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.