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

Like Godzilla? Like Mothra? Like Ghidrah? Like Gigan? Got $32 spare?

Good, you can get 4 tees with those monsters on for just $32 (… $8 per tee) as part of Cotton Factory’s Tokyo Pack. Personal I think that Tokyo Destruction Pack would have been slightly more accurate, but I don’t argue with bargains!

Costiness=$32 Link

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Tags » black • brown • cotton factory • ghidrah • gigan • godzilla • green • grey • monster • mothra • pack • red • t-shirt

JC has been getting all anthropomorphic on us, dropping three new designs on us that all involves kitchen appliance’s getting their own back. As ever, great style, funny images (yeah, I said funny, nothing scares the Andy!), and you can still get a free scarf ($35.99 value) if you spend more than $100, which is about 3 tees in Cupcake land.

Costiness=$35.99 Link (Kitchen monster designs are currently occupying the top row of the shop)

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Tags » anthropomorphic • boston • food • green • grey • johnny cupcakes • kitchen • monster • t-shirt • white

This tee is an oldie-but-goodie. Well, old in terms of tee design, its probably not more than a couple of years old. Don’t you think that it would be really cool if you went to a cinema where they were showing something in 3D and everyone was wearing the glasses in the cinema, then you walked in late and everyone got freaked out by your tee?
Fair enough, that would be a pretty extreme reason to purchase a t-shirt, unless perhaps you worked at a 3D cinema and they had casual Fridays, but it doesn’t stop the tee from being cool even when you haven’t got the glasses on. In their description, Heavy Rotation say that the tee is light grey, but to me it looks more like a powder blue, so who knows whats going on.Costiness=$28 Link

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Tags » 3D • blue • heavy rotation • loch ness • monster • sea

Yay, another British shop to promote! Lazy Oaf have one of the oddest web-designs that I’ve seen for a long time, it’s like a site made by hand rather than computer, but luckily it just makes me like the brand more; even if their models do look a bit depressing, big, hand drawn balding guys with bad comb overs, it’s like me looking into the mirror in 40 years (apologies to the Lazy Oaf if it’s a self-portrait).

The invading monster sweatshirt really stood out to me as one of their best items, which earns it the coveted HYA picture spot.

Costiness=£45 (including p&p if you’re in the UK),

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Tags » blue • lazy oaf • monster • Sweater