Does anyone remember that fabric that changes colour depending on what angle you look at it from?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I want to find a shirt in this, for my father. I know, it's not really style, but I don't know where to put it.

I've tried looking for iridescent shirts, but that seems to just generally mean shiny shirts (and women's ones too, helpfully).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Oh, and just to keep things easy, I need it in a 2XL sort of size.

Hmmm, if I search for that, I get a lot of mod tshirts, all over the place.

Are you only looking for new ones or secondhand?

I think I'd rather buy new, as it's a gift for my dad.

I guess v good condition used could be practical, maybe.

'k.

I am going to go to bed, but I've bid on the Tesco one, and will check this thread in the morning, too.

Thanks! MN really came through on this, I didn't even know the right words, and couldn't find any!

When do you need it by?

I need to have it in hand at the very start of August.

We're doing Christmas when we go home this year, and as my father is organising this, I want to be sure to get him something nice.

(My other options, which I'll also no doubt buy some of:

• images of magpies (don't ask!)
• tshirts with rude jokes on them
• conspiracy books
• really really long books)

Sorry I can't help you with the shirt, NQC. Can I hijack for a moment please, and ask if you have the Mason Dixon Knitting book?

If I can get more than one, that's even better. I've left the shirts I was considering at the 'interesting big man' store in limbo, to reconsider.

Thing is, now my mom is gone, I don't know whether anyone takes him clothes shopping ...

Don't think I have a Mason Dixon knitting book - is it a pattern book? I don't really 'do' patterns ...

Rosie Nieper for rude t-shirts if you can't get the shirt

Oh, yes, those are actually funny rude shirts.

The ones I got before (that were hits) were just rude. Things about the earth revolving around people etc etc.

Mason Dixon . Techniques and patterns I believe. I want to make their baby kimono

Ok, that looks pretty easy, surely? Start at the back, knit over the top, then down the front?

Book looks interesting, but no, I don't have it. I'm mad for Zimmerman, finally.

I can't see how that edging is done, but still, it looks pretty easy. Knit it flat so you don't have to perl.

I think the edging is just sort of eyelets as I've seen it with ribbon threaded through.

oh I might have to get thing one and thing two t shirts for my girls.

Oh

My

Goodness

This thread has just reminded me of a rather hideous, very, very, very, very baggy silk shirt thing I used to wear with black leggings when I was a teen (in the 80s). Was fuschia pink but had a kind of greenish tinge depending on how you looked at it. I thought I was fab in it. How wrong could I be..

I need therapy to wipe it out of my brain again.

Oh, good, a clothing thread diverting into unrelated knitting and psychological trama.

Ceolas, I'm sure we could work out how to do that kimono. You're basically making something T-shaped ... or you could do front and back all at once, but I've forgotten how the arms work with that - easier to make it t-shaped, I think ...

I got the ebay one, by the way (thanks again sea!) and have set up an ebay search thing that emails me if any men's clothing comes up with iridescent or irridescent in description or title.

(simon drew also worth a look for t-shirts

ha fio! that's how i found the shirt, after you mentioned polyester, i looked up purple polyester

(how is the course btw?)