I’m excited to announce that HYA* is teaming up with mimoco, the guys that make those awesome designer USB Flash Drives, for an illustration contest.

There are three tees from mimoco’s new apparel line up for grabs and all you have to do to win is create an illustration with a mimobot in it. Yeah, it’s that simple. Let your imagination go wild, draw anything you want in any style you want, just make sure it involves a mimobot in some way. You can feel free to incorporate Hide Your Arms into the illustration too, but that isn’t a submission requirement.

If you’re in need of some materials to help you with your illustration then the following links will be of help to you: Mimobot’s on MySpace and Mimobot’s on Virb.

Please send your submissions, preferably in a .jpg format and under 1MB in file size, along with your t-shirt size and mailing address to the following e-mail address: competitions [at] hideyourarms [dot] com or, in case that e-mail doesn’t work for some reason info [at] hideyourarms [dot] com

Submissions will be accepted until November 21th at midnight (GMT) and will announce the winners a few days later after Mimoco and myself have judged the entrants. Multiple entries are accepted, but please don’t send lots of versions of the same image unless you’ve really made some awesome changes.

Good luck!

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Enclothe, the purveyor of esoteric clothing, is going to be releasing a couple of new hoodies soon (Falconeer, pictured, and Horsebot), and they’re available on pre-order now until November 9th. The pre-order price is $40, which will go up to $45 at the end of the pre-order period, and if you order now then you’re eligible for a free sticker pack.

As if that wasn’t enough, you can get a further $5 off that price by using the coupon code hidethosearms (clever, eh?), making the hoodie $35 rather than the regular $45, which is a great deal for something printed on an American Apparel hoodie. Please note that the code will only work with the pre-order hoodies.

There are also a few tees available on pre-order too.

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Well, this hoodie is just straight up awesome. Ok, if you’re a bit indie or emo, it’s straight up awesome.

Has the dirty bird met his avian match?

This is an authentic limited-edition hooded sweatshirt. We’ve only manufactured 350. Each is made with the highest attention to detail.

The entire design is embroidered, with artwork on the chest and right wrist. The interior features a printed, lined hood, two zipper pockets, and a headphone cord passthrough.

Costiness=$84 (with free domestic US shipping) Link

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I think we’ve covered in the past how often I’m disappointed by the quality of official merchandise for TV shows and movies, even pointing out my disappointment with some of Entourage’s merchandise. So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this post on Uncrate pointing me towards this shirt for the fictional movie Medellin from the TV show Entourage. I like the way that it doesn’t mention Entourage or HBO on the tee anywhere, giving it some nudge-nidge-wink-wink credibility. And kudos to HBO on not going with a standard across the chest placement too.

Costiness=$19.99 Link

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Ahh, wrongwroks, I don’t necessarily think that everything this Vancouver-based crew do is amazing, but there’s just something about them that intrigues me, I mean seriously, who else would think of making a Swarovski pink panther hoodie?

If you’re a fan of all things Doradimon then this hoodie might be up your street too. They’re using carpet on the blue of the character, which is a pretty cool idea since it gives the piece a bit of texture and innovation.

There’s a load more stuff in the collection, a few tees and quite a few hats (which I think are a far more acceptable place for Swarovski crystals to be found on clothing) which are worth checking out.

Wrongwroks

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Threadless have launched a pretty cool little feature today, called Thriftee, in which a random design of a random size is offered on a first-come first-served basis to one person for the price of $10. Once that has been sold, the whole process starts again with a new design and size. Since that felt awkward when I was writing it I’ll let the Thread-folks explain:

The Threadless $10 Thriftee is your chance to own a super-sweet Threadless tee for $10! The catch is, you gotta be lucky - and you gotta be fast! Here’s how it works…

A short-sleeve tee - in a randomly selected design, in a randomly selected size - is pulled from our catalog and displayed on the homepage. It’s the ONLY ONE available for $10. Whoever acts the fastest gets it. Once that one randomly selected design in a randomly selected size is sold, a new randomly selected design in a randomly selected size is available as the $10 Thriftee. This process will repeat F-O-R-E-V-E-R.

The $10 Thriftees are only for short-sleeve tees, but it doesn’t matter which line they’re from! So, you could even get a Select tee for $10! How about them apples!?

Got it? Cool. $10 is cool and all, but that’s just what they sell at during sale times, now I’m not aware of the inner workings of Threadless and what their costs are, but wouldn’t you have expected to have seen the Thriftee to be a little be less than $10?

Threadless

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I’m back in the UK, its time to catch up on what I’ve missed.

Fantastic Bonanza!: Use the code HWEEN for 15% off until October 31st.

Ten Bills: A selected range of shirts is available for just $5 until the end of the week. $5 freakin’ dollars! And if you spend $75+ on your order then you qualify for free shipping (domestic US only).

Chop Shop: Those Stripe Wars tees that the whole internet went ga-ga over have been reprinted, get’em while they last.

YourEyesLie: Some very cool new designs from this UK label.

Quixotic Clothing: Brad has released three new designs that are worth a look.

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Divine Clothing are have a quick sale until November 2nd in which all of the tees are $15.99 and come with free shipping and some Halloween themed goodies.

Get on it!

Divine Clothing Co

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Personally, I can’t see myself wearing this, but all-overs are still pretty popular, and if you really, really love your handheld gaming, then this may well be an appropriate hoodie for you. Although I would be wary of wearing this in public since it pretty much screams “hey you, thief, under this hoodie is hundreds of dollars of consumer electronics, just begging to be stolen, have at me!”

Costiness=€99 Link (size medium, different sizes available on this page)

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Sorry I didn’t catch this when it was just €29 as part of their Cheap Friday’s promotion last week, but it still looks just as good even with a higher price tag.

It’s nice to see this placed on the left of the sweatshirt, I don’t think I would have been quite so enthralled with it if it had a standard middle print placement.

Costiness=€48 Link

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