Ahhh, another day, another robot design, considering I only have one robot-based item of clothing (I think), I sure do write about them a lot, don’t I?

I also have a bit of a tendency to fall in love with hand drawn designs, so this tee has swept me off my feet on two counts. The designer (’epidemic’ in the BBT community) also has a pretty great gallery on DeviantArt.

Costiness=£13.99 (with free worldwide delivery!) Link

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Tags » American Apparel • Band Bang T-Shirts • deviantart • hand drawn • kizioko • robots • supernatural • white

Me&Yu, the Manchester-based fashion label that has a store in the delightfully bizarre Affleck’s Palace, released their Sping/Summer range fairly recently, and they encouraged me to check it out. Being a fan of all things Me&Yu, and most things Mancunian, check it out I did.

They’ve continued along the same theme of doing fairly weird things in a hand drawn style and having equally weird photoshoots (bigger product pics would be nice on detailed artwork though). I really like the green and grey colourway of this monster doodle hoodie (the pullover version), and I really like prints on hood linings as is shown in the zip-up version, and I get the feeling that I’d like the drawings too, but its a bit hard to make them out. Still, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that this is a cool design.

Costiness=£40/50 Links: Pullover/Zipper

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Tags » doodle • green • grey • hand drawn • hoodie • manchester • me&yu • monster • UK

Communism (especially the Soviet kind) seems to be a pretty popular draw for clothing designers, and whilst most of the designs and prints are pretty simple they do have a bit of charm, despite my constant reservations over politically aware clothing. On a side note, the novelty/retro Commie-clothing that I saw in Russia was far less attractive than any ‘Hammer & Sickle wear’ that I’ve seen coming out of the US, though we are going back a few years with my reference, so the Ruskies may be undergoing their own t-shirt revolution that I don’t know about.

Red Army Co is a company dedicated to putting iconic Soviet style images on well-priced items of clothing. It seems fitting that a company like this keeps their prices low, though I’m not sure what Lenin would think about them using Amazon to power their shop! They also seem to be very active within the skateboarding and music communities, if their news page is anything to go by.

Some of their designs are the pretty standard fayre, eagles, the colour red, yadda yadda yadda, but there are some more creative offerings as well, such as this Imperial Guard hoodie (also available as a tee or track jacket).

It’s a pretty cool design, with a largely hand-drawn style, and its refreshing to see a distinct lack of red in the design.

Costiness=$27.99 URL

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Tags » black • communism • hand drawn • hoodie • red army co • soviet

Sideline is a new-ish company out of the UK which offers talented young designers from around the world the opportunity to display their ideas on peoples chests. Nowadays that would usually mean a Threadless style contest, but they’ve gone down more of the Oddica route and are keeping it exclusive, very exclusive actually, they have just three designers at the moment. And those three designers are of a high calibre, I don’t know anything about their backgrounds but I do like all the tees. They all have a simple calmness to them, there isn’t too much colour, and the designs are too busy. They’ve also got some interesting placement options (so it’s not just on your chest!), which I always like to see, tees with everything in the middle can look a bit standard sometimes.

They also sell some artworks created exclusively for Sideline by Rob Malpensa, oh, and a skateboard deck that is probably meant to be hung on a wall rather than grinded on.

Costiness=£24 ($40 €40) URL

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Tags » blue • hand drawn • line • sideline • t-shirt • UK

This is the first of what I hope will become a regular feature where I ask respected members of the blogosphere, designers, my friends, and anyone who e-mails what their favourite hoody or piece of arm hiding apparel is.

The first person to be kind enough to get involved was the teejunkie from teejunkie.com. I’ve been a fan of his blog for a long time, so it’s great that he’s taken some time out during the re-modelling of his site to let us know what take pride of place in his wardrobe…

the winner is… my “Wot?!” hoody. It’s got all the goods. Excellent hand drawn artwork that is very well reproduced. It’s by Bucket’o’Thought - http://www.bucketothought.com/prod.htm and it’s as soft as a bucket of titties. Probably the softest I’ve ever had, even after maybe a dozen washes. (purchase it though Nice Produce - http://niceproduce.com )

Soft as a bucket of titties! Well how could I not want to buy it? I like his choice too, it’s hand-drawn, yet the artist has drawn it as if it was through a fisheye lens, awesome.

Costiness=$120 (don’t worry, that’s Australian dollars), £50 to us Brits, which is roughly $90 USD. Clearly there’s more money in blogging tee’s than hoodies!

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Tags » Australia • grey • guestpost • hand drawn • hoodie • teejunkie

I’m sure posting an item by a big-name designer is kinda counter-productive for the blog’s ideology, but I call ‘em like I see ‘em, so todays designer is… Paul Frank.

Name checked by Kaitlin ‘is definitely 14‘ & Marissa ‘how much more crap could happen in her life’ Cooper in the O.C. a couple of weeks back, he’s probably now experiencing a Death Cab-esque indie backlash (whilst sitting in a hot tub full of money), but I don’t really mind, because that hoody over there looks good.

I may be a strat kind of a guy, but I’d allow myself to wear a bass, it has that really simple hand-drawn style to it, kind of like wearing an idea rather than a product.

Costiness= $58 from Karmaloop, use the voucher code ICE to get free shipping in the U.S. ($5 off shipping for international orders). $58 ain’t that bad, I dunno what Kaitlin was on about saying they couldn’t afford it, they’ll be living with Dr Roberts in a couple of weeks anyway!

*EDIT* more money-saving goodness, get a $10 gift voucher for joining their mailing-list.

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Tags » black • hand drawn • hoodie • monochrome • Paul Frank • The OC