When I hear the word ‘aloha’, I immediately think of Hawaii. So quite naturally (I presumed), when I found out about Aloha Victory I thought I’d be checking out some designs from the land of grass skirts and drinks served in coconut shells. Oh, how wrong I was, Aloha Victory are actually based in Florida, but when I actually take a look at this design, both the Hawaiian and Floridian (is that even a word?) aspects are quite apparent.

And when I say apparent, I mean it has both coconuts (Hawaii) and a space shuttle (Kennedy Space Center) on it. I know I probably should have picked up on that the second I pulled the tee out of it’s envelope, but I thought it was a pretty cool way to give a nod to both the geography and the spirit of Aloha Victory. I really like this design, all the elements seem to work so well together, the ‘A’ and ‘V’ that sit on either side of the space shuttle are a really nice touch. One of my favourite aspects of the design is the way that they’ve really brought a sense of perspective to it, which isn’t usually a feature of most tee designs.

The print feels like quality, whilst I’m still not entirely sure about inks, I think that it is printed with plastisol ink, whatever it is, I think its printed to last. The stock tee is a Hanes Beefy T, and I do believe that its the first I’ve received since starting HYA. The Beefy T is, as the name suggests, a bit thicker than a standard tee, and the cut is a bit boxier than a standard American Apparel tee, it still feels pretty soft though, and I would imagine that it’ll last pretty well with it being a little bit thicker.

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I’m not usually into retro tee designs since they can often rely a bit too much on nostalgia and not have a design that is up to scratch, but this tee from Airside balances those two aspects out very nicely. Blurb!:

“Back in the days of eight bit computer gaming the use of vector graphics on games like Elite had gamers in a three dimensional frenzy of triangles, lines and dots. The original of the bunch was Asteroids, which was gathering crowds in the corners of pool rooms since 1979.

We loved that game so much we decided to make Asteroids: the t-shirt, where straight lines meeting at different angles produce an entire world. And to really up the ante, it GLOWS IN THE DARK as well. Seriously. It’s not just a gimmick, it’s helps reduce your carbon footprint as you don’t need electric lights to see it. Amazing.”

Whilst I don’t entirely believed their claim that “the original of the bunch was Asteroids”, I do LOVE that it glows in the dark. It’s also very cool how Airside have the stock information that tells you how many units of each size are available, since its usually a bit of a stab in the dark whether you can wait another day or two before deciding whether you really want to buy a tee.

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I always find that there’s something quite poetic about reading a machine translated piece of text, which is why I thought I’d use that for the blurb rather than getting one of my German speaking buddies to translate it for me correctly:

“Historical Illuart, was revised and set again in scene. The older gentleman from the second-hand bookshop that me the wood pressures sold found the new suppl.-smooth-eats class… old school/new school! 20’s in effect as it were… here thus on a beautiful greymottled Hooded Zipper.”

Now, I get the feeling that the original German text probably isn’t related to wood pressure, but that older gentleman from the second-hand bookshop sure does sound interesting!

I don’t really know whats going on with this hoodie, it looks kind of like a crest made out of animals, which is a pretty cool concept. The hood print is quite interesting too. The cut and shape of the hoodie itself.look a little different from the norm, the zipper seems to go up quite high so that the hood makes up a bit of a ski mask shape, which would probably be pretty useful during winter, or if you were going to ‘make a withdrawal’ from a bank.

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Today we’re taking a look at the 2nd in our 7 part series, Better Know Public Domain Clothing’s Tee Range, the fightin’ 2nd!

Yeah, I really missed the Colbert Report last week when they were on break, along with the Daily Show, those two shows are where I get most of my American news from, since I can only stand to watch Fox News for about 5 minutes at a time.

This tee is s-weeet! They’ve stuck to their guns by keeping the print big, but taken it in a whole different direction by going for this patterned approach with various angles of the one-colour watch print. It works really well, and I must congratulate them yet again on the choice of colourway, it really conveys a feeling of class. I wore this tee tonight on a night out for my good friend Robin’s birthday (seen here on the left) and my favourite reaction was was “hold up, is that a casio calculator watch? Sweet.” Yep, there’s clearly still a lot of love out there for watches with a calculator.

Obviously, the printing and quality are the same as with the first tee I reviewed, so I’ll just give a quick summary of my original thoughts. Very soft, quite fitted, and the print is barely noticeable when you run your fingers over it, impressive.

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