Remember in the last past when I said “they have rhinestones on some of their designs, how hot is that?“, I wasn’t kidding, and I wasn’t trying to sound like the Lake District’s Paris Hilton (we already have enough of them), I just think that rhinestones and crystals on clothing can look pretty cool, even if I’d feel a bit odd wearing them. But I guess that if you’re wearing anything from Wrongwroks then you’re going to be getting some attention, so you might as well shine whilst you’re wearing it!

Yes, WW have been been playing around with this image of Kate Moss for quite a long time now, but this is an interesting incarnation, they’ve taken the graff and photocopy style that they had before and added in the glamour that we’d expect of a supermodel, but with the mashup of styles it feel kinda dirty, which fits in quite nicely if you ask me. It’s not exaclty cheap, but its a pretty special hoodie especially since there’s only 10 of them around.

Costiness=$140 ($150 outside North America) URL (it’s the thumbnail second from the right on the bottom row)

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This was meant to be a short post, then I looked through my inbox…:

Owl Movement: Great new line of tees went up a few days ago on the theme of ‘Occasional Intruders’, and their ‘robots’ hoodie has been restocked too. One of my friends ordered the robots hoodie and it never made it to him, damned postal service!

Go Ape Shirts: No idea how this one passed me by, but Go Ape released three cool designs earlier this month that are worth checking out.

UrbanRetro: They just got in some seriously good designs by the limited edition brand ‘Hicalorie’, definitely worth a click.

innerTee: They’ve just introduced a digg-like features to their front page. You can vote for the various mixes and mixes that are popular will appear on the front page, giving those designers and their mixes more exposure, which should hopefully more cash for them. I’ve got to say that this is one of the better Digg-esque implementations I’ve seen, it doesn’t feel like they’re jumping on the bandwagon since it’s a feature that actually makes sense with their type of service and store.

Karmaloop: The main site and the underground labels housed in the Kazbah have been to the spa and had a makeover. I like the redesign, it’s a bit smoother and more subtle, but navigation hasn’t changed much so you shouldn’t get too confused when I recommend a product from them, as I frequently do.

Pearl Bootik: Despite spend a decent portion of last year in France my French isn’t exactly fluent, so I don’t entirely understand what they’re talking about, but good design is universal, and those tees certainly do look good.

PJE Los Angeles: Pretty cool tees, it’s not often that someone does a line of tees aimed at people who work in finance, but hey, if there’s a niche, someone’s gonna fill it. I’ll be taking a closer look later, so look out. Oh, and they have rhinestones on some of their designs, how hot is that?

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Damn, I do love WeSC, they always hit the mark with their designs, and they seem to have managed to retain their cool amongst people trendier than me whilst being a pretty mainstream brand.

This hoodie kinda reminds me of the designs that Fullbleed offer, although not quite as emo, though to be fair to FullBleed they aren’t really as emo as most people give them credit for. It’s cool how - as far as I can tell - the people in the print are all different, because I don’t really like it when designers reuse stock images over-and-over in a single design. I don’t really have a clue what the meaning or message of the hoodie is, but to be entirely frank, I don’t really think it matters. Ok, scrub that, I’ve just noticed that the back has ‘Jogging Death Squad’ written on it, so it is quite clearly just a bunch of people out for a jog, if you want me to make the image more intriguing, perhaps the people in the print are running from the Jogging Death Squad, but that would be reading quite a lot into it.

Costiness=$70 URL (worth a click just to see the freshly redesigned Karmaloop site, also use AS7594 as your coupon code and get 10/20% off your order and help a charity)

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You do all love cephalopods, right? Or would you prefer unicorns? Or am I going to need to do some reader demographic re-evaluation around here?

I like this hoodie, its a pretty cool concept, and the image is done really well. It might just be the picture, but I would like the design to pop out at me a bit more, with more vibrant colour, but I can accept that this kind of hand-drawn stlye doesn’t really lend itself to that kind of printing.

Hey, it seems like white clothes are getting popular on HYA!

Costiness=$45 URL

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*Just noticed that it’s sold out, sorry about that*

I do like this hoodie, but I feel as if it’s a bit mainstream really, the kind of design that I could pick up at many of the mainstream chains on a UK high street. Although this hoodie is from Revolve, and carries the price that many products at Revolve have, so it’s pretty safe to assume that you’re buying a high quality product. Their blurb is kind of odd though:

“Morphine Generation Moto Hoodie in White

Every generation has its heroes. With their spring collection, Morphine Generation draws out the inherent Heros and Heroines that nobly reside in all of us.”

Ummmm, ‘kay?

Costiness=$184 (at least shipping is free!) URL

http://www.revolveclothing.com/productpages/MORP-MO42.jsp

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I don’t think I’ve ever recommended a tee that’s white, and if I have there can’t be more than a handful of white recommendations. It’s not that I have anything against white tees, its just not a colour that I wear very well, and there aren’t that many designers that make artsy tees printed onto white much at the moment.

But it’s the logical colour choice for this weeks Threadless pick, ‘Poker Hand Values‘, unlike a tee with the moon on it that’s printed on gold (maybe they’re showing it in front of the sun?). It’s a cool idea and a well executed design, and I prefer it to most of the gambling designs that seemed to be popular amongst the masses last year when there were poker shows on most television channels. Also, I suck at poker, but when I was at university we often tried to have a hand or two, which never really worked because not everyone in the group knew the rules, so maybe this tee would be able to quell a few college arguments, because if it’s on a tee, it has to be true!

In Threadless hoodie news, you can now hide your arms with ‘The Communist Party‘ (which must be one of the most popular designs of all time by now) and ‘Doodle Bug‘.

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I’m gonna keep things short on this post because I had more than a 200 mile round-trip to see my grandfather in hospital today and over the past couple of days my grand total of sleep hours isn’t in double figures, so as you’d imagine I’m pretty tired. That, and I’m watching Deadwood on DVD (how good is that show!). Quite a cool sweatshirt, with a different take on the splatters of paint that we’ve been seeing on tees and hoodies around recently, I like the way that the face is worked in so subtly.

Costiness=€43.99 URL (German language site)

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Since there’s only 60 of these available (3 colourways, 20 per colourway) I thought I’d better post it quickly rather than let it sit in my large queue of posts for a few weeks (yep, I’m a little bit more professional than you’d assume). Whilst patterns aren’t really my thing, this hoodie kind of jumped out at me, first because of the detailed and striking pattern, then because of the ludicrously long drawstring, then for the cool button cuffs, and lastly because there’s a 24 gold plated button on it, and you know how precious metals on clothing entice me.

Costiness=$180 (there’s gold on it, remember?) URL

(Get 10-20% off with the coupon code AS7594 and help HYAs charity initiative)

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This post seems to have a lot of links to funny tee sites. Maybe we’ve reached a point in the year when people stop being depressed about the winter a start to smile again.

Women’s Week at LaFraise: It was impressed by the range of articles that they had this week, even if I had to read them with some awkward Google translation (the articles about girly geeks were in French). Adam did a pretty good job on the English side of things though.

Lomography tee: I really like this new tee from the Lomography society. There’s a little story behind this, I was in bed one night and I thought to myself “I really like the Lomo style, I’d better remember to check out the lomography group on Flickr tomorrow” and then I found an e-mail about this tee in my inbox the next morning. How weird is that? In retrospect, I was actually thinking of the Holga photography style, but the story is still pretty cool.

Antidesigns: New t-shirt competition that doesn’t accept designs from the general public, but rather uses a pool of specially selected artists. Quite an interesting way of doing things and I’ll be watching how this one pans out. I’m not so sure about their webdesigns skills, but the tees are pretty impressive.

Chargrilled: This company is the home of the t-shirt in a can. Yup, tee in a can. It’s an odd angle to take for shipping (which is free worldwide, by the way), since it makes the package heavier, but its cool to see people trying something different for a change. They offer student/college style designs, with more of a British angle than most tee companies (e.g. I don’t expect any Americans to know who Barry Scott is).

Blingless Tees: It’s not often that I mention a brand that is powered by a print-on-demand company, but I like Spreadshirt (and not just because I want to be one of Spreadshirt-owned Lafraise’s employees), and this designer has got quite a lot of potential in his designs, and there’s a lot of originality in there, which is refreshing to see in the ‘funny tee’ market.

Moe Wampum: I’ll be honest, I had pretty much written off Moe Wampum a while back when I was going through a phase of not wanting to write about ‘funny’ tees, and clearly I’m not entirely out of that phase since I still use quotes around ‘funny’, but I had to pay them their due, they actually have some really cool tees, and the quality of the product pics looks pretty good too. So if you’re in the market for a topical tee, it’s a pretty good bet that MW will have what you’re after.

Skully tee from Monstar: I’m pretty sure I’ve already mentioned it, but this a damn nice tee and deserves a second look now that it’s been printed up and there’s product pics available.

Social-T: I really like the idea behind subscription based tee services, especially since these guys keep things topical whilst also having some quite creative designs. Oh, and their models are super cute too (if Cotton Filter’s were to have pics, this post would be better than it already is). $32 a month isn’t too bad of a price since it includes shipping and obviously you’ll be getting a pretty limited edition product.

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I had written up a whole post about how this is a really simple and understated hoodie with a few cool details, like how the zip is the same light blue colour as the drawstring, and then I looked at the picture of the back of the hoodie. Oh. It’s criz-azy. But it’s still pretty cool, even if I think I would have preferred for the back to be as subdued as the front.

Costiness=$110 URL

As ever, if you want up to 20% off your order at Karmaloop, enter the coupon code of AS7594 and you’ll get the discount, as well as adding to HYAs monthly charity donation.

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