Subscription tee services always feel like quite an odd thing to review, because I’m not just looking at a tee, I’m looking at a service, and it feels like I have far more responsibility when I’m recommending a service than just a one-off purchase of a t-shirt. Frankly, it’s quite a lot of pressure. Then I remembered that this tee was from a company called MOMI TEeA PARTY, and even though they use capitals in their name (argh, shouting!) there’s no way that I could feel pressured by something that sounds very similar to the casual art of drinking tea and eating cake!

Basically, its two chairs, one seems to be floating on top of the other, I’m not going to claim to understand what it means but I will tell you that it is a very cool design, lines are crisp, and the colour palette works really well.

Since MTP is a subscription service I guess I should probably mention slightly less fun stuff like price and postage. Unless there was some unforseen hiccup in production, tees arrive on doorsteps on the 3rd or 4th week of the month, and come in a cool shiny-yet-slightly-see-through silver plastic envelope. My package came with a few postcards of the previous month’s designs, but I don’t know if they are standard with every package or if they were put in my envelope so that I could get a better feel for the brand. In terms of price, they aren’t the cheapest tees in the world at $30-40 a month, but you are getting a very high quality product, I think they’re using custom blank tees, fitted (though quite stretchy), and incredibly soft. There’s no tag on the interior of the shirt, just their name, the tee size and edition number, which have have been printed with a slightly faded vintage-look print.

Costiness=$120 for 3 months, $210 for 6 months, $360 for 12 months URL

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Teetonic: Their Sixcities Design Festival competition has come to an end, and the heavyweight designers (including Wayne Hemingway and Peter Saville) have come up with some very nice designs. Well done TT (and yes, that is an Englishman congratulating a Scottish company, savour this moment guys!).

Monstar Clothing: MC are kicking off summer with a sale, personally I didn’t realise it was summer yet, but I guess with global warming we all have to shift our expectations a bit. the sale goes from today until the 28th (Monday), and from what I can tell, everything will be $10.

Brooklyn Industries: Live in Brooklyn? Think your dog is awesome? BI are holding casting calls for the ‘best’ dog in Brooklyn next month with the winner getting star treatment and lots of goodies (for the owner as well as the dog). Its a strange bit of marketing, but I do quite like it.

Jealous much?: I bought a touchscreen Prada phone, and I’ve been showing it off to everyone I meet, so why not mention it here (also, feel free to add me as a Flickr friend)?

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