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Magnum never met Robin Masters.  The Angels never saw Charlie.  That is the business model we have adopted here at Klaus Industries.  We have never met the guy.  You may have heard some rumors.  We can truthfully say that most of them are not true. We know because we made them up.  We were drunk.  Events from that night are a little foggy.  Apparently somebody has a picture of me wearing a dress.  Wasn’t the first time, wont be the last.  Here is what we can tell you.

Sometimes we order pineapple coconut fried rice from this Thai place down the street.  It gets delivered by this guy with a gold tooth who seems to hate us.  We are good tippers.  I don’t get it.  Sometimes there is a CD containing a new t-shirt design hidden in the rice.  I don’t know how it gets there.  We want to ask the guy with the tooth, but he is scary.

So I don’t know much, but here is what I do know.  Our world headquarters is in a basement of a house in North Portland Oregon, where the meth heads like to steal boxes of t-shirts off porches and then throw them in the garbage down the street.  You know the soap company in Fight Club?  It is kind of like that only 70% less homoerotic.  (Except on casual Friday when we all wear jock straps to work.)

Every shirt is made in the U.S.A.  American Apparel sews them and we screen print them completely by hand.  They are 100% sweatshop free, which is not to say that we aren’t a little sweaty.  Because every shirt is printed by hand from start to finish, you can think of your shirt as a wearable piece of art.  Every one is a little bit different, and every one is made with care (does love sound too corny?  It does doesn’t it.  Oh well, we’re lovers not haters.)

We keep it simple because less is more and all that.  That is the first thing you learn in art school, which we obviously didn’t attend.  Our shirts are intended to be thought provoking, without provoking a fight.  Back in the day a t-shirt was just a t-shirt, not high fashion.  We hope a Klaus t-shirt bridges the gap between then and now.

We do our best to keep stocked up.  A lot of t-shirt companies say every t-shirt is limited edition.  A lot of times that means that they had a finite number printed by a third party and aren’t going to re-order.  When you go to buy something they are often down to the least popular sizes of the most popular shirts.  We print in house in small batches to keep inventory low.  When we run out, we usually aren’t out for long because we print another small run.

Klaus Industries donates a dollar from every shirt sold to a good cause.  Lately that money has been going to Kiva.org.  Kiva.org is an organization that makes micro loans to people all over the world who need a leg up.  How often do you get to buy a t-shirt that makes you feel and look good both inside and out?