From the category archives:
Frogfacedsouply would probably want me to point out that they don’t actually want you to kill celebrities, they’re just sick of celebrity culture and magazines being obsessed with the minutiae of famous people’s lives, especially those who are famous for being famous. Nice Bowie Aladdin Sane parody too!
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Liechtenstein, Mondran, and the inimitable Marilyn Monroe, this is a really nice bunch of tees from Johnny Cupcakes. There’s actually a pretty cool story behind the Marilyn Monroe collaboration too, as this one is sanctioned and is similar to a shirt Johnny made years ago that Marilyn’s people weren’t made aware of back when JC would sail close to the wind in terms of what he could get away with regarding copyright.
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Welcome to Notorietees, a new column here at Hide Your Arms that will chronicle “problem” shirts that fall a bit further afield from the general programming you’ve grown accustomed to. Tees in the news, tees making waves, tees raising hackles, tees giving pause, tees with an edge — all are fodder for discussion (and snarky commentary).
Our first controversy conteeversy (groan…) wrestles with the sticky nature of identity and authenticity. NYC & Company, “the official marketing, tourism and partnership organization for the City of New York,” has partnered with Aéropostale on a product range that celebrates city agencies such as the NYPD (sample embedded below).
Home is where the art is.
The program’s goal are moderately laudable; a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the T-shirt collection “will benefit the New York City Police Foundation and the FDNY Foundation,” but as critics have noted there’s one glaring problem: the tees are manufactured and screened in, gasp, Central America. Embarrassing… [Link]
Embedded below is a bootlegged design of noted curmudgeon Jim Leyland puffing on a cancer stick. Leyland, the manager of the Detroit Tigers (American hardball), has been reported to sneak a cig in the dugout between innings, much to the dismay of Major League Baseball and its image conscious handlers. [Link]
Drag Bunt
UK-retailer Topman posted a pair of dodgy slogans last month only to later remove them in the wake of a wicked (if predictable) backlash. [Link]
Doggone
Glimpsed on a television broadcast earlier this month at a Toronto Blue Jays game: a pair of enthusiastic fans and their randy puns that riff on baseball verbiage (and proposition the team’s studly catcher, J.P. Arencibia). [Link]
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You may be aware that there was a film made last year about Bullying in U.S. schools that has been released recently (to a bit of a furore about it receiving an R rating, effectively stopping the people it’s about from seeing it, which was later changed to PG-13 after a few edits). As yo would imagine there is also a campaign around the film to help raise awareness for bullying, the impact it can have on people’s live and to try and stop kids from being horrible to each other.
Kate Upton has provided her (very pretty) face to front the campaign and has also produced a PSA about bullying which you can see above. Why is this on HYA? Because I thought it would be good to mention a serious issue for a change, and because every other site seems to get to write about celebrities so why shouldn’t I?
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The retro recreationists at Found Item Clothing have posted a new design (their first of 2012), Sock It To Me, and this one pulls no punches (groan…).
''The things you own end up owning you..''
Compare with the original, as worn by Brad Pitt in Fight Club.
''I want you to hit me as hard as you can…''
Found Item’s previous efforts have drawn accolades for fidelity to the source material, and in keeping with said ethos, they’ve printed SITM on both tees (American Apparel blanks) and custom made short-sleeve sweatshirts (which stays true to the garment in the movie).
Costiness = $22 (tee) | $37 (sssw)
In related news, Found Item’s blog, It Goes To 11, has a pair of new reads that will interest tee lovers: the first, 15 T-Shirts From Vietnam, is an assemblage of designs collected from abroad that traffics in both the curious and the cliche; the second is an interview with Jeremy Henrickson, a Vancouver-based graphic artist with a number of excellent movie and game-themed designs to his credit.
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At least we can say this Thundercats t-shirt at TeeFury is cute, whether I’d want to wear it…
Very nice from Shirt.Woot. I had a friend that uttered this phrase once, we still mock him for it to this day (in that way groups of guys never forget anything embarrassing about each other.
Metroid meets Boba Fett at RIPT today and it looks mighty nice.
Five famous weapons at Qwertee.
Kong Barrel Co. makes an appearance at Shirt Punch.
I’m just going to presume that this design at TeeRaiders is to do with The Last Airbender (the film with no ending IIRC), and you can tell me I’m wrong in the comments.
Pretty nice from DBH today (oh, and get 25% off with the coupon code DBHSTAFF).
America is ready for Change at BustedTees.
Made in the Now point out that Disneyland Paris is in almost €2 billion of debt as it celebrates it’s 20th birthday.
Fibertopic react to the $1 billion sale of Instagram to Facebook.
Tee Busters have a shirt mashup of the two most famous Dexter’s on TV.
Among Villains have put all their shirts on sale for $15 this month.
WeLoveFine.com are running an Invader Zim design contest with a cash prize of up to $2,500.
Terratag‘s lucky dip mystery bags won’t be available forever.
Justin Bieber wore what looks like quite a cool t-shirt, from the side at least.
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