Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "How Did Soviet People Buy Their Clothes? Was it Expensive? #ussr" video.

That Wendy’s commercial was tame in its mocking of Russian life compared to others. I don’t remember the product, but there was one in the 1980’s that went after the whole “Female athletes on hormones” thing and slammed the GDR really bad.
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@chuckdacon4797 Not sure. I seem to recall it being a TV commercial, but I now remember that movie mocked them as well.
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Who are you calling a peasant, you peasant?! (JK)
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Baloney. Every head shop had a silkscreen press that you could have a patterned tshirt made for yourself on. They had books that showed the designs on each page, often 100s available(including comic book crap) and you could even bring your own if you had the means to make one and have a tshirt printed with it. They also did tye dye stuff. Silkscreen shirts were very delicate and could not be machine dried(not on high heat at least) and would always peel after some time.
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@perfectallycromulent Once again, baloney. I worked in a record store at my local mall as a teen, and the shirt press was easy to operate and did not take long at all to bake a pattern onto a shirt. The only challenge of it was making sure you got the timing correct or else you could either burn or melt it, or not seal it enough and it would start to fall off too soon.
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@perfectallycromulent I just explained to you that the books had comic book character prints in it, including Batman and the others. Shirts like that were not rare at all.
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@perfectallycromulent Every mall or college town had a head shop or record store in it.
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@perfectallycromulent If that is true, than you really should know better. Mid Island Plaza, Roosevelt Field, Massapequa...they all had shops you could get silkscreen shirts done at. This doesn't include all the strip malls all over where you were bound to run into Unique Boutique type places. And that is just Long Island; if you went to college towns for uni then you definitely came across these places.
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@perfectallycromulent Are you saying that a church going mom would not have brought her teenagers to Tower records or Record world? Was Modell's beneath her tastes as well?
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@perfectallycromulent We had comic book stores back then that sold everything you mentioned
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@perfectallycromulent Commack was considered rural at that time. Closer to and in NYC, that stuff was available easy. Forbidden Planet had loads of it in the 80s, along with the smaller mom and pop shops in the village. The only thing Commack was known for was the motor inn, which was always the source of jokes in the area.
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@perfectallycromulent You didn't travel far enough. It was always out there, you just had to know where to look and be willing to go there. Fandom was around long before 1989.
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