This tee isn’t getting a traditional review because it wasn’t sent to me as a sample, it was sent as a thank you for a bit of non-clothing related help I gave them (who’d have thought my almost-encyclopedic knowledge of Amsterdam’s hotels would get me some tees?). But since quite a lot of you probably don’t have any real world experience with Allmightys I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you guys know what a quality product the AM team put out. If you’re thinking “who the hell are Allmightys?” then head over to their about page to get a refreshingly honest overview of the company. In a nutshell though, they’re a t-shirt design competition based in Europe that give part of each sale to charity.
I wore this t-shirt last night when I went to the pub quiz (4 points of winning, boo!) and didn’t really expect to get much reaction from it since its a fairly subdued colourway and you really need to look at it for a while to really appreciate the design. But, in a highly unusual move, not one, but two of my friends were transfixed by the design, just staring and staring at it, which actually gets slightly uncomfortable after a few seconds. One of them even wanted to buy it off me, despite it being on sale at Allmightys, her being a girl, and definitely not a size XL. So, I guess its fair to say that this design gets a positive reaction.
Allmightys pretty much delivers on every front. The print quality is great (and a design like this does give it a decent test), the tee is the industry standard of American Apparel, they’ve got great designers submitting to their competitions, and those designers get well compensated. I know this is a rather fawning review, but I’m really impressed with their whole setup and I glad that I can give them two thumbs up.If you fancy getting hold of a couple of Allmightys tees, they’re holding a mini-contest (running until 28th July) in which all you have to do is write a short comment about the future, as imagined from the past, and if they like it you might end up with an envelope making its way to you from Germany.

Costiness=€21 Tee Link

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When Tara from Support Shirts got in touch with me about her and Travis’ (her boyfriend & member of NY hardcore band This Is Hell) t-shirt brand, Support Shirts, I wasn’t expecting to see a tee in the style of the one pictured, and I’m sure that if you listened to a couple of This Is Hell songs then you’d be pretty surprised at what you found in the Support Shirts webstore too.

That isn’t to say I don’t like it, I just presumed that I was going to be find some tees with more of a hard rock and punk edge to them. But I guess that just because people like to listen to hardcore music doesn’t mean they have to make hardcore clothes. With a name like Support Shirts, you know that there’s a social element too. I don’t know the extent to which they’re involved in each charity, but they list quite a few charities on their site that they support, many of which are clothing and music related.

The reason why I picked this tee (beyond it having a cool design) is because recently I’ve been applying for jobs and internships in New York and seeing the skyline on a tee just makes me want to go there a little bit more.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • music • New York • support shirts • T-shirts • this is hell • white

I’ve still got a NES stowed away somewhere underneath our staircase, and when I pulled it out a couple of years ago it actually worked. Can you imagine any game console made now still working twenty years from now? Hell, my Xbox 360 had to be replaced after seven months!
This tee represents more pun-based-fun from the KosherHam gang. Actually, is it a pun? I guess that if you were to just turn up somewhere where you were actually going to play games then it would actually just be a t-shirt with a fact on it. I like it though, its a little bit nerdy, but not too much, everyone from my generation would be able to recognise the controller (even though its lacking in certain copyright infringing details), and its a bit retro, but its not really ramming it down your throat. I think the fact that the sample I received is a girls sized tee probably makes me like it a bit more too, since I’m kinda into geek girls, come to think of it, I’m into pretty much any kind of girl… hurray for equality!
Just like with previous KosherHam reviews, I’m happy to give this tee the thumbs up in terms of quality as well. The printing is sharp, bold, and completely lacking in imperfections, it doesn’t get much better than that when it comes to solid colour printing like this. The stock tee is once again courtesy of American Apparel, so I guess you’ll know what you’re in for in terms of fit, even if AAs sizing does seem to differ a little a bit from piece-to-piece.Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • blue • games • KosherHam • Mens • nerd • NES • nintendo • T-shirts • Womens

Here’s a surprising change in direction, RandomShirts, whose back catalogue largely consists of single-colour pun-based tees, have released their summer line, and there’s not a pun amongst the bunch!

In fact, they seem to have gone for a self-motivation theme, but I would suspect that its ironic self-motivation, so that’s alright. When I look at the designs, I can’t help but be reminded of Vintage Vantage, is anyone else getting that feeling? I guess that’s just because they’re both retro-styled, and the way that the characters look like they’re straight out of a 70s school textbook.

In another change for RandomShirts, the new designs are being printed on American Apparel tees.

Randomshirts

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Tags » American Apparel • Mens • randomshirts • releases • Summer • T-shirts • vintage • Vintage Vantage • Womens

Ronald McDonald + Pizza = Ha!

Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • brown • food • funny • glennz • mcdonalds • pizza • T-shirts

Akumu Ink have taken things in a different direction for their latest design, putting a lighter twist on their usual dark designs by employing a cartoony style. I really like the way that the cute design and dark subject matter come together to create some weird kind of balance.

Me, I’d have made the skull in the speech bubble bigger, but you know what I’m like when it comes to oversize printing, so I guess that might not be to everyone’s taste. As ever, this tee is printed by Joey and Dora in Montreal on an American Apparel tee.

Costiness=$21 Tee Link (also available in other colours)

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Tags » akumu ink • American Apparel • Canada • death • Mens • Montreal • New Designs • releases • skull • skulls • Womens

I’m sure this is one of those instances when I’m going to get accused of being a t-shirt snob (I write about tees, of course I’m a snob!). I wouldn’t actually wear this tee from KosherHam, and not just because its way too small for me, I’m just not too into tees with this kind of phrase on it, but I know there’s a big massive market for this kind of thing, so I can’t just ignore them.

I’ve noticed that a couple of my friends parents are on Facebook, what’s all that about? It might seem odd to me because my parents can barely use e-mail (I’m requested to read all of them before sending to make sure they’re ‘right’), but there’s just something a little bit weird about the idea of middle-aged people posting on each other’s walls and tagging each other in photo’s, and I don’t even want to think about what would happen if they found out about some of the dumbass applications that are floating around out there. I guess that on a certain level, I do find a tee like this kinda funny, but I think that the part that’s funny is that someone would have the audacity to wear a t-shirt suggesting that the wearer would “poke your mom” and not just on Facebook. I guess it takes a very, very special kind of person to pull off wearing a tee like this, and I don’t think I’m that special yet.

Usually, when you see a tee with a joke like this on, you aren’t really expecting much in terms of quality. Facebook are the current over-valued flavour of the month in the web-world, and you’d expect this to be an equally flavour of the month style t-shirt. But its not, the quality level is impressive, its printed on an American Apparel blank t-shirt, and the printing quality feels top notch. Oh, and of course, KosherHam have their own page on Facebook.

Costiness=$19.99 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • facebook • funny • KosherHam • review • Reviews • text • yellow

I have a phobia of things that fly in an erratic fashion, which includes butterflies, but they aren’t nearly as bad as moths (which have the added danger of loving to eat what I love to wear), so I’m a little nervous even looking at this tee, never mind the fact that Gene Simmons astoundingly long tongue adds to the creepy factor. So I don’t think you’ll be surprised to hear that I won’t be purchasing this tee, but it is still a cool design.Costiness=$19.95 Link

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Tags » American Apparel • glennz • grey • T-shirts

Sorry to post the same store twice in a row, but I thought it was about damn time that I got back to my roots and posted a hoodie for a change. The weather plays a big factor in my enthusiasm for posting hoodies, and when I’m liberally applying sun screen on my neck in a morning before going out to work I don’t feel particularly inclined to hide my arms, so I don’t feel particularly inclined to write about hoodies, but there’s something about Linty Fresh’s designs that makes me want to post them no matter what they’re printed on, hell, I even want to write about the belts!

Costiness=$45 Link (and here’s the tee version)

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Tags » American Apparel • green • hoodie • linty fresh • Mens • Womens

Eric has to clear out some space and knows the best way to do it, a sale. The designs that are on sale aren’t exactly the freshest that he’s made, but they do come at the beyond awesome price of just $5 a piece.

Yes, $5. And I thought it was great last week then Cotton Werks were selling tees for $8. All the guys tees are printed on Fruit of the Loom and the two girls designs are on AA.

Check out the details on the Linty Fresh blog, or just go straight to the store before they sell out.

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Tags » American Apparel • Bargains! • fruit of the loom • linty fresh • sales • T-shirts