From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Bienvenue a St Tropez

by Andy on June 29, 2006

I feel like everything on HYA has been a bit disjointed for the past month or so, what with the week of downtime, then switching to a new host, so its pretty unfortunate that just as I’m back into the rhythm of blogging I’m going to go on holiday.

As the title suggests I’m heading to the South of France and I’ll be gone until next Saturday and don’t expect to go near a computer (I may well suffer from internet withdrawal), so the next post will be on July 10th, unless I’m really hungover from celebrating England winning the World Cup the day before. The second half of that sentence may well end up looking stupid, lets hope not.

So check the links for other tee and clothes sites, and if you feel like helping to fund my mission to impress French girls by pretending to be astoundingly rich then there’s plenty of affiliate links on the links page too!

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My boardwalk babe

by Andy on June 29, 2006

650035 oce frt My boardwalk babe

One for the ladies today, from the deliciously classy Anthropologie. Obviously it doesn’t have any of the usual screen printing that I usually wax lyrical about, but there is clearly some nice innovation in the design of this hoodie, so it deserves me saying “hey, look at that, that’s something different”. And it is, unless you count this as being kinda the same.

Its kinda weird for me to talk about girls clothes, but I’ll give it an awkard shot anyway. The ribbon bow is pretty cute, but I;m not too sure about the height of the waist-band, it seems like it would only suit a waif-like female form, though their sizes go up to XL so perhaps not.

Costiness=$78.00 URL

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I thought I had the key

by Andy on June 27, 2006


Glovelock I thought I had the key
Hmmmm, two hot girls in my promo pics for the Monday and Tuesday posts, eh? Looks like I’m really getting desperate for hits! I’m just kidding, I guess clothing companies are just using attractive people to advertise their products, revolutionary…

Oh, and there isn’t a heart theme this week either, I just thought that this hoodie looked really cool, I liked the grouping and placement of the hearts, and the key-hole shapes really topped it off for me, I was almost in emo-ecstasy. I don’t know if there’s anything on the front, but I’d guess not since there isn’t a second pic of the front on the product page.

Costiness=$29.99 (down from $65.99) URL

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ptheart Do Robots Dream of Electric Love?
Backseat Kiss Clothing‘ may well be as good of a name for a clothing company as ‘Cute Is What We Aim For‘ is for a band, but I’m sure there’s a self-referential meaning behind it which makes my mockery merely mean, so I’ll just get right onto the hood.

So… its a heart, on a robot, placed on a heart, nice and simple with some decent solid lines, though I don’t know if I would personally wear pink on black, I’ve only just become accustomed to wearing the luminous pink ink from the Handsome Sausage.

The hoodie is printed on American Apparel stock and is available for both guys and girls. Sizing is a bit limited though, with S, M & L for the ladies and M + L for the dudes.

Costiness=$39 URL

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The 3 second memory is a myth!

by Andy on June 24, 2006


default BlueSwimming LARGE The 3 second memory is a myth!
I don’t want to sound as if it’s a chore for me to do this post, but the clock has just passed 2AM, and I’m real tired, so I’m going to be totally unfair to aTAYLORdseign and not give them a full review in this totally sweet hoodie and copy/paste their own blurb.

Finally, slick elbow patches on a stylish hoody! This brown zip-up hoody can be dressed up or down. The electric blue fish design is simple and unique with one fish swimming out of the left pocket and two fish swimming down the back right shoulder. To top off the design we have hand cut and hand sewn wide wale corduroy elbow patches. All patches are sewn with electric blue thread that accentuates the fish design – this is not your average hoody.

Make sure you check out the URL to see some nice close ups of the fish, they’re really well done.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Costiness=$72, URL.

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Get the water from the source

by Andy on June 23, 2006

My internet is being very slow and silly today (where’ve all the images on the internet gone?), but I couldn’t bear to think of you all going without advice from your preacher of hoods, so check out my del.icio.us for a load of fresh links that I’ll be using over the next few weeks.

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Ich bin ein Springfielder

June 22, 2006

If you hadn’t already guessed, todays hood comes from Germany, and yes, a World Cup related title would have been far more [Hot] Topical. Eisberg Studios may well pack their store out with lots of brightly coloured and boldly printed designs, but their hoodie is what intrigues me, even though it is a shamelessly self-promoting [...]

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Honey, tie would dye for you

June 21, 2006

I don’t know if I’m the edge of starting a trend here by recommending a tie-dye hoodie, but I think it’s pretty cute, so I will acceptr any tie-dye based mockery with good humour, and remember, tie-dye is fun! The colour really suits the summer, since I’ve generally put away my black tees and started [...]

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The Summer Breeze

June 19, 2006

If you ‘get’ that title, I love you! I found out about aujCollections through a post by Josh Spear today, regarding their philanthropic mentoring and support system. Noble project, blah blah blah, what about the hoodie? I’ll let auj describe it themselves: Young Love Hoodie Designed after the young and wealthy romantics. The Young Love [...]

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Jump! Yeahhhh Jump!

June 17, 2006

It’s not often that I recommend a sweatshirt, since I usually find prints on sweatshirts a bit more miss than hit, but I like this one a lot. It’s nice to recommend a UK label on a U.K. webstore too.I like the colour palette, even though you might say that picking green for the paratroopers [...]

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Andy, you’re a star!

June 16, 2006

No Star clothing, despite already having a pretty decent price for their two birds hoodie ($60), they are offering Hide Your Arms readers an even greater incentive to pick up one of their sweatshirts. If you enter the coupon code HYA20 when you order the sweatshirt you will receive a 20% discount, taking the item [...]

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Sabre Style Therion 666 Hoodie

June 16, 2006

I may not speak German, but I am fluent in style (if I do say so myself), which is why this hoodie from Sabre Style has found its way onto my screen. I do like it, but I feel that with a few alterations it could be much better. They’ve got a great looking design [...]

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No Star Clothing: Two Birds (just the one stone) hoodie

June 14, 2006

As was mentioned a while back, No Star have a new website, and a few new designs to go with it. If memory serves correctly, this Two Birds hoodie is a new design, I think… The placement of the birds may be unfortunate for the ladies, but the birds don’t appear to be boobies, so [...]

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Threadless goes crazy, will probably start selling furniture

June 13, 2006

When I got the regular weekly newsletter from Threadless I was expecting the usual round of new designs and reprints, but the e-mail just kept going and going. They’ve added some new lines, redesigned the website (though there’s a distinct lack of web 2.0 ajax-ification), a new competition (with a massive amount of prizes), and [...]

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Soft Touch Reviews: The Handsome Sausage

June 13, 2006

I like the Handsome Sausage, there’s something about the collision between hand-drawn designs and super-soft printing that makes me feel good, it just seems like a company that wants to get things right, and do things in a way that doesn’t make you feel like you have a nice tee, but the person that made [...]

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To the Forest

June 11, 2006

I’m pretty sure that the hotness of the girl in the pic isn’t influencing my opinion of this hoodie, but a hot girl and a cool hoodie is my idea of awesomeness. The print is nice, possibly a bit busy for my liking, but I like the way that its screened over the left-hand pocket, [...]

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PSA the HYA way: Server change complete

June 10, 2006

I think that after about 10 hours of trying, retrying, deleting, being impatient and drinking I’ve managed to move HYA to a new server, and it should all be working the same as this morning, except possibly faster and more reliably. Thanks for being patient, maybe now things can get focused back on the stuff [...]

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The Cotton Filter – 090606

June 9, 2006

More non-sleeved news for your perusing pleasure: HYA: Since people keep telling me that they can’t reach the site (even though I can), I’ve splashed some cash (even though I’m semi-unemployed) on webhosting in the form of a very generous plan from Dreamhost, made even more affordable by a kick-ass coupon code provided by Teees. [...]

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I know that you know, that this is Lenko

June 8, 2006

I know you can’t buy Lenko clothing on the internet (well, there aren’t any sites listed on their stockists pages), and that most of my traffic comes from America, where they have no stockists, but they’ve still got some cool hoodies and sweatshirts that deserve a mention. It’s a hand-drawn, child-like cartoon type style, which [...]

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Teetsy’s super sale

June 8, 2006

Teetsy have got a store wide sale going on their tees. It’s a one day spectacular for today only, so you’ll need to be quick to make the most of the 40% savings, that’s right, 40 per cent. The coupon code that will make your shopping basket eligible for the sale is PUTTER. If you’re [...]

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