From the monthly archives:

March 2007

It’s wrong, but it wroks

by Andy on March 29, 2007

in Hoodies,Mens,Womens

kate bling hoody2 Its wrong, but it wroks

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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Cotton Filter: 290307

by Andy on March 29, 2007

in Hoodies,Mens,News,T-shirts,Womens

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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The Runners Hoodie by WeSC @ Karmaloop

by Andy on March 28, 2007

in Hoodies,Womens

runnershoodie The Runners Hoodie by WeSC @ Karmaloop

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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Arrgh, the Squid are kerploding!

by Andy on March 27, 2007

in Hoodies,Mens,Womens

M hoodie squid Arrgh, the Squid are kerploding!

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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Talkin’ ’bout Morphine Generation

by Andy on March 27, 2007

in Hoodies,Mens

MORP MO42 V3 BIG Talkin bout Morphine Generation

*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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Threadless Pick: Poker Hand Values

27.03.2007

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 [...]

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Mann / Tank Theory / Drip Face

26.03.2007

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 [...]

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Limited Edition Cut n Sew by Village Hill

24.03.2007

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 [...]

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Cotton Filter: 230307

23.03.2007

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 [...]

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The Poncey Hoodie by Artful Dodger

22.03.2007

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 [...]

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Threadless Pick: Mr Toxic Waste

22.03.2007

(Damn you product pic with text on it which only makes sense on the actual product page!) This post is about 3 days late because of the London trip but in the interests of trying to make it a regular feature I thought I’d post anyway, that and I always love getting a few streetteam [...]

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I used to think this way, then I downsized my expectations

22.03.2007

Usually I’m not a fan of splash pages, if I’m going to a site, I’ve already got a pretty good idea of whats going to be there, so I don’t really need a page with some blurb on it and a few pictures enticing me to click through. I just wanna see the goods! But [...]

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Gone to London, back soon

18.03.2007

I’ve been called down to London for a little job with my parents’ company so I’m going to be away from the internet for almost 3 days (I actually tensed up just writing that!), which obviously means that there will be no posts furing that time. I’ll be back in the LD on Tuesday so [...]

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I like Satsumas

17.03.2007

I looked in the fruit bowl this afternoon and noticed that we had an abundance of satsumas (well, they might have been mandarins, or perhaps just small oranges, but still, citrus nevertheless), so I ate one and was reminded of just how much I love them, then I got this hoodie linked in an e-mail. [...]

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Taking a look at Death Hippie

16.03.2007

Deathhippie is the kind of brand where I really don’t know where I’m meant to start. Usually, I’ll get an e-mail from an up-and-coming artist or brand who make it feel like when you’re writing about them, you’re fighting for the little guy, but when I look at Deathhippie I get transported into a different [...]

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Spraygraphic Rose Gun hoodie

15.03.2007

In a case very similar to that of Vintage Vantage yesterday, I thought I’d go back to Spraygraphic and see what they’d been up to since I last checked on them. They’ve still got some good designs, including todays recommendation, for which I give you the blurb: The binary of peace and war is a [...]

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Pro Mens Hoodie by Vintage Vantage

14.03.2007

I first found out about Vintage Vantage a few years ago when I was first getting into buying t-shirts online, they seem to get things just right when going for ‘funny’ in tees. Usually I’m not really a fan of funny tees, largely because they’re only really funny once, your friends see it and you [...]

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2one5: CMYK Hoodie

13.03.2007

How could I not love this? It’s another of those designs that just grabs me in some way thats hard to describe, which I understand makes me pretty weak as a writer, but sometimes there isn’t really one word to describe how I feel about an item of clothing. If there was then there would [...]

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Threadless Pick: My Playtree

13.03.2007

My mind was made up pretty quickly when I saw this weeks releases*. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty strong crop, but there’s just something about My Playtree that really piques my interest. It’s a multi-functional tee, by which I mean you can where it pretty much anywhere and it suits the occasion, you [...]

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Giving and Toke-ing

13.03.2007

Yeah, I mentioned this brand about an hour ago, but sometimes you’ve just got to take a deeper look. I know there’s a lot of people out there who pull out their wallets at the mere mention of a cephalopod, so I thought you’d love this. The front is pretty plain, with just a little [...]

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