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About Me

Hey kids and welcome to Sally Can't Dance.
Sally Can’t Dance is a London-based independent fashion label, specialising in original designs, hand-painted and hand-printed on T-shirts and bags.
Once upon a time in Hackney, North London, there was a plucky young chap named Christopher George. In early 2003 his disdain for the homogeneous world of mainstream fashion reached fever pitch and, bored to tears with samey, uninteresting T-shirts, he thought to himself: “Forget this. I’m a clever, creative sort; I’ll make my own.”
He started to think up ways to make money out of this hobby of his but was deterred by his girlfriend, Sally Cruickshank, who steered him towards a steady job at WH Smith.
“Under the thumb” doesn’t quite cover it.
Sally and Christopher’s relationship came to a very bitter end and, as part of a plan to wash that girl right outta his hair, he returned to the T-shirts he’d been held back from and named the new label Sally Can’t Dance, in honour of his darling ex.
Miss Cruickshank is reportedly less than impressed.
Sally Can’t Dance has been trading in Camden Lock Market every weekend since summer 2007, becoming a member of the East Yard’s close-knit family of independent traders. More recently he’s also been a regular face at Brick Lane’s Sunday Upmarket, with a stall decked out in more blue LEDs than the undercarriage of a chav’s Vauxhall Nova.
The aim of all Sally Can’t Dance designs is to be humorous without resorting to crassness or being “wacky”; to be rooted in pop culture but not to rely on it (the proliferation of "Vote For Pedro" T-shirts were one of many catalysts for Sally Can’t Dance); to be original and witty without being pretentious and to underpin it all with an eye-catching, carefully-considered design aesthetic. Each Sally Can’t Dance design is painstakingly worked on and tinkered with until the image is scorched into my retinas and I wake up at night screaming the names of the fonts I’ve tried.
Every single Sally Can’t Dance garment has been individually hand-printed and/or hand-painted by me, either in Dalston’s Print Club or my basement; no two are ever exactly the same.
Sally Can’t Dance garments are extremely high-quality and ethically-produced. Having heard horror stories about sweatshops, I wanted Sally Can’t Dance to avoid being complicit in the exploitation of other human beings (besides myself) at all costs. .
We've also got a Sally Can't Dance shop on Etsy.com so check it out!
Peruse the plethora of designs on offer (view profile pics) and have your faith in modern life restored. If any of them take your fancy, gimme a shout and before you know it you too could be the proud owner of a genuine, hand-made, lovingly-crafted Sally Can't Dance t-shirt.
Life doesn't get better than that.
Seriously, it really doesn't.
All designs, artwork and slogans © Christopher A. George 2004-2008

My Blog

Goodbye, old friend...

They say that a picture tells a thousand words and so, by that logic, here's 4,000 words......and here are some more words:Basically, I'm saying "Goodbye" to the old favourite, "I'm more indie than yo...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:37:00 GMT

Newvember

.. New stuff in November = Newvember. Oh, do you see what I did there?! Lord, I'm funny. Point is, over this month, I'll be bringing out a whole bunch of new stuff. "What kind of new stuff?" I hear y...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:11:00 GMT

Bring on the Brick Lane backlash

Last week I mentioned that I'd be taking a break from Camden Lock Market for a month in favour of doing the full weekend at the Old Truman Brewery markets on Brick Lane. I gave an explanation why: i...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:09:00 GMT

Camden and I are going on a break

Early this year Sally Can't Dance stopped trading in Camden Lock Market on Sundays and I split the weekend between Camden on Saturdays and Brick Lane's Upmarket at the Old Truman Brewery on S...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:14:00 GMT

In Defence of Smoking

My "Smoking makes you cool" design has ruffled quite a few people's feathers in the year it's been on the stall; something I honestly never thought would happen. Not because I consider it to some sort...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:34:00 GMT

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me...

&happy birthday dear Sally, and you smell like one too.Yes folks, today is Sally Can't Dance's first birthday!One year ago today was the first day I queued up for a stall in Camden Lock market with a ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:41:00 GMT

Sally needs YOU!

Hello lovely people! Let's cut to the chase: Sally Can't Dance is coming to something of a crossroads at the moment.I won't go into all the gritty ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Eff. Eh? Queue.

Or, if you'd rather acronyms over phonetics: FAQ.So what's all this then, eh?Well I'm glad you asked. Sally Can't Dance t-shirts are all original designs, individually hand-painted, hand-drawn and han...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:20:00 GMT

Washing and all that jazz

Contrary to some people's assumptions, Sally Can't Dance go through the wash just fine - you just have to know how to treat 'em right.It's not difficult stuff, but I'm putting it up here in case you'v...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:26:00 GMT