FILE — TP/HR/0001 — OPENED 2021, NEVER CLOSED
THE RATBAG
FILE
Founder: Cassidy Wren. Charge: repeatedly being “a bit much.” Verdict below.
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GEN 4 — SOMEONE'S GYM BAG
Cassidy Wren spent four years designing team kit for a corporate sportswear licensor, watching every graphic she actually liked get toned down ‘for broader appeal.’ In 2021 she printed the one they'd rejected outright — a scythe-cut poppy on a plain tee — sold the run of forty in eleven minutes off her own Instagram, and never went back. Tall Poppy has run four capped drops since, no restocks, no exceptions.
— filed under: warnings ignored
GEN 3 — TAPED TO A POLE, RAINED ON
Cassidy Wren spent four years designing team kit for a corporate sportswear licensor, watching every graphic she actually liked get toned down ‘for broader appeal.’ In 2021 she printed the one they'd rejected outright — a scythe-cut poppy on a plain tee — sold the run of forty in eleven minutes off her own Instagram, and never went back. Tall Poppy has run four capped drops since, no restocks, no exceptions.
— filed under: warnings ignored
GEN 2 — STAFF ROOM PHOTOCOPIER
Cassidy Wren spent four years designing team kit for a corporate sportswear licensor, watching every graphic she actually liked get toned down ‘for broader appeal.’ In 2021 she printed the one they'd rejected outright — a scythe-cut poppy on a plain tee — sold the run of forty in eleven minutes off her own Instagram, and never went back. Tall Poppy has run four capped drops since, no restocks, no exceptions.
— filed under: warnings ignored
GEN 1 — THE ORIGINAL. NEVER SURRENDERED.
Cassidy Wren spent four years designing team kit for a corporate sportswear licensor, watching every graphic she actually liked get toned down ‘for broader appeal.’ In 2021 she printed the one they'd rejected outright — a scythe-cut poppy on a plain tee — sold the run of forty in eleven minutes off her own Instagram, and never went back. Tall Poppy has run four capped drops since, no restocks, no exceptions.
— filed under: warnings ignored
“A BIT MUCH FOR BROADER APPEAL.”
— the licensor, 2021, about the first tee
CORRECT. IT WAS.
EXHIBIT — THE MEMO. PROCESS IT YOURSELF.
The memo, on the office turntable. Rub the words out — click to pulp.
EXHIBITS — HOW THIS HAPPENED
ORIGIN
Started 2021 in Marrickville by two mates who kept getting told their work was “a bit much.”
THE MODEL
No brick-and-mortar store — drops only, online, capped runs, no restocks (“once it's gone it's gone, that's the whole point”).
THE COUNT
Four drops to date. This one makes it drop 04.
DROP LEDGER — MARRICKVILLE REGISTER
- DROP 01THE REJECTED TEERun of forty. Gone in eleven minutes.SOLD OUT
- DROP 02CAPPED RUNNo restock. No exceptions.SOLD OUT
- DROP 03CAPPED RUNSame as the last two.SOLD OUT
- DROP 04“TALLER THAN LAST TIME”00:00 AEST, Sat 12 Sep 2026.PENDING
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DROP 04 — PRINT PASS 1/1 — MARRICKVILLE
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