Visit our Fremont Store this weekend and cash in on our 40% off Blowout T-Shirt Sale. The neighborhood is hosting its annual Fremont Fair, and we’re celebrating with a huge sale on everything in the store. Don’t miss your chance to save big on all of our local t-shirts, women’s t-shirts, long-sleeved t-shirts, hoodies and even kids tees.
See you at the Solstice Parade—who doesn’t love a naked bicyclist!
Wow, have we ever had a record week! The New York Times Magazine column about Destee-Nation has sent countless new customers our way, resulted in lots more press and inspired a whole helluva a lot of you to fill out our new Suggest a T-Shirt Form. We’re absolutely thrilled and hard at work printing and shipping and responding to all of you.
Here are a few of our favorite magazines, newspapers and blogs that have mentioned us this week:
Time flies. It’s already been over a month since our scouts were on Oahu looking for the top landmark establishments on the island. Until recently, our Hawaiian t-shirt collection has been predominantly from Kona on the Big Island. But our scouts finally had time to do a little island hopping, and we’re slowly rolling out the new designs.
Our latest additions include: Honolulu Scuba Co., Matsumoto Shave Ice, Like Like Drive Inn.
And coming soon to a t-shirt near you:
We’re finally ready to announce our big news: Destee-Nation t-shirts are now on sale at Nordstrom! After a few months of meetings, planning and some grueling production decisions, we shipped our first order to Seattle-area and Southern California Nordstrom stores earlier this week. Next up on the agenda: Northern California and Hawaii, with Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Florida all on the docket later this year.
In spite of its nation-wide presence and household name, at heart Nordstrom is a family-run and privately operated company, and we have felt that energy resonating from everyone who has been integral in this process. Everyone we’ve worked with has been super helpful and accommodating, and if you’ve ever shopped at Nordstrom, you’ll know the sales team members are knowledgeable about their products and take great care to assist their customers.
We feel confident our relationship with them will be lasting and rewarding for all of our Destee-Nation member businesses, whether their t-shirts are sold in Nordstrom or just benefit from the added buzz to our t-shirt shop.
We’ve been on a bit of a blog hiatus these last few months, but it in no way reflects how busy we’ve been. New shirts are rolling off the presses every day, and our stores (Seattle, Kona and online) had a great holiday season. As we enter into the new year, there are lots of big deals on the horizon, including possibly distributing to major, national retailers. Stay tuned!
Countless doughnut runs and a few extra pounds later, we recently decided Top Pot Doughnuts needed to be a Destee-Nation. They’re a little bigger than most of our members—they’ve got a few shops and they distribute doughnuts to several places around town, but they’re still locally-owned and loved. Nothing wrong with success…
We’re also thrilled with their lovely treatment of our logo on the Top Pot website. Very cool site design too.
Fremont’s Oktoberfest is finally here again, and Destee-Nation is lending our support with some very cool t-shirts, only available at the event*. This year’s beer-happy line-up promises to be a full weekend of boozing and schmoozing, and whether you want to go for the gold in the 5K, bring the kiddies to watch the chainsaw pumpkin carving or just stumble around the beer garden all day, there’s bound to be something to quench your thirst for fun. USA Today called this local Seattle Festival one of the Top Ten Oktoberfests in the world. So, be there or be sorry, this weekend starting tonight from 5pm-midnight; Saturday, from 11am-midnight; and Sunday, the 23rd from 11am-6pm.
*Volunteers get a free t-shirt…
After years of faithful service, our Outfitter Dept. has reluctantly listed Expedition Vehicle No. 1 on ebay. It’s usefulness has expired as gas prices have leveled off at 
unobtainium, and guilt over greenhouse gas emissions has rendered our scouts incapable of driving the old tank. Ah well, we’ll miss you “Sandcruiser”. We wish you the best in your new life (hopefully, in some collector’s barn). Win this patina-red 1986 Landcruiser FJ60 on ebay and guess what? We’ll send you (5) t-shirts of your choice as part of the deal!
The Seattle Channel, a local television station that presents an eclectic series of shows about all things Seattle on cable TV (Channel 21 on Comcast and Millennium) and online, contacted us to do a piece on our t-shirt company. The City-a-Go-Go crew filmed a few days later and turned the whole thing around in a week. We’re thrilled with the way Nancy Guppy and her talented team put this together.
Visit The Seattle Channel for the complete City-a-Go-Go episode and much, much more.
The Destee-Nation Shirt Co. Expedition is on a perpetual road trip seeking vintage t-shirts from locally-owned and operated businesses. With our trusty Nikons in hand, we capture images from these places to accompany the written story that is displayed with all of our t-shirts.
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