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What’s new at Cotton Factory


All that up there is what’s new at Cotton Factory, quite a few fun and funny tees, with subjects running from Lincoln, Planet of the Apes, and Pee Wee Herman to what I would consider as more typical Cotton Factory fare in the from of a tee with a picture of a Yugo car on it and the slogan “Yugo Girl” written underneath, now that’s punnery!

Cotton Factory


I guess that this promotion kind of makes sense, AAITSKI have a lot of t-shirt designs that are based around animals, but seriously, who has ever heard of World Animal Day? And what are we meant to do to celebrate it, go vegetarian (except for bacon, of course)? Hug a monkey? There are far too many ‘Blah Blah Blah Days’ now, and what does it take to make an official ‘…. Day’, can I just claim one, like next Thursday being the International Day of Andy?

AAITSKI


Hot damn that looks like some good printing, it practically looks like a painting on a tee.

Foe Paws


As we’ve established in the past, I am not cool, so its totally fine that I’ve never heard of Belgian indie pop band Girls in Hawaii, and whilst I still haven’t checked on their music, I do like what they’ve helped to do to this t-shirt.

Costiness=€24 Buy it link/Rumplo Link

Beibei the rights abusing panda


Bravo to Karl for posting/finding this tee, of a mascot that didn’t make the cut for Beijing 2008, though I do probably find it funnier because it immediately reminded me of the South Park episode with the Sexual Harassment Panda in it, a clip of which I’ve embedded below.

Costiness=$28 Buy the tee here


Take Off are an Australian company that have cool design, a cool website (even if I can’t link directly to the products) and really cool product pictures, so everyone’s a winner!

Putting a tyre tread onto a t-shirt isn’t exactly the most original idea in the world, but they’ve executed it really well, and at least they’re using a colourway that doesn’t involve a black tread print.


If you’re after a bit of originality (I’ve never seen an ASCII tee), check out this awesome ASCII lion.

Take Off Clothing

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Great use of negative printing and a minimal colour template. A really cool print running along the back lower edge too. And look, a giraffe!

Costiness=$28 Tee Link Rumplo Link

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AITA have dropped a new tee and it is a shout-out to a music blog from Philly that apparently has really big teeth. As I’ve mentioned before this week, I’m a bit pushed for time writing posts, so I’m going to hand you over to the rather eloquent folks at AITA to do the job for me.

Art In The Age Creative Director Ben Woodward gives a shout out to Philly’s music blog with really big teeth, The Walrus.( http://www.walrusmusicblog.com) The big, music loving personality of this oversized and lovable friend of the sea is expressed perfectly in Ben’s larger-than-life illustration. Available in two color palettes: “Lo Fi” Gray-on-Gray or “Experimental” Turquoise-on-Turquoise”

The tees will be available in men’s sizes Small-Large for $28 and will be released tomorrow [oh, sorry, guess I probably should have posted this yesterday...]. Art in the Age will also be giving away 3 tees to 3 lucky winners in the next 3 weeks!

I’d usually think that grey on grey is the blandest colourway possible, but its actually pretty cool in this case.

Check it out here

Wolfrudel Weiss by Marthuba

Look at all those foxes!

A tip ‘o the hat to Notcot once again for finding the tee version of this hoodie (though I have also seen it featured on this excellent shirtspotting post), but I figured that since HYA is meant to be a sleeved clothing blog I’d mention the long sleeved version, even if you don’t often find yourself wearing them all that much during these sunny summer months.The tee version is pretty much the same, except the background colour is white and the pack of foxes (I think wolfsrudel means ‘wolf’ but they look more like foxes to me) remain a dark grey, but to me is makes more sense to have a dark base colour because then the print blends in a bit, which adds to the traditional sneakiness of the foxes, although I doubt many animals can maintain their sneakiness when they smell a kill. It’s nice to see Marthuba making use of the funnel collar as well. I guess that me posting an item from a Swiss company is a good way for me to prove that I’m not at all bitter about England not being in Euro 2008… not bitter at all…

Costiness=89 Swiss France (almost exactly US$89) Link

My head is a freakin’ mess

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We don’t get ‘peeps’ here in the UK, by which I don’t mean shorthand for person (i.e. “I’m jus’ hangin’ wit’ ma peeps”, which I say all the time, as you would imagine), I mean those bizarre, fluffy, sugary things that look awesome but I imagine are actually kinda nasty, on account of them being luminous colours.
But even though I may not have first hand experience of the peeps, I can recognise an American icon when I see one, which is why I like this hoodie from Messhead clothing.

The design is crisp, simple, well postioned, and with a dash of colour to ensure that it stands out from the crowd. You could say that its a bit empty, but I think that the minimalist approach suits this better than having a few giant peeps dotted about the hoddie. There’s also ‘Messhead’ written in handwriting style font (kinda like the one that Threadless use for their logo) on the hood, which is readable when the hood is up, which I kinda like, though it might be a bit ‘in your face’ for some. Also, it’s damn cheap, which is always a plus.

It is also available in white, a colour which I usually avoid because I tend to get various sauces on me on a regular basis, but in this case I think the design might look better in white.

Costiness=$20 URL

  



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