I’m going to take a stab in the dark and suggest that these tees aren’t licensed by Lucasfilm, which is probably why they’re being released under the name ‘Stripe Wars’ rather than the more celestial moniker that we’re used to.

The designs themselves are pretty clever, and certainly an innovative approach to the crowded marketplace of Star Wars based t-shirts, and I can see the more discerning end of the Star Wars fan market enjoying these designs.

The tees available in this style are; Vader (pictured), Chewy & a Tuskan Raider.

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I don’t know about you guys, but it was only a few weeks ago that I removed Torso’s blog feed from my Google Reader, there’d been no updates from them for months, but I held out hope that one of the blogs I enjoyed reading would come back after hiatus. And it is back, but not as a tee news blog, it’s back as what they themselves describe as ‘yet another t-shirt label’, and I like that kind of self-cynicism, they know they aren’t reinventing the wheel, they’re just trying to make great shirts. That’s an aim that seems to be being achieved at the moment, Matt, the guy skippering HMS Torso, has picked some of his favourite artists from his time within the industry and given them free reign to be creative by offering them a wide variety of printing options (up to 8 colours, special inks). Merchline are providing their storefront, so I would guess that if you made an order then you wouldn’t have that traditionally long wait for it to be shipped from Torso HQ in Australia.

Oh, and if you like their designs buy can’t stump up the cash for a tee, you ccan settle for a desktop wallpaper available from their freebies page.

www.torso.com.au

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I didn’t realize that Burton did this kind of streetwear, I always thought of them as being more in line with the conservative, though ineffably cool, snowboarding crowd. Well, you learn something every day.

Usually I’m not to into the bright dots on a background colour allover hoodies, but I think that this colourway has a certain something to it that makes it a bit more attractive than the usual hoodie in this style. If spots aren’t your bag then you could always turn it inside out and have a maroon and purple horizontal striped hoodie. Personally, I think I’d be keeping it to the spots.

Costiness=$75 Link (get up to 20% off your order with the rep code AS7594)

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