by Andy on December 14, 2008
I have no idea where you need to go to buy vintage t-shirts, it simply isn’t my area of expertise, and I wouldn’t want to tell you to go to ‘noreallythesearevintageteeswehaven’tprintedoffsomeiron-onsandstuckthemontoburnouttees.com’ when I woudn’t be able to guarantee the authenticity of the tees or whether you were getting ripped off.
Luckily for me, and even more luckily for you, the Defunkd crew are very experienced with vintage tees, seeing as they used to sell them, and now blog about them. They’ve written up a guide of 20 great places to buy genuine vintage t-shirts on eBay which you’ll probably want to check out if you’re in to mood for buying old clothes.
by Andy on December 14, 2008
Blinked By Emme Tessori positively encourage you to get up close and personal with your friends (don’t go rubbing the chest of random strangers). It’s a range of clothing with braille messages cut into the fabric, which is a pretty cool idea, and I like the way that the messages aren’t related to blind issues either, instead focusing on the current credit crisis (turning a blind eye to money issues? Clever stuff). Too often clothing lines like this feel the need to force a message on you or have a mission, and from what I can tell that isn’t the intention of Blinked.
The items aren’t particularly cheap, but they can all be customised to your heart’s content. Ordering is done via e-mail at the moment.
by Andy on December 14, 2008
I’ll admit it, I had to robo-translate ‘from’ in the title, and it spat out ‘à partir de’, which is probably an absolute butchery of the French language, but I can’t remember how to say ‘from’, if I ever learned it at all.
Anywho, I may have a number of shortcomings when it comes to learning French, but I don’t think that French Loser have done much wrong with these tees, and they can proudly be associated with the oft-unused tag of logoteesthatdontsuck. To be fair, the tee above with the robot on it (mmmm, feels good to have a robot tee on Hide Your Arms again) isn’t strictly speaking a logo tee, but for some reason they’ve felt the need to add their name to the design, which isn’t particularly necessary, but it doesn’t detract too much from the overall look.
French Loser’s holiday gift to us all is free shipping until the end of the month.
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by Andy on December 14, 2008
[Well, what picture would you put with a post about articles?]
I’ve come across a couple of articles in the past few days that concern t-shirts which might make some good weekend reading for you.
First up is a Wired article by Clive Thompson called “How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free” which discusses how big websites can’t sell their content (such as articles, comic strips, and online video), so they sell t-shirts instead. It doesn’t really break too much new ground for us seasoned tee people, but it is pretty interesting and has a lot of interesting facts and figures.
The next article is probably going to be of a lot more interest to those of you that sell tees than those of you that buy tees, as it concerns how one new tee company used YouTube to sell 60 tees on their launch night. In a nutshell, I think that the plan is:
1. Give tees to YouTube Celebrities
2. Get them to post a video wearing the t-shirt
3. People see the tee and buy it
4. Profit!
That’s probably too simple of a way of looking at it, the article goes into a bit more detail, but it isn’t War & Peace so don’t feel too daunted about committing yourself to a long article.
