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Hackney Pirates to be precise. Like Cedya. Who is 10 and from London. Her T-shirt is about being attacked by fire dragons and flying cars.
And her design is just one in a range of sixteen beautiful T-shirts produced by the Hackney Pirates, an innovative learning project that develops literacy by giving children one to one attention in an unconventional learning environment.
At the heart of the project lies the idea that learning should be an adventure and a belief in the power of one-to-one attention as a hugely powerful educational tool.
The pirates ‘Young Pirate Apprentice’ t- shirt project has seen children aged 9-12 work together with creative professionals not just on the design of t-shirts but on market research and planning and developing the entire sales and marketing strategy.
To get your hands on your very own pirate T, check out our full range at
www.hackneypirates.org.uk/tshirts
Andy: Very cool idea, it’s posts like this that make me glad I have the submissions setup here on HYA.
This post was submitted by Julia Citron.
by Andy on April 25, 2012
I would be lying if I said that the shirts at Purpleberry Blue were of my typical style, but that’s okay, partly because I don’t have to like everything, and partly because they only sell shirts for women and children. 10% of every shirt sold on Purpleberry Blue goes to help Crohn’s disease research, and that’s not just some charity that they’re picked out of the air, it means something. Will, the guy that started PB, suffered from Crohn’s disease from the age of 12 to 19, I don’t know how old he is now but I get the feeling that he is one of the fortunate one’s who have been able to get over the disease, and because he feels lucky to have his health back he wants to help others. I respect that a lot and wish him the best of luck.
Costiness=$20 Buy it at Purpleberry Blue
by DeeHYA on April 3, 2012
So I contacted an awesome tee company and Etsy and suggested doing a Hide Your Arms blog for them, I was attracted to them because of their awesome Star Wars designs and general feel of their Etsy store. Quite a lot of their tees have a bit of a Banksy feel which I know is something that people will love or hate. They don’t just do Star Wars tees either they also have a pretty awesome Owl design, a Panda, Alien attack, Zombie Mickey Mouse but generally they are all about the Star Wars.
Like I said I was there for the Star Wars designs, my personal favourite of the designs is the one I am wearing above which is called Vader’s First Crew which shows Darth with all his Stormtroopers in Sailor Outfits. It’s printed on a lovely super high quality American Apparel tee and this particular design is printed on Creme, which i think totally works because of the design.
They have an awesome AT-AT Pet one which is available in all sorts of colours, a Darth on a bike which they also prints onto a super sexy tank. I am also enjoying the genius (both the title and design) of the Smarttrooper tee!
They have a mixtures of sizes, colours and styles so if I haven’t linked you up to the one you want you should browse the store further, I think it’s well worth it. Also the fella in charge seems so nice I’m sure if you couldn’t see what you wanted he would help you out. They also do Kids and Baby sizes too, and I know how hard it can be to get awesome, original geek clothes for little ones.
I love my tees fit, colour and it washes spectacularly. If I have any spare pennies I plan to invest in their Darth Vader is Riding It tank because it looks super sexy. I highly recommend Engram Clothing and think you should all fave them on Etsy and buy their gear!
by DeeHYA on March 26, 2012
Not too many newbie tees this week, Threadless are probably recovering from the epic sale action last week! Hope you all managed to bag yourself some wonderful bargains from the sale.
First tee I am going to blog is this lovely combo of navy and gold with quite a peaceful vision of a cityscape at night, this isn’t the type of tee that I would buy for myself but I really love the colour combo of The Hanging City by Tang Yau Hoong, its one of the newbie tees which is definitely worth a look.
I’m not a fan of skull tees on Threadless, I have blogged this many a time before! I just think going on to Threadless and doing a design that looks like a zillion on the high street is quite lazy. As I am also a fan of colour DOOMBOX by Brian Walline must of got plenty of votes from some folks!
Another monotone tee this week! I am all down for a bit of sci fi in tees but I think the little fella in this tee design looks a little bit phallic. Cosmic Wormhole by Jorge Lopez is a design that makes me smile but I am not entirely sure why!
The following design is the one I love this most this week, only being made in girly fit and kids, it’s sad that it’s only in pink for the kids because I think it looks so much better than the baby blue. The Red Deer by Dan Elijah Fajardo is a stunningly adorable design, looks like a gorgeous illustration from a child’s book.
Lastly for this blog, I find the idea of a monocle wearing, tea drinking Mr T highly amusing and this concept has been squeezed onto this Threadless tee design. This design simply called Gentleman T by Sean Anton is appropriate for the A-Team Fan in your life!
by Andy on February 3, 2012
As usual, this post comes with the usual explanation that I don’t spend that much time with kids (more now than before, admittedly), so I could be off base when I talk about clothing for kids. That said, when I look at the designs for ShirtsThatGo all I can think is that when I was that age I’d have really liked this shirts because some of them have trucks on them and trucks were/are awesome. I presume that’s still the case for young boys now (I think we’re hard-wired to believe that tractors are cool), so I think ShirtsThatGo may well have a fine future ahead of them.
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Little Creeps was started in September 2011 as a way to introduce youngsters (from infants & toddlers to preteens) to the wonderful world of horror with kid friendly & age appropriate designs such as the Zombie Kid & Wolf Boy on fashionable, high quality apparel at affordable prices. Why? Because I believe that kids should be able to wear apparel that reflect their interests and Little Creeps is dedicated to ensuring young horror fans have the attire to express their love for Monsters, Zombies and everything Halloween.
Andy: Kind of funny that they call it ‘ghoulish fun for everyone’ when they only make kids shirts, but I do like the idea of a the indie world colliding with the kid world to produce more HYA-friendly designs.
This post was submitted by Jesse Martin.
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