This jacket may not be all that wallet-friendly, but I really like it. From a distance it looks fairly simple, but when you look at the close up views there’s actually quite a lot of interesting lines and stitching that elevate this from being a typical jacket.

Costiness=$280 Jacket Link [thanks Shoptometrist, via Notcouture]

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Tags » brown • diesel • jacket • revolve clothing

The rest of the pics in this post are hidden behind a cut for reasons that will become obvious if you click through (hint: nipples), so if you’re at work it might not be a good idea to read the rest of this post… unless you work at Playboy.

If you can tear yourself away from the models, you’ll find that the clothes they’re almost wearing are actually pretty cool. This ‘micro collection’, as they’re calling it, was created by the French designer Akroe (site contains slowly flashing images; this post is filled with danger!), for the French label Six Pack.

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Tags » akroe • France • Hoodies • hot model • NSFW • pattern • six pack • sweaters

I was pretty much only posting this t-shirt because it gives me an opportunity to point out my massive new TV (52 glorious inches!), but then I actually gave it a decent look, and I realised that its actually rather cleverer (how can a word about something being smart make you sound so stupid when you say it?) than I first gave it credit for. The minimalist frontage with a standby ‘light’ and a jack for headphones, is strongly contrasted with the busy goings on at the back, although I was expecting the text on the back to reveal some kind of joke, some of the sockets being labeled with more human attributes than ‘video output’, for example, but I guess Olly wanted to take this down a more serious route. Well, as serious as you can get when you’re wearing a tee that tries to make you look like an AV amp.

That said, I wouldn’t actually wear this. I appreciate the concept, and its executed very well, but I think it would make me look like I worked for a home theatre company if I wore it.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Tags » black • clever • olly moss • T-shirts • television • Threadless

Why is it that Germans are so good at designing abstract tees? Extraweg, from the small German town of Wittichenau have quite a few tees that are pretty odd, but they’re also pretty awesome, I can imagine them going with pretty much everything in my wardrobe. They like having a play about with their logo by the looks of things, incorporating ‘extraweg’ into a few of the designs, but they do it in a subtle way that doesn’t turn you into a billboard.

Extraweg

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I’ve never really been all that into polo shirts with prints on them, but I think that this new polo line from Madrid-based label Tolky Monkys might turn me around on this piece of collared casual wear.

As usual, the designs are character based, and I’m really impressed with all of them, the tees are just for the girls and includes some really cute designs, the polos are for guys and girls.

Check out the girls tees, check out the polos.

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Tags » character • characters • Mens • polo • Polo Shirts • Spain • T-shirts • tolky monkys • Womens

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a small clothing company selling their own range of socks before, so I just had to mention it.

Costiness=£5 Socks Link

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Tags » funkrush • socks • UK

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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Tags » comic • funny • T-shirts • text • topatoco • webcomic • wondermark

*This post is all admin, but at least you got to look at a pretty picture*

I’ve done a little bit of cleaning up to the site which should make it a bit easier to navigate and hopefully make it attractive to new readers visiting the wonderful world of HYA for the first time.

The archives are no longer listed on the sidebar as they were becoming too long, and can now be found on their own dedicated archives page. This page actually has more info on it, like the amount of posts in each category and amount of posts per month, so I think moving the archives to their own page should make things a lot easier for those of you wanting to delve into HYAs past.

Each post now has ‘related posts’ listed underneath them. I wonder if the posts related to this article are also boring admin stuff?

You may have noticed that the ancient “Should I write about coats” poll has gone. This doesn’t mean I’m never going to run another poll again, it just means that I don’t see much need in leaving up the previous poll for almost a year when you guys can’t even vote on it.

I’ve installed a plugin that allows me to gather data on which articles are the most popular (fun!), so I can see what you like and what you don’t like. The top 10 articles (based upon the plugins algorithm) can be found on the bottom of the sidebar. That placement might change in the near future because I don’t like the way it looks. Predictably, the most popular articles are my list based posts, like the tee blog lists, and the robot tees list.

You can now subscribe to comments by e-mail. I noticed that on a lot of other blogs there was an option for people to check a box when they left a comment which meant they would be sent an e-mail if anyone else left a comment on that blog post, and I thought that was a great idea since I’m always forgetting to check back to pages I’ve left comments on, so hopefully you’ll find this option useful in keeping conversations going in comment threads.

If there’s anything that you like or don’t like about the changes, or if there’s some kind of functionality that you think this site desperately needs, please get in touch or leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

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Tags » Admin • blogs • boring • data • functionality • Lists • plugins • zzzz

When you hear the name Miss Do-Gooder and its someone actually describing themselves, you know that person is pretty willing to firmly plant their tongue in their cheek whilst they’re trying to save the world. Miss Do-Gooder, also known as Susan Wildes, started her t-shirt line because she wants to help bring an end to problems that injustices in the world, and she’ll be doing that by giving away part of the profits from the tees she sells. The first issue to be addressed? Animal cruelty. The way that people treat animals seems to have been big news recently, whether its thinking that its fun to watch and bet on animals fighting with each other, finding out how where the meat in your burgers comes from, or trying to give the chickens that end up on our supermarket shelves a better deal (like not having to walk around in their own crap), hopefully this tee can help do some good.

I really like Susan’s idea of making a superhero cartoon character based upon the alter ego that she’s created for herself, and for the character to be so cute makes it a lot easier to like, unlike the time I turned myself into a superhero and just got drunk. The image reminds me of illustrations from Roald Dahl books, which is definitely a good thing in my eyes, and that look of self-satisfaction on the face is totally priceless (actual price $25). Just having an outline print for the blue body and filling in all the other spaces is quite a cool design choice too.

This tee is printed on a 50/50 American Apparel tee. I don’t think I’ve received anything else from the 50/50 range in the past, but I’m sure I own a tee from AA that is a cotton/polyester blend, possibly from some kind of sports/athletic range, that I assume is fairly similar to this in terms of fabric that has lasted really well, keeping its shape and not losing any colour, so I’m pretty sure whichever of my lady friends is the recipient of this tee will be getting a shirt that lasts a long time. The print quality feels pretty decent as well, so a good product all in all. A quick warning to my non-US compatriots, Miss Do-Gooder isn’t quite ready yet for international orders (which makes me receiving one all the more special, I guess), so you’ll have to wait a while to buy a tee, but I’m sure you’d be able to give money to a local charity to help prevent cruelty to animals, or perhaps provide care for animals that have been mistreated in the past.

Costiness=$50 Tee Link

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Tags » animal cruelty • blue • Charity • review • Reviews • T-shirts • Womens

When Design By Humans launched last year they kicked off their design competition with a $5,000 contest. This year, as part of their birthday celebrations, they’re kicking it up a notch, making the prize fund a massive $10,000 in cash.

I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of interest in this, so make sure your entry is a good one, and make sure you get it in by the deadline of August 29th!

Design By Humans

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Tags » Competitions • design by humans • design competition • T-shirts