I always like it when tee companies are aware that they aren’t reinventing the wheel, which is why it is pretty refreshing to see that Nuda Tees have given themselves the slogan of “yet another t-shirt site, but for really, really hip people.” Although its not exactly the perfect slogan, because without wanting to alienate some of the readers, how hip are people who get the reference in this tee?
This tee is pretty ‘hip’ though (whatever the hell that word really means), it looks more like it should be framed up on a wall rather than across my chest, and the more I look at it the more that I like it. As a concept its pretty cool, normality on the top and a severe contrast underneath, it kind of feels to me as if its kind of a day/night contrast, but that’s only because we sometimes have bats fling around our house at night.
Let’s talk quality. The tee is printed on a Gildan heavyweight tee, which to those of you who are unaware is a regular fit kind of tee, fairly boxy, and also quite think cotton. They also seem to last for a long time, although there is a bit of fall-off in terms of softness after a few washes. Print quality feels impressive too.
Costiness=$15 URL
*Nuda Tees, much like almost every other tee site do accept designs submissions, but unlike most tee companies offer a very competitive rate of $2 per tee sold*
This tee is way too good to have sat in my inbox for at least a fortnight, so sorry about that. This tee, known as Monstabash, is Kotton.de’s first printed tee, which the Swiss designer is hoping will lead onto great things, and judging by the look of the other designs that are on the rather slick Flash-based website I can see him getting some considerable attention in the future.
The pictures of the other tees that are on the site are just photos of the test prints at the moment, but I’m sure that if there is enough interest in Monstabash that the other designs will be available soon.
The site is almost entirely in German at the moment, there is an English version in the works, but the site isn’t too hard to navigate even if your German is about as good as mine (…terrible).
Costiness=€32 URL
Grey on grey, some would say its a bit of a risky choice, but when you give the print a vintage look like T5S have, then I think it works really well, it kind of has a rock-like edge to it.
Also, whilst I’m no expert on female tailoring, I do dig how this piece runs slightly long, and having the ‘mock’ neck is pretty interesting too, although I wouldn’t be all that sure how you’re meant to wear it, like, can it be treated as a large collar or is it meant to point up?
Costiness=$72 URL (remember, coupon code AS7594 gets you up to 20% off, and will mean I can buy ’stuff’)
Okay, you’ve seen the top picture, and even though its only a small part of the tee, I know what you Star Wars fans are like, so I’m going to link to link to the tee right now so that you can buy it as quickly as possible.
When I pulled this tee out of the box, I kind of got the feeling that I was holding something that might end up being a big deal, Star Wars inspired designs have a tendency to get quite a lot of attention, and when you mash up one seventies icon with another, dance/Night Fever in this case, then you’ve pretty much got a nostalgic match made in heaven. I described this tee to my friends at the pub one evening, and one of them immediately responded, “there should be a Death Star disco ball!”, and I think that was a great idea, but it would have been dangling in thin air on the design which I don’t think would have looked all that great.
The quality is impressive, the tee itself.is American Apparel, and the print looks as if it will stand up to a fair amount of punishment. I don’t know the extent that Merchline are involved with the production of Nervy Apparel’s tee’s, but these tees do maintain the high standards that I’ve come to imagine from Merchline powered brands. The colourway is fairly subdued, which you would expect since it is in sepia tones, but I think it works quite well, and maybe if it were a full-colour reproduction of the characters it would fall into the category of cheesy merchandise rather than loving homage.
Costiness=$22 Guys/Girls [Nervy Apparel]
