I don’t know what it is about the hipsters of the ‘net, but they sure do love Artful Dodger, and why cool with sharply designed hoodies like this one on sale. Also, check out the blurb that goes with it:

I do not know what a Skeagle is. I do not want to know what a Skeagle is. I do not need to know what a Skeagle is. This is what I know: no matter how cool you think your current hoody is it will never begin to approach the sheer radicalness of this one. Does yours have a strange top-hatted animal embroidered on the chest? No. Good. End of conversation.

ooooo-K, take that people who actually put an image on their hoodie!

Costiness=$110 URL (as ever, the affiliate code that gets you up to 20% off your order is AS7594)

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Le Tigre are a pretty cool brand, and whilst I’m not usually too hot on pink tops for guys (let’s leave that to Seth Cohen and Perez, I think this is a sweet sweater.

Costiness=$120 URL (use coupon code AS7594 for up to 20% off)

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This hoodie from Obey is pretty cool, with lots of detail in the print, though you may get lots of creepy dudes coming in for a bit too close of a look. And for all you comfort junkies, the inside of the hood is lined with satin!

Costiness=$56.00 URL (use coupon code AS7594 for up to 20% off)

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I am working in the South of France for a month and so am not able to regularly work on posts for this blog. Just so that you don’t forget about me there will be some automatically scheduled updates, mostly with items from Karmaloop and Digital Gravel.

I have been told that there will be internet access at the place where I am staying (I would probably die if I didn’t check my e-mail for a month), so feel free to e-mail me if you want your store promoting or to send me a sample, but please be aware that it might take me longer than usual to reply due to a rather hectic work schedule, and also that I will not be able to review samples until I return to the UK in the middle of November.

If you want to see how I’m getting on in Port Grimaud (near St. Tropez), I’ll try and chronicle it all at my personal blog, www.bigguybigcity.com.

*There is internet here, but the busy work schedule is keeping my internet time to a minimum, so apologies to all those who have sent e-mails and not received a reply promptly*

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Y’know that global game of putting Space Invader mosaics on walls in cities, I love stuff like that, even though I haven’t seen that many (here’s one I snapped in Amsterdam), which is one of the reasons why I like this hoodie. That, and Space Invaders is one of the most important games of all time…

Have some advertising blurb:

Handprinted distressed repeat image of Space Invader.

Me&yu is all about creating clothes you’ll love to wear that have a feel-good factor about them. When you order a Me&yu item your order will be confirmed and a delivery date arranged usually within 7 days of placing the order. Remember we don’t have stock - each item is made especially for you!

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Can you believe I haven’t ran a blazer yet, it’s been 9 freakin’ months!

Blazer’s have became increasingly popular as clothes for nights out when I was at univeristy, it’s pretty interesting that people are slowly bringing smarter clothes down to a more casual level. Hmmmm, maybe I’m just getting more mature…

This blazer by 555 Soul is more casual than smart casual, well, maybe semi-smart-casual, but I guess that’s what you get when you try to recreate soviet-era clothing by using ‘random patches around jacket’ and providing some Ruskie-esque pins as standard.

Costiness=$144 URL Use coupon code AS7594 for 20% off (on a first time purchase, 10% off for existing users)

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This hoodie doesn’t employ blood in as provocative way as the Intramural Zombie Hunting League, but it’s still pretty cool, and they’ve worked the logo in nicely. There’s also some little hearts integrated for good measure, in case it just wasn’t emo enough for you yet.

Also, Homeless clothing has a few items on sale at the moment (tees just $10), so check those out.

Costiness=$20 URL

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Question: Is there a company that combines the crowdsourcing of Threadless, customisation of Spreadshirt, and the artist rewarding attitude of Oddica?

Answer: No, but soon there will be, when when innerTee finally unleashes itself upon the public.

I’ve been looking forward to writing about innerTee (IT) for a while, mostly because they’ve been in development for a rather long time, but also because I think they’ve got a really promising model that could prove to be very popular with both designers and consumers.

The preview is pretty big (and laden with many pics) so please click through to read the rest.

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Atticus is pretty mainstream in the US (right?), but here in the UK it tends to be worn mostly by emo scenesters, so it’s got a bit pigeon-holed in terms of the stores that stock the brand and the kind of people that buy it, which is unfortunate because they make some really cool stuff that I’m sure people outside of the Dashboard Confessional set would like.

This hoodie is a great example, if it didn’t have the distinctive mockingbird on it, you’d easily be able to mistake it as a hoodie made on a limited run by one of the usual companies that grace the pages of HYA. Funnily enough, I’d say that the hoodie is actually let down more by the constraints placed upon because they have to use the mockingbird, it just doesn’t feel very natural the way it has been placed.

Costiness=£49.99 URL

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Dammit, I meant to write about this aaages ago, but it must have slipped through my link-list somehow…

Social Propaganda was started “in the not so distant past” by some friends from all across the US, and whilst I don’t exactly know the logistics of the operation, their designs don’t seem to have suffered from having a widespread staff. You would have thought that with a name like Social Propaganda there would be a political slant to their designs, but I can’t really find anything noticeable, just a load of really wearable tees.

The ‘Karate Fall’ hoodie is the only arm-hider on their roster at the moment, and I think it’s pretty cool, even though I don’t understand the relationship between karate and ‘fall’ (just call it Autumn, it’s a much nicer word!).

Costiness=$40 URL

Cassidy from SP has been very kind and set us up with a coupon code. Use hideyourarms to get free shipping*

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