Some of you may remember the Wrongwroks monster hoodies that were released about a year ago. They’re back, and in an interesting format. First, you choose the color of hoody that you would like, then you pick the color that you want the spikes on the hood to be (and the scratches across the chest) from a choice of 15 patterns and colours, then you put your name on it (or whatever you want, I presume). I know it’s a not a particularly new idea (hell, it’s called Monster iD for a reason), but I like that a smaller brand such as Wrongwroks are doing it. With this being Wrongwroks I was expecting the cost to be around $200, because they’re a streetwear label and that’s just how things are, but the customised hoodies are $115 which isn’t half bad really.
The guys behind
Popdeck, the skateboard design competition, opened up
Deckpeck a while ago. Deckpeck allowed people to sell their own board designs, and quite a few recognisable artists signed up and uploaded some great looking decks to their shops. A few days ago they expanded their product range, but its doesn’t include the usual gubbins that you’d expect from a print-on-demand company, there’s snowboards, longboards, skate wheels, t-shirts (of course), journals and Vans slip-on shoes. I think its really cool that Popdeck are making it easy for people to make custom versions of unusual items when I’d assume that in the past people’s only options would have probably been either very expensive or very DIY.
Deckpeck
I’ve got a bit of a thing for hand-painted clothing, you always know that you’re buying a one-of-a-kind piece of clothing, which is always pretty special. Here’s their blurb:
We create one of a kind works of art using every day garments and apparel as our canvas. Our goal is to put original images onto the bodies of original people. Not only do we make original garments, but we also customize people’s existing favorite items of clothing. We believe that clothing is one of the most expressive forms of self-representation a person can use. Clothes should display the unique set of preferences of what each of us find to be beautiful, or funny, or sexy, or sophisticated…
…As we started painting on clothing, we received a ton of support and requests for custom products. We started to realize that other people were just as tired at seeing the same old mass-produced clothes around as we were. Everyone we came into contact with became excited at the idea of wearing something that was made specifically for them to wear. And, in that, Six Foot Owl clothing was born.
Six Foot Owl
Ok, so you’ve got Cafepress,
Zazzle, Spreadshirt, ShirtCity and a whole host of others that I’m forgetting, but you know what
Wordans has that the others don’t? They’re Canadian!
I guess I’m being a bit flippant, Wordans do appear to offer a good service, plenty of high quality products, direct to garment printing for regular orders, screen printing for orders of more than 35 tees and the usual ‘design it yourself’ features that you’ve come to expect from the print-on-demand industry. Oh, and their blog is pretty cool too, its not all ‘look at us, look at us, look at us’, its more like ‘look at us, look at our competitors, look what our community did’.
Wordans
It has a
hoodie, but it doesn’t Hide Your Arms (or even your back), I’m so confused!
My lady friends asked me last night what I do when I’m blogging about women’s clothing since I don’t really know much about it. I told them that being able to understand sizings (note to self/men everywhere: never attempt to guess a woman’s tee size when giving them a sample tee) isn’t really that important, if I like the look of something I’ll write about it. I certainly do like the look of these halterneck hoodies, and since the handmade garments one size fits all (between 8-14) I couldn’t possibly embarrass myself when giving gifts to my girls.
I must admit that I don’t think all of the styles work as well as others, this ‘beach bum‘ one is a bit too much of a hippy-ish look for me, and I’m generally not a fan of leopard print, but otherwise I’m impressed by Danni’s patern choices, and there’s always the option of having a custom one done if nothing tickles your fancy.
Dressed By Danni
