Buy 365 near-identical, solid color shirts that range through the entire color spectrum in a loop. It will appear as though you wear the same color shirt every day, but in photos from previous months you'll be wearing a completely different color.

I would so watch a rainbow shirt time lapse

End 1 shade away from where you started to make the perfect gif loop.

I'm sure in a year we will see this viral video.

You realize the time lapse gif could be created in a couple hours right?

Came hear to see this. Pretty annoyed its just an idea.

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Cannot cost that much. $5 per cotton tee x 365... Oh yeah. I guess it's like $4.5million so you're right!

/r/ifiwonthelottery

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Not to mention, no major manufacturer makes that many tshirt colors. So you'll have to custom color or dye them.

Ditto

IIWTL

FTFY

But it doesn't account for fading. Does it?

If you have to write it down to remember it, it shouldn't be on your list.

My mother was au pair for a very wealthy Italian family in the late 60s. Dream job Bathrooms with gold taps, that sort of stuff. She was treated more like a guest than staff. The man of the house wore this old sports jacket, and it made his very stylish wife mad. Get rid of the old thing, its falling apart, she would say. But he loved it, wore it every day. But it was getting old.. One day he came home with an exact copy of his favorite jacket.. and his wife was amused. So you are going to wear that until it falls apart too? No he says, and points to the 364 other copies hanging in the hallway!

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Amazing!

Using RES, looks like something is going wrong

but they could be nicer shirt colours.

Looks like there is a lot of more g to the biv going on there.

This made me realize that if I did this I would be self conscious about people thinking I'm gay for about two months

That's a weird spectrum. It goes from red to red again. Here's the visible light spectrum from 380 to 780 nm. One block for every day of the year. Yay Excel!

Why is yellow so short? Just wondering.

The pink and yellow months would suck.

That was really cool. You should post this to /r/woahdude

Thank you. This post didn't make sense to me until I saw this.

Can anyone else not zoom in on this? As soon as I get close enough for my mouse to be over it it turns into the <--> thing to change the window size.

That's rad.

Commenting so I can find this later.

Pretty much exactly how evolution works. Nice.

Preferably one by one, together with your newspaper in the morning.

I regularly buy t-shirts for a screen printing company. They cost less than $2 each. So I could pull this off for less than $730 if I could just find a wide enough variety of colors. I can't think of a single brand that has enough shades. I think they'd have to be hand dyed. Maybe if I bought 365 white t-shirts and dyed them all myself.

What kind of gorilla math do they use making that robot cost 1.35 million get the fuck outta here.

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Instead of doing the whole rainbow, just choose one colour. Go from say (to use RGB hex) #000000 to #0000FF. 256 days and you've gone from black to bright blue, but nobody's going to see the difference between the shirts so long as they see you at least once every few days and you wear them in order.

For quite a few of the shades you could re-use the shirts if you dye them yourself.

I can get plain white t-shirts for $1.35 a shirt. I'd have to dye them myself, but I could do it. Less than $500 plus the dye.

By half the shirts and then go in reverse when you reach the end of your spectrum.

The difference in colour between weeks is significant enough to notice you are wearing a different colour though, unfortunately

Actually, you wouldn't need to buy them all at once. If you just get 10 of them, you can sell them after you've worn them. They'd resell for a decent price since they'll be barely worn. That would knock the overall price down considerably.

The truly great thing about the original idea is that everyone will think you are wearing the same shirt repeatedly but you'll be able to honestly answer "no this a totally different shirt." In your idea, you are wearing the same shirt 5-7 times throughout the week (depending if you continue this on weekends or not) which kills half the fun in my mind.

Yeah, I think it still might work for 4 month cycles. That'd be like a term of university.

The long con?

There's only one thing left to do. We've gotta beat you out of the Best Friends Gang...

As if OP's idea wasn't expensive enough already!

You start with the complimentary color for the tie, and then have both go around the color wheel. You'll always be looking good any day of the year with this.

Shirts start out white, eventually going black.

Ties start out black, eventually going to white.

That's how I would do it.

Perhaps inverse the tie? Not sure if it'd always complement. Plus the beginning middle and end would have some matchups, depending on your chosen shade range.

have one change slowly from white to grey to black to grey while the other goes through the rainbow.

Or a decent polo

Wrong thread?

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Or 365 friends...

Yes a shirt exchange group. Someone could start a co-op to loan out shirts.

You just blew my mind.

If we're being technical, no. Haha

Not really. Sure, evolution looks like that from afar, but it's not really how it works. This implies some kind of an ordered, consistent progression.

Evolution would be more like you randomly wear a different color shirt every day, and buy more of the ones you are complimented on and less or none of ones you receive criticism for or aren't complimented on. When you go to throw out shirts, which you do often, you favor those that receive fewer compliments (that is, you throw more of them out). Also, you occasionally and randomly burn piles of shirts for no reason (extinctions), throw bleach on some shirts ("bad" mutations) and mix new dye into some loads of laundry (neutral/potentially good mutations).

Also, the shirts would have to be sentient and capable of exploiting and sabotaging each other to increase the likelihood of being complimented on (predation/parasitism) and capable of working together for mutual benefit (symbiosis).

Thought it was relevant, stole this comment from /u/solomaxewll6

Original

Yep. Creationists make a distinction between "micro-evolution" and "macro-evolution" even though they're the same thing. They admit that, yes, there are slight changes over time, and it's completely reasonable to believe that (micro-evolution). They deny that one species turns into another, though (macro-evolution)... even though macro-evolution is really just repeated instances of micro-evolution. I like the color analogy, which I think very effectively shows the silliness of the argument.

You're so euphoric.

eBay once did this. They changed the background color from yellow to white, but recieved complaints. So they reverted it to yellow, and started changing the color gradually over several months until it was finally white. Nobody noticied.

edit: source

Well crap. I am definitely going to go home tonight and code a date-based colour scheme into my web site.

As pretty much the site's only visitor since I closed my consulting business, I'll be the only one who knows it's happening, but it will amuse me... so I'll have that going for me, which is nice.

I would willingly participate in this.

Man, this would be great! At first they'll call me the Red Defender. But soon....

Yeah Batman Costumes Are Always Appropriate.

Like, in each new Batman movie make his costume slightly lighter until it's totally white? Brilliant!

Thanks! It's a true honor!

You must commit to the plan! Everyday! What if you see a coworker on the weekend effect ruined. Your not the crazy greyscale guy who only wears that one shirt, anymore.

Yeah. I figure I'd have to go custom.

somebody finally gets me!

Interestingly, the human eye can discern around 10 million colors, if you happen to be really rich.

That's around 27,400 years worth of shirts to do it right.

Good call. If I could figure out how to wash them all once workout the colors running, I could probably avoid this.

I'm actually going to try to flesh this idea out. If I have the shirts away as donation rewards, I could solve the two problems of what do I provide as legitimate rewards and what do I do with 365 shirts next year. This is a good idea.

That'd be less than 2 dollars a shirt.

The problem is, good luck finding all the right colors. Most places where you can buy shirts have 10, maybe 20 base colors if you're lucky. You're going to order around 350 custom ones, and that costs. The cheapest way would be to buy white ones in bulk and color them yourself, as others have said

Sorry, 7 is not NumberWang.

He needs the exact same shirt in 365 unique colors.. I'd guess about 1k min to do it right

That would be amazing, imagine your whole office doing it, cycling a month apart, and only your bus is out of the loop.

You dont?

Wear a tie-dye shirt. Also applies to April Fools Day.

There's a very good chance I was in a Goodwill when I thought of this. Though, I do most of my crazy thinking at Goodwill.

The closet?

The shirts would be so close in color the difference would be imperceptible. People who see me every day would assume I'm erasing the same shirt because it would be almost identical to the day before. Similar to how you don't notice your friends aging until you see pictures from years ago.