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 wearing brands like Nike because ‘you’re advertising their brand’, but when it comes to the ‘little blog-software that could’, no one minds seeing their logo slapped onto an American Apparel hoodie. I don’t want that to sound too bitter, but considering how much talent there is in the Wordpress community you would have thought that someone could have made something far more attractive that worked that big W into its design. Now Songbird, that’s some merch I can get into!

Costiness=$32 Link

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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 remove from my cellphone if it wasn’t locked on there, and a game that is probably only on my cellphone because the developers couldn’t think of another decent way of making use of the touchscreen.

Anyway, I figured it was about damn time to drop back in on Naive Clothing, and it would seem that they’ve been rather busy. Plenty of new designs for you to sink your teeth into, and this ‘Waterworks’ windbreaker is up there with the best of them. I really like the way that the design slides just-and-so past the zip, as if they were pointing out to us how more thought had gone into this piece than you would first imagine (even if they warn you that irregularities may occur because of the trans-zipper print).

Costiness=$29.50 Link

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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 thought that was bold, what if I told you that the pink repeating pattern repeated unicorns, yeah…

…one more time, unicorns!

Costiness=$19 Link

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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 in 1980, so I guess you can either love or hate them just for that! If you aren’t too aware of what Stussy is all about, check out their selection at Mauve and you’ll get a good feel.

You want in? Haven’t heard how to participate yet? Send an e-mail to competitions@hideyourarms.com with your t-shirt size and the subject heading Day 4. That’s it, that’s all you have to do to enter, don’t you wish everything in life was that easy?

Rules: I don’t like to live on the edge with HYA, so here’s the downloadable rules (.doc link), and they’re viewable online here at Google Docs.

*Please note that the giveaways will be continuing over the weekend, so keep checking back to see which brands are up next!*

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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 on Project Runway as I wrote in the original version of this post, that’s another collaboration entirely! Or I’d finally point out yet another design in which Seibei show their love for all things zombie with the tee ‘Thriller Was A Documentary‘ which has zombie Michael Jackson looking better than he does in real life, whilst kicking out a nice little reference to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.

But for me, ‘Vampire Career Fair‘ tops those two, the large block of red drips contrasts so well with the white tee, the positioning of the text with that solid black background, and the characters that feel more like they should be in a graphic novel than on a t-shirt. Its just so well put together, all the pieces just fall into place to produce an excellent design that works great as a tee.

Costiness=$22 Link (you might get 10% off your order with the code hideyourarms, I can’t remember)

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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 actually slightly different, this one has bullets on the front!

Costiness=$58 Link

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