Can you imagine if I wore this? The levels of irony would be so dangerously high that if I started listening to Journey at the same time I’m pretty sure the world would kerplode.

Costiness=$28 ($22 if you join the A-List) Buy it at Local Celebrity

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Congrats to Alex Vandenberg who put together the above gif showing off his extensive collection of Threadless tees to win T-shirt Magazine’s Tee Maniacs comeptition. I wouldn’t usually post about someone winning a competition on another site, but come on, how cool is that gif!

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In their own words:

The label is called Curious Tales and it combines my love of
storytelling, fashion and the environment. (I also do upcycled clothes
and they were the inspiration for the stories, I started wondering
about who had worn the clothes before and started writing about them!)

All the tees feature scribbly drawings and the start of a story about
a weird character. On some of the men’s tees there’s a scribbly
headless body printed on the front so you become the character as soon
as you put it on.

They’re interactive as well, because you can get creative and continue
the tale yourself, uploading endings to the tale on the website.

Check them out at www.curioustales.com

Because I’m a boring old cynic I don’t really buy into all this ‘tales’ business, no matter how whimsical they might be, but I do like the hand drawn designs, and the tees being made of organic cotton or bamboo is a plus as well (I’m so into bamboo tees at the moment, really soft, great for summer). Curious Tales don’t just do tees either, they’ve got a whole load of accessories too.

From now until July 10th you guys can enjoy a very generous 25% off your order by entering the coupon code hideyourarms at the checkout, which is nice.

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This cool looking scarf/necklace was featured in Instructable’s weekly newsletter, and I thought it looks no nice (and presumably easy though I haven’t actually looked at the tutorial properly yet) that I’d share it with you, so if you were wondering “what should I do with this old t-shirt?” wonder no more!

Recycled T-shirt Necklace

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One of the things I noticed on my two trips to Asia in ‘07 and ‘08 (cripes, I might not make it to Asia this year) is that big brands there like to collaborate with smaller brands, especially in the clothing world. I can understand why Louis Vuitton want to collaborate with Murakami, but why do Hello Kitty go out of their way to engage the streetwear world?

So, why are Disney letting a group of artists, in the form of Bloc28, provide their own take on one of Disney’s most iconic characters, Mickey Mouse?

Disappointingly, I don’t have an answer for you, maybe they just thought it would be cool. The tees aren’t exactly cheap at £24.99 a piece, but if you’re a Disney fan looking for something a bit more interesting than this, then you might want to check them out at Urban Retro.

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I’d actually forgotten how many cool designs Hugsmugglers had, so get your ass over to their Merchline store and check ‘em out while they’re cheap.

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After last week’s teaser, here’s a closer look:

THE LIFE COLLECTION from Akomplice really holds true to it’s title. The Summer range has pieces for all walks of life; from the Jaquard Sweater to the Flip Shorts, mixing a prestigious cut with a relaxed style. The tees are just as worldly. With a collaboration between Akomplice and Hope (www.hopeartists.org), 30% of all “Realer World T-Shirt” profits are given to impoverished communities in Africa. Akomplice also pays Homage to the lighter side of life by teaming up with the German based brand “Wemoto”. Together they produced “Bad Times”, a tee poking fun at most people’s outlook on the bad economy. The Life collection consists of: sweaters, shorts, polos, New Era hats, tee-shirts, and a skateboard deck. This is one of Akomplice’s most well rounded collections to date. Be on the look out for this new collection in your local Boutique or online at the Akomplice webstore.

I’ve put a fair chunk of the collection in the gallery below, but the pics don’t really show the items particularly well, so if you actually want to see the designs properly, head on over to the Akomplice site, or this page if you want to see everything without clicking around.

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It may surprise you to hear this, but I’m actually a bit of a fan of 80’s Purple, they’re constantly releasing new stuff, the brands they stock are impressive, and they have a tendency to put a lot of it on sale. They say this is a half-yearly sale, so I would assume that it is a bigger sale than usual, but I’m constantly being sent e-mails from them about coupon codes and sales, so there’s always a good deal to be had.

Men go here, women go here.

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This might be Teecycle Tim, or it could be one of his friends from a photoshoot.

Okay, not that Pepsi Challenge (that post would indicate a slow news day), but rather PepsiCo’s “What’s Your Pitch?” contest. Teecycle, for those of you that are unaware, is a site that sells cool second-hand tees, and gives $1 from each sale to the River Revitalization Foundation, a Milwaukee based organisation, and the tees are only $7 to start with, so it’s not a token gesture. Clearly, Pepsi liked this (and why wouldn’t they?), and awarded Tim, Teecycle’s founder, a grant of $4,500 to keep on doing his good work. Tim hopes to use the grant to launch a line of tees by local artists, and has other plans for the future as well, such as a documentary about ethical clothing.

Find out more here.

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This is one of those hoodies that isn’t necessarily a show-stopper, people aren’t going to be amazed by it, but at the same time I can’t imagine finding anyone that didn’t like it. I guess you could almost call it boring, but I’d like think of it more as being ‘restrained’.

Costiness=$62 Buy it at Karmaloop (and remember that you can get up to 20% off your purchase with the rep code AS7594, and support HYA in the process)

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