This tee is surprisingly awesome considering it seems to have come from the pun that Superman and superstitious both have ’super’ at the start of the word. The ‘S’ effect appears fairly subtle on the detailed view, which worried me a little, but it’s actually pretty pronounced with that familiar red and slightly less familiar ‘every other colour in the world ever’ colourway on the promo shot up top, which calmed my fears. Isn’t it odd that I was worried by the second picture in LaFraise’s blog post when I obviously saw the top picture first?Costiness=€22 Link

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Tags » blue • France • lafraise • logo • Mens • movies • parody • superman • superstitious • T-shirts • Womens

I’m not sure how well this one will translate since I get the feeling that Haynes manuals might only be a British thing. For the uninitiated, Haynes produce manuals for lots of different cars (pretty much anything with an engine in it) so that people can do jobs on there cars that would otherwise have required a potentially costly trip to the local garage. I’ve got one for my little red beast (it looks just like this one, except a bit more battered and bruised), and it has helped me identify problems with it a few times. I really like the idea of Haynes mashup tees, they’re ripe for parody and famous robots or spaceships from science fiction provide decent fodder for them, as this R2D2 design attests.

Costiness=£13.32 Link

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Tags » blue • funny • Haynes • mashup • Mens • parody • R2D2 • redbubble • star wars • T-shirts • Womens

I don’t own much Bape (okay, just a mook and a small fleece blanket), but I still like to keep my eye on A Bathing Ape since they do help change the direction that streetwear heads. Being parodied is par for the course when you in the top of your field like A Bathing Ape are, and this ‘A Bathing Abe’ tee is a really great example of it. I guess that if you wanted to go with a ‘funny’ angle then the designer could have put a towel on honest Abe’s head (in that almost magical way that only women can achieve for some reason), but I guess that would have taken away from the purity of the parody, and probably worsened the tee overall, which I guess is why I write about tees and don’t design them!Costiness=£10 Link (also available in a badass gold foil on black colourway)

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Just because England can never beat Sweden at football (by which I mean the version where people use their feet rather than their hands) doesn’t mean I have anything against them, hell, I thought Stockholm was freakin’ awesome when I went there a few years ago. And now I’m e-returning to Svenska via the caliroots store, which I had presumed would be based in California, but I guess its just the clothes that have roots in American culture…

… Much like this track jacket from MHI which is inspired by a movie called ‘The Warriors’, which I’ve never seen, but with an IMDB rating of 7.3 it might be worth a rental. I don’t want to get off track here, but there is another film called ‘Warriors‘ (starring Gary Busey) that came up when I was searching, and one of the users comments was “really bad, even for a Canadian film”. Ok, now back to the track jacket.

I think you’ll agree that it’s a pretty bold design, and I like the font in a spray-paint can kind of a way, and the style of the map is cool, with the messy outline drips contrasting with the tourist-information-esque pictures of the subway cars. And on the front of the jacket there is an MHI/The Warriors logo mashup on the left breast.

Costiness=799 SEK (about 111 US Dollars, which kinda shocked me as being a bit high) URL

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Tags » black • caliroots • logo • MHI • movies • parody • the warriors • Track Jackets