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T-shirt wearing challenge by Andi Best
Can a guy wear a different T-shirt every day for a year?
Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.
People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do. But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is marvellously inaccurate, but it did make me wonder - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?
Challenge accepted...
Start the project
I created project
36t5 which began January 1st 2013 to track my progress during the challenge. The
daily blog followed the high and low points of trying to source and wear a different T-shirt every day for 365 days.
Read it here.
How it worked
One of the major rules of the challenge was that I could not buy any T-shirts to help meet the quota. I was allowed to include the ones I already owned but the rest had to be donated to me free of charge.
That part was difficult.
Through steady marketing and a lot of emailing throughout the year I managed to coax donations from retailers, brands, strangers, friends and family... but did I receive enough to keep the challenge alive for the full year?
Click here to find out.
So, did I manage to complete the challenge
?
Reveal
I am thrilled to report that I successfully completed my challenge! I wore a different T-shirt every day for 2013 without re-wearing or purchasing a single one. In fact, the project was so successful that it continued another 13 days after I'd reached my goal due to the volume of donations I'd received!
Thanks again to everyone who donated a T-shirt or two (or ten, in some cases), thanks to everyone who kept the message of the challenge alive across social networks, and thanks to everyone who kept up with the challenge posts every day.
During 2013 (and a bit of 2014)
I wore
different
T-shirts
T-shirts were sent to me from companies and fans all over the world...
...which meant the challenge became a large scale operation to maintain...
...and meant I could donate even more T-shirts to charity!
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Special thanks to these fine folk who kindly donated their stock to the project...
Special thanks also to Lynn, James, Jennifer, Harry and Mandy from Cancer Research UK, and Skye the photographer - you helped my challenge become a little something more.
T-shirt challenge