ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 20th March 2024

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley made a Purchase!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Guys, I've made a fashion purchase. Oh God. Another one. Another one. Now this purchase, it stumbled across, I was targeted advertising, but then I looked into the company and it's a small, single, one-woman-run Australian business. And she makes custom shirts out of old vintage tea towels that she's washed, obviously.

Yeah. She's washed them. Any stains? Well, I've seen a couple that have stains. Right. But I'll see past the stains. Are they flannel-y? No, like cottony.

Right. So I messaged her saying, Oh my gosh, I love the shirts that you make. And koala bears are my favourite animals. And she had a bunch of tea towels, can you see these, of old vintage koala bears. And then she takes them and turns them into these cool shirts. And then I said to her, oh, I'm from New Zealand though. And she was like, oh my god, I've got some New Zealand

tea towels. Oh yeah. And so the front's going to be koala bears and the back's going to be all New Zealand vintage tea towels. So it's going to be like a trans-Tasman t-shirt or shirt. Shirt. Shirt, okay. Let me show you. Show me some examples of what, so far you have described in absolute monstrosity. Look at that. Oh, no, that's quite cool, that Melbourne one. They're like patchwork.

Kitchy. Yeah, kitschy patchwork shirts. That's right up your alley, isn't it? Made out of old vintage tea towels. Oh, yeah. Are the tea towels being used? Because, you know, by the end of their lives, tea towels are a bit... Yeah, some of them are a bit holey, but I think she cuts around the, you know, holes

and right. And it's more than just... Then she puts that onto the shirt. No, no, no. It's made of it. I do want to know if there's a lining.

It'll be scratchy. Yeah, you've got sensitive skin, doll. Yeah, do you think the koala bears are going to itch me? I just couldn't resist the idea of having

a custom-made koala shirt. Look, this one's got kangaroos on it. Oh. No, I know... You've purchased this. I'm going to say, I know this is as far from anything you would ever wear, Fletch, in your life. Absolutely, absolutely.

Look at it. Look, you can have old maps and stuff. I like that one. How good's it going to be? We'll give the Instagram a shout out because people might be trying to visualise what this looks like. Oh, absolutely. We're a small business. Especially, our overseas listeners, like people that aren't Australasian,

do they do, like, catch tea towels overseas? I feel like they don't. Yeah, because this is very growing up in the 70s, eh? Yeah. Well, the brand's House of Claire. That's the name, House of Claire, C-L-A-R-E. And, yeah, she just collects. And you can, like, do custom things and be like,

I'm really into horses. And she'll find some horsey tea towels for you. Oh, my gosh. So I'll show you the back of the one that I'm getting. It's got, I guess that's a, what kind of bird is it? It's a tui. And some corphi. Very kiwi.

And some sort of tiki things and a map. And then the front's just koalas, my favourite animal. Anyway, pretty cool. Just to dance back, tea towel wise, the British love a commemorative tea towel. I think that's who we got it off. Right, okay. They're all about a souvenir or a

big bedding tea towel. Or like the Queen, ones of the Queen and stuff. I think my grandparents had some Scotland tea towels. Okay. I literally am fizzing at the You know, ones of the queen and stuff. Scotland. I think my grandparents had some Scotland tea towels. Okay. Wow. This is, I literally am fizzing at the bunghole over this shirt. The last time I tried to buy tea towels, I was pretty upset with the kind of tea towels.

Like, they're pretty meh. I got some Elko. The same ones as those Elko ones that you always have in the workplace. Are you saying and-ko wrong? No, it's Elko, isn't it? No, he wants to talk about the people that come to your workplace. And then put in the towels. And then put in the towels.

Yes. Hideous towels. Yes. They might not be great to look at, but they're a phenomenal towel. Yeah, they're a good tea towel. They're a great tea towel. None of this like pushing around the water. They soak it in.

Yeah, but they've got their logo on it as well. No, no, no. Yeah, no. These were the ones that they have. Right. I think tea towels are almost like 70% about aesthetics, 30% about functionality. Yeah, but like a beach towel, you don't want to shit one

because then you're just moving the water around. Moving water and sand around. Yeah. I honestly thought you said, like a beach towel, you don't want to shit on one. And I was like, I'm interested to see where this is going. Of course you don't want to shit on your beach towel. Absolutely not.

Okay, would you prefer to shit on a tea towel or a beach towel? Beach towel because you could wrap up the shit and bury it better. Why are we talking about this? You can't bury the whole town. I would. No, you would have less impact. It could go off. How big are your shits that a tea towel wouldn't be enough? I took one on the weekend that... Oh, boy.

You've really brought down the decorum of the podcast. This was about supporting a lovely small business making me a custom koala shirt. And now you're shitting in towels. See, no, here, I've found some. I've found some of the Elko tea towel, which is just kind of what they've become known as. Look at this.

Linen King has them. Oh, yuck. Yeah, we've had those before. $3.60. They're a great tea towel. They belong in a commercial kitchen or a maraia nowhere else. They're purposely made hideous so that you don't steal them from your workplace kitchen.

No one's making a shirt out of those. I wouldn't even shit in one of those. I wouldn't even shit on one of those. You wouldn't even shit on this? No, it's not good enough. I'd actually be angry if I had to because they're such a great towel.