Update: It’s all over folks. Sorry. Thanks to all who took part. Remember you can always buy our cooler regular Hipstery shirts. We’ve extended our secret woot promotion by one day infact, so its perfect for anyone who missed out on an Outcast. Get 25% off a regular shirt with the code “wootwootwoot”. But only for the rest of today…

We work hard to pick only winners in the shirts we select for the Hipstery. When we do fail, like all good humans we like to sweep that failure under the rug. Unfortunately we have no rug, and sweeping rejected shirts under a rug constitutes a tripping hazard. So instead we have a corner of the office affectionately known as “Outcast Corner”, home of the loser shirts. Why are they loser shirts? Well usually its you that decides they are, most of the time we still like them, but we can’t always be right and so if a shirt gets returned twice, all matching t-shirts get yanked over to Outcast corner.

As an experiment, since we are scientists and all, we are opening up Outcast Corner and offering you a chance to give a loving home to one of our neglected, jilted Outcast shirts. They just need the good loving of a nice open minded person. We really want them to go to a better place, so the good news is we won’t even charge you for them, nothing, nadda, zilch. To get one you just need to pay the usual Hipstery shipping fees.

What’s the catch? Well after receiving and evaluating it, we would invite you to paypal us whatever you think its worth, from €0.01 up to the usual €17. Naturally we’ll let you know how many people do actually send us a donation for the shirt and what amounts they are. We ask only that you be fair with your donation and honestly evaluate your new cotton friend.

Like any good German I must of course establish the rules.

The Rules

- Only one shirt per order.
- You still have to pay the normal shipping price.
- You will need a paypal account to send us your donation.
- Strictly limited.
- No exchanges or refunds (but we’ll suggest some other uses for the tshirt in a later post).

Promotion starts 9am CET this Thursday for just one day. We’ll de-activate the coupon code and let you know here when its over. To take part use the coupon code “iloveoutcasts” on Thursday, naturally it’s valid only for ordering outcast shirts.

Why is a shirt banished to Outcast Corner?

There are many reasons why a shirt might end up in Outcast Corner where it sits lonely and unloved. Most likely its because it got returned two times, that’s a strict rule of ours, if one design comes back two separate times, all other shirts with that motif get banished to Outcast Corner.

Other times sites will give us free shirts when we put in big orders and they just aren’t quite Hipstery standard.

Sometimes we order shirts late at night when we are in a drunken stupor and then in the cold harsh light of soberality – they are just not right for the masses.