2009 January 27

sdc10933 large 480x360 Liberty by Akomplice Clothing [Review]

As this review is auto-posted to Hide Your Arms (almost everything you read on here isn’t written on the same day as it is posted), I ~~will be~~am sat on the train down to London to have the final interview at the American Embassy, hopefully resulting in me receiving a visa meaning I can finally fly to America to begin my internship, so I thought it would be appropriate to review a t-shirt that features that most American of icons, the Statue of Liberty.

sdc10935 large 480x360 Liberty by Akomplice Clothing [Review]

Obviously, this isn’t your Grandma’s Statue of Liberty (I’ve always wanted to use that phrase), it is a Statue of Liberty that I’m sure some elements of America would agree more accurately represents the country that they live in today, even if change came to America just last week. Perhaps in time Lady Liberty will be able to swap her gun for the ice cream that she usually holds aloft.

On the back-right should of the tee there is some text (check out the gallery for close-ups) about how everyone in America is a ‘gangsta’ and that Liberty comes by the way of the gun. I don’t really think that it’s too necessary to the tee, for me, it just re-emphasizes the message when it’s already pretty clear what is going on.

sdc10938 large 480x360 Liberty by Akomplice Clothing [Review]

If we were to chat quality, I’d have to give this tee a thumbs up. The tee feels lovely and soft, and whilst I think that the printing method is just regular old plastisol, it doesn’t feel too heavy despite being a pretty big print. Since Akomplice are a streetwear company, their sizes do run a fair bit larger than most of the companies that usually get reviewed here on HYA, I don’t think they’re massive though, the tee is probably a regular size and I’ve just become too used to wearing slim sized American Apparel tees, so I’d only recommend ordering a size down if you want a tight tee.

There is a little tag on the sleeve with Akomplice’s stylized logo on it. I quite like the way the white tag contrasts with the black of the tee, but you may hate it, in which case it shouldn’t be too hard to cut it off or pull out the stitching. There’s also a custom Akomplice hang tag in the tee, which looks rather nice.

Costiness=$24.99 Buy Liberty at Akomplice Clothing

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Threadless : They’ve got a quick 3-day sale (more like 2.5 days sale at the time of posting) going on to celebrate getting 5,000 new people to become fans of their on Facebook, a page which currently has 28,000 fans. On Wednesday they’re going to be giving 5 lucky fans a year-long membership to the 12 month club, I’d encourage you to become a fan just to be eligible for that, but as your odds are likely to be less than 6,000 to 1 there isn’t much point getting your hopes up. The sale has knocked $3 off hundreds of the tees.

LaFraise : Buy two tees and get 50% off with the coupon code VALENTIN (note the lack of an ‘E’) between now and 12:00 (CET, presumably) on February 9th. LaFraise have also released a kinda depressing valentines tee.

krudmart: Continuing their comeback trail, get 30% off at Krudmart by using the coupon code coldsnap. No word on when this code will stop being valid, and they’re keeping the “spend more than $50, get free priority shipping” offer going too.

Burp! Boutique: They’ve knocked 50% off all thier Rimo-To and Stunt Double tees, as well as some jewelry by LadyLuckRulesOK.

If you own a store and want to get the word out about your sale feel free to mention it in the comments, but get too spammy and I might delete the comment, you have been warned!

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