If you read Hide Your Arms you probably know who Coty Gonzales is. If not, he’s another tee blogger, a good one, who has been writing about shirts (and more) for the past couple of years, and is quite a lot more comfortable in videos than I am. I think I’ve mentioned in the past that I’dlike to get into doing more interviews on HYA, and I thought that Coty would be interesting since us tee bloggers are usually pretty sociable but people don’t really know much about us because you don’t really need much of a backstory to be a tee blogger, you just have to like t-shirts. I can’t lie, this isn’t a short interview, it’s 13 questions, but I get bored of reading the same questions and answers on other blogs, so I’ve tried to change things up a bit so I asked Coty questions that focused on him and what he does rather than general questions I could ask to anyone in the street. Coty is a damn good blogger, so if you’re a tee blogger wondering why you aren’t getting the traffic you want I suggest that you give this a read and learn from it.
Spicy Brown lots of ridiculously cute clothes, but they’re cute in a way that a guy could still wear them, and they’re very foodie friendly too. They’ve got a new website and a few new tees, but apparently they need to make some room, because there’s a storewide 20% off sale going on at the moment until March 23rd.
20% is pretty sweet, if you turn your nose up at that you’re a moron and deserve a slap in the face (not really, I could never do that to you), but I’m sure that you’d enjoy another 10% off, right? Well, because HYA is a behemoth of the t-shirt blogging world, if you input the coupon code Spring HYA at the checkout you will receive that extra 10%.
People never seem to get excited about free shipping offers.* I’ts understandable because it’s just shipping, but think about it, free shipping is actually a good discount, and shipping price can often be 10-20% of your total order cost, so it’s a damn good saving. Concrete Hermit are running free shipping on orders over £30 until the end of the month, and unusually this offer is extended to everyone in the entire world. These offers tend to be domestic, so if you’re a non-Brit that is pro-CH, this is a good time to make a purchase.
* How involved am I with the indie clothing world that I’m annoyed people don’t get excited by free shipping offers?
Threadless announced the winners of their annual Bestee competition yesterday, and this design by Emmy Cicierega won the top prize, getting $20,000 in the process. Threadless, being those wiley PR scamps that they are decided to tell Emmy about this over Skype, and her reaction is pretty adorable, it’s really nice to share the moment with her and see how happy she is to win the top prize. If you were wondering, I’m pretty sure I’d have been dancing in one form or another by the end of the vid had I been the winner.
There has been a bit of a brew-ha-ha about her winning. From what I can tell the Bestee competition turned into a popularity contest rather than what was actually the best design of the year, when you’re running something on the internet that involves voting it almost always turns into a popularity contest rather than an unbiased look at the competition entrants, so it sounds like Emmy was just better at marketing herself than the other people in the running.
It’s a nice enough tee but not particularly to my tastes, possibly because we have curtains in our bathroom that bear a passing resemblance to the design.
Usually I’m a bit dubious of tees that have print extending all the way up to the arms like this one does because they’re so hard to print well, but I think it works really well in this instance, possibly because waves are always a bit crazy and unstoppable, so it makes sense to have [...]
There is a definite amount of self-indulgence with this post, Emily Booth isn’t all that famous (especially to non-Brits) as she unfortunately fell off the screens of mainstream channels in the UK several years ago, though she seems to have become a culkt figure in the UK horror scene, but I do remember having quite [...]
HYA x Eraser Tees Competition: Tee Stacking from Andrew Bowness on Vimeo.
That was a pretty fun video to make, and this time around instead of it taking 52 takes, I got it on the first try. Well, obvious I was only going to do the stacking once, but I got done the intro first time.
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I don’t find this tee particularly stunning, but it is just a really lovely, pretty print that I’m sure I would enjoy wearing. For those of you reading this post on the front page, check out the gallery to see the rest of this week’s releases at Threadless, it’s a strong week for them.
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Boom, that’s a sensationalist headline!
Yes, sensationalist, but there are more than a few grains of truth to it. Tee Lotto, which I think might be an offshoot of recent daily tee upstart (and advertiser on HYA) 5quidink are going to sell up to 33,333 t-shirts for $12 including shipping, $15 for us shifty looking foreign [...]
