Ukay Engrish: Chronicling second-language English on pre-owned clothing

Ukay-ukay thrift shops can hide fashion gems like an Evangelion shirt by Uniqlo or a People’s Liberation Army fatigue jacket.  Or, more often than not, they hide failed attempts to marry English and the low cost of garment manufacturing in Asia

UkayEngrish (dot tumblr dot com) documents “cheap clothes and their questionable use of the English language (as) captured by our crappy cameras.”

The Engrish on some of the shirts border on philosophical (“Happiness yes in the point of this way”) while others almost sound like an anonymous sweat shop worker writing home to her family.

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PS: sweat shop labor is no laughing matter




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