Help me replace my girlfriend's favourite smiley heart t-shirt

September 21, 2015 8:46 AM

Whilst in LA recently my girlfriend bought this t-shirt of a smiley heart face. She loves it, but it got ruined in transit. She is unhappy. Can you help us find it again?

She bought it from a small clothes store in LA, in Silver Lake.

The design looks like it was branded onto the t-shirt, which might account for the blackness coming off. It might be screen printed though.

Any leads on this would be amazing!!

posted by 0bvious to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (5 answers total)

it's really easy to get t-shirts made with a given design. all you need to do is copy the design and go to a place that prints t-shirts. so you could scan the t-shift, clean up the image in photoshop, and get a copy made.
posted by andrewcooke at 8:55 AM on September 21, 2015

That design is so simple it'd probably be easier to recreate the shirt than replace it. If I had a high-resolution scan of the graphic, or even a straight-on photograph, I could whip up a TIF or EPS file in a jiffy.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:02 AM on September 21, 2015

Response by poster: I agree that making this again might work. BUT the original is lovely. The way it is branded onto the t-shirt, as in, burnt on, gives it a quality that a print - and especially a reprint - will never capture.
posted by 0bvious at 9:05 AM on September 21, 2015

Is there no way for her to figure out where she bought it from--maybe a credit card statement? If she's able to contact the store, they might be able to work out sending her one via mail?
posted by Bella Sebastian at 9:17 AM on September 21, 2015 [2 favorites]

There aren't THAT many clothing stores in Silver Lake, especially if you filter out all the vintage stores. Can't she just go through Yelp and see if she recognizes a name or a picture?
posted by acidic at 9:35 AM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]