What, what, tally ho and all that, because this is the third British post in a row, you practically need a cup of tea in your hand just to read the blog today!

Famed doodler Jon Burgerman has put his own spin on Yes No Maybe’s name and produced this rather spiffy looking tee. One of the things that I like about Yes No Maybe is that whilst they do put their name in most of their products, they never do it in a way that screams “this is a logo tee, everyone go and buy YNM clothes,” its more like they’re using they tell artists to create a design that is inspired by the name, not about the name, which I guess means that they’ve got a lot of great opportunities for playing with typography. Another interesting thing about this design is that it marks the beginning of YNMs summer colour range, they’re going to be using the traffic light colourway of red, orange, and green over the next few months in a lot of their summer releases, possibly in reference to the ridiculous amounts of traffic that clog up the arteries of Britain’s road network as soon as the sun pops out from behind the clouds for five minutes.

Costiness=£26 Tee Link (that’s the men’s grey tee, other styles and colours can be found here)

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Tags » art • grey • jon burgerman • Mens • poster • Summer • T-shirts • text • typography • white • Womens • yes no maybe

I know what you’re thinking. A hoodie? On Hide Your Arms? Can it possibly be?

I know I’ve been neglecting the arms a bit a lot recently, but its hardly the weather for them, is it? Still, I should probably try and keep things on track since I know it isn’t warm everywhere, which is why I’m pointing you in the direction of this hoodie by Won Hundred. The funnel hood is cool, the small zip on the side of the funnel is cool, the zip on top of the kangaroo pouch is cool, and its price being cut from £79 to £23.70 is very cool.

I think they only have one left in stock (size XL) so if you want it, buy it.

Costiness=£23.70 (w/ free shipping for UK orders) Hoodie Link

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Tags » free shipping • glass boutique • grey • hoodie • UK • won hundred

Oh Glennz, will you ever stop making tees that make me COL (chuckle out loud)?

Costiness=$19.95 Tee Link

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Tags » American Apparel • asphalt • evolution • funny • glennz • gray • grey • lego • Mens • T-shirts • Womens

Art in the Age loves the Walrus

*Sorry guys, as Kevin points out in the comments, I’ve actually already written about this design.

This tee gives a shout out to a Philadelphia music blog called The Walrus, which I’d never heard of, but then again, I’m not from Philadelphia, and the only music blog I subscribe to is Stereogum, so what chance did I really have?

But if you don’t know what the blog is, like me, it doesn’t really matter for this design, because you might just think that there’s a cool looking Walrus on a t-shirt, and that would probably be enough for you. And if you’re a fan of the blog then you’re in a little secret society of music lovers that rally around your big-teethed mascot and nod at each other whenever you spot someone wearing the tee.

Costiness=$28 Tee Link

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Tags » AITA • Art in the Age • blue • grey • music • T-shirts • teal

This tee isn’t getting a traditional review because it wasn’t sent to me as a sample, it was sent as a thank you for a bit of non-clothing related help I gave them (who’d have thought my almost-encyclopedic knowledge of Amsterdam’s hotels would get me some tees?). But since quite a lot of you probably don’t have any real world experience with Allmightys I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you guys know what a quality product the AM team put out. If you’re thinking “who the hell are Allmightys?” then head over to their about page to get a refreshingly honest overview of the company. In a nutshell though, they’re a t-shirt design competition based in Europe that give part of each sale to charity.
I wore this t-shirt last night when I went to the pub quiz (4 points of winning, boo!) and didn’t really expect to get much reaction from it since its a fairly subdued colourway and you really need to look at it for a while to really appreciate the design. But, in a highly unusual move, not one, but two of my friends were transfixed by the design, just staring and staring at it, which actually gets slightly uncomfortable after a few seconds. One of them even wanted to buy it off me, despite it being on sale at Allmightys, her being a girl, and definitely not a size XL. So, I guess its fair to say that this design gets a positive reaction.
Allmightys pretty much delivers on every front. The print quality is great (and a design like this does give it a decent test), the tee is the industry standard of American Apparel, they’ve got great designers submitting to their competitions, and those designers get well compensated. I know this is a rather fawning review, but I’m really impressed with their whole setup and I glad that I can give them two thumbs up.If you fancy getting hold of a couple of Allmightys tees, they’re holding a mini-contest (running until 28th July) in which all you have to do is write a short comment about the future, as imagined from the past, and if they like it you might end up with an envelope making its way to you from Germany.

Costiness=€21 Tee Link

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Tags » allmightys • American Apparel • grey • letraset • review • Reviews • T-shirts

Enclothe have released their latest wave of designs, and this rather detailed number is amongst them. Since the design is of an ‘Electric Buddha Head’ I’d like to be able to give you some insightful comments, especially after I spent some time wandering around temples during my Hong Kong trip earlier this year, but I’m afraid I’ve got nothing for you, I’m afraid you’ll have to find your own way.Wait, was that spiritual advice? Maybe I’m more spiritual than I thought! My next piece of sage wisdom: go check out the rest of the new designs at Enclothe.

Costiness=$20 Tee Link

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Tags » buddha • enclothe • grey • Mens • religious • T-shirts • Womens

I have a phobia of things that fly in an erratic fashion, which includes butterflies, but they aren’t nearly as bad as moths (which have the added danger of loving to eat what I love to wear), so I’m a little nervous even looking at this tee, never mind the fact that Gene Simmons astoundingly long tongue adds to the creepy factor. So I don’t think you’ll be surprised to hear that I won’t be purchasing this tee, but it is still a cool design.Costiness=$19.95 Link

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Tags » American Apparel • glennz • grey • T-shirts

I don’t want to force my politics on anyone, but when I found out that John McCain pandered to voters by saying he condemned any remarks that were “anti-anything” I lost rather a lot of respect for him, so I got off the fence went for Obama, which is lucky for me, because there are loads more Obama tees out there than McCain ones. Although McCain’s supporters probably don’t do t-shirts, they probably knit wool sweaters for him (I’m saying he’s old, that seems to get laughs).

I can’t work out where “Barack’n the free world” was first used… by which I of course mean I googled it and didn’t immediately find it, then got bored and ate some strawberries (’tis the season!). I guess it doesn’t really matter where the phrase came from (a Neil Young song, btw), if you wear it people know who is going to be getting your vote in November, and it doing that in a good looking way is just the cherry on top of the political sundae.

Quality is impressive. The stock tee is American Apparel, which most of you guys will have an experience of, I can’t tell you what this particular one feels like because whilst I have lost a few pounds (okay, about 50) over the past 18 months, I can’t quite squeeze myself into a girls small tee yet… or presumably ever. The print is really soft, its so soft I actually had to double check that it wasn’t flock print, so I think its fair to say that KosherHam have got printing down pretty well.

Costiness=$19.99 Link

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Tags » barack obama • blue • grey • KosherHam • Mens • politics • T-shirts • Womens

I don’t know if this tee is quite as good as one of DBHs other robot-based designs, Robot Attack, but it’s still pretty darned cool. I like the style, I like the way that the blue and pink perk up the largely grey colourway, and I like… I just like it.Costiness=$19 Link

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Tags » DBH • design by humans • grey • recycledwax • robot • robots • T-shirts

Ha, a t-shirt with a t-shirt on it, what will they think of next? Oh, and they’re charging you for two tees as well!

^ That’s joke, I know that not every tee can be (or should be) sub $20.

Costiness=$38 Tee Link Rumplo Link

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Tags » fake clothes • grey • paste • paste t-shirts • T-shirts