I know it’s not going to be a particularly high quality watch, I wouldn’t swap it for the lovely Hugo Boss watch I got for my 21st birthday, for example, but if you want a fun accessory (and us guys don’t get to accessorise very often) then you could do a lot worse than this watch from normalwatches. Their whole range is currently on sale, but only for a few more hours, so hop to it if you want a cheap watch.
Costiness=$14.99 Available from normalwatches
This ‘Ferrari’ is made from 1,500 t-shirts, 88 pairs of jeans and 26 pairs of shoes and baseball caps from Puma… and probably hundreds of hours of interns time.
Visit Creative Review to see a video of the construction of this master-tee-ce*.
*Yeah, that fake word sucks and shall be fired out of a metaphorical cannon into a metaphorical bottomless pit immediately.
410BC sent me a tee a little while back (which will likely be posted soon), and I loved the packaging that it came in so much that I meticulously peeled away the customs label, 410BC return address sticker, my address, the postage sticker, and a lot of the tape the box was wrapped in to reveal a box that was far too nice to be thrown in the bin, and so will now house HYA related gubbins.* I know it’s a little silly to make a post entirely about the packaging of a t-shirt, but I think it does highlight that when someone goes that extra mile to make the t-shirt buying process more than just about receiving a t-shirt in the mail that it really enhances the experience. Of course there’s a pretty high barrier to market that not everyone can do this, as far as indie companies go 410BC are pretty big so they can afford the order minimums that custom boxes come with, and they won’t have a garage filled with boxes for years to come, so not everyone can send custom boxes, but I’m sure that every tee company can think of something interesting they could do to make the buying experience interesting.
*It’s possible that this might be a Northern English word that not many of you recognise, instead of explaining it, I’ll just say it means pretty much what you think it means.
Even though the chances of me wearing this are slim to none (and not just because this is in womens sizes), I still get a little bit giddy when I see a hoodie that has ears on it that isn’t for kids, I think it’s because I know that an adult shouldn’t really be wearing something quite so silly, even
Karmaloop’s usually mirthless model can’t help but smile at this piece.
Costiness=$45 Paul Frank Hoodie available from Karmaloop
