Its amazing that a t-shirt with a ransom message on it like this…

BRING TEN THOUSAND POUND IN CASH TO VAUXHALL BRIDGE ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OF JULY AT THREE PM OR YOU WILL NEVER SEE YOUR SON AGAIN.

… could have been designed by Gideon Conn, a man described on Yes No Maybe’s site as “a lovely chap.” I really like this design, I imagine that its one of those tees that you actually get quite uncomfortable wearing because everyone is always staring at your chest reading it, unless you’re this guys, of course.

Costiness=£26 Tee Link

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Paris Hilton wearing a t-shirt with her own face on it.... astounding

The last post was clearly far too positive and classy, so I thought I’d better bring things down a notch with a post about Paris Hilton. It takes a very special person to wear a t-shirt with their own face on it.*

*I own a tee with my face on it (a birthday present), but I’m not nearly narcissistic enough to post a picture of myself wearing it.

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PTnK stands for “Peace, Tolerance, ‘n Kindness”, which I must admit put me off this brand a little bit, the name’s a bit flowery for me, but I guess that when you’re a company trying to put a positive message out there then it needs to be in your name too. I really admire people that make a t-shirt line based on what they really believe in rather than what they think will sell well, because in my experience tees with a message can often be a tough sell. Although that’s usually because the message is put ahead of the design, but I think that PTnK have achieved a happy medium in that they’ve got some really cool designs, often in a vintage style, and the message isn’t rammed down your throat.

If you’re wondering what this message is that I’m yammering on about, PTnK is a women’s only t-shirt line that is trying to get away from designs that cheapen women, such as t-shirts that say “Daddy’s Little Slut” (I can’t believe that t-shirt actually exists, and on a lot of sites too).

PTnK

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Tags » message • PTnK • T-shirts • vintage • Womens

Bristol-based Lhome have released a new design, and its a bit of a departure from what they’ve done in the past. Its good to see Kieran attempting new things with his designs, especially when the designs come out looking good! The oversized print works really well, and I think that keeping it as a one-colour print was a good idea too, if he’d coloured it in like a traditional playing card then it might have started to get a bit messy.

Costiness=£22 Tee Link

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Tags » Bristol • cards • king • lhome • oversize • poker • T-shirts • UK

Local Celebrity, who I like to think are a cut above the rest of the ‘funny’ crowd, have got a sale on at the moment. All you have to do is use the coupon code hotforteacher when you’re checking out whichever tees you’ve thrown into your virtual basket, and you’ll receive a 20% discount. They’re calling it a back to school sale, but I think that most of their 80s references will fly over the heads of most high schoolers.

Local Celebrity

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Tags » 20% • 80s • Coupon Codes • Local Celebrity • retro • sale • T-shirts

I liked the Olympics opening ceremony (colours! fireworks! dancing!), but there was one thing that really annoyed me. When they were making the speeches someone said something along the lines of “we’ve met all the aims and goals that the IOC gave us in hosting these games,” and I sat up in my chair a little bit since I’m pretty sure one of the conditions of them hosting the games was that they eased up on treating their own people like crap, yet they’ll just sweep that under the rug (and everyone else in the world will let them) and pretend that everything’s fine for a couple of weeks. With that little rant in mind, I’m really glad that Shirtspotting put together a post of tees that I wouldn’t dare wear in Beijing, so fair play to the woman above!

Read the post here.

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I got an e-mail a couple of days ago (from someone that isn’t Gary Gao) which just contained the URL to this t-shirt, I didn’t actually click through because I was just checking my e-mails on my iPhone and we don’t have 3G (or even Edge) around here so I just moved on to the next e-mail, when I revisited the link today I realised it was fate. The link led through to a t-shirt design by Gary Gao, and I’m actually wearing the Gary Gao’s Ghost Camera’s hoodie right now, so I felt pretty compelled to post this tee. I’m not just posting it because of that moment of serendipity, he’s a great designer and really knows what goes into a good tee.

Costiness=$15 Tee Link (I can’t actually find this linked anywhere else on the Karmasoup site, so I don’t know how the tipster found it)

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Tags » American Apparel • apple • computers • gary gao • geek • ghosts • grey • karmasoup • mac • macintosh • T-shirts

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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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