We really hate doing this, we printed a metric ton of these items to make sure we have enough for everybody, however we must inform you that after one hour we are sold out of about 70% of the total inventory of our pride merchandise.

Thank you for keeping us humble, and just wanted to give you a heads up in case you wanted to get in on these pieces.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023

❤️🧡💛👇IMPORTANT👇💚💙💜

Today was an unprecedented outpouring of love and support. For reference, we have had more orders today than the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of our last Black Friday weekend combined. I cannot stress how unprecedented today has been. And this comes with its own set of obstacles to overcome. Rest assured, we will be working around the clock getting these incredible orders out.

More importantly, we will be contacting our studio first thing tomorrow about creating a second run for these products. Never in our wildest dreams did we foresee selling out of sizes twenty minutes within making them available online.

You can see our full statement in the image above. Most of all, THANK YOU for the love and support you have shown both us and our community during what is going to be a celebration of love, pride and family.

✨✨✨ENAMEL PIN UPDATE✨✨✨

Many of you have noticed our enamel pin selection has been extremely limited for the past few months. We have been facing manufacturing issues and have had to source a new supplier for our pins. We fully understand that not only does this affect sales, but it affects those who have redeemed their Roam Rewards for freebies including enamel pins and we are truly sorry.

I'm glad to say that we have found an incredible new supplier, and we have restocks on the way including THIRTY BRAND NEW ENAMEL PINS to choose from. Thank you so much for your patience while we've sorted this out!

We are still reeling from yesterday. Thank you so much to this amazing community for your unbelievable love and support.

All relevant information on the Pawlaroid and Nightlife Pride designs is stated above and we will be contacting our studio tomorrow (as today is Sunday and they are off) and we will begin a new run of these items. Don't fret, we've got you covered.

https://twitter.com/NomadComplex/status/1663585377574346754?s=20

Everyone please say "Thank you @GetBoldMerch" in the comments below on this Tweet. 🙏

Thanks to Matt and their incredible team, we will have another full release of PAWLAROID and NIGHTLIFE PRIDE on JUNE 3RD @ 12PM PST. Set your alarms, write it on your hand, staple a post-it to your forehead.

We have never had a sell-out like this before, and have ordered a LOT of prints this time around however we cannot predict how fast or slow the sales will go. So make sure you're ready!

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SHIPPING + STICKERS!
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Hey y’all. Just wanted to give you a quick update and let you know that we are working away at packing up all of the orders! We’ve got some extra hands in the office and are making great time.

Our process is to bag up orders a few hundred at a time, we write the order numbers on the outside of the bags and then we print all of their shipping labels in one fell swoop. So dont fret about the time, the majority of it is spent actually packing the orders but then once we begin printing the labels, TONS of orders will fulfill and you’ll get your confirmation and tracking e-mails. 🙏🏻

A sneaky little announcement we need to make is that we have updated and restocked our sticker catalogue! We have 11 new stickers with our newest designs on them as well as restocks of most of our other sticker designs!

Thanks for being amazing!

EVERYTHING HURTS, WOOOO.

Hey everyone! We just wanted to give you a more concrete update on our shipping progress! We just printed and shipped off 400 more orders today, which has roughly been our daily output, so we are truly getting into the headwind now and nearing the finish line! A few notes as to the hold ups;

❤️🧡 This week, a member of our staff (Okay, the OTHER member of our staff) was on medical leave so we have been down a lovely individual. The boss man is on his fifth 14 hour day of order fulfilment to make up for the lost hands!

💛💚 While we cannot share specific numbers, more orders were placed in an 8 hour period than the entirety of our last Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Black Friday combined. Just to give you an idea of the sheer volume of orders that were placed. This is truly an unprecedented situation for us, but we're glad to say we are not too far behind!

💜💙 You may also be wondering - "I swear I ordered in the first 15 minutes of the drop. How come my order STILL isn't packed?" - About 60% of the orders we received came in during the first half hour of the drop. It's crazy, I know. But we are moving through each order as they were placed to the best of our ability!

The great news is that the weekend is upon us, and that means we will have ALL HANDS ON DECK. Our staffer is back, we've got some extra hands, and I'm so full of adrenaline to get these out the door that a woodpecker would be confused why my heartbeat was trying to outrace it. We project that everything from the first drop will be out MONDAY, if not a handful of stragglers the following Tuesday! (Keep in mind that our courier does not pick up on weekends - Our method is to pack up in bulk, and then print labels in bulk. So when the time comes, EVERYONE will be receiving their tracking within a short window of each other!)

Thank you again for your patience and incredible support! And a Happy Pride Month to all my guys, gals and non binary pals!

Sorry for the double announcement, we try our best not to do this, but given the number of inquiries we just wanted to remind everybody that;

SATURDAY, JUNE 3RD @ 12PM PST

We will be re-launching another run of our Nightlife Pride and our NEW Pawlaroid designs! These will once more be available on t-shirts, tank tops, LST's and pullover hoodies! I am going to be honest with you, we printed a ton more this week (Thanks team @ GetBold) but this is uncharted territory for us and we do not know how fast or slow they will sell. So set your alarms, and be ready!

Please note; We were unable to source blanks of XL and 2XL tank tops this time around. So unfortunately they will NOT be part of the drop tomorrow.

See you then!

This is your... 25 minute warning I guess! See you at noon!

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❤️🧡 On your marks.
💛💚 Get set.
💜💙 GAY!!

PAWLAROID and NIGHTLIFE PRIDE have been RESTOCKED! Tees, Tanks, LST's, Hoodies and Stickers! Happy Pride Month and thank you for the incredible support!

Just a reminder these some sizes sold out within the first half hour on the first run. We have stocked much more this time around, however the earlier you place your order, the better! Better to be safe than sorry!

DON'T STRESS; ONCE YOU ADD THE ITEM TO YOUR CART, IT WILL STAY THERE FOR TEN MINUTES. FEEL FREE TO BROWSE AND SHOP THROUGH OUR FINE SELECTION OF HAND CRAFTED.. STUFF, OR WHATEVER. IT'S GETTIN' SUMMERY AND YOU NEED SOME NEW BREATHABLE UNDIES AND COMFORTABLE SHORTS + SHIRTS.

Please note that Nightlife Pride will be RETIRING after this final run regardless of whether or not it sells out quickly, to make room for new pride works in the future!

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023

...ok then.

Give us about 30-60 minutes or so to digest the response to this second launch and we'll make a couple of announcements.

Just so folks understand the scope of the current launch, we manufactured and made available 2.7x the stock as was available for this run as opposed to the last run, and it appears that this run is selling out.. Faster. So a couple of points I'd just like to throw out there to remind folks of the protocols!

1. If you have incorrectly input your address, shipping information, billing information, SIZING, or anything else that will require a modification for your order, please e-mail support@nomadcomplex.com with your full name, order number, and the requested changes that you will need to make.

2. If you have any other issues that require customer service, please e-mail support@nomadcomplex.com with your full name, order number (if applicable) and as much detail about the nature of your issue as you can. I am glued to my desk and ready to assist.

3. "Does this mean that my order is going to take forever to ship?" - NO. Orders may take a few extra days to ship than our usual 24-48 hour turnaround, however I currently have several lovely individuals at our warehouse who are packing up your orders and shipping them out as they come in with love, grace and detail. We have a FULL staff this week as opposed to last week when our warehouse manager had to go on medical leave, so orders this weekend are going to ship at the speed of light. We've got many hands on your clothes as we speak.

4. "Are you going to restock these? This is nuts." - Give me the afternoon to figure out a game plan, and I promise we will do what we can!

5. "Nomad you suck ass my size sold out fuck you" - Totally. I just want to re-iterate we manufactured 2.7x the stock levels this time around, and it appears that.. they have sold out.

While we can't share specific numbers, as a rough example, the 4XL Pawlaroid t-shirts are our lowest selling size by a large margin, and the number we had the least stock of. We had 48 of them. They sold out in 3 minutes.

Thank you for bearing with us, and don't fret. We have got your back.

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SMALL UPDATE;

I will be meeting with our print studio later this evening in order to discuss a path forward about expanding on the Pawlaroid design.

Just to keep you in the loop, we have been working with our studio for almost eight years now and they treat us like gold. In order to create this second, and much larger, run of clothing, they put several other projects on hold just to accommodate us. I do not think we can get into their good graces a third time, but we are going to investigate the idea of opening these up for pre-orders.

The pride designs are extremely labor intensive due to the large number of colors that are used to print them. For silk screen printed t-shirts, each color is laid down and cured on to the garment individually. The more colors a t-shirt has, the more trips around the press the clothing has to take. The more trips around the press that clothing has to take, the more it is heated and the more it is susceptible to shrinking. Shrinking means that the screens will no longer line up with the other 7 colors of the design and that the design will be ruined. So each garment takes GREAT care to properly position and ensure that it is well printed.

Our goal making these limited edition for pride month was not to try and make them seem scarce and rare. It was simply that we only stock these labor intensive pieces during pride month at the height of their popularity.

tl;dr - Print studios have PTSD over pride season because it means gay rainbow shit is coming in full swing and it means lots of colors. These are truly a labor of love.

I cannot stress enough how unprecedented this has been. We have been doing this for eight years and this has eclipsed any project we have ever unveiled by an enormous margin. This is, frankly, fucking insane.

We will have an announcement tomorrow regarding a path forward for the Pawlaroid design due to its incredible demand.

Please note that this is the final hurrah of Nightlife Pride however - After its third year, this will be retired for good. Nightlife will continue to sell as part of our regular lineup!

And finally; We understand and appreciate the sentiments of frustration many folks have had today regarding this rollout. It feels like a con hotel block opening, we HATE when people want things and we can't provide them. This truly was an exception. We will work our hardest to ensure we can provide you with your wants and desires. That being said, we WILL NOT tolerate frustration or anger directed toward our staff in any capacity that is crossing the line into disrespect.

We will be around to answer your questions, however for now I am getting to packing.

This will be the final update for today through this channel until tomorrow when we’ve had a chance to convene with our print studio;

Noodles is eating a cardboard box. That is all.

Hello.

So for the sake of transparency, I'd like to inform you of how these rollouts went. It was never our intention to create limited edition items that only a select few people would have or to market them as "Rare" to our customers for the sake of scarcity. We undeniably despise this tactic of marketing commonly employed by "luxury" brands to drum up buzz and FOMO. (Supreme anyone?)

Pawlaroid and Nightlife Pride are two very labor intensive shirts due to their color process. They take about 6x as long as a 2 color print t-shirt to be fully completed. Due to this factor, as well as this sort of clothing being more popular during Pride Month, we only make it available DURING Pride Month. It is our goal and intention to make these available for anyone who wants one during this time.

The fact of the matter is... It just so happened about 15x the normal number of people who order our clothing at first launch, ordered them within the first few hours last week. And it just so happens that, despite nearly tripling certain inventories, that happened again this week.

"But Nomad, why didn't you order more if it was so popular lol" - We literally couldn't. The stock of blanks was bled dry. But also, and more importantly, our studio has worked around us and around the clock to produce the second wave that they did. And it JUST so happens that even with those numbers, they sold out even faster. It's not that we didn't want to make more, it's that we literally could not produce more. This has never happened in the history of Nomad Complex. So I apologize to anyone who may feel that this rollout was due to scarcity or a "limited edition" item. We despise fast fashion tactics, and those of you who have known us long enough know that well. This just REALLY was an anomaly.

Basically what we're saying is it's all your guys' fault so you're not allowed to be mad at us.

That being said...

❤️🧡💛PAWLAROID; PRE-ORDERS!💚💙💜

GUESS WHAT, DUE TO UNBELIEVABLY POPULAR DEMAND WE ARE OPENING PAWLAROID UP FOR PRE-ORDERS. T-shirts, Tank Tops (Including XL-3XL) and Hoodies are once again back on the market. You've got one full week to sit back, relax and make your purchase without the fear of worrying about them selling out.

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023

Please note that these pre-orders will run from June 4th-June 11th. The expected shipping date is between July 3rd and July 10th depending on how many orders we receive throughout this pre-order session.

Okie doke animals. Damon here. It has been a crazy week, and I just want to say thank you again for supporting our little team of idiots over here at Nomad Complex.

Every order left from May 27th’s drop will be going out tomorrow. Tomorrow we will also begin packaging and shipping out all of the orders from yesterdays drop. We have more hands this week. Every order from the 2nd drop (June 3rd) will be finished and shipped out by THURSDAY (June 8th).

I just want to say thank you again for your patience with us as we get these orders shipped out to you.

That being said… I just hit hour 11 today and hour 98 of this week. Can I go start Tears of the Kingdom? PLEEEEEEASE it’s like been out for WEEKS…

💚 - Yes, go play sweetie
💙 - Sit your ass back down and keep packing. 🔪

(I didn’t realize you couldn’t choose those emotes lol oopsie)

The second run is all folded. This is about half of it, hoodies not pictured. Time to pack em up now.

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5am, coffee acquired, Whitney Chewston supervising, Janelle Monae bumping on the surround sound, let’s pack some orders.

Kick ass today, animals.

Got a late start today (6am) cause I had to stop because a squirrel was putting little sticks and other things into an abandoned birdhouse on my way to work and I had to stop for five minutes to watch I’m sorry.

Don’t forget to pre-order ❤️🧡💛PAWLAROID💚💙💜 if you haven’t yet you have until June 11th!

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023

Here’s a fun statistic for you.

It is 12:25 on Thursday, June 8th. Our 2nd drop for the Pride run came out on June 3rd at 12pm PST.

We have had 4 staff working around the clock to pack and fulfill these orders. I personally have been working at a 4am or 6am start time since Sunday. Between all of our staff we have spent a combined 193 hours packing/shipping orders since Saturday.

We are happy to announce that we have officially finished packing all orders that were placed between 12pm and 1:12pm on Saturday, June 3rd. Yes you are reading that correctly. It has taken 193 hours to ship 72 minutes worth of orders.

We have just finished Order #58000. All outstanding orders from the 2nd run and any regular orders from the last week should be packed up and shipped out by end of day tomorrow.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Thank you for bearing with us this week. We do NOT usually post this much, just so everyone new here can breathe easy. There has just been a lot to update!

We do have to let you know however that pre-orders for Pawlaroid CLOSE on Sunday, June 11th at 11:59pm - That’s tomorrow! So don’t miss out!

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023

Final reminder folks. You’ve got about ~12 hours. The pre-orders close at 11:59pm and we will NOT be restocking these past these pre-orders. 🙏🏻

I know it’s hot out but if you’re thinking you love this design and wanna wear it all through the year, consider a hoodie too. 👀 Partly cause they’re gunna be super comfy and also partly cause our printer needs some more sleeve print jobs to justify the job. 🤣

https://nomadcomplex.com/collections/pride-2023