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Eilif wrote:
I'll give you a maybe. Hypothetically it would be possible to incorporate Wargaming motifs or symbols into fashion, I just haven't seen it done in a truely fashionable way yet. Let's take a look at the suggestions you offer.

It simply comes down to what one nerd on the internet considers "fashionable" versus another nerd on the internet. With no specific offence to your good self, I don't know you from Adam, and I couldn't care less what you think of whatever I would happen to choose to wear, since like the average man on the street, I don't give two craps about what you would consider fashionable or not.

re: "Affliction" shirt
It's the overdone euro-medieval-gothic logo thing, but the text is limited to one word that need not be tied to sci-fi/fantasy gaming and it's well excecuted. The background is a bit busy, but it's well balanced against the central artwork. Not high fashion, but acceptable.
re: "The Alliance" shirt.
Nope. "For the Alliance" takes it out of the fashion category and drops it right into gamer-wear. Also, there's much to much going on and the way overdone neo-gothic-stencil (a style that should have died years ago) background and more cartoon'esque foreground designs don't complement each other at all..
This is a shirt worthy of "Hot-topic " (A USA store catering to teenage goth kids and music fans) and fine for those wishing to show their gamer pride, but defnitely not a fashion item.

It says "the Alliance" - not "For the Alliance" - nitpicking aside, the point there is that the two shirts are similarly enough in their designs that the average person in the street, or say, any and all of my female co-workers who know nothing of either MMA or World of Nerdcraft thw two T-shirts are a much of a muchness.

re: "Warrior Wear" longsleeve.
Definitley not fashion. This is a heavy metal'esque design that would look great in the mosh pit or on the paintball field, but that's about it.

Again, what is fashion? An overpriced shirt that Gok tells you to buy on the tee-vee? But I'm not even talking about "fashion" - and the point of the Warrior Wear logo is that (longsleeves aside) the Icon on it, if on a plan black T-Shirt is no better or worse than an Iron Warriors logo, or any other somewhat generic logo on a T-Shirt. It's not about fashion, it's about "does this t-shirt specifically scream "huge nerd" or does it just look like a T-shirt with an (arguably) cool logo on it?" The way I see it, if it's the kind of thing that only another fan of the genre would understand, then it's acceptable for me to wear.

Like that website that is filled with merchandise from fictional companies from films.
http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/

Or a "Paddy's Pub" t-shirt. Or a certain type of towel....

92acclude wrote:
and Space Wolves, http://www.redbubble.com/people/dylangould/works/8210371-space-wolves

Where'd your SW link o? I got an error trying to pull that up.

amrogers3 wrote:

92acclude wrote:
and Space Wolves, http://www.redbubble.com/people/dylangould/works/8210371-space-wolves

Where'd your SW link o? I got an error trying to pull that up.

Looks like somebody got a C&D letter, as none of his links work anymore.

I want a Gotrek & Felix, I think it would look cool and ironic if I wore it on campus and naturally the women would flock around me. I'm sure GW actually used to make one with the classic image of them both on the front and I didn't just dream it.

No, but i'd buy a Privateer Press line.

No, I wouldn't.

I don't buy 'gaming' clothing. I buy non-descript stuff so that you can't mark me as a gamer from 100 metres away, and I'd rather be dead than have people assume I worked for GW.

I have some movie, band and TV show logo shirts, but that's about it.

chromedog wrote:

I don't buy 'gaming' clothing. I buy non-descript stuff so that you can't mark me as a gamer from 100 metres away...

Is there a really big stigma to "being a gamer" where you live? I don't try to hide my hobbies from my friends that don't play with little plastic men, nor do they seem to mind that I do play with them. I suppose you could find fault or poke fun at any person's hobby, but to be concerned about being labelled a "gamer" seems a little uptight.

With that being said, I feel like I'm already overpaying miniature companies for their figures; I don't think I'd pay them for the right to advertise their company wherever I went. Now if we could only figure out how to get them to pay us for wearing their clothing...

Affliction has had Warhammerish logos for awhile.



They had a Skaven one too but I can't find it.

The whole "angry-shirt" look was big here in the States about four or five years ago. Along with the Marc Nason shoes. It went south fast as soon as all the douchebags started picking it up. Same w/ Ed Hardy

helium42 wrote:

Is there a really big stigma to "being a gamer" where you live? I don't try to hide my hobbies from my friends that don't play with little plastic men, nor do they seem to mind that I do play with them. I suppose you could find fault or poke fun at any person's hobby, but to be concerned about being labelled a "gamer" seems a little uptight.

With that being said, I feel like I'm already overpaying miniature companies for their figures; I don't think I'd pay them for the right to advertise their company wherever I went. Now if we could only figure out how to get them to pay us for wearing their clothing...

Not so much a gamer stigma from non-gamers ... Let me put it this way. Most of the people with the gaming related clothing in my area are people you don't want to spend any amount of time with in an enclosed area. They make trekkies look like outgoing, well-adjusted people (Yes, I know there are a few of them, but still ... Stereotypes persist for a reason).

I am surprised GW hasn't tried to sue Affliction for copyright infringement.

lol

A black T-shirt with the Necron Triarch symbol on the chest. Yes, I'd buy that.

I'm sorry but you think giving gw more means to take our money (and an excessive amount at that) is a good idea?