Bellbottom Blues

Binder Giveaways #72-#74: A Trio for the Holidays

Solstice-appropriate greetings to you all, shapeshifters! Hanukkah has come and gone, our very first Open Studio Market was a success, and we’re working on all your wonderful arrive-by-Christmas orders. Time for a giveaway.

The three winners of this giveaway will each receive one $50 Shapeshifters crop top binder. (That’s your choice of these.) Note the relatively new options, pictured above: the blue glitter Jellyfish Tears and the black rose Grow In Shadows.

Thank you so much, friends, for getting through this year. A bit more to go. Thank you for staying in touch, for connecting with us on other platforms, for spreading the word the old-fashioned way. Thank you always.

Enter here.

The fine print:

Entries from all countries are welcome.

There are three possible ways to enter. Doing any one of the listed actions will get you one entry. You do not have to do all three.

The winners will be randomly selected on **December 27, 2018**.

One winner each will be selected from Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. 

If any winner does not respond to email within three days, a new winner will be selected in their place.

CHEST BINDER GIVEAWAY: #TransAwarenessWeek

Happy Trans Awareness Week, shapeshifters. We all deserve a little positive recognition right now. 

Here in the studio we’re working on new products, sewing hoods, finishing sleeves. The holidays are coming up, our wait times are down to two weeks, and we’re holding our November giveaway.

The four winners of this giveaway will each receive one $50 Shapeshifters crop top binder. (That’s your choice of these.) Note your new options, pictured above: the blue glitter Jellyfish Tears, the black rose Grow In Shadows, and the return of the Pinstripe.

Thank you, always, for being here, for living through, for surviving and thriving in these times. Thank you for making your own things, for working through the lean years, for taking selfies and telling trusted friends who you are. And thank you so much, for all your support of us and our work. It means so much to us.

Enter here.

The fine print:

Entries from all countries are welcome.

There are three possible ways to enter. Doing any one of the listed actions will get you one entry. You do not have to do all three.

The winners will be randomly selected on **November 26, 2018**.

One winner each will be selected from Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. The remaining winner will be selected from the full pool.

If any winner does not respond to email within three days, a new winner will be selected in their place.

This whole bankruptcy thing was a money making scam by the suits who bought out the company back in the 2000s and ran it into the ground. 

Not only is the toy store brand not dead, but 30,000 people are now angry as this scheme blocked them out of severance pay and they are now unemployed and unable to return to work when they start up again.

Many toy companies including Hasbro are raising eyebrows at this, as the initial bankruptcy cost them millions of dollars in sales revenue and their stocks took a nasty hit (Mattel being the worst off from it, as Toys R Us closing compounded with steadily falling sales of their products). Advocates are calling this a “bad PR stunt” since the suits want the company to make sales for the holidays. 

Shapeshifters special giveaways #16 & #17

Happy (Inter)National Coming Out Day, shapeshifters. 

If you’re out: thank you. A real, personal thank you. It makes a difference.

If you’re just coming out: welcome! And congrats. You picked a hard time to do it, and we’re proud of you. Find your people, find support. You’re in good company, and there’s more of us than you think.

If you’re in: This is your permission to stay in. We’re here, we’re out, you can see us, and if you’re ever ready, come on out. And if you’re not ready, don’t. 

Whether you’re in, out, or slouched fashionably in the doorway, you’re all eligible to enter our sixteenth and seventeenth donor-funded giveaways. Your friends and allies all across the world dropped some cash into our virtual fund-a-giveaway bucket to make this happen. They’re pretty awesome that way.

The winners of this giveaway will each receive one Shapeshifters crop top custom-print binder (worth $55). (That’s a binder with any four-way stretch fabric under $16 from here!)

Thank you always for spreading the word, telling your friends, reblogging, posting selfies, doing photoshoots(!), writing fanfic and novels(!!), and, of course, for your amazing direct support — of us and of each other. We couldn’t do this without you.

Enter here.

The fine print:

Entries from all countries are welcome.

There are three possible ways to enter. Doing any one of the listed actions will get you one entry. You do not have to do all three!

Two winners will be randomly selected on Halloween, *October 31, 2018*. We will send emails to notify both winners!

If any winner does not get back to us within three days, a new winner will be selected in their place.