Here we come again PDX!

After a very very eventful Sunday market in Fremont two weeks ago, where our tent was destroyed by a freak wind storm, we took last weekend off to work on a few special projects that we have going on.

But, with our new (hopefully sturdier tent) we'll be back on the market circuit this week!:

March 28th at the Portland Saturday Market!
March 29th at the Fremont Market in Seattle!

We hope to see you there!

SUCCESS!

The Portland Saturday Market was a success!

Special thanks to our friend Pete for tagging along with Matt and helping him set up and tear down. I had to spend the day getting all moved in to our new apartment and hanging out with the pup.

Matt got all set up in the last spot underneath the bridge and with the rainy weather that day it's a good thing! He was lucky enough to have a couple of neighbors that let him borrow some lights, otherwise it would have been a dreary day. Portlanders loved our new Freedom hoodie and we almost sold out of the 24 that we originally printed. We DID however sell our last "Shut the..." tee.

So we bid farewell to the tee that garnered our first (and only) national exposure when it was posted on pinkisthenewblog.com last December.

Sunday at the Fremont Market we saw the last "Poppy" hoodie go and it brought up a good question that we had been quietly dealing with since we started Choke...

Should we or shouldn't we reprint our designs??

Our first instinct is to make them "special" by only having a limited number of designs printed. We also want to be able to keep adding new, fresh designs and don't want to be stuck reprinting the same designs over and over. But the business side (and our customers, for that matter) tell us that that is ridiculous! If people are willing to buy the designs, why not have them available?

So we decided that we will make the decision on a case by case basis. "Shut the..." has seen it's last run, but we are moving forward with a new run of "Poppy" and "Freedom". They should be available by the week of the 22nd!!

So if you didn't have the opportunity to buy one of these two hoodies, come back in the next few weeks to order one!

PDX

I know it's late notice, but if you're in Portland today (March 7th)... Matt is down at the Portland Saturday Market until 5pm tonight!

Check out our tees and hoodies as they make their debut in PDX!

Depending on how it goes, we may be there a couple of times a month...........

2 New Designs

As I mentioned earlier last week... we have 2 new designs that we've launched.

Here they are:

So far Freedom has proved to be very popular. I really like it on the Asphalt grey color. But that's most likely due to the fact that I already have a million blue hoodies.

Just Dance, which by the way, was originally designed and named WELL BEFORE the recently popular Lady Gaga song (thank you very much!) Not that I don't like the song, because I do. And we actually just bought her new single Pokerface, which I really like too. But anyways, Just Dance, might have been a little premature with the sleeveless hoodie (it is winter after all), but has received some good attention as well.

Check them out online and let us know what you think: chokeshirtco@gmail.com

Where's the heads at?

So we've gotten a lot of feedback about the new site!

Thanks so much to everyone that checked it out. It was a lot of work, but I'm happy that we did it. It's a lot more user friendly that it used to be, so I really appreciate that.

One thing that we heard A LOT was that the shopping pictures didn't show the heads of the people. Haha... well if you check out most of the major shopping store websites (Urban, GAP, Nordstrom...) none of them show the heads of people. So I was just following in line with everyone else.

But you let us know that you wanted to see the heads! So they're back. Well, actually the never went anywhere... I just cropped them off before... but I'm digressing... and they're back now!

We had a photo shoot today with our good friend Arden, so that we could get the 2 new designs on the site. I've mentioned them before, but I'll post those pics as soon as we get them. Heads and all!

Other than that we've been working on putting together our next big project! More on that soon!

CHOKEspotted #2

And here's another round of CHOKEspotted.

Send in your pictures of you in your CHOKE tees and hoodies to chokeshirtco@gmail.com!

What do you think???