Huge tech t-shirts suck
December 18th, 2006 by 
Phil
Kathy Sierra, user experience supremo, has written a lovely post on why Tech t-shirts aren’t sexy enough – this was wonderfully exemplified at Apachecon Europe which I attended this year. As we arrived and were handed our XXL tees, the girls handing them out simply said “Sorry, they’re all really really big – we’re expecting a lot of Americans”. I think I saw about two people wearing them the whole week. Personally, I live in mine when I go camping.
Someone on my course wears a lovely Windows Server 2003 Polo reasonably regularly.
Interesting times.
Posted by F on December 18th, 2006 at 6:52 pmGawd it’s been a long day…I read ‘XXL tees’ and was instantly back at my desk.
a Merry Christmas btw!
Posted by Anthony on December 18th, 2006 at 8:29 pmhahaha! that’s great!
Merry Christmas to you both!
Posted by Pip on December 18th, 2006 at 10:13 pmWhen we ordered shirts for BarCampMilwaukee, we had to get a few XXL and even XXXL because people requested them. (Maybe only 6 out of 175) the majority were in the L and XL range.
Posted by raster on January 5th, 2007 at 9:28 pmwow. That is some serious supersizing. I think if I saw someone who was XXXL heading towards me at speed, I would flee at speed up the nearest hill.
Posted by Pip on January 6th, 2007 at 8:02 pm