Social T is one of the handful of t-shirt subscription services that seem to have gained in prevalence, popularity and press attention over the past year. Since this tee is from their November ‘issue’ and this review is being posted in early December I’m afraid you can’t get this tee, but I’m sure next month’s issue will be cool too!

Similar to the excellent Swedish tee subscription service T-Post (review here), Social T’s designs are topical, and as you might imagine, deal with social issues. This tee deals with the subject of the ‘Dia he los Muertas’, which even I can managed to translate as ‘Day of the Dead’, which rather confusingly is actually two days over which Mexican people honour their deceased through various rituals and customs depending upon the local region. November 1st (All Saints Day) is when they remember deceased children and infants, often referred to as ‘angelitos‘ (little angels), and November 2nd (All Souls Day) is for adults. Now, I’m sure that you assumed that I just used the-more-reliable-than-its-given-credit-for Wikipedia for that info. But alas, we all know what happens when you assume something… your usually right, but in this case you’re wrong, all that info (and a bit more) was actually printed in a box that sits on your right side. It’s a great idea, admittedly a little impractical for actual learning, but novel nonetheless. I really like the way that they’ve managed to have three printed areas on the shirt and avoid traditional placement with all of them, I don’t know why, but it feels like it gives a lot more respect to the subject matter than going with a traditional middle of the chest print.

In terms of quality, Social T are using socially-aware American Apparel tees, which is probably exactly what you’d expect from them. The print is soft to the touch as well, impressive stuff. The AA tag has been cut out and replaced by a printed tag with the usual info. Since this is a subscription service I guess that time and money are more of an issue than usual. Each monthly ‘issue’ costs $32 with shipping ($40 for international subscribers), and you aren’t locked in for a year like with some other services, you pay by the month and can stop any time, although if you go for 6/12 month prepaid packages you do get a reduced rate. Tees should arrive on your doorstep around the 15th of the month, giving you plenty of time to show off your new purchase in the appropriate month. Overall, Social T is a good idea well executed, and a good option amongst the subscription services (not that any of them have disappointed me so far).

Costiness=$32 per month (2 and 3 options available @ $32 per month, 6 months for $162, and 1 year for $300) Link

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Chop Shop:

If you order from now until December 25th, you can get %15 off any purchases at www.chopshopstore.com. Just make your selections by adding them to the shopping cart and when you are ready to check out, just add the coupon code cholidayshop to the field marked “Enter coupon code” and click the “submit” button below that. This will register you as eligible for the %15 discount. Happy Holidays from The Chop Shop!

Good Tees for Typographers: Here’s a list of tees that focus on fonts from Typographica.org, it doesn’t have the ridiculous length of a HYA list, but there’s a lot of good tees on there.

Bean Dip: New items have dropped at the Kazbah, check ‘em out.

Oddica: It’s holiday sale time with them too, from now until January 2nd 2008 you can buy a single shirt for $15, 2 for $14 a piece (so, $28 total) and 3 or more at a rate of $13 each. They’ve also got a little present for us in the form of the release of the latest issue of their PDF Magazine, which is packed full of illustrative goodness from their much-loved artists, download it here.

A Better Tomorrow: Their ‘Xmas Dash’ is in full swing. In a nutshell, the dash is a new tee design being released every day, at the low price of €12. ABT know good design, their wall stickers are amazing, so you can pick yourself up some German awesome-ness at a very reasonable price.

LaFraise: Since their newsletter arrived in my inbox in French this morning, I can’t confirm 100% that what I’m about to tell you is true, but I think that if you spend more than €30 then you can get €5 off with the coupon code LFGIFT until December 31st. Or something like that anyway.

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Even if usually when I watch Mythbusters I spend half my time picking apart their methodology (Andy doesn’t understand the trade off between good science and good television), I am a really huge fan of it, and when I was sent an e-mail from the maker of the above tee being worn by every geeks fantasy woman, Kari Byron, I couldn’t help myself but give it a mention.

It was featured pretty prominently in their recent season finale, in which the team ’supersized’ previous myths, and the Junior team (Kari, Tory and Grant) were charged with finding out whether a car would fly over if it drove behind a jet (it did, big time). Sure, this had been done by the British show Top Gear several years ago, but not whilst one of the presenters was wearing a cool tee!

The tee comes from a small tee label based in Lincoln, Nebraska, called Craze One who only have a few designs, but they’re pretty darned impressive, although not all as badass as the tee above.

Costiness=$22 Link

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So, is it fair to assume that this design is being released under a Creative Commons share-a-like with attribution so that it can be mixed and remixed?

All jokes about copyfight-lover Cory Doctorow aside, this hoodie is pretty damned sweet, and I like the way it kind of represents what Boing Boing is all about without being way too meta about it. Oh and it’s pretty damned limited too, so if you want it whip out your credit card and get on it.

Costiness=$120 (free US shipping) Links:(Mens, Womens)

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