I can tick off another aspect of my t-shirt collection, no one had ever sent me a t-shirt with glow in the dark ink on it, so when I was offered another review sample from the gang over at Vintage Vantage I thought I’d indulge my love of clothing that glows and lights up by asking for to send over their design with glow in the dark ink on it, which is appropriately called ‘Glow in the Dark.’

I wore this last Saturday night, and I got at least four comments from the people I was out with (all girls - that’s how I roll!) asking whether it actually glowed in the dark. I assured them it did, but that we’d need to go somewhere pitch black for them to be able to see it properly, needless to say, my ladies can’t be tricked by such lines and I went home alone that evening!

It does glow in the dark though, as the .gif below attests, but the effect isn’t that dramatic, as is often the case with glow in the dark clothing, you actually do need to be in near-complete darkness for the effect to be good and clear. I had thought that it might be quite funny if a t-shirt that has “glow in the dark” written on it didn’t actually glow in the dark, just because of the way that the tee would set you up for something that may or may not exist.

Vintage Vantage have a pretty decent knack for creating a a tee which feels as if it might be many years old, that is to say, they do achieve their aims in attempting to create a tee with a vintage look and feel. The cut of their tees is good too, at a guess I’d say that they’re about as wide as an American Apparel tee, but maybe an inch to an inch and a half shorter, which is a better fit for me personally as I sometimes find that AA tees can run a little bit long. The print quality feels great, I can’t really tell the difference between a regular print from Vintage Vantage and this glow in the dark ink, but since I’ve never had a glowing tee before I don’t know if there should actually be a difference, either way, it feels good.

Costiness=$22.50 Buy it from Vintage Vantage

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Tags » black • glow • glow in the dark • grey • review • Reviews • special ink • t-shirt • T-shirts • Vintage Vantage

How on Earth did I not know that there is a store out there that only sells hoodies? I’m Andy the hoodie guy, I know I’m not the only person that writes about hoodies anymore, but still, I’d like to think that I keep on top of these things.

Anywho, Hoodie People don’t have a massive range yet, but what they’ve got is pretty cool and they seem to be keeping prices fairly low too, so check ‘em out.

Costiness=$39.86 Buy it at Hoodie People *Apparently this item is coming up as being $79 for some people, but you can get 10% off with the coupon code grandopening2008 which should ease the pain somewhat.

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Tags » green • hoodie • hoodie people • Hoodies • jedidiah • khaki • Mens • military

Our friends over at Black Sea dropped me a line to say that they’ve dropped a few new tees, and that they’ve got a fun new photoshoot to go with it, which is why the gallery above is a bit bigger than usual. On the subject of galleries, I accidently turned off the wrong plugin in Wordpress a few days ago, which is why you wouldn’t be getting any lightbox effects when you clicked on an image, but that’s been fixed now, apologies for any inconvenience.

Black Sea Apparel

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Tags » autumn • black sea apparel • fall • new line • T-shirts • winter

I think I’ve finally found a tee that even I am willing to destroy my own personal beliefs for and use leet speak to say that this design of a pigeon in full Mr. T garb made me LOL, and even LOLL (laugh out loud, literally).

Costiness=$35 Buy it at the Trademark General Store [Rumplo Rocks]

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Tags » A Team • funny • grey • Mr. T • photo • pigeon • T-shirts

When I saw the subject on the e-mail I got about this sale I thought to myself “when did Beautiful/Decay start selling clothes by XLarge?” But I guess I must have had streetwear on the brain, because it turns out that the sale is for tees that are size XL… which works out nicely for those of us in the “what the hell, I’ll have another cookie” crowd…

Beautiful/Decay

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Tags » beautiful decay • beautiful/decay • sale • sales • T-shirts • XL

What do we have here? Oh, its another awesome tee from the Go Ape crew, and this time the artistic reigns have been handed over to Tofer Moran. Here’s the full details from Go Ape Josh:

“Natural Order of Things” by Tofer Moran is now up for sale! It’s printed on a poly-cotton 50/50 blend shirt, rather than the usual 100% cotton. It is SUPER soft, and the print turned out incredible. Also, as promised, Boo Boo Walker hoodies are back. This time, I have sizes XS-XXL. I would recommend ordering a larger size, as these do tend to run a bit small. I don’t have many, so be sure to pick one up soon if you want one.

Damn right Boo Boo Walker is back in stock, I can’t expect that situation will last long though.

Go Ape Shirts

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Tags » boo boo walker • go ape shirts • Hoodies • ilustration • pink • star wars • T-shirts • tofer moran

Wowzers, I know which state I’m going to be skipping when I tour the US at the end of my internship in Philadelphia!

And no, I don’t know where you can buy it. [via BoingBoing]

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Tags » Denver • DNC • police • political

TonyMech, someone who clearly shares the same typographical leanings as HYA does, has released his very first tee design, and its some kind of a weird human-mechanoid hybrid. Or maybe its a woman falling in love with a robot, I dunno, looks cool though.

Costiness=$20 Buy it from TonyMech

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Tags » Mens • robots • T-shirts • tonymech • white • Womens