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.
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!
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.
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.
