Public Domain Clothing sent me a box with seven tees in it. Seven. I’m not saying that you can buy my love, but I may well actually be in love with a clothing company. I’m going to review every tee individually, but don’t worry about it being PDC overload for the next couple of weeks, I’m going to spread it out, although these tees are great so I wouldn’t really mind if I had to review them every day for the next month.

I wore ‘turntable mega’ on Saturday night and it was received pretty well, its not exactly one of those tees that demands that people pay attention to it, but there’s a certain subtle class and quality to the design and the colourway that I really like, its almost a perfect execution of this style. I’m really into large prints at the moment, which is probably why I’m going so ga-ga over this turntable tee, and the way that the design wraps around to the side looks really nice, and that kind of non-standard placement separates this tee out from your standard image on chest tee.

The printing is lovely, I ran my fingers across the tee with my eyes closed and I barely (and I really mean barely) tell the difference between the printed and non-printed areas. I’m not sure if their blank tees are custom to Public Domain, or if they’re printing on a commercially availble stock tee (it feels as if it might be American Apparel, and the cut is very similar to AA as well), but it certainly did feel soft when I gave it a road test in a hot and smoky club at the weekend.

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May was a pretty decent month in terms of revenue, so I decided to give to two charities this month. The first, as ever, was through Kiva, this month we gave to a Cambodian mat-maker and mother of 8 called Sok Roeun.

The second charity is rather more topical (hey, I don’t just try and stay in clothes fashion). The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are a charity who have been recognised by the International Whaling Commission as “as the most powerful threat to illegal whaling activities on the high seas.” They’re also supported by the Dalai Lama, which is good enough for me!

Illegal whaling may be the hot button issue, but I’m actually looking at shark finning at the moment. I wasn’t really aware that there were fishermen that would catch a shark, cut off the fin, and throw the shark back whether it was dead or alive, until I was enlightened by ‘The Dude’ from Ban T-shirts. He’s really got behind this issue, and has created a website and a MySpace page to try and raise awareness. He’s also done what you’d expect someone with a t-shirt company to do, made a t-shirt to support the cause. All profits from the tee (which is a good design as well as a good message) go to Sea Shepherd, so if you want to help support the cause this could be a great way to spread the message whilst also helping Sea Shepherd to continue their work.

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Slowshirts kinda fell off my radar, I think they fell off a lot of people’s radar, but they seem to have come back in Etsy form (I’m not sure if they have a regular site too) and I’m really digging their new designs (and maybe I’ll Tdigg them later).

The squiggly-ness of the design kind of reminds me of a more mechanical version of ‘Squidplosion‘ by Squidfire (who just redesigned their site btw), and it really works well with all the wires and car parts, especially with this slightly retro technical style of drawing.

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Okay, they don’t really hate you, but hate is the theme that runs through their latest line, and just like pretty much everything else that they produce, I rather like it.

Lets enjoy a bit of info about the new range from CRs creative director, Greg:

“The new range has taken a step away from the graphical images seen
in our first range and has moved towards a more text based approach (Roux Ind/Tronic/Brothel).”

“We also continue our ‘twists on the norm’ by changing the well know ‘Love Hate’ theme to ‘Hate Hate’, with the Hate Scream tee and the I Love Hate tee aswell as the Hate Hate knuckles and Hate Size Zero vest for the ladies.We’ve also added female ’slouch’ tees with our suggestive ‘Roux In Me’ and ‘Roux Ind’ prints (attached) that are perfect for the summer festival season and that are amazing worn over a vest or bikini!”

“There are also some new colourways in old favourites, like the neon green on charcoal and black on white Roux In You and of course our best selling design to date; the Stamp,in black on white and pink on yellow!”

They’ve also had some mainstream exposure recently, as their ‘Roux In You’ design was chosen as the number 1 must-have summer tee in FHM magazine, and I’ve seen Tim Lovejoy and some of the other Soccer AM crew sporting CR tees over the past season (for non-English readers: Soccer AM is a popular saturday morning TV show all about football).

As ever, it isn’t the cheapest range in the world (around £35-40), but I really can’t say enough good things about the quality of this brand, everything about them goes beyond everything that I’ve seen from high-end t-shirts labels in the past, I know its quite a lot of money for a tee, but I really do think that its worth it. Check out my review of a tee from their last range for more on their quality.

Chateau Roux

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