From the monthly archives:

December 2007

242 Hubble Serie by Plus41

December 19, 2007

Plus41, who haven’t been on HYA for a long time, have put out a great range called “242 Hubble Serie”, that looks pretty damned incredible. I’ve got no idea what the quality of these pieces is, but I would like to think that the guys over at Plus41 have the ability to translate the beauty [...]

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Comrade M65 by Orisue @ Karmaloop

December 18, 2007

There’s been a call for coats/jackets in the past, and this one from Orisue is pretty freakin’ sweet. There’s an injection of military elements without getting that stereotypical ‘politics student that think they’re the next Che Guevara’ look. The little metal embellishments do kick this piece up a notch, just a little bit of flash [...]

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Dead End by Playmoo @ French Loser

December 18, 2007

French Loser are really impressing me at the moment, they’ve been putting out some great designs and Dead End by Nicolas Kossbu (aka Playmoo) is no exception. Its colourful, it has a retro feel to it without being annoyingly retro, its printed on American Apparel and if my weak French is accurate, there’s only going [...]

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Fern hoodie by Miss Mosh @ Etsy

December 18, 2007

Like ferns? Like elbow patches? Really, you like elbow patches? Then have I got the hoodie for you… if you’re a girl. Yeah, elbow patches, I know, who does them anymore, eh? I think they look pretty cool with the blue thread running around the edge matching the blue of the print, and its nice [...]

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 1: The Quiet Life… again!

December 18, 2007

As was mentioned earlier in todays Cotton Filter, a bit of a mix up on my end has meant that the first day of the giveaway has been extended by 24 hours, so thanks to those of you that got your e-mail in today, its a lot of fun seeing where you guys are from. [...]

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The Dark Side of the Fours by Sneaktip @ Karmaloop

December 18, 2007

Black on black, doesn’t really get much darker than that does it? I’m not actually the biggest fan of Star Wars, I enjoyed the films (mostly), but I didn’t think that they were that good. Flame on! Oh, and its pretty hard to see in the photo, but there is black text under the Darth [...]

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MomiMomi x Josh Spear’s ‘Molotov Yuletide’

December 17, 2007

Josh Spear, the guy behind the uber design blog, joshspear.com, took time out from being jetset and collaborated on a tee with our friends over at MomiMomi, the non-subscription wing of the HYA reviewed Momi Momi TEeA Party. The result is the somewhat festive ‘Molotov Yuletide’, but thankfully its not so festive that it will [...]

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Cotton Filter: 171207 (the hurry up editition!)

December 17, 2007

And when I say hurry up that’s because if you’re buying things to put under brightly-lit highly flammable trees then you’re gonna have to move pretty quick unless you want to be a chump and pay for fast delivery later in the week. HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaways: Because of an error on my part [...]

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Torteau Suisse by LaFraise

December 17, 2007

So, are the Americans that make up the vast majority of the readership of this blog getting a little sick of me continually posting the excellent tees that LaFraise are offering in Europe whilst their US store remains pretty static in terms of its content? Yeah, well, lets just consider this a bit of payback [...]

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HYA x Mauve Christmas Giveaway! Day 1: The Quiet Life

December 17, 2007

HYA has teamed up with Mauve, the streetwear retailer that you should all know a lot more about, to give away a tee every day this week from their impressive range of brands. As you may well have guessed, we’re kicking things off with a brand that have been written about on HYA since the [...]

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Review: Lightning & Safety Pins by Your Eyes Lie

December 14, 2007

Usually, I like to kick off reviews with a little story or memory, just because I like to personalise these things a bit. Unfortunately, I have no stories about safety pins, and any story about lightning would probably be pretty terrible without any pics attached, so I guess I’m going to put on my rarely [...]

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Sharp by Print Brigade

December 14, 2007

Another design from my current brand-crush, Print Brigade, because, well, just look at it! Oh, and get 10% off at the checkout with the coupon code HOLIDAY until Christmas Day. Costiness=$16 Link

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Three Finger of Scotch by Kindred

December 14, 2007

Let it be said, the guys over at Kindred have absolutely no fear when it comes to making bizarre designs and pairing them with equally odd descriptions: When bartering with a cannibal it is important to note that they take things very literally especially when it comes to payment. Godfrey learned this lesson the hard [...]

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Sweet Dreams by I See France

December 13, 2007

Well, this isn’t going to be at all awkward. Me, a young guy who doesn’t have a girlfriend looking at an underwear site, and thinking that he should tell women what underwear to buy… But! I See France aren’t exactly Agent Provocateur, they sell ‘cute underthings’, and I wouldn’t feel like I should stand outside [...]

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Clouds by Print Brigade

December 13, 2007

I don’t know why, but I’ve been sitting on posting Print Brigade for a few months after finding them on Flickr, saving them for a rainy day of designs perhaps. In retrospect, that’s pretty stupid, they’ve got amazing designs and I should have posted them as soon as I found out about them. Anyway, I [...]

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French People by Swampfactory @ LaFraise

December 13, 2007

I don’t think I would have dared to wear this on either of my past two trips to France, since they seemed to be frustrated enough by my inability to speak fluent French (ever tried ordering a mosquito blind when apparently you don’t know what either word is?) without me wearing a tee with every [...]

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Review: el barcelona by inVIAGGIO

December 12, 2007

Barcelona is probably one of my most visited (contintental) European cities, I think I’ve been there about five times, yet I’ve never actually spent a night in the city (the nightlife is amazing, apparently), its always been day trips from other holiday resorts, or stopping off on a cruise. I think I’ve seen pretty much [...]

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Happy Birthday Waterloo!

December 12, 2007

Our friends over at Waterloo are celebrating their first birthday, and instead of receiving presents like the rest of us do, they’re actually giving them out in the form of a coupon code. If you want 10% off their fine designs, which are increasingly branching out beyond their previous realm of movie and music ‘re-imaginations’, [...]

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Vampire Teeth by Glarkware

December 12, 2007

Hurray, here comes another hoodie that has meaning behind it! In their blurb, Glarkware have three decent sized paragraphs, at least in terms of product description, going on (and on) about how people get boxed into… boxes, people deciding who they are, judging books from their covers, that kind of thing. The last sentence in [...]

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Just Another Pointless Skull Shirt by KeinGeschenk

December 12, 2007

Its not often that I’ll look at a tee and lol, and its even less often that I’ll actually write ‘lol’, so the Germans at KeinGeschenk really achieved something with this design, bravo! I think that skulls might be on the way out a bit in terms of tee designs, obviously they’ll always be a [...]

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