Daily deal – SeV TEC Shirt $30 discount

by Scott Carmichael on

My daily deal for this sunny but chilly Sunday is another top notch travel garment from SeV. Their TEC shirt has 8 pockets, including a secure pocket for your travel documents, pockets for your iPod and mobile phone and even a special pen pocket. Of course, all these pockets make this the perfect shirt for traveling in.

The shirt is made of breathable lightweight poly/rayon and is machine washable.

The TEC shirt usually retails for $80, but if you order between now and midnight tomorrow (Monday the 27th), you’ll get a nice $30 discount, making the shirt just $50. The deal is not valid on small and XXXL Khaki shirts, or XXXL Charcoal Gray shirts.

All products from SeV ship for just $5 and you’ll find more information about this fantastic shirt on the SeV site.

While you are browsing their collection, why not take a moment and watch this hilarious video clip featuring Steve Wozniak wearing an SeV jacket and holding a light saber… Steve is a member of the board of advisors of SeV, and someone I worshiped as a kid (Steve Wozniak is one of the founders of Apple, along with his friend Steve Jobs).

International Translation Shirt For the Lazy Traveler

by Justin Glow on

There’s another shirt out on the market designed to make life easier on the road. We talked about this earlier with the Traveler’s Phrase Book T-Shirt, and this International Translation shirt from Threadless is no different.

Never again will you need to worry about taking the time to learn a few common phrases in a foreign language when traveling abroad. With this shirt, you’re free to mindlessly jab at the drawings on your chest when there’s something you want. Communicating with someone — building a relationship, however short — is old news. Now you can breeze through any country without ever interacting with a local.

After all, you know what you want, and you want it now.

Traveler’s Phrase Book T-shirt

by Justin Glow on

This company is selling an overpriced t-shirt designed to be worn by travelers who are in a country whose inhabitants don’t speak their native tongue. The idea is that instead of attempting to communicate with someone who knows where the bathroom is, for instance, you annoyingly point to the international symbol for bathroom on your shirt. Other symbols include hospital, airplane, bedding (for hotel), telephone, restaurant, money exchange, and Internet cafe (or post office, whatever those things are).

This can surely make life on the road in a foreign country easier — but is that what we want? It seems a bit disrespectful and caveman-like (no offense, Geico guys) to walk around in a foreign country pointing to things on your shirt when you want something instead of taking a few minutes of your time to learn these common phrases in your host’s language. [via]

How-To Fold A Shirt, Even If You Have Notabletofoldclothescorrectly Disease

by Willy Volk on

I used to roll roll my clothes when packing them. I was told — and I believed for a long time — that rolled clothes took up less room and were even less wrinkled when unfolded. Today, I don’t believe either of those things are true, although I do believe that rolling clothes makes it easier to remove a particular shirt, for example, from a pile of tightly rolled shirts. It’s like plucking candy from a dish. Now, instead of rolling my clothes, I just fold them neatly. Um, well, I just fold them. Sadly, I have Notabletofoldclothescorrectly disease. I think I inherited it. It’s tragic, but I’m dealing with it.

Ben Zweig, however, does not have have Notabletofoldclothescorrectly disease. A self-proclaimed “Folding Expert,” Zweig knows several ways to fold shirts and has even produced a 3-minute video demonstrating how to fold clothes perfectly every time. Part of me appreciates his tips and wants to incorporate them into my packing routine. The other part of me wants to ask him how he got so regimented as such a young man. Check out the Zweig’s video and decide for yourself whether Zweig is helpful…or bizarrely anal.