Now, I don’t want to conform to a male stereotype and alienate the female readership, but you girls do like glowers right?
Either way, I think this is a cute hoodie, with some tasty embroidery, and subtle tones over the flowers, where you would usually expect to see a big brash design with bright colours. Oh, and there’s another flower stitched onto the back, which keeps in with the subtle theme, because its tucked away in a corner, just minding its own business.
I’m not sure what stock its printed on, but with all the stitch work that I assume goes into this it arguably justifies the higher than usual (for the blog, anyway) asking price.
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I don’t know if I’m the edge of starting a trend here by recommending a tie-dye hoodie, but I think it’s pretty cute, so I will acceptr any tie-dye based mockery with good humour, and remember, tie-dye is fun!
The colour really suits the summer, since I’ve generally put away my black tees and started wearing a lot more lighter colours (baby/sky blue rocks my world), and the style of this hoodie has a really summery feel to it, with the patches andn the subtle use of printed shapes (flowers, perhaps?)
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Etsy. I quite like Etsy, it seems like a good way for independent designers to get their work to a larger audience without having to learn how to design a website or pay someone to do it for them.
The image is just the hood of the hoodie, I like the exaggerated (though one would presume, non-structurally integral) stitching on the hood-join, and the two blue blocks around the Dreams of Flight tag give a subtle dash of colour.
There are some other details too, like concentric circles that are the same colour as Britain’s RAF. There’s also an applique of a bird in flight around there somewhere.
Costiness=$62 from smallcraftadvisory.
How on earth did I manage to do about two months of posting without mentioning pirates once?
I don’t really get the whole pirate obsession that exists within eCommerce, even though I have been known to dress up as a pirate (complete with parrot) on occasion, but I do like thi.
Blackbird fashion is ran by the fabulously named Clarity Miller (look, I’m British, we don’t get all those cool American names like ‘Audio Science’ and ‘Pilot’), and whilst Blackbird is a mighty pirate-y name for a clothing label, there isn’t actually that much pirate schwag there, so if you’re looking to get kitted out for your next frat party or bar crawl, sorry.
I like the stitched on felt that’s been used to create the skull and cross bones, and for a change I actually like that something is one colour, if there were any more if would detract from the simple design.
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P.S. does that skull look a bit forlorn and depressed to you? I think it’s something in the eyes.
It’s Monday again, so you (might) know what that means, time for another designer/blogger to do all my work for me. This week it’s Josh Naive Clothing, who was able to help out even though he recently became an uncle (that’s right Josh, I flickr stalk, big-time!).
It combines embroidery as well as screen printing and some awesomely well done small print which you can read on the web site. These guys are truly an inspiration to us at Naive Clothing. We love the creativity they come up with in their designs, the combination of embrodery and screen printing is great. I do not own the hoodie cause they don’t have my size but if they did I would own it.
Hope that helps man!
Joshua Martin
It’s a good choice, some people might want to avoid the religious text for personal reasons, but I think it’s a decent quote, from a company that have plenty of excellent wearables in their store.
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