Grope-Fest Erupts in Trendy Shopping District
New clothing designer notvanilla unveiled its provocative, fun and flirty t-shirts to the public on Wednesday, June 30 in Vancouver Canada. The shirts, with real raised braille lettering, invited and invoked a surprising response.
Vancouver, Canada (PRWEB) July 5, 2004 -- Things got a little touchy
Wednesday on Vancouver's trendy Robson Street, as clothing designer notvanilla
unveiled its provocative, fun and flirty braille t-shirts to the public. Dave
Gerry, Senior Reporter with Citytv, was taping a feature interview with the
company's founders, Sally Blyle and Pete Pallett. The grope-fest began as Gerry
invited passers-by to run their fingers over the braille message on Pallett's
chest. Several women took Gerry up on his offer, and greatly enjoyed the tactile
experience of rubbing their hands over a strange man's chest, in public. Many
also expressed that while they would not normally wear a provocative t-shirt
themselves, they would wear notvanilla's braille shirts.
notvanilla (www.notvanilla.us) is a new
Vancouver company that manufactures a whole line of cheeky, provocative, fun and
flirty t-shirts. While there are hundreds of t-shirt designs that cross the line
into crudities and vulgarities, these shirts offer subtler yet distinctly erotic
messages such as lickable, use me, harder faster deeper, and spank it printed in
raised braille!
The graphically-appealing look of the braille, coupled
with the feel-good quality of the high-density raised rubberized black ink
lettering, tempts people to run their hands over the shirt, just to feel it. But
if someone can't read braille, how would they understand the message? These
shirts are interactive; the wearer can "flip it and flash it"; in other words,
turn up the bottom of the shirt to show someone the braille translation printed
just above the inside hem. The shirts are premium-quality American Apparel
baby-ribbed cotton. American Apparel is a sweatshop-free clothing manufacturer
based in downtown L.A.
notvanilla plans to release more clothing lines
such as halter tops with the Braille expressions, called "Peekaboobs", all aimed
at hip, urban 18 to 34 year olds. The shirts will be available at select
retailers as well as on the internet; their website is up and running at www.notvanilla.us.
More
public grope-fests are planned in the near future.
Please note: an image
library can be accessed online at:
www.notvanilla.us/photoimages
For more
information
Pete Pallett?604.730.8576
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