A blog about hoodies & t-shirts, with news from the independent clothing world

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I found this on Flickr, and then it was the tee of the day on Rumplo, so I got to cover two of my features in one post (Flickr Finds & Rumplo Rocks), jackpot!

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen gloves stitched somewhere that you wouldn’t expect, although when you see them on a hoodie it makes sense, they’re there to keep you warm, but when you put a glove onto a t-shirt you get something that is a whole lot more weird, wacky and pretty darned wonderful. Of course, you don’t have to put your hand in it, Here Itself suggest that you could put your ID, wallet, or iPod in it. May I suggest you go post modern with it and put an oven mitt in there?

Costiness=$19 Tee Link Rumplo Link Flickr Link

Flickr Finds: Blending In

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I know that me posting a t-shirt that has a Napoleon Dynamite quote on it might damage my indie tee cred somewhat, but come on, she’s got a blender on her head… and it’s actually running!

I think this might be the epitome of random Friday t-shirt posting.

Photo credit: Amadika (who sets her photos as ‘all rights reserved’, but hopefully won’t mind me using this one on account of its awesomeness)

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Ha! Its true, there are an awful lot of bikes in Amsterdam, and an awful lot of tourists that can’t get their heads around not walking in bike lanes. Unusually for a flickr finds post, I can actually point you towards where you can buy this tee (sacre bleu!), although Parkarma have gone on holiday, so if you order one then it won’t be shipped until shortly after August 1st when I get back from their hols.

Costiness=€15 Tee Link Flickr Page

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I feel a bit guilty for posting this since the pic is ‘all rights reserved’, but not only is it a cool t-shirt, its also a really cool picture (hopefully the compliments will keep Superlocal from asking me from removing the pic). I can’t imagine myself wanting to go on the tube in London in just a pair of flip flops, so I guess the trains in Seoul must be pretty darned clean.I’ve had a little hunt around the net and can’t turn up the tee, but I like the way that the designer has player around with the text on the top and kept the figure at the bottom plain. The colourway works pretty well too.Photo credit: devil? 51% by Superlocal

Flickr Finds: Why Do You…

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I don’t really like to wear t-shirts that have swear words on them because I wouldn’t want to offend people on the street… and my mother still does my laundry. The fact that I wouldn’t wear it doesn’t stop me from thinking that its cool and a funny image.

Photo credit: why do you… by awungfoo

Flickr Finds: Level 11

look at all the colours!

Now, isn’t that a pretty picture?

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Cool design, homemade silk print (so don’t expect a costiness/link at the bottom), and a cool log exposure photo to go with it, how could you want anything more? I’m sure I recognise the style of the face on the pyramid from somewhere, I get the feeling it might be some kind of Japanese character, if you’ve got any idea just drop a comment please.Photo credits: taklu4she & herbhrb

Orange is the new tan yellow t-shirt by Flippin Sweet Gear

Here’s a tee for all the ganguro girls out there, and the increasingly large amount of tanorexic women that would rather risk skin cancer than remain healthy and pasty white. I can hardly talk though, I turned myself pink after sunbathing in the park on Monday.Available from Flippin Sweet Gear

Cigars aren’t penises with Lucien Freud image

I think that the thing I find funniest about this shirt is that it looks as if its been printed into a womens t-shirt, it seems more like something a guy would wear, in defense of his love of cigars. Well, that, and the artist “split [her] pajama trousers stooping down to paint this, right across the ass. Freudian?”

The tee obviously isn’t for sale, but I liked the image, and one-offs are what these ‘Flickr Finds’ posts are meant to be all about. ABCme (the designer) is also quite the artist, so check out her photostream for more of that, and lots of pictures of cats. Oh internet, why are you so full of cats?

Photo credit: Cigars Aren’t Penises by ABCme

Confusing t-shirt from CERN

I don’t understand any of the physics on this tee since I’ve haven’t been taught about this stuff for more than 5 years and I don’t think we got to stuff that was this complex anyway, but I do think it looks pretty cool, and I like the idea that CERN would produce a t-shirt that such a small percentage of the population would understand. Fortunately for the person that was given this t-shirt as a present, it came with a leaflet that helps the wearer understand what the equations mean.

This equation neatly sums up our current understanding of fundamental particles and forces. It represents mathematically what we call the standard model of particle physics. The top line describes the forces: electricity, magnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. The second line describes how these forces act on the fundamental particles of matter, namely the quarks and leptons. The third line describes how these particles obtain their masses from the Higgs boson, and the fourth line enables the Higgs boson to do the job. Many experiments at CERN and other laboratories have verified the top two lines in detail. One of the primary objectives of the LHC is to see whether the Higgs boson exists and behaves as predicted by the last two lines.

Let’s just hope that the large hadron collider doesn’t destroy the universe so that we can all continue wearing t-shirts. I can’t find anywhere online that sells the tee, but if you’re really desperate then a visit to France or Switzerland may well be in order to go to the CERN Shop, I say France or Switzerland since the big ring of CERN straddles the border of those two countries and it isn’t clear which side the shop is on.

Photo Credit: Confusing T-Shirt from CERN by Quisnovus (usual disclaimer: the photo is ‘all rights reserved’, so it may well disappear in the near future if the uploader doesn’t like me using their photo)

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Here’s another tee from the ‘I found it on Flickr, it has an “all rights reserved” copyright, but I like it and hope that the author won’t be too pissed about me posting’.I don’t know if its for sale, from the looks of things the uploader is a graphic designer so I think this tee might be a mock-up rather than a real product, though looking at his blog there are quite a few submissions to design competitions like DBH and Threadless, so maybe we’ll see this popping up somewhere at some point (vague much?). Wyel does have a cool looking portfolio site though that you’ll probably enjoy perusing.

Photo credit: Do I look nice now by Wyel

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