From the monthly archives:

December 2007

HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! The winners!

by Andy on December 26, 2007

in Competitions,News

Is your heart beating? Are you gonna scroll down and see your name on the winners list? Regretting not entering now? Wishing you hadn’t eaten so much Turkey on Christmas day?

Okay, here is how I worked out the winners, since if British TV has taught me anything over the past year, transparency is a must when it comes to competitions. At the end of each day I made up a list of all the entries and numbered them. They were numbered because I decided that the fairest (and easiest) way that I could create a random drawing would be to use a random number generator. I used random.org. I know that it can be argued that these generators can never truly be random, but I felt that for the purposes of this giveaway that it would be random enough especially as Random.org make a big fuss about offering truly random numbers. I then asked the generator to pick one integer for me between 1 and however many entries that there were for each day. Since the rules stated that any individual could only win one time (let’s share the wealth, comrades!), and lots of people entered on multiple days, after someone won I marked their entries on subsequent days as ineligible, and if their number came up in the random number generator I would generate for that day until a number was produced of someone that hadn’t previously been a winner. I think that explains the process, hopefully you think it was as fair as I could have reasonably managed.

I think I’ve teased you enough, here’s the winners:

Day 1 (The Quiet Life): Johnson Le

Day 2 (The Hundreds): Michelle Lee

Day3 (Cosby): Kevin D

Day 4 (Stussy): Matthew John Greten

Day 5 (One People Project): Menachem Katz

Day 6 (Crooks & Castles): Daniel Noir

Day 7 (Obey): Joe Wasserman

Congratulations guys! If you have sent me your size & address already, there’s no need to send it again, but if you haven’t, please do, otherwise Mauve won’t know where to send your tee. I’ll be sending off the winners details to Mauve in the next few days so I think you can probably expect to see your tees sometime early in the New Year. Thanks to all who took part, and big, big, big thanks to Mauve who went above and beyond the call of duty by giving away tees from some great streetwear labels.

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Cotton Filter: 261207

by Andy on December 26, 2007

in Bargains!,Competitions,Mens,News,Sweater,T-shirts,Womens

I’m keeping this super quick since I’m far too busy making sandwiches with Christmas in themb and gorging myself on the 18lbs of Japanese food that my brother had imported for me (hurrah for wasabi roasted peas!), but sales are sales and I’m sure some of you got cash for Chrimbo and there’s no better way to spend it than on clothes!

Design By Humans: Everyone else has already reported it, but from now until the end of the year, enter the discount code DBHFAM during the checkout process and you’ll receive a rather handsome 35% off your order.

Lazy Oaf: I didn’t realise until now that LO had a bricks-and-mortar store, but… they do (Lazy Oaf, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London, W1B 5PW if you realllllly want to know) and they’ve got a sale kicking off tomorrow, tees from £10, sweatshirts from £25, and the sale with be coming to their online store on January 2nd, which is very forgiving for those of us that will be extremely hungover.

Red Lotus Clothing got in touch, looks good.

A tee site called Monkey Fist launched recently.

Our friends over at Concrete Hermit have taken their social network out of closed beta and gone public, make friends with me here, there’s lots of people on there that are far more interesting than me, so have a nose around.

Thanks to the guys at Pyknic for introducing themselves, and I’ve noticed that for every shirt of theirs that you buy until December 31st they will donate a shirt to charity, way to get in the spirit!

Our friends at Bean Dip have dropped a couple of New Era fitted hats, not really my thing, but I have faith that they know a lot more about the New Era world than I do.

Wrongwroks have an Xmas themed beanie for sale, as well as more stuff with Kate Moss adorning it.

Two new shirts are available at Kotton.de

Wasabi
dropped some new product a few days ago.

That should just about do it for now, the winners of the HYA x Mauve sweepstakes are coming up in a few minutes, after which I don’t intend to do any more blogging until 2008, unless something major comes up. So thanks a lot for reading, e-mailing, sending me samples, linking, and commenting this year, HYA wouldn’t nearly be as interesting for me as it is if it wasn’t for you guys. Have a great time over the rest of the holiday period, stay safe, and remember, there’s no such thing as calories at Christmas!

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 7: Obey

by Andy on December 24, 2007

in Competitions,News

day7 HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 7: Obey

Well gang, today is the final day of the HYA x Mauve sweepstakes. You’ve impressed me with the quantity of entries, especially those of you that have entered every day (Kevin, Michelle, Joe, Menachem, Daniel… there may have been more), and whilst I know it isn’t that much effort to send off a quick e-mail every day, I know that this is a very busy time of year, so a big thanks to all of you for being involved. I’m sure you’ve all finished your Christmas shopping by now (I was finished early last week, and yes, I am smug about it) so let’s see if we can have the best response yet for the final day of the competition!

Today in the sweepstakes,Mauve are giving away a tee from their fine selection of goods from Obey. I’m not going to insult you by telling you how big of a deal Obey is, and how Shepard Fairey’s street art movement has become an “important urban phenomenon”. Oh and their clothes are hot too!

Want to get your hands on the Obey giant? Well, to be in with a chance to win an Obey tee courtesy of Mauve Online (who are being very sensible and have closed their bricks-and-mortar store today and tomorrow) all you gotta do is send an e-mail containing your t-shirt size with the subject heading Day 7 to competitions@hideyourarms.com. Winners will be announced on December 26th, because I’m damned if I’m working Christmas Day. You want rules? Download them here, read them online here.

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 6: Crooks & Castles

by Andy on December 23, 2007

in Competitions,News,T-shirts

DAY6 HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 6: Crooks & Castles

When I went out for drinks with my friends on Friday night I was telling them about the giveaway that I was running on HYA all this week, and they asked me which brands I was giving away, so I thought I’d go with the most well known brands and told them that Stussy and Obey (… they’re coming up tomorrow) were amongst the brands. I had a series of blank faces staring back at me, my friends didn’t know who those brands were, but I guess they aren’t really HYA people, but you people are HYA people, and when I tell you that today Mauve are giving away a tee from Crooks & Castles then you’ll know that something special is going on!

You don’t need to be a crook to get your hands on a free tee (see what I did there?), all you have to do is e-mail me your t-shirt size using the subject heading Day 6 to competitions@hideyourarms.com and your name will be put into the draw for the tee from Mauve online. There are the usual rules that need to be followed, you can download them here (.doc link) and see them online here via Google Docs.

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 5: One People Project

by Andy on December 22, 2007

in Competitions,News,Uncategorized

day5 HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 5: One People Project

Day 5! People, this giveaway has got it going on like Donkey Kong! Today Mauve have really knocked one out of the park, by giving away a t-shirt from a company that they don’t even sell in their online store yet!

Yup, take a look around the Mauve store and you will not find One People Project anywhere (unless I’m being stupid), but enter todays portion of the sweepstakes and you might just find an OPP tee on your doorstep!

Just in case you’re joining us for the first time, here’s how to get in on the action. Send an e-mail containing your t-shirt size (and whatever else you want!) with the subject Day 5 to competitions@hideyourarms.com and you will be entered into the random drawing to win a tee from One People Project thanks to our friends at Mauve. Full rules can be downloaded here (.doc link), and read on Google Docs here.

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Wii-mote Explosion by Wire & Twine

22.12.2007

Funnily enough, this is actually how I would imagine a wii-mote ending up if I was given more than a few hours to play with one, my bowling action is a bit ‘active’ to say the least, and I’m sure that I’d end up chucking the little white slab through the TV. Also, the cool [...]

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WordPress now sells hoodies

21.12.2007

Sure, I like WordPress, my blogging life would be a lot harder without it, hell, but am I willing/nerdy enough to buy a hoodie that professes my love for this fantastic open-source CMS? Well, no, to be honest, but that’s just me. It does raise an interesting thought though, how come people get offended about [...]

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Waterworks by Naive Clothing

21.12.2007

Do you know the game ‘Pipes’ (thats probably not the real name, but if you know of it then you’ll know what I mean)? This design just reminded me of it. How random was it that it was a mini-game in BioShock? One of the games of the year contained a game that I would [...]

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Healing for the Masses by Black Sea Apparel

21.12.2007

My guys over at the Black Sea (and maybe over a bit further over on the right if their ad is showing) know just how to kill it, kill it in a good way. It takes a bold, bold, bunch of people to put a pink repeating pattern on a yellow t-shirt. And if you [...]

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 4: Stussy

21.12.2007

Day 4 guys! Today’s random tee that is going to be randomly given away to one lucky reader comes from that global force in streetwear, Stussy. According to wikipedia (so it has to be true), Stussy is generally thought of as being one of the brands that started the whole streetwear movement after their inception [...]

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Vampire Career Fair by Seibei

21.12.2007

David from Seibei certainly has been busy recently, hitting up craft fairs all-over the US and recently releasing a few new designs. You’d have thought that since this is a blog I’d go for the most google juice possible and write about his recent collaboration with Derek M. Ballard, who’s an illustrator, not a contestant [...]

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The Revolution by Tank Theory @ Karmaloop

21.12.2007

Ooooohhhh, Tank Theory may well have done this black/white/gold + weaponry thing quite a lot, but that doesn’t stop it from looking really, really cool every time I see it, and at $58 its a bit of a steal. And I know I’ve posted something that looks similar to this in the past, but its [...]

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All-Mighty.net gets a new site

20.12.2007

All-Mighty, the guys that love dogs (and clothes with images of dogs on them) more than I love clothes, have had a redesign of their site and hot damn it looks good. It appears that they’ve overhauled pretty much everything whilst still retaining the essence that makes AM so darned cute and lovable. There also [...]

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NYC Subway Map hoodie by Fred Flare

20.12.2007

I don’t really like this hoodie all that much, its a little busy for me, but then I thought I’d post this since one of my boys is over in NY at the moment, and I’m really tempted to head over there for the United Show in January. That said, I think that wearing one [...]

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 3: Cosby

20.12.2007

You know what time it is! Day 3 is upon us! Todays tee is going to be from a brand who I haven’t heard much about before, Cosby, but if the guys over at Mauve think that its good, then chances are its a streetwear label that is too cool for mere mortals such as [...]

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Incognito 7 by aliadotony @ Design By Humans

20.12.2007

To be completely honest, and what would be the point of HYA if I lied constantly? DBHs designs had actually been disappointing me a bit recently. I kept feeling as if they were putting things out that showed off their admittedly excellent printing techniques rather than the great work that their community of artists was [...]

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S.A.S by Natural Born @ Karmaloop

19.12.2007

1) It’s cold here. 2) At weekends where I live you hear quite a lot of rifle shots echoing down the valleys from people hunting. That got me thinking about nice warm coats and camo, so.. voila, a camo coat! This coat is 100% cotton with a plaid lining, so I’m not sure quite how [...]

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Tesson by Cindez @ Dadawan

19.12.2007

Very cool idea, very good execution, that’s what I like to see! It’s fairly understated, but not everything that goes into your wardrobe at the moment need to be an all-over print or some massive graphic on it (though I do still love them). It would have been pretty cool if Cindez had done others [...]

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Philly Skyline by Jaymacalgiano @ Etsy

19.12.2007

So, do you love the fine city of Philadelphia enough to wear its skyline across your chest? Personally, I didn’t even know that Philly had a famous skyline. Still, I like the imperfect print on the charcoal long-sleeve tee, and how damn long has it been since we had a long-sleeve tee on HYA (that [...]

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 2: The Hundreds

19.12.2007

After an impressive response, Day 1 is over! The winner will be randomly picked out when we get the chance, and a tee from Mauve‘s range of The Quiet Life will be on its way soon. Sad that you forgot to send an e-mail over the past couple of days? Don’t be! There’s still four [...]

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