Just a quick note first; I’ve been having some problems with the site rendering properly in IE (version 6), the sidebar is dropping down beneath the post content. It’s rendering normally in IE on the other computers in my house, and it’s fine in Firefox, but I was wondering if any Internet Explorer users (if there are any of you left) had noticed any similar rendering issues?

Quixotic Clothing: I’ve got another coupon for you! You can get 15% off your entire order by using the extremely witty code hideyourupperarms during the checkout process. Here’s the perfect opportunity for you to pick up one or two of those new releases that I mentioned a while back.

Soho Tuna: All their current crop of tees are down to £12 to make way for new tees, polos, sweats and hoodies arriving early next year along with a brand new website that apparently comes “with a twist”… mysterious!

All-Mighty: They’re clearing out their ‘bark!gain bin‘ by knocking 25% off their already reduced prices. “Effective immediately…ending in one week 11/14/2007.”

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One of the great things about Johnny Cupcakes is the way that they manage to put their own little twist on fairly traditional t-shirt design staples (like wreaths or crests) and make them seem so fresh. I guess that’s the magic ingredient in the Johnny Cupcake formula (hey, that sentence could have been worse, I couldn’t written ‘Johnny Cupcake recipe’).

It’s also cool how their blog posts, which are the first thing you see when you get to the site proper (after the splash screen) usually have pretty muvh nothing to do with clothing. I know that’s a strange thing to say, but it feels good not to constantly have them promoting their own tees on their own site, and with JC owing so much of its success to Johnny himself then I guess it makes a lot of sense for the blog to be about him, for the most part. Oh, and if I haven’t given you enough of a JC fix, check out this interview with Johnny Cupcakes and The Hundreds over at HighSnobriety.

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I think that this might say something about just how much of the Simpson’s I’ve watched, and re-watched, but as soon as I pulled this tee out of the envelope I thought of that episode (presumably a Treehouse of Horror) where Jasper Beardly freezes himself in the Kwik-E-Mart asking to be thawed out when robot wives become cheap. He also asks Apu to change his pants to keep up with current trends. Yep, way off from the meaning and message that’s behind this design, but that’s what it reminds me of.

As a person who grew up watching that classic of children’s Christmas entertainment, The Snowman, I totally get the sentiment behind putting a snowman into a freezer so that it can live forever, it’s kind of sad, inspiring and desperate at the same time, and those aren’t often feelings I find being evoked when I’m looking at a t=shirt. On a happier note, how freakin’ cool would it be if an enterprising store owner actually did this? I would buy ice cream there for life!

The use of the negative space is really great here. Looking at any of the elements (other than the snowman itself) you can’t actually tell what they are unless you look at what isn’t printed. So, it’s kind of like jazz, you need to listen to the notes that aren’t playing! (last Simpson’s joke, I promise)

The print on this tee is good quality, it certainly has a printed to last feel about it. The design is printed onto a ‘best’ tee by Fruit of the Loom. ClothMoth have indicated to me that they’re going to hang with the cool kids and start printing onto American Apparel, but I’m actually quite impressed by this offering from FotL. It certainly feels better quality and much softer than the FotL tees that my favourite bands were printing onto a few years ago when I’d always get a souvenir tee after ever gig I went to. In terms of sizing, its a pretty regular cut, although slightly slimmer in the body than I’d expect from the Loom.

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