I think that the thing that drew most people to itself. was the fantastic glove pocket tee, and designers were probably drawn in by the possibility of a $4000 cash prize for submitting a winning design, but if you took a closer look at itself. then you would have found a very promising site with some excellent designs.

Initially, itself.’s tee designs were fairly subdued affairs, single colour designs printed onto white tees. Recently though, their design competition has resulted in a couple of rather more colourful winners, but I still think that their first wave of offerings has a lot of charm about them, and ‘more tape?’ is no exception. It’s simple, it’s fun, and I have absolutely no idea what it means, if its meant to mean anything, and as I’ve mentioned in the past, that’s how I like it. The original version had stripes running down to the hem, but I think it looks a lot cleaner and executes the concept better with a few less stripes.

itself. don’t rely on a third party such as American Apparel or Continental Clothing to produce their tees, they use a custom shirt that they’re really proud of and with pretty good reason too. If you click through on that last link, you’ll see why they like their tees so much, a wide and loose neck, thin ribbing on the neck, as printed tag rather than a hang tag that might be slightly irritating. These things all show that they’ve looked at what they would like to wear, and then seen that vision through. I’m sure they also used to claim that they dipped all the tees in a special wash of love and joy (or something along those lines), but I can’t see it on the site now. The tee is indeed very soft, and the fit is really nice, ever so slightly shorter and ever so slightly thinner in the body than an AA tee (at leas that’s how it felt, I haven’t checked the figures). I’m not in love with the neck though, wide necks aren’t really my style, they make me feel like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but it isn’t exactly so big that it would put me off from buying the tee. In terms of the print, I was worried that it wrapping around under the arms would make it feel a bit constricting, but thankfully that isn’t the case with the water-based ink print.

Costiness=$21 Buy the Mens Version/Womens Version

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What was Kermit the Frog before he was famous? Cynics would probably say that he was a pile of fabric, plastic and possibly wood, or whatever it is that you use to make a puppet. I prefer to live in a ridiculous world of make believe where I’m famous, spinach is poison (if you get the reference then bravo), and there actually are talking frogs which horny pigs are attracted to.

Costiness=$19.95 Buy it here

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Bravo to Karl for posting/finding this tee, of a mascot that didn’t make the cut for Beijing 2008, though I do probably find it funnier because it immediately reminded me of the South Park episode with the Sexual Harassment Panda in it, a clip of which I’ve embedded below.

Costiness=$28 Buy the tee here

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I’ve had this design from Tee and Toast bookmarked for quite a while since I thought it was cute and funny, but since there has been a big furore recently over claims that Mr.T is homophobic (as if he was the one that wrote the script for a Snickers advert), I thought that he needed a bit of positive attention. This tee is clearly stating that Mr.T is concerned about people not drinking tea when it is potentially beneficial to your health. Thanks Mr. T!

Costiness=£20 (free UK & ROI shipping) Buy it here at Tee and Toast

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I don’t know if you guys can quite make it out because the picture has been scaled-down a bit to fit it in the column, but this is a really clever tee. Obviously you can tell that it says “everything is fine”, but can you tell that those words are made up of lots of things that should scare us and will most likely bring about your untimely death (such as stuck zippers, avalanches, and runaway elephants)?

In case you’re unaware, Wondermark is a popular webcomic written by David Maliki ! (he writes his name with an exclamation point after it) that uses illustrations from 19th century books and is pretty dang funny. This particular tee was loosely inspired by this comic.

Costiness=$18 Tee link (on preorder, shipping around August 20th)

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Remember that t-shirt that had a glove stitched onto it? Yeah, that was fun, wasn’t it? Turns out that itself, the company behind the infamous Glove Pocket tee, aren’t just a one-hit wonder, they’ve got more tees that don’t suck, and I handily put pictures of them into the gallery. The black tee is called ‘Never take Candy from a Strange Thing‘, this seven-colour pastel print is yet another great design from Wotto, and marks a departure from itself’s previous minimalist style. ‘More tape‘ is far more in keeping with what I’d expect from these guys, a black and white colourway that’s also kinda funny.

Both of these designs are winners of the Itself design competition. The prize package for winners is pretty substantial, you get $1750 in cash and $250 in ‘itself-coins’ (…store credit), and if your tee is popular and sells out its initial run you’ll get the same again for the second print run of 3000 tees.

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I remember seeing this t-shirt a couple of years ago when it was the full-blooded, swearing like a sailor version, but I didn’t post it since back then I didn’t want to swear on the blog (and I still don’t), so happily Reason clothing have released a version that is totally inoffensive because no one will possibly be able to work out what letters #%^ are meant to represent.

Costiness=$35 Tee link

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It really feels as if I’m just writing about sales at the moment, but for some reason the t-shirt world seems to have gotten sick of looking at their stock this week, so I feel compelled to post the news if it means you guys can pick up a bargain for summer. Here’s the over-excited blurb:

We are making some serious room in the Random Warehouse for bigger and better things! We need to get these items gone quick, so we’re giving you up to 40% off on ALL Girly Tees, 50% off on ALL Winter Wear, and up to 40% off on a LARGE selection of Regular Tees! When we say LARGE selection of Regular Tees, we mean a HUUUUUGE selection! Don’t be selfish, help us get these shirts gone by telling all your friends, they deserve great shirts at amazing prices too!!

On top of our MASSIVE clearance sale, our regular shirts are still 20% off for a few more days! Don’t miss this opportunity to really score some GREAT shirts at INCREDIBLE prices!

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Oh Glennz, will you ever stop making tees that make me COL (chuckle out loud)?

Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • asphalt • evolution • funny • glennz • gray • grey • lego • Mens • T-shirts • Womens

Ronald McDonald + Pizza = Ha!

Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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