I've spent the last 3 days traipsing around markets and shops looking for something that I would have thought would be easy to find: plain single-colour cotton T-shirts in farang size (probably a small XXL).

Have I found any? No.

Loads of T-shirts with stupid messages, pictures, designer labels, multiple colours, frills, bells, whistles. But no normal plain cotton T-shirts.

I'm after light grey or maybe dark green or dark blue. Not white or black or poly-cotton. Fairtrade organic unbleached cotton would be nice, but that's probably asking too much. I bought several of these last summer back in farangland for about 3Euros each (120B) but didnt think I would need to bring a suitcase-full here (coals to Newcastle).

Has anyone seen any of these mythical beasts recently? If so, where?

sorry to advocate more walking around, but did you try Central Festival ?

i am sure i have seen plain T's in there

Good idea. I'll have a look tomorrow. So many T-shirt shops around I didnt think of anywhere like that.

Im pretty sure you will find some in the Royal Garden too.

... But probably not at 3 EUR each ...

Thep Prasit Road weekend market - my Thai GF gets them for me - 50 bahts each, good quality and in lots of different colours

Edited February 22, 201115 yr by melsnet

No sign of cheap plain T-shirts in Central Festival, though they did have some "plain with small logo" ones for the bargain price of 1290B. Needless to say I didnt buy any and instead will be looking at the 50B ones in the weekend market that was mentioned.

1290B for a T-shirt. What a joke.

Tesco Lotus have some..... brand name Easy Life ...... 109 baht

Ah. Thanks. I even have Tesco shares so a little of the 109B will come back to me!