I know you’d never know if from looking at the archives, but Zero Boutique are actually a teensy bit responsible for HYA coming into existence. All the way back in 2003, I was hunting for some cool shirts on the internet when I found Zero Boutique, back then there were nowhere near as many t-shirt shops worth visiting on the internet, so they really stood out. I didn’t actually buy anything from them (yeah, that part does take some of the romance out of the story), but they did help to provide the spark for my love/obsession of finding cool t-shirts on the internet.

Anyway, I’m getting off point here, ZBQ are having an end of summer sale, meaning that all their tees tees are just $14.80 until September 2nd. As if that weren’t cheap enough, and considering they print onto American Apparel tees it probably is, ZBQ have hooked us up with a coupon code that will get you 10% off your order, which makes the sale tees an even more palatable $13.32 each. At the appropriate point in the purchasing process enter the code HIDEYERARMZ to be eligible for the discount. This code isn’t just valid for the duration of the sale, its valid for the duration of… forever, so if you don’t pick anything up during the sale, you’ll always be able to get 10% off their regular prices.

Zero Boutique

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Mainstream brand alert! Mainstream brand alert!

Have no fear, I’ll get back to posting about stuff that is printed by some dude in a poorly-ventilated garage, but sometimes I’ve just gotta post this stuff.

Natterjacks are selling two very limited edition Adidas tracksuits, the first is a black and red leather (yes, a leather tracksuit) number based upon the 80s original, which would be perfect for completing your Run DMC cosplay outfit if you’re happy to hand over £550 ($1010) for it. Up next, a track jacket that actually has stainless steel woven into the thread, which is fairly clever, but rather pointless and gaudy. In their product description Natterjacks say they they only have a couple of these so they’ll go quick, but I get the feeling that they might be hanging around for a while with a £400 pricetag, unless I have seriously underestimated the amount of disposable income that rappers in the UK have going spare for bling.

Since I wouldn’t want you to come away from this post thinking “that was fun, but why not point I out something I should buy Andy, you handsome devil?” I’ve found (ok, that’s a lie, I got sent an e-mail about them, blogging is so easy sometimes!) 3 tees from the Adidas Originals range that are about as retro as their track suits cousins, but you might actually want to wear them. All three are available from Urban Industry for £24.50, which is probably a bit pricey for our buddies in the States, but actually pretty good going for a UK shop.

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I think this sale has been going on for quite a long time, presumably since 08/08/08, but I kept forgetting to post it, so here ya go!

Monstar Clothing

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Tags » Bargains! • logoteesthatdontsuck • sale • T-shirts

Yes, this tee is by Art in the Age of Reproduction, and no, I haven’t made an error in the title, although I do think that if Art in the Age and No Age team up for a collaboration that that should have dropped the ‘the’ from the title. “Art in No Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” see? Much cleaner!

I’ve never actually heard of No Age, an experimental rock/pop punk/noisepop/powerpop/shoegaze (<-- whaa??!!)/what do genre labels even mean anymore... band from Los Angeles before I found out about this tee collaboration, but I think I stopped knowing what was cool in the music world a long time ago when I unsubscribed from Stereogum and decided that I quite liked ‘Girlfriend’ by Avril Lavigne.

The tee itself has a kinda grimy punk quality to it. At first I didn’t actually find it all that appealing, and as a tee on its own it hasn’t really grown on me, but I reckon that if it were being worn by someone with a bit of a rocker look that it would be pretty badass.

Costiness=$28 Men’s tee/Women’s Tee

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Tags » collaboration • music • no age • T-shirts • white

FFee Clothing have released eight new designs, shown above in the gallery, and redesigned their website, not shown above, but it does look really cool, they’ve got lots of hand-drawn text and illustrations mixed with photos, and… and… well, just go take a look yourself, its a treat for your eyes.

Their new packaging looks pretty gorgeous, so if you weren’t quite sure whether to make a purchase then that might be the tipping point for you.

FFee Clothing

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Tags » alternative apparel • ffee clothing • Mens • new website • packaging • releases • T-shirts • update • Womens

Allmightys are rapidly turning into my favourite European design competition, they’ve got the quality, the community, the artists, and I just get a generally good feeling about them. Their latest themed competition was based around patterns. As you can probably tell from the gallery above, the winners were a pretty diverse bunch, branching off from what I’d consider a pattern by a few degrees, but still creating clever designs that are undeniably patterns. My pick ‘o the bunch is actually the Gold Prize winner of the contest, Slum, a great colourway and beautifully illustrated, bravo, darruda!

Allmightys

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Tags » allmightys • darruda • design competition • europe • Mens • patterns • T-shirts • Womens

You’ll be seeing quite a lot more of Local Celebrity in the next few weeks, I arrived home one day to find quite a large box waiting for me that had 9 of their tees in it. To prevent you from getting Local Celebrity burnout I’m going to be spreading out the reviews over the next few weeks (interspersed with a few reviews for other brands) and I’ve had a few ideas for fun photoshoots too, which should keep things interesting. The first tee I’ve picked out of the big box has the logo of popular (though surprisingly short-lived) Japanese anime series Voltron on it. It’s amazing how many tees I wear that have really beautiful illustrations on them that get no notice from my friends, and then I wear a tee with an TV logo on it and all my friends go nuts. I guess that’s the power of a TV tee.

Fans of HYA (hey fans, love you!) will know that the second paragraph is usually where I talk about the design, but since this is the logo from the TV show, and a TV show that’s a month older than I am, then I don’t really know what to do. Whilst I doubt that a logo of this style would make it onto a TV show today, I think that its stood up pretty well to the tests of time and does work pretty well on a tee.

Usually when you see a tee like this, merchandise based on a TV show from the 80s, you wouldn’t usually expect much in terms of quality. That definitely is not the case with Local Celebrity. This is without a doubt one of the finest tees that I’ve ever had the pleasure to wear, I often hear people describing a soft tee as being soft like butter, but I think that might actually be doing this tee a disservice. I don’t know what goes into the special vintage wash they apply to each tee, but it must be some pretty special sauce. The fit is practically perfect for me, about the same width as an American Apparel tee, perhaps a touch smaller but a bit also slightly stretchier (so it evens out), and a little bit shorter in the body.

Embarassingly, I can’t remember what the name of the printing process is. You can’t feel the print at all, which makes me think its discharge print, but then I thought that you couldn’t get discharge to produce colours like that. Any chance a tee producer could enlighten me with their expert knowledge? Whatever the printing technique is, it feels damn good, and that’s the most important thing.

Costiness=$27 Buy the tee here

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Tags » anime • cartoon • Japanese • Local Celebrity • logo • mecha • retro • review • Reviews • T-shirts • television • vintage • voltron

Wow, I guess that the global enconomic downturn is really starting to bite, Threadless‘ famous $10 sales have gone up in price to the staggeringly wallet-emptying mark of $12 per t-shirt. Crazy right? Such price gouging shall not be tolerated!

They’ve also got 18 new designs and 18 reprints this week, oh Threadless, you truly are spoiling us.

Threadless

*Does anyone know if the sales also run in the Chicago store? I’m not heading there or anything like that, just curious.

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Argentina’s finest have released seven fresh designs that keep up their tradition of paying homage to some of their favourite movies and bands. My particular favourite from this crop of tees is “The Dark Side Of Oz” which is based upon the urban legend that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon matches up with The Wizard of Oz at certain points, I’ve never put them together myself, but I’d presume that you need to have taken a lot of drugs to see/hear it.

Waterloo

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Am I the only person that seriously dislikes this kind of tee? They just simply aren’t funny, even when they’re being worn ironically, as I hope Jack Black is doing. They’re like the t-shirt equivalent of people that fart loudly and then think its the funniest thing in the world. Ever.

I realise that I should probably just not post this kind of thing and practice what Kottke preaches, but I was hoping that this post might enlighten one or two people that surf on through from search engines and whatnot. Oh, and if you do insist on wearing clothing that has a connection with six packs, please make it Six Pack.

Picture via Hollywood Grind

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Tags » Celebrities • jack black • not funny • six pack • T-shirts