Now that’s a long title!
I know that I’m showing you this hoodie with the ‘sketch’ side showing, but I actually prefer it with the black side showing and the sketch providing a nice bit of contrast on the hood lining, but I figured that it would look a bit boring in the picture, and the allover sketch print is really cool. It is a bit of a pity that the print is a pattern, I think this piece might have benefitted from being different all over and not having any repeating characters, it certainly would have been more interesting.
Details and inside-out in the gallery.
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You know what has been an unusual design meme this year? Mustaches, what’s the deal with them? They’re everywhere at the moment. We all know that I look
stupid with a mustache (although I don’t think I’ve smiled so much at my own appearance in a long time), but I think that more people can get away with a beard, especially at a time of the year when you’d rather look like a hobo than be cold.
This tee has lots of famous beards from history on it, though has the notable absence of Renate Blauel (ahhh, a reference so obscure that Seth MacFarlane would be proud). It’s a fun tee, and the addition of a beard names key near the hem is pretty cool, but I can’t help but feel that the print should be bigger.
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I just realised that after telling you I would do it, I never posted the pictures of
Chateau Roux‘s fantastic packaging that their tees come in. As you’ll be able to tell from the pictures, getting a tee is a pretty special experience. The whole package comes in a large grey bag (not pictured, due to it’s normalness), then inside that there was a large paper bag like the ones that they have in their London store (these bags are due to be replaced by plastic bags for online orders, but instore will keep the paper bags).
Inside that was the cardboard box, much like a shoe box, but rather flatter, which had been branded up and looked really good. I pulled the box top off the box and found… more packaging! The tees had been wrapped up in some logo-branded tissue paper, which gave the tees the feeling of being treated like a dress shirt.
I guess that all this packaging is something of an ecologists nightmare, and I’d have to agree with you to a certain extent, but as the packaging is so nice, I haven’t thrown any of it away yet. The box will be re-used for storing HYA related documents, and whilst I don’t know what I’ll do with that lovely bag, but I’m sure I’ll find something to do with it.
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Now
that is a tee. Hot damn it’s cool. Hell, its so good that I might even wear it twice in a week!
As you may imagine, the above tee is my highlight for this round of releases, but the others don’t suck either, and you can find them all in the gallery… or you could just go through to the actual store at Art in the Age.
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In the same way that I liked
Found Item Clothing for making tees that went a level beyond “here’s the logo from a movie I like” to producing tees that ‘get’ the kind of people that like those movies, I like new tee upstart
I’m A Hot Tee for making this tee for exactly the same reasons. The graphic and text doesn’t give too much away, I know that
Back To The Future and the hoverboard are incredibly famous, but I’ve still got to give them props for not taking the easy way out.
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