All right ye wanks, our design contest has come to a close and we had several good designs (and even more bad ones) to choose from. After several long hours of debate and deliberation, resident design guru Mt. Schwiiinga, haberdasher Chunder Pussy, and myself have selected the three designs that were submitted that we like the best. Then we had Mt. Schwiiinga clean up your designs so that they actually made sense on a T-shirt. Then we got sick and drunk and forgot to announce the winners for a couple of weeks. And now, finally, here are the three that we like the most – if you would like to pre-order any of them and ensure that we have one in your size, please fill out this handy little form.

In first place we had the “People Hate Us On Yelp” design submitted by Taste the Rainbow. This one was based off of an old Yelp review that everyone seems to like so much – Mt. Schwiiinga was even able to incorporate some of the review into the back of the shirt. Congrats to Taste the Rainbow on winning a free rego to Memorial Day (yes, he still have to pay for the event enough though he’s the RA), and this shirt will be available in a few short weeks.

In second place we have the “We Were All FRBs At Least Once” design submitted by Just Mike (seriously, can we name this guy already?) Something about sperm swimming towards beer is just inherently funny, but that’s just me. We slapped a spiffy new tagline on the back of the shirt as well, and Just Mike will get a voucher for four free weekly hashes that he can use going forward – not a bad haul for somebody we haven’t name yet (SERIOUSLY!?). This shirt should be available some time later this summer.

In third place we have the “Chicago Theatre Marquee” design submitted by Fire in the Hole – several other hashers had a similar idea to this, but she’s the one who fleshed it out the best and submitted it the earliest, so she’s getting credit. We also included an homage to everyone favorite Asian Drunk It’s Too Soft, but he’s not getting anything as a prize. We should have these shirts available for you guys some time this fall or perhaps early winter depending on how quickly the first two designs sell out.

We had a lot of designs to choose from and a number of them could have been printed and made for very, very good shirts. If your design didn’t get printed, don’t feel discouraged, there are plenty of hashes in Chicago and I know for a fact that they’re always looking for good haberdashery designs! We’d like to thank each of you who submitted a design once again below (in alphabetical order):

Clark Kunt
Dewey Sexual System (Big Hump H3)
Disco Ballz
EZ on the Ass
Fire in the Hole
Foamy Discharge
Gay Ping Panda, Hidden Homo
Just Mike
O’Shitty Runch
Sandy Syphilis
Speckle Bird
Slippery Fingers
String Theory
Taste the Rainbow

Chicago HHH Haberdashery Design Contest

Deadline: March 24th, 2013

Details: Okay wankers, another hash year is upon us, which means that it is time for some hot new haberdashery. After consulting with our new Haberdasher Chunder Pussy, it has been decided to have a contest for designing our next shirt.

The rules are pretty simple, you have until the end of the hash on March 24th to submit a hot new shirt design – this can be in any format you’re most comfortable with, but it must either be in the GM’s inbox (if its digital) or in his physical possession (if you’re going old-school) by the deadline. All of the designs will judged by a panel based on originality, hashiness (ie. relevance), and feasibility (ie. how easy will they be for us to actually produce). Winners will be announced at the hash on April 7th.

Now for the interesting stuff, the prizes. We’ll select three winners and each of the three will have a chance to see their design printed. First place will get their design printed first, just in time for Memorial Day 2013 – additionally, first place will receive a shirt in their size of each of the three shirts plus a free rego for Memorial Day 2013 Weekend. Second place will see their design printed some time over the Summer or Fall of 2013 and will receive a free shirt of their design in their size as well as a voucher for four free weekly hashes (the $8 kind, not valid for big events). Third place will see their design printed sometime during the Fall or Winter of 2013 and will receive one free shirt of their design in their size when they are printed.

There you have it, I’ve included some basic technical info below so that you know what you’re working with, but get out there and design some shirts people.

Technical Rules Stuff:
- Designs can be submitted in any format (physical or digital), but must be received no later than March 24th, 2013. Please submit all digital entries to Snatchsquatch and hand in all physical entries to Snatchsquatch or Chunder Pussy.
- Designs may use both sides of the shirt as well as any number of ink colors, though excessive colors will raise the printing cost and will affect the feasibility of any design submitted.
- One-sided designs should designate whether the design should be on the front or the back of the shirt. Two-sided designs should include contact information for the hash (website, phone line, etc.)
- Multiple entries per person are allowed, but only one entry per person will win (ie. one person can’t win all three prizes).
- Judges reserve the right to scrap the contest if not enough entries are received.
- Participants need not hash with Chicago H3 to win, but must collect their prizes in person.
- Free weekend rego for Memorial Day 2013 is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for a future Chicago H3 event.
- Voucher for free hash cash has no resale value and can only be used in person by the winner.
- Contest deadline and announcement of winners subject to change.
- No purchase necessary to win and all that other legal mumbo jumbo.

What’s that? Even more new Haberdashery for CH3? That’s right! We’ve got all kind of new and exciting ideas lined up. Let’s start at the top, shall we, with our next shirt, as seen at right. Pretty snazzy, right? Don’t get the reference? Just remember one thing, no matter how much something sucks, its still better than Waukesha. Seriously. It isn’t even close. And if you need more info than that, well, you’re probably not a big enough sports fan. This is going to be an extremely limited run of shirts and we’ll have them for sale for just $10. Get them while they last.   Next up are  brand new CH3 patches. CH3 hasn’t done patches in quite some time, so I figured that now was as good of a time as any to bust them out again. These are based on an old patch design that was found over at Half-Mind, so I figured it was a good place to start. They’re available now for the ultra-low price of $2 a pop. We don’t have Happi Coats just yet, but you can still slap this sucker on a bag, a winter cap, a pair of shorts, you name it, and then you’ve got instant haberdashery! Who doesn’t like that? Nobody. Nobody doesn’t like that.   Last, but certainly not least, we have the ever popular bottle openers – these little suckers will be available in an assortment of colors (Red, Blue, Purple, Black, Green, & Orange), come with the CH3 foot logo… printed on another foot (doesn’t that just blow your mind?) Slap this little guy on your lanyard next to your whistle and you’ll never have to worry about being unable to open a bottle at a beer stop again. These little guys are available for only $3.