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]
You guys know I’m not a designer, which is why I write about clothes rather than make them, but the old look was getting rather stale, and frankly I was a little bit bored, so I thought I’d freshen things up with the rather excellent theme that Blogging Pro released a few months ago.
As ever with these kinds of change overs, things aren’t exactly as I’d like them to be quite yet, not all the colours are quite right as I’m sure you can tell, but I think this looks pretty good.
If you have any thoughts on it, or spot any bugs that need clearing up then feel free to let me know.
Oh man, I subscribed to Grooveeffect a couple of days ago, and they’re really finding some great brands, so that’s another source supplying the HYA reservoir of excellent content!
Lore Clothing, from San Francisco, must be fairly new to the Karmaloop Kazbah because I don’t remember seeing them on there, although I haven’t visited in quite a long time, but I guess the age isn’t all that important because these tees still look damn good. The big prints do tread over a variety of themes and styles, but the focus does seem to be on intricate designs with a lot of detail, with a fairly ‘old-world’ style of illustration to them.
Links for: Featured tee, Lore Studio & Lore Clothing @ the Kazbah [via Grooveeffect, obviously]
After telling Jason that I was going to steal his find, I was quite tempted to just copy and paste his entire post as a joke, but then I got an attack of the morals and thought I’d better write something myself.
Naturally, I don’t want to see the death of a much-loved typeface, especially as its bastard brother Arial black is being used in the HYA* header graphic, but I did look at this tee and think, “wow, that’s pretty beautiful, I simply must steal this”, so I did!
Costiness=$60 Aussie dollars URL
