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This app transforms selfies and memes into funky t-shirts

Leanna Garfield
2015-11-07T19:00:00Z
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Martian socks from Yoshirt. Yoshirt

Want rainbow tube socks covered in alien emojis? There's an app for that.

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With the Yoshirt mobile app, you can completely customize clothing with memes, selfies, and artwork.

Most custom clothing companies have limited options, allowing users to choose from a few colors or place a photo in the center of a shirt. 

But Yoshirt, allows you to completely manipulate your design, placing an emoji in the armpit if you so desire.

Here's how Yoshirt takes ultra-custom designs from your phone to your doorstep.

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First, download the app from the iTunes Store.

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The Yoshirt app. Yoshirt

Once you login, you can add background colors, and place emojis, photos, or illustrations anywhere on your clothing (a t-shirt, in this case).

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A blank canvas. Yoshirt
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Then go ahead and order it.

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With shipping, a custom Yoshirt costs $32.95. Screenshot/Leanna Garfield

Yoshirt immediately receives the order, and starts to print the design on paper. The company's massive printer uses special inks that won't fade.

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Usually, when factories make custom clothing, the fabric needs to go to multiple printers. But the Yoshirt team developed a way to transform every design into a file that one printer can read — which lowers the price.

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Each panel of the garment is then cut by hand.

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And transferred to the fabric.

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Next, workers align and prep the garment for sewing.

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They sew each piece of the fabric, making sure it looks exactly like the design in the app. Lastly, they attach a YoShirt label.

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And voilá, it arrives at your doorstep in five days.

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If you don't want to make your own shirt, you can also choose a ready-made design. This month, Yoshirt began partnering with independent designers, like the graffiti artist EWOK.

 

And social media celebs, like Vine star CodyKo.

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Cody Ko, a popular Vine comic. Yoshirt
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But with a custom design, you can really make it your own.

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A Yoshirt creation. A sub-owl-snake creation.

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