Post #2038681
2026-04-30 14:27 UTC
It's more banal than that. The new thing over on Etsy is all-over printing, where it isn't just a logo on a T-shirt, it's a pattern that covers the entire item.
You can upload a pattern, and they can print it on a blank white dress for pennies. The best part is that you don't have to do a run of a thousand or whatever, you can print literally just ONE.
So while it's doubtful that they will sell many baked bean dresses, it didn't really cost them anything to offer it, and they did create a dress that got us all talking about it.
It's a great ad for the platform: "Look, they've even got weird stuff like that baked bean dress. Surely they'll have something I'll want."
Get it?
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@Jiral@lemmy.org 2026-04-30 15:41
I already got it before your post, thank you. It is attention farming marketing. Those pattern prints usually look much shottier in teal life than on the slop images. Even though in this concrete example it is not that much off. Already the image looks terribly cheap, independently if the motive. Temu textiles have shown time and again that they are disposable quality.
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@BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 15:01
Well, that is sort of neat.