From The Wise Owl's Tall Tales

Once upon a time, when the streets of New York were home to beatniks and Bob Dylan, the Concorde was nearly ready to fly and My Fair Lady won Best Picture at the Oscars, Pandora found herself with new freedom after escaping from the housewife that kept her in a cage. She was revelling in her liberty and swooping and soaring all around the city trying to find her way back to the forest. She had just glimpsed the tops of the trees in the distance when all of a sudden she heard the most interesting sound she had ever heard! She looked around her to find that she was in the middle of Greenwich Village and filled with curiosity she stopped her journey home and followed her ears.

After a short flight she found herself outside the window of the loft in a small, rundown apartment building. She peered inside and saw where the wonderful sound was coming from. A young man was sitting on a chair, playing guitar and creating the most astounding blues Pandora had ever heard (the wise owl knew what great blues was, as she had spent some time down by the bayou listening to blues legends like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson in the 1920's and 1930's.)

The window was open so she flew silently inside and perched on a guitar stand. The young man didn't notice her until she hooted in appreciation of his music. He was very, very surprised when he saw an owl sitting in his loft and even more surprised when she spoke to him.

"The music you play is amazing but it would be even more astounding if you combined it with pop music" - said the owl staring at the young guitarist with her big yellow eyes.

The man was absolutely dumbstruck and couldn't manage to say one word. Before he had a chance to recover his composure, Pandora flew away and continued her way home to the forest.

Two years later she witnessed the young man playing at the Montererey International Pop Festival doing exactly as she suggested! Pandora is truly a very wise owl.

To Be Continued....

Do you know who the young guitarist who Pandora met briefly was? If you do you should e-mail the answer to pandoraapparel@gmail.com and we will randomly select three of the people who answer correctly to get a nice surprise! You can send us your answers until midnight GMT on Thursday 3rd of June to enter the competition. We will announce the winners on our facebook page next Friday the 4th of June!

Upwardly Mobile

Hey everyone (Rob), exciting times here at Pandora Apparel. The response to our Facebook fanpage has been amazing and we're closing in on one hundred fans! A big thank you to everyone who joined for their support. Our twitter page is also up and running and is doing alright. We're up to eleven fans and hoping for some more growth soon! Pandora has been cooing constantly the last few days in appreciation of everyone's efforts.

Developments in rl have also been positive. We have enlisted the reliably stellar web designer Steve Coughlan to shepherd our website to the interweb. Initial discussions were very positive indeed and hopefully we'll have it up and running asap. Monika is working on the graphics as we speak.

In the search for a supplier things have also been mucho bueno. Monika shopped around a bit and we got some quotes from a few different establishments. One supplier in particular looks very promising and hopefully the sample we get from them will be up to scratch! If the sample is good we will post a picture of it for your perusal.

Must also say thanks to the many t-shirt companies that have already come out in support of our venture. So much thanks to Ladyumbrella ladies t-shirts, SkillaFashion, crocktees, inmyshortsleeve, nature creations, GritFX, Design Juices, saucewear and Tees In a Pod.

P.S. this is another t-shirt design that we recently put up on our Facebook fanpage. Hope you like it and feel free to leave your opinion! Bonsai!

Pandora Apparel: Steep Hills and Stairs

This is Jamie, he is a mild mannered Irishman who has held many differing jobs during his first quarter century including, but not exclusive to, being a short order chef in a chipper on a caravan site in West Cork, selling Kirby home maintenance systems door to door in Hawai’i and moving furniture up and down the steep hills and stairs of San Francisco. Upon finishing college he embarked upon a “career” as a projectionist and discovered the beauty of not having his boss looking over his shoulder every five minutes. Jamie is an Aries, harbours an unhealthy obsession for Pearl Jam and is peeved by grammatical errors.

This is Monika, she is a talented auto didactic Polish artist with a healthy disdain for formal education. Her love of drawing developed from an early age as she inherited a talent for creativity from her parents. Her influences have expanded over the years and her art has flourished to include canvas paintings, clay molding and the creation of knick knacks with whatever is at hand. She immigrated to Ireland in 2006 and met Jamie while they both worked at the same cinema. Monika is a Taurus, loves Domo amongst other furry things and is peeved by untidiness.


This is Pandora. She is a very old and wise owl. She travelled all around the world for many, many years untill she flew to Ireland. One night Monika and Jamie heard a rapping on their chamber door. They slowly opened it, peered out and there she was, staring at them with her big, yellow eyes. You should know that she doesn't speak much, however when she does, you have to listen carefully (as we mentioned already, she is a very wise owl, so it would be foolish to ignore her words). And then she spoke to them, saying:

'I want you to put me on your t-shirts!'

And that was that.

Jamie and Monika united to form Pandora Apparel in the hope of opening and maintaining an online shop that will initially stock unusual and quirky t-shirts for the discerning individual, with the ultimate goal of expanding our range to include other mystical items in the future. Unsure of how to begin Jamie and Monika found inspiration for this project in their friend Rob’s success with LadyUmbrella ladies t-shirts and so finally realised that the only way one succeeds in life is through hard work and following through on ones ambitions and ideas (and the words of a wise, old owl). Monika has long looked for an outlet for her creativity and so naturally loved the idea of designing t-shirts. This blog will document the ups and downs and ins and outs of our journey.

Here are two examples of the kind of t-shirts we plan to stock. Click on the picture to make it bigger! What do you think?

You can let us know on our Facebook page or leave us feedback here on our blog.

Why don’t you join us on our journey from zeros to heroes? I really hope you do. You can keep up to date on our adventure on our aforementioned Facebook page and on our Twitter page.

Our web site and youtube page are in the works and coming soon.