2007 March 06

struggledtosurvive Threadless Pick: Struggled to Survive

You know what? I’m not all that impressed by this weeks new designs from Threadless. Yeah, some of the ideas are pretty clever (‘Pure Imagination‘ in particular), but I’m just not so sure about the execution. I guess after I had been impressed by the past few weeks of updates I’ve come to expect too much from them, and maybe these new designs are just being over-shadowed by the excellent choices made for this weeks reprints: Bad Teddy (available as a hoodie), Doin My Best, Funkalicious, Calling Home, Blow With the Wind (available as a hoodie) and MP(3) (also available as a hoodie).

But I don’t want to be too down on this weeks releases, my Threadless pick o’ the week is really cool, a nice colour palette, a clever bit of design, and yes, boobs (a first for Threadless, apparently). The little drawn boobs aren’t really an issue for me, possibly because I’ve just been to Japan, a place where a store for naked anime-style dolls is also a shop for digital cameras. My first reaction to this tee was “hey, that’s pretty clever”, and it is, but now that I look at it a bit more it’s actually pretty disturbing, with the ropes and the distressed facial expression, but that was probably the aim of the designer, so, well done to them.

Also, they’re selling their tees for $10 until March 12th, and yes, I know every blog in the world ever has already told you that, even the ones that never mention clothes (but do love street team points), but it would be a bit rude not to mention it in the weekly Threadless post.

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mallard.product Oddica: Mutiny on the Mallard Hoodie

Every time I see the name Kenneth Lavallee I feel as if I owe it to you to continue my famous run of terrible puns, but then I decide that Lavallee~lovely is too easy, even for me.

My constant attempts to be funny aside (a girl told me to be a comedian on Saturday night in a club, but I explained to her that I’m not actually funny, and I already had a job as an internationally respected hoodie expert, needless to say, I do not have her number), this is a pretty freakin’ sweet, and pretty freakin’ bizarre hoodie. Whilst I’m not so sure about the colours, mostly because the little people are the same colour as the mallard, the design is vintage Kenneth, and whilst I usually don’t take much notice over who actually designed a piece of clothing, Oddica do seem to have a knack for finding designers that I actually remember and look forward to seeing new work from.

As ever, it’s printed on American Apparel.

Incidentally, Oddica have a new version of their digital magazine available for download.

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