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March 2006

I have a conscience

by Andy on March 31, 2006

in Environmental,Hoodies,Other Apparel,Womens

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Maybe we should all buy hybrid cars?

Since that’s a bit of an expensive option, sweetskins.com have made being environmentally friendly a little bit easier by making clothes that don’t look ugly and are laregly made of either hemp or, and I’m being serious now, 2 litre drinks bottles. That’s right, drinks bottles. Apparently they remain “unbelievably soft” though, so who am I to question their planet saving ways.

Today’s recommendation is a new style for HYA, it’s a hoody, but not as we know it. It’s a wrap hoody!

I certainly haven’t seen one before, but then again, I don’t often hang around in womens clothing stores. Anyway, it looks pretty cool, and probably kinda ninja in the black version.

Costiness=$85 URL here.

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Invicid Sale

by Andy on March 30, 2006

in Bargains!

I just got an e-mail from Invicid reminding me about the coupon that they’ve made available to promote their new line (and mighty fine a line it is too).

Just a reminder that our coupon offering for the new spring/summer 2006
line is about to expire! The coupon expires April 1st!

So if you haven’t grabbed some of the new goods, you might as well save
$6.00!

Enter coupon code upon checkout: INV2006
You will receive $6.00 off your order as long as it’s over $40.00 (2
shirts)
****coupon expires April 1st, 2006****

Invicid Store:
http://www.invicid.com/store.html
Invicid:
http://www.invicid.com

My one worry might be that this coupon is only meant to be available to newsletter subscribers, but I’m sure they won’t mind my little readership getting in on the action (dollars are dollars right?)

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Ride in my rocket

by Andy on March 30, 2006

in Hoodies,Mens

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“Life, for ever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.”

H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

Totally.

This one is a bit pricier than the usual wearables that I recommend, but it’s just so darned good that it deserves mentioning, the design is fairly simple and cartoon-y, but that only adds to the attraction for me, and it looks as if its flock printed (or perhaps stitched felt?) for you know its taken a bit more time than a print, so it’s naturally going to be a bit more expensive.

Saltlick Jeni gave me a bit more information about their clothes, every shape is hand-cut and then hand stitched onto the item, so it takes a long time, so its damn good value really. Oh and Jeni also said she might be able to sort out a discount voucher for us, so if you’re thinking of buying anything just wait a day or two and you’ll probably make a saving

Costiness=$98 from Saltlick NYC.

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What’s Up Babar?

by Andy on March 28, 2006

in Hoodies,Mens

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An imaginary prize to anyone who gets the reference in the title (real prizes when this is a big-blog).

It feels kinda counter-ideology to post a hoody made by Hurley, since they’re a giant company (compared to the independents that I usually promote), but I like the hoody so it deserves a spot.

The placement of the print is interesting, I assume they were going for a “failed DIY screenprinter” look by just throwing the print in the ‘wrong’ place and at a bit of an angle. To top it off they’ve put some text on the back, on the upper right shoulder, I got way too excited when I noticed that, maybe I should just wear all my clothes backwards and then I’d always have a design on the back?

Costiness=$27.25 (half price, and $1 shipping this week only) available from Pacsun.

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Officer and a gentleman

by Andy on March 28, 2006

in Bargains!,Label Profiles,Other Apparel


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I really can’t help myself from helping out girls, just yesterday the really hot girl from next door asked for a bin (trash) bag, and did I give her one (yep, I went there)? No, I gave her two, because if a girl smiles at me I will do anything.

Now Diane from Boppo Clothing (that’s her up there I think… on the left) didn’t ask me for a bin bag, or even for me to mention her tee designs, but she wrote such a nice e-mail telling me how awesome I am that a post was the least I could do. She doesn’t actually sell anything with sleeves, but the tees are damn fine and super cheap too, with prices around $10 before shipping and handling.

Reminder to all store owners out there, I’m not elitist in any way, point me towards your store and I will check it out, you can find my e-mail on the contact page.

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…finding half a worm.

28.03.2006

Something for the ladies’ today (and only the ladies I’m afraid), coming from Crowded Teeth, who I thought I’d mentioned before, but clearly haven’t. I’m not usually too keen on large prints, but I have a thing for hoodies (any clothing actually) that has a design on the back, and that repetitive and uniform apple [...]

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I am teh leetest clothes blogger!1!!!!!1

26.03.2006

It’s a good thing that Jason started posting at Preshrunk again otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to contact him to be the latest person who reveals what it is that “hides their arms” (patent pending). Ever the modest fellow, it took him time to adjust to the fact that I wanted his opinion on [...]

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For the love of emo!

24.03.2006

She is actually wearing her heart(s) on her sleeve(s), on her sleeve(s)!Joking aside it’s cool to see Red Canary breaking away from the norm and producing something out of the ordinary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hoody which had nothing on the torso and printed sleeves, but then again I have only been [...]

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I was born in 1984

23.03.2006

Like the title says, I was born before this design was made, so it feels like cheating just to wear it. Now, when I say design, I mean the actual print, I’ve seen that all over the place, I suspect that the hoody design is rather younger. Nevertheless, I still think it’s pretty cool, I’m [...]

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Brains are good for your heart

22.03.2006

I like the idea of putting a print on the back and leaving the front plain, and the zombie print in the back-lower-corner of this hoody from Merch-Bot is pretty stealth, like people will think it’s just a regular plain hoody, and then they’ll notice the notice, and they’ll give an approving nod and smile. [...]

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Won’t you sing, sing, sing, sing, for the love we bring (Travis)

21.03.2006

It isn’t just Threadless that can sell their products at the $10 mark, Randomshirts have got in on the act as well, actually this sale/clearance started first (and even have a few things cheaper than that), but that’s neither here nor there. I’m not usually too into vintage style t-shirts, because no one would ever [...]

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It’s that time again

20.03.2006

Threadless is running another of it’s popular $10 sales, it finishes at 10am CST on Wednesday, so you’d better be quicker than usual. Oh yeah, they’ve reprinted Flowers in the Attic (which is basically them printing money, as one person said in the Threadless blog/forum), but it is a bit pink, not that there’s anything [...]

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The O.C. beats HYA to the punch

20.03.2006

Turns out we were actually peddling old goods when Eirk from No Star Clothing recommended the outlet hoody by Option G in last Monday’s guest feature. I was watching The O.C. today on Channel 4 (even though I’d already seen it, but lets keep that between me and you), it was the “The Chrismukkah Bar [...]

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WE the people

20.03.2006

It’s Monday, so it’s time for me to have an extended weekend and let someone else do the searching for me. This week t-shirt blogger Aris from the rather excellent Addicteed.com was asked what hides his arms, and the lover of camo landed the following gem in my inbox: There’s this jacket/zip up hoodie by [...]

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Yarr, tis a fine hoodie

17.03.2006

How on earth did I manage to do about two months of posting without mentioning pirates once? I don’t really get the whole pirate obsession that exists within eCommerce, even though I have been known to dress up as a pirate (complete with parrot) on occasion, but I do like thi. Blackbird fashion is ran [...]

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We come one

16.03.2006

Today I’m featuring Mono Clothing, which is a little bit special to me because they’re straight out of my adoptive hometown of Leicester, I actually found out about them through the Leicester group on Flickr, the joys of the internet… I like this limited edition (there’s only 30 of them) stencilled blocks sweater, it’s a [...]

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Overcooked

15.03.2006

I’m straddling a dangerous line of promoting a tee here, but only because I didn’t realise that Hard Boiled clothing were ever so helpful to their customers and have made many (all? I haven’t had time to check) of their designs available as a tee/ scoop neck/ three-quarter length/ long sleeve (HYA’s main concern)/ tank [...]

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Shout it out loud!

14.03.2006

Andy over at the Quiet Life e-mailed me about their latest goings on in LaLa Land (I’m sure only people who aren’t from there call it that) and I thought it was worth a post since I like what they’re doing as a group. They’ve got a spring sale running until the 17th of March [...]

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Stick a fork in it!

13.03.2006

Last week I asked Erik from No Star Clothing what was hiding his arms at the moment, and he promptly replied with a great choice that I would have posted myself if he hadn’t beaten me to it. My favorite item right now is the option-g outlet hoodie. I like it because I’m electric, and [...]

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Disappearing Act

10.03.2006

A couple of days ago I tagged a hoody by Addict to my del.icio.us thinking I might use it for a future post, and then just a couple of hours later, I get an e-mail from the good folks at Jungle Life told me to check out the new camo line from Addict. Great minds, [...]

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