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My first holiday sale was last Saturday, and another this weekend.  Thanksgiving is crazily just 2 weeks from TODAY!  And then Black Friday, which is also the 2 year anniversary of stripedshirt!  The very next day, Saturday, November 24, is Small Business Saturday, a day focused on supporting the little guy building a dream.  That’s ME!

There’s a lot of striped momentum going on and now’s the time to stripe up your holidays, and think about stripedshirt as a great gift idea for nearly any woman, kid or baby in your life!

Our red and green is the anti-tacky-Christmas-sweater, a cute way to support the season.  Equally cute for the holidays is our red and white, or green and white.

And for those celebrating Hanukkah, our royal and blue is perfect.

If you need a cute teacher gift this year, consider stripedshirt in your school colors, or the favorite college or pro team in your area.

Best yet, for all our supporters, we celebrate our 2 years with a deal for you.  Just enter 2YEAR at check out for 30% off your entire order, starting on our birthday, Friday, November 23, through to Cyber Monday, November 26.

Thanks for a great 2 years, and May Your Holidays Be Merry And Striped!

With Halloween just 30 days away, stripedshirt  is thinking about just how many costumes include stripes. Pirates and Sailors and French folks with berets, OH MY. But also Where’s Waldo, Olivia the Pig, Doc McStuffins (a new favorite of my 4 year old), Harry Potter, and don’t forget Freddy Kreuger.  Or if you are dressing this year like Louis Tomlinson and channeling your best One Direction, going hipster with our stripes and some skinny jeans or red pants and your Toms.  If you haven’t thought of your costume yet, or you are scrambling for what your kid will wear, look no farther than www.stripedshirt.com. We can set you up!

Oh and don’t forget, our dark orange and white looks great all October long!  Here’s to a very Scary Striped Halloween!

Labor day is 6 weeks from today, summer is going fast, but still lots of time for this Summer Of Stripes!

Nothing says Summer more than bright-preppy, crisp-nautical, timeless-country club, flag-waving, beach-going, picnic-eating, baseball-loving STRIPES! And at www.stripedshirt.com we have 15 great color combinations available now for women, kids and babies to stripe up for summer. Think:

Our navy and white stripes with faded red canvas pants
Our royal and white stripes with a hot pink skort
Our yellow and white stripes with dark indigo bermudas
Our red and white stripes with a white eyelet skirt
Our dark orange and white stripes with rolled up jeans
Our black and gray stripes with a black mini skirt
Our red and blue stripes with khaki shorts, rooting on the Red Sox!

And don’t forget the Olympics, coming up fast (opening ceremonies this Fri, the 27th), you can choose that same red and blue, or our royal and white, or the classic red and white stripe that will also suit you well for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and perhaps Halloween (if you want to be Waldo, Olivia the Pig, a pirate or French sailor).

Stripedshirt Ts are also great when you have that family reunion, family photo, family vacation, day at Disney, an amusement park, a fair or festival, outfitting all the women, kids and babies in the same stripes is a sure-fire way to stick together and look a-freaking-dorable at the same time.

Oh, and Stripes aren’t just for Summer! With college football starting in less than 6 weeks, here’s a reminder that stripedshirt has the colors of over 50 top teams, and 23 of the top 25 as of end of last season.

Striped up your Summer – and Fall – NOW!

We are putting an order in for pink and white stripedshirts to arrive in early September, ahead of October and breast cancer awareness month. So this year, when you think Race for the Cure, or Komen, or anything pink, consider stripedshirt. For every shirt sold, regardless of price, we’ll give $3 to Komen. Here’s a way to have your Komen team look super striped and cute, versus those oversized, scratchy, terrible neck, Hanes Beefy T “Run for Jane’s Ta-Ta’s” shirts you’ll never wear again. AND have money go to a good cause. And we’ll have pink and white stripes for little ones too! So stay tuned and be ready to STRIPE up for the Cure! But first, need some color advice. Komen’s official pinks are pretty dark, IMHO. The lighter of the two, even, Pantone 232, seen here, seems too dark for me. I’m more inclined to a cotton candy pink, like Pantone 211, also here. I need some advice from the stripedshirt community – Which Pink Do You Think….Best? Thoughts? THX!

Today, July 14, is Bastille Day, the name we English speaking countries give to French National Day, their Independence Day, 10 days after ours on 4th of July. In France, this day is called: La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration). It commemorates the 1789 storming of the Bastille by revolutionaries to get the gunpowder they needed to overthrow King Louis XVI. This day became the symbol of the French Revolution, the fall of the absolute monarchy.

We at stripedshirt celebrate Bastille day as the 2nd most important striped day in history.

The first being March 27, the “birth” of the Breton stripe, the iconic navy and white striped knit shirt which became the official uniform for the French navy on this date in 1858.

Today, Bastille Day, celebrating all things French, also, of course, celebrates Stripes – navy and white or otherwise. And so, Joyeux Quatorze Juillet to you all!

Today marks 2 weeks til opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in London. Things kick off Fri, July 27 and run through August 12.

Maybe it’s just me and this stripedshirt business, but this summer has seemed more American than others, more reasons, opportunities, and WANTS, to wear my red and white, red and blue or royal and white stripedshirts. I feel more Patriotic this year.

Maybe I’m especially sentimental about the Summer Olympics because at the last one, I was in the hospital having our 2nd daughter. Michael Phelps and his swimming helped get me through a good amount of time waiting for Amelia.

Is it just me, or are you feeling extra Patriotic or Sentimental or American this summer too? If so, a great way to show your USA spirit is with a stripedshirt! And to make them even more affordable, from now through the start of the Olympics, July 13 through July 27, with the code “Olympics” you will get 25% off everything at stripedshirt, whether USA colors or not.

I always love seeing all the pictures of “stripes in real life” and people out there sporting stripedshirts. It makes my heart sing, and I’m serious. I’m working so hard to get this business going, and get people loving stripedshirts and wearing them, and it could not, would not, happen without so many friends supporting me and striping up themselves and their families. Yesterday, I got a photo from my dear friend Kate of her family, all striped up for the 4th of July and it is just plain gorgeous. Perfect. Beautiful. It says family and friends, spirit and holidays, preppy and classic, SUMMER and AMERICA! The only thing missing is Fenway Park (or another sporting event venue). Thanks Kate for sharing the beautiful photo, but also for getting so many of your family and friends all striped up. I appreciate your – and everyone’s! – amazing striped support as I trudge along with this little business.

Today is the official first day of summer, the Summer Solstice, June 20, and so, HAPPY SUMMER OF STRIPES to you and yours!

Nothing says Summer more than bright-preppy, crisp-nautical, timeless-country club, flag-waving, beach-going, picnic-eating, baseball-loving STRIPES! And at www.stripedshirt.com we have 15 great color combinations available now for women, kids and babies to stripe up for summer. Think:

Our navy and white stripes with faded red canvas pants
Our royal and white stripes with a hot pink skort
Our yellow and white stripes with dark indigo bermudas
Our red and white stripes with a white eyelet skirt
Our dark orange and white stripes with rolled up jeans
Our black and gray stripes with a black mini skirt
Our red and blue stripes with khaki shorts, rooting on the Red Sox!

And don’t forget all your USA moments, whether 4th of July or the Summer Olympics, you can choose that same red and blue, or our royal and white, or the classic red and white stripe that will also suit you well for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and perhaps Halloween (if you want to be Waldo, Olivia the Pig, a pirate or French sailor).

Stripedshirt Ts are also great when you have that family reunion, family photo, family vacation, day at Disney, an amusement park, a fair or festival, outfitting all the women, kids and babies in the same stripes is a sure-fire way to stick together and look a-freaking-dorable at the same time.

Stripe up your Summer now!

Still time to get Red and White stripes for 4th of July (and every other holiday this color combo suits: Christmas, Valentine’s, Memorial Day, even Halloween if you wanna be Waldo.) The power and statement of Red and White Stripes…..it’s something special! Go to www.stripedshirt.com and order today for all the America-lovin’ women, kids and babies in your life.

And what about our flag? Well, we know there are 13 red and white stripes for the 13 original colonies, but did you know those stripes start and end with red? And we know the 50 small white stars in the blue canton are for our 50 United States, but did you know the blue rectangle is referred to as the Union?

As for Flag Day, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it so in 1916 and National Flag Day was established in 1949 by an Act of Congress. Take a moment today to celebrate our country, our Flag, and the power of red and white stripes!

4th of July is 4 weeks from today and we at stripedshirt are ready to get you all Striped Up for the United States – SU for the US!!! So many options that scream America – whether the classic red and white or royal and white or even red and blue, all are great ways to show your colors, USA style, around the 4th. And for less than $20, you can make sure every woman, kid and baby in your life (sizes from baby 6 mo to kids to women XS to XL) has a cute stripedshirt!