I have missed my calling.
Starbucks is celebrating their 40th birthday by charging you
$85 for a designer shirt that appears to have a coffee stain on it.
I'm sure I could give you the same thing for cheaper and it
would most likely smell better. I've been doing it for years with a variety of
Starbucks beverages.
I should have gone into the fashion biz.
I usually don't write about fashion, but this is one of
those stories that grabs the attention, and makes you really shake your head.
Are we really doing this? Really?
It seems so, and I guess they felt that charging 85 bucks
for a T-shirt is a great thing to have to celebrate 40 years of coffee.
I don't really know who's getting the better gift. Is it the
average consumer getting a good laugh at the sky high price, or is it Starbucks
making money off of an obsessed fan base with way too much money in their
wallets.
The T- shirts are the products of award winning designers,
but I have to admit, I wouldn't buy one of these shirts if it was made by
Calvin Kline himself.
The offending shirt in this case is made by designer
Alexander Wang , and is particularly
nasty looking. It's a white shirt that has the coffee stain on the left shoulder
of the T-shirt.
The only cool part of this design is that the coffee comes
down the shirt, and creates the Starbucks symbol.
No problem fully admitting that this is neat, but not $85
neat.
I was hoping to read about some redeeming factor when it
comes to the price of these shirts, like a portion of the profits going to a
charity or something like that.
That is not the case however, and really that's not too much
of a shock. What's a little greed from the biggest coffee grinder in the world?
I am sure that there will be those that will buy one of
these shirts, and I cringe to think of all the lost opportunities I've had
spilling my cup of coffee...dang.
If you want to buy
(or see other designs) of these shirts be sure to check out StrabucksStore.com
or select Norstrom locations beginning September 19th.
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