I have no idea what ‘Spoeke’ means in German, but I do like that lovable little smiling ghost.

HE are still doing it old school (well, as old-school as you can be with a website), so you have to e-mail them your order.

Costiness=€49 URL (top right)

*Is there any chance it would just mean ’spook’?*

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Usually I never write Americanised spellings of words because I believe that its a bastardisation of English, a language that’s a bit of a mongrel to begin with; but since Labor Day is an American thing anyway, I’m going to let it slide just this once.

Yeah, BI are rocking a decent sized sale for the next five days (up until Tuesday Sept. 4th) with quite a few items enjoying 50% off their original prices.

Brooklyn Industries Sale

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I can’t bring myself to watch the video of the South Carolina entrant in Miss Teen USA saying something about maps, because it just doesn’t feel right that everyone is poking so much fun at her when presumably she was just a nervous. But still…

This tee is actually pretty well designed, I like the idea, although I have no clue whether Zazzle offer a quality product or not, and I’m sure that within a couple of weeks people will look at this tee and go, “what? oh yeah, her”

Costiness=$19.95 URL

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Very interesting graphic, kind of reminds me of a Banksy-esque stencil, except without the obvious political commentary. Blurb!

‘If you’re not first, you might as well be dead! On the front left is La Carrera logo. On the back is a large printing of three cyclists, with the two lagging behind as skeletons. “Hasta La Muerte!” or in other words, “Until Death!”‘

Costiness=$64 URL

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SaltWaterMonkey were a brand that I was hoping to mention before I went to Amsterdam, since they’re a Dutch label and I thought it would have been a convenient tie-in, but I guess it doesn’t matter when these brands get shown off as long as they get the attention they deserve eventually.

With a few of their designs, I would have the criticism that the prints are a bit on the small side compared to the tees, but this ‘Starchild’ tee doesn’t suffer from that problem. Using a single colour for the print works really well and sets the mood of the piece, and what a beautiful piece it is, I wouldn’t know whether to wear it or frame it if it were to find its way to HYA HQ (coughcough)!

Luckily for us, like everyone I met in Amsterdam, these guys do sprekt der engels (that could be some waaaay wrong Dutch), and have an English site to compliment their Dutch one.

Costiness=€25 Mens Womens

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Well, I just put my order in, a ‘Communist Party‘ tee for my brother, and a ‘My Pet Human‘ hoodie for me. I don’t really know how well ‘My Pet Human’ will work as a hoodie (especially as the print is white on creme), but I do love the image, and I think its about time I got a Threadless hoodie, even though nothing about it is going to surprise me; the stock hoodie is American Apparel, and I’m already well aware of their print quality. The checkout process took a really long time, which is a bit annoying, but hey, I can hardly complain when my order was covered by street team points, thanks a lot guys!

I’ve also noticed that my order number is around 930,000 I wonder if they’re going to celebrate their millionth order is some way?

So, what did you pick up?

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And when I say back soon, I mean tomorrow. I’m driving my grandparents home (two and a half hours away, how nice am I?) and at the same time I’m going to be taking in the not so glamourous fixture of Newcastle vs Barnsley in the second round of the Carling Cup, still, football is football and I’ll finally get to watch Michael Owen playing for Newcastle rather than England.

Anyway, I don’t know if it is all that necessary for me to explain why I’m not posting today, but I’ll be back tomorrow with more top notch finds!

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I like the bricks in this design because they kind of remind me of Tetris, and even though its pretty simple I think that the colours work well. Whilst it isn’t exactly an OMG!1! amazing hoodie, it does have a certain understated quality, especially with the subtle accents like the yellow piping around the hood, and the green hood lining pulling the whole piece together. Not sure if I’m too fond of the LRG logo on the back though…

Costiness=$78 URL

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If you get the point of this sweater before you read the blurb then congratulations to you, you are far smarter than I am.

“Back in the day the letter A began as a pictogram illustrating the head and horns of an Ox.

The Phoenicians wrote right to left writing the A sideways as it was quicker. The Greeks generally wrote left to right, so turned the A around.There was a point way back when a system was used called ‘Boustrophedon’ which translates ‘as the Ox ploughs’ so first A went left to right, second A right to left, and so on.

Around 500 BC writing became standardized and letters stopped changing direction. The Ox finally settled on its horns.”

Pretty darned clever design, right guys?

Costiness=£40 URL

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Been a while since we’ve had one of these!

Coin Studio - HK based label with some really interesting designs.

Old Baby Doll - A streetwear label that is just for women, the pic above is from their range.

Yes No Maybe - I think there should be a review of these guys coming up soon, but you’ll porbably still enjoy checking them out.

Joystick Junkies @ Urban Retro - Hurrah for gamer tees that aren’t lame! (Use the coupon code UR20 for 20% off your order up until August 31st)

Endangered Wear - Well designed tees that help you support charities at the same time.

Concrete Hermit - They’ve got 4 new tee designs available, 3 by external artists and one in-house pattern print of their logo that looks awesome, finally, a logo tee that doesn’t make me feel like a billboard!

Lady Estelle - A confusing e-mail alerted me to this Belgium shirt brand, I can’t quite work out if you can buy tees off their site (i.e. I didn’t look very hard), but the site sure is pretty looking.

Chor Bazaar - Indie-Indian shirt label out of Brooklyn, with designs that don’t rely upon traditional Asian stereotypes.

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