know, there’s nothing like some new clothes and Café Cubano to pick up your spirits. You’ll have to make your own coffee, but we can help with your new clothes — at least if you’re going to be at the Dade County Fair Grounds this weekend. See our meetup page for more details. You can take the graphics from our website to make your own iron-on t-shirts.
***Blog Editor’s Update*** Judging by the number of e-mail responses and questions about these t-shirts locally and from across the country; there is a lot of interest in this topic. It is obvious that the initial estimate of “a couple of dozen” t-shirts for just our own Meetup group was a big underestimation of the interest in Mike Huckabee t-shirts. Tonight my 11 year old daughter and I hope to put the final touches on the producion of these t-shirts so that we can increase our capacity. We hope to perfect the process and maybe even post an instructional video. If time permits Thursday, January 17th, we’ll head up to Rodney Roger’s Meetup Group gathering in Aventura. Rodney is the Miami-Dade co-chair of Huckabee for President and he’ll be participating in our “caravan” and Dade County gun show activities this weekend. Also, Huckabee field representative, Daniel Diaz, will be speaking Thursday about how we can help Mike become our next President.
Note: At our local Walmart, the Avery Ink Jet T-shirt Transfers, #3275, were not to be found in the Electronics/Computer Department and, naturally, the clerks that were working that night had no idea if they were in stock, or even if they were carried by Walmart. We found them in the school supplies aisle — no where near the t-shirts. Go figure. The transfer 12-pack was $12.89, making each transfer a little more than $1 each. Hanes white t-shirts, were $7.59 for a “5-pack” or approximately $1.50 each. The only other thing required is an ink jet printer with sufficient ink to insure complete coverage of the 8.5 x 11 inch transfer. We have a VERY limited supply of t-shirts and transfers, please make sure that we have a t-shirt for you if you’re counting on us to have one for you. (So far, it appears that we’ll have enough for the first 1-2 dozen. If demand exceeds this for this Saturday, maybe we ought to have an “iron-on” party one night before one of our events. Although they are not very expensive, it does take time to make them, and we’re still experimenting with the various designs to see which ones work better, apply more easily, etc.. We’re not in the t-shirt business, and it has taken some “trial and error.”) If you try to make your own, be sure to download the free Avery software designed specifically for the purpose of producing the mirror-image print set up required for the transfer to come out properly. We’re embarassed to admit it, but we have one t-shirt that looks great — in the mirror — because instead of reading the instructions that came with the transfers, we just printed it like we would a business letter.
We are still in need of good artwork for t-shirts, hi-resolution images of Governor Huckabee, etc. So, if you have talent, or other resources in this area, please let us know.
