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July 20, 2006 7:53 AM Subscribe
Where can I find Portuguese-language t-shirts? Surprisingly, not in Brazil!
I'm currently in Brazil (meeting the in-laws), and of course we've been doing a lot of shopping.
One thing I would have liked to find would be a silly t-shirt -- or even a serious one -- with a distinctly Brazilian, or Portuguese-language, flair.
The only t-shirts I've seen around, with rare exception, are Brazilian flags, or soccer team shirts, or all "ironically" in English.
And when you go into a store and ask for such a thing, you're met with a blank stare.
You know the kind of thing I'm looking for; the t-shirt that just has a corporate logo on it (i.e. the local middle-eastern fast food chain Habib's), or even something as simple as Spider-Man captioned as Homem-Aranha. It doesn't have to be funny at all, in its native context.
Is there anywhere in the São Paulo area where I can find a store full of this sort of t-shirts? Or at least an online store?
I'm beginning to think my only solution is creating my own design and going to cafepress.
I'm currently in Brazil (meeting the in-laws), and of course we've been doing a lot of shopping.
One thing I would have liked to find would be a silly t-shirt -- or even a serious one -- with a distinctly Brazilian, or Portuguese-language, flair.
The only t-shirts I've seen around, with rare exception, are Brazilian flags, or soccer team shirts, or all "ironically" in English.
And when you go into a store and ask for such a thing, you're met with a blank stare.
You know the kind of thing I'm looking for; the t-shirt that just has a corporate logo on it (i.e. the local middle-eastern fast food chain Habib's), or even something as simple as Spider-Man captioned as Homem-Aranha. It doesn't have to be funny at all, in its native context.
Is there anywhere in the São Paulo area where I can find a store full of this sort of t-shirts? Or at least an online store?
I'm beginning to think my only solution is creating my own design and going to cafepress.
A shop in Florianopolis has these:
O Trabalho Danifica O Homem and
Pum, a joke on the Puma logo
and at least a couple more in Portuguese. Of course, there are plenty in English, too, and even a few in Spanish. The shop itself has many more designs than what they show here. It doesn't look like they have an online shop, but maybe they'd ship you a few?
posted by dmo at 10:57 AM on July 20, 2006
O Trabalho Danifica O Homem and
Pum, a joke on the Puma logo
and at least a couple more in Portuguese. Of course, there are plenty in English, too, and even a few in Spanish. The shop itself has many more designs than what they show here. It doesn't look like they have an online shop, but maybe they'd ship you a few?
posted by dmo at 10:57 AM on July 20, 2006
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The 'coolest' t-shirt that have is from Floripa, which is the name of the island made to look like the Antarctica logo. I got that off some stoner on a beach on the island, though.
posted by msali at 8:11 AM on July 20, 2006