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

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Lipstick Prophets are running a 50% and more off sale, but not on everything, just on the items that have naughty words on them. So, if you like telling people who’re walking behind you to ‘fuck off’, and wearing black, then your time is now, my friend. There’s no word on how long this sale will last, other than the notoriously vague phrase of ‘not long’.Lipstick Prophets Naughty Section

Decide what Pretty Hammer prints next

It’s an airplane, how would you vote for it?

As soon as I see the word ‘vote’ I almost always associate it with a design competition, but in this case you’re ‘just’ voting for what designs Pretty Hammer will be printing for their latest collection. I guess its a good way for them to separate the wheat from the chaff, and help to build some interest around new designs as well. So go on over, check out the designs and get some voting done, and don’t be polite about it, if you don’t like a design, vote that way, there’s no point in being nice if Pretty Hammer end up with a big pile of tees that people don’t really like.Pretty Hammer New Collection Voting

Ice Wizard by Seibei

David has put up a few new items and colourways into the Seibei store… rejoice!

The first thing to get refreshed is the Ice Wizard hoodie (which I first reviewed back in March last year) which is now available in a ‘Red Baron‘ colourway of red/white, and a there is also the ‘Blockhead edition‘ for those of you that have a yearning to look like a bumblebee. The new hoodies have drawstrings that match the vinyl trim colours too, which is cool because I know that there had been a problem with sourcing decent coloured drawstrings in the past.

I like to say stuff and eat things by Seibei

I like to say stuff and eat things” has been completely reworked and looks awesome, I really love the gradient print and putting it on a striped tee is a bold move, but I think it works pretty well.
Superpredators by Seibei

I can’t remember if ‘Superpredators’ is new or not, it might be the case that it has just been a work-in-progress for such a long time that I just presumed it had made its way into the store at some point. Either way, its a massive dinosaur on a t-shirt, and that can’t be a bad thing. [available in Mint or Pink]
Fierce by Seibei

Last but not least, there’s Fierce, which involves a three-headed dog wearing a gold chain, about to eat some diamonds… naturally.

Seibei

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I guess that 15 is the number of the moment since it seems to have been cropping up in a few of my posts recently, and when that 15 is the price of a tee than you’ve got to be pretty happy.

All the tees in Reverie’s store are on sale for the low price of $15 (down from $19), and their hoodie has been dropped to a very reasonable $25.

In older Reverie news, a couple of months ago they revamped their entire warehouse and fulfillment system, which meant that they became capable of handling a much larger quantity of traffic, which can only be a good thing for us customers.

Reverie Apparel

Slow Shirts hoodie

Slow Shirts are having a Spring Cleaning sale, I don’t know where they’re based (Guemes Island, Washington State… thanks Loris!), but Spring appears to have arrived a bit later there than everywhere else since most Spring Sales have been and gone by now. Still, bargains are bargain, and you can get $15 off their range of hoodies right now, which drops them down to an extremely reasonable $25. May I suggest you pick up this one with the engine parts on it?Slow Shirts

It would appear that Bill is going to be doing some downsizing over at Divine Clothing (two blog posts with ‘downsizing’ in the title tipped me off), meaning that he will be getting rid of some of his designs and cutting out hoodies altogether. International orders are also on the chopping block. So, if you want to get a hoodie or are a non-US resident that’s had an eye on something for a while, make your order sharpish before the opportunity passes you by.

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Divine Clothing Season Six collage

So guys, yes or no answer, is it creepy that I spent about 15 minutes making up that collage graphic that includes several pictures of a girl I’ve never met before (there are two pics of Bil in there too)? I’m used to posting pictures of models I’ve never met before, but there was something about making a collage that made me feel slightly stalker-ish.That’s neither here nor there, the important news is that Divine Clothing released their sixth season, which makes Bill somewhat of a veteran in this industry where new labels pop-up everyday. It’s generally a continuation of his earlier work, no major deviations from the style that he’s become known for. There are also a couple of new interpretations of older designs, such as this new take on ‘those who love are those who live’, which is pretty damned apt for today.

Tees cost $17, with the new hoody priced at $30, and I think they’re all printed on American Apparel stock.

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The people from Aiko got back in touch with me and I do have a resolution to my search, but I’m afraid it wasn’t quite the answer I was hoping for.

The only way you can buy original Aiko products is from two sources. The store run by the people behind Aiko in Amsterdam, or a store in Milan. Dang.

Well, I’ve always said I’d love to go back to Amsterdam…

*EXCITING UPDATE GOODNESS*
Dave Rambo found a webshop that has Aiko available online and posted the links in the comments section of the previous Aiko post. The cotton-y goodness can be found at Subnormals.com, I wonder if the guys that run Aiko know about it, and if so, why didn’t they tell me?