Echidna Clothing is all about wearing an aussie t shirt on your sleeve, and doing so with a bit of style as well.

It all began when a bloke stuck in a freezing London winter wanted an Australia t shirt to remind him of home. After a few cold ones to fuel the creative process, and many hours hunched over the drawing board, Echidna Clothing was born.

It doesn’t matter if you are at the beach, in the bush or travelling around the globe… wearing Australian t shirts shows the world where you’re from, and keeps you looking good at the same time.

At Echidna, we take Australian icons like Bonnie Doon, Brisvegas, The Southern Cross, and others – and then turn these into retro Aussie t shirts so you can show the world where you’re from.

We are so confident in that you will be stoked with your new Australian T Shirts, we offer a no questions asked, money back guarantee on all items!!

Make sure you let all your mates know about our Australia T Shirts, and remember Echidna Tees are perfect aussie gift for your friends and family overseas.

At Echidna, one thing we love just about as much as Australian T Shirts and Aussie Clothing is funny videos and clips from home. With this in mind we have recently created a page we call “Funny Aussie Videos ” (check out www.echidnaclothing.com/coollink_1.htm ) that shows some of our favorite short clips from home. We have stuck some great clips on here, from Ronnie Johns playing Chopper Read, a bit of Reg Reagan for the footy fans and of course plenty of clips from “The Castle” our favourite movie – ever!

We love the chopper videos - our favourite is Chopper reading the weather forecast: “Alice Springs….. I’ll give you the forecast for the next 100 years…. Its going to be F*cking hot, and when its not hot its going to be f*cking wet!” . Pure gold from Uncle Chop Chop.

Anyway, in addition to what we have put up now, and what we will be putting up in the future, if you find a decent video that you think we will like – drop us a line to info@echidnaclothing.com with the link and we will post it up on this page. And remember for a laugh send the link for this page to your mates - especially those overseas as a bit of an Aussie Gift that costs you nothing!

I quite often get emails/ txts from mates telling me they have spotted our Echidna T Shirts in various random spots around the world. IAs well as people spotting them in Aussie (obviously), I saw about 4 echidna tees at the Beerfest in Germany this year, and they have been spotted in the states, france, spain, thailand and much more. However the most remote spotting so far came in from an email from a mate just before christmas who said

“You’re world famous in Galapagos, or at least your product is…was hiking up a extinct volcanoe on a isolated island in the Galapagos and spotted a dude coming down hill wearing one of your BrisVegas T Shirts. Nice product placement”

So there you go, an extinct volcanoe in the galapagos islands… if anyone spots one of our Ausralian T Shirts in a more random location - send a pic to info@echidnaclothing.com and if we are feeling nice we might just send you a free Echidna T Shirt!

A few people have asked me recent times how safe and reliable it is to buy Echidna T Shirts Online… So I thought I would offer a bit of background on how we operate and what safeguards are in place….

Money Back Guarantee
Echidna Clothing offers a no questions asked money back guarantee. Therefore if for whatever reason you are not happy with your Aussie T Shirts we will either refund you your money or exchange it for another.

Size Exchange
An extension of our money back guarantee, if your T Shirt is not a perfect fit, just let us know and we will exchange it for one that does fit - no questions asked. This makes Echidna Tees great Aussie Gifts, because if they dont fit the recipient perfectly - they just need to let us know and we will send them the correct size!!

Credit Card Payments
Our Credit Card payments are processed via Paypal, the worlds leading online payment system. This means that your card details are completeley safe - in fact we never even see them, they are all handled by the computer.

Also, we do whatever we can to keep our customers happy, so if you have a problem - we will fix it, that is how we operate!

Ok I am a bit late in uploading this to the blog, but we have added 4 new designs to our range of Australian clothing. You can check these out on the site as of now… they are as follows:

- Hawkey Is My Homeboy
This design is a tribute to a man who set a world record for skulling a yard of beer, and also found time to govern australia. Who says men cant multi task?

- “Straight to the Pool Room” and “Tell Him Hes Dreaming”
Well, its probably pretty obvious what my favorite movie is if you take a bit of time to look at this site… But needless to say, “Straight To The Pool Room”, and “Tell Him Hes Dreaming” in my mind are two of the best aussie quotes ever. It never ceases to amaze me how many people come up and talk to me in public when I have been wearing these Australian T Shirts.

Goon - The Drink of Champions
Until I went travelling and did my O.E, I assumed teenagers / uni students in all countries spent their formative years drinking nasty, nasty wine from a plastic bladder , and then not being able to remember it. It appears this is not the case, and Goon, like a Marsupial, is a uniquely Australian product. With this in mind, Goon The Drink Of Champions, is the perfect Aussie T Shirt to remind you of your misspent youth.

As mentioned in my previous post, all these designs were really popular when we released them at Londons toast festival. They have all been popular in the lead up to Christmas also, with lots of loveley people choosing them as the perfect Aussie Gifts for their friends and loved ones!

Following on from a good day at the Anzac Sports day, we decided to rent a display stall at this years London Toast Festival. Toast is a Australian /New Zealand Food, Wine & Music festival held annually in London. The day was a big success, and we sold loads of Aussie T Shirts which was pretty good… It was also the first time anyone in the public had seen some of our new designs (Hawkey, Pool Room, Goon, & Tell Him He’s Dreaming T Shirts) It wasn’t all work though, managed to shut up shop in time to grab a few aussie beers and watch Jimmy Barnes belt out a pretty good live set to end the day.

We even stuck around for the next day of the festival, which was the New Zealand themed day, and we found that our castle themed tshirts were a hit with the Kiwis as well! (who would have thought you could have sold Australian t shirts to the kiwis??).

For more info on Toast Festival - click here

When launching a new product, most brands will have a swanky product launch with lots of press at a flash hotel, But thats not really what we’re about, so I thought how could I launch Echidna Clothing in true blue style…

Then I came up with a foolproof plan…. Launch On Australia Day, In London, by handing out cold beers to thirsty Aussies roaming the streets in search of a party.

I set up an Aussie T Shirt Stall on Shepherds Bush Green, across the road from Londons famous Walkabout with 2 Industrial Sized Bins filled with Ice & Beers. ( I had just been made redundant from my job working in marketing for a brewery - So this was the last of my “staff allowance”)

Anyway, to cut a long story short - handing out free beers (the ultimate aussie gifts) to backpackers in a London park went down pretty well, and before we knew it had about 60 people partying at the Echidna Stall in the park. Loads of people bought Australian T Shirts off me and things were going well (or so I thought).

Like all product launches this one had to come to an end as well. However unlike most product launches - This one finished in me being apprehend by the local coppers and being done for providing liquor without a license, and for unlawful street vending!!! Not the way I wanted to finish the day - but in terms of a launch, was a great way to get the word out about Echidna and our new range of Australian Clothing.

Anyway, there are 2 morals to this story….
1. Free Beer is the best way of advertising Australia T Shirts - EVER
2. Its only a crime if you get caught… SO DONT GET CAUGHT!

Righto, this is my first blog so here goes. Basically I started Echidna Clothing because I was looking for an australian t shirt to wear on my travels. I couldnt find anything that wasnt touristy though. So the idea for Echidna was born…. Australian T Shirts, designed by Aussies, to be worn by Aussies.

Pretty Simple Concept Really, and it seems as like theres a lot of interest out there for our designs… So thanks for your support so far!

Cheers

Nick