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


Okay, I guess that quite a lot of you might be turned off by this design having the brand’s name plastered across it in rather large writing, but I think that the term ‘drop dead’ is fairly generic, so most people wouldn’t confuse you for a walking billboard if they saw you wearing this hoodie.

Otherwise, Drop Dead Clothing seem like a pretty decent find, and they’re British! The site is frustratingly-Flashy, so you’ll have to navigate your own way to the hoodie (which is available for both guys and girls, by the way), but it should be too hard to find.

Costiness=£35 Buy it at Drop Dead Clothing


Its good to see someone starting their halloween special early enough that you can actually order the items and have them delivered before your pumpkin is starting to rot, and that’s exactly what Lazy Oaf are doing, here are the full details:

Are you bored of being nice? Do you dare to scare? Us too, which is why we are putting all our of our most terrifying T’s and sweats down to an extra special price just in time to freak out your friends for Halloween.

Check out our spookaliscious selection of T-shirts now at the NEW CHEAP PRICE of £15 and our Vamp Lips sweatshirt at JUST £25, FANGTASTIC!!!

THIS SEASONS SHELL SHOCKERS

RIB TICKLER GIRLS/BOYS T-SHIRT – Give Mr. Donnie Darko a run for his money in our favourite gruesome classic letting your friends see what you’re really like on the inside.

VAMP LIPS GIRLS/BOYS T-SHIRT– Here’s a T to really get your teeth into. Caution: keep away from the garlic!

WEREWOLF BOYS T-SHIRT – It’s close to midnight and something evils lurking in dark…it’s you boys in this in this scary Mary T, howwwwwwlllllll!

VAMP LIPS GIRLS/BOYS SWEATSHIRT - Flash your fangs in this nightmarish number.

So hurry up and get your claws on one of these haunting treats and we can guarantee that you’ll send all the trick or treater’s running which means more sweets for you!!! This offer runs right up until the day of the dead itself, which for those of you who don’t know is 31st October!

Also check out our newly updated Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/lazyoaf and take a look at more snaps from our Twist of Fete and other events…you never know you might just spot yourself on there too!

Wasn’t that a fun press release!

Lazy Oaf


This isn’t the kind of style that I’d usually associate with MHI (better known as Maharishi), but it looks pretty good. The spark plug design is a bit average, but the other two are fairly clever and innovative, its not particularly often that you see someone employing an X-Ray style look on a tee.

Costiness=£34 (yeah, each) Buy them at Urban Industry


Keeping things in the UK for a second post in a row (up next, a t-shirt with black pudding on it!… sorry, that isn’t true) here’s the latest tee from one of my favourite UK labels/art galleries/publishers, Concrete Hermit.

You know a tee must be funny when it makes Concrete Hermit’s usually straight-faced sweatband-wearing model laugh, and I do think that it’s a really fun looking tee. I liked the tee when I saw the front, but when I saw that the print went through to the back it went from being a good t-shirt to a great t-shirt.

Costiness=£25 Buy it at Concrete Hermit


Here’s the latest and greatest from the robot-lovers over at Terratag, this time around they’ve got Tokyoplastic to do the designing for them, and I think he’s done a pretty tidy job. The mix between the halftones and the solid-colour blood splashes works really well.

Costiness=£20 Buy it at Terratag


Diogo Machado (aka add fuel to the fire) is yet another artist I’d never heard of but will be trying to keep an eye on in the future because he’s “got mad skillz” when it comes to creating cute characters and crazy typography, as this design that he’s done for Yes No Maybe attests.

Costiness=£29 (t-shirt) £46 (sweatshirt) Buy It here


EIO Clothing, who you may well have noticed started advertising on HYA a couple of days ago (and isn’t it a pretty ad?), have just launched their freshly designed website. Considering they’re called ‘Excess is OK’ the website is pretty minimal, but I like it, everything is within easy reach and the look follows EIOs signature style.

They’ve also released a new collection of tees and hoodies that are very much worth a look.

EIO Clothing


It always nice to get an e-mail from Concrete Hermit because it reminds me that no matter how many American companies I cover, we do have some great brands here in the UK that are doing us proud.

Their latest designs are from Jon Burgerman, Jody Barton, Supermundane, Mark Taplin, Phil Ashcroft, PYKY Studio, Ian Stevenson & Andrew Rae. I also put their eBoy design into the gallery because I just really like eBoy.

Concrete Hermit


Last month I wrote a post a post about Squishi that was ’somewhat’ enthusiastic, when a person claims that they want to hug a brand in the title of the post, they’re clearly setting their hopes pretty high. I realised when I was offered a sample from Squishi that I may have put them up on a bit of a pedestal, and that the reality might end be disappointing, they are run almost entirely by a guy called Will & his six colour screen printing machine, which would leave me having to write a review that I didn’t want to…


… but we all know I’m a showman, right? I’m not going to spoil the big reveal yet. I love the design, I’d never heard of Drew Millward (the artist) before, but it turns out that he knows how to draw. Big time. There’s a lot going on, but I think that Drew gets away with it by making the design so fun and cute. Yep, all that blood and I think its fun and cute, the Andy-man has turned dark. The colourway works really well too, I can’t wear this since its a size large (Squishi don’t do XL yet), but I think this is one of the few designs with a lot of pink (and neon pink at that) on them that I’d actually wear.


I know I teased before, but come on, you never really doubted it, did you? The quality is great. The stock tee is an American Apparel blank, so there’s no surprises there, and the print quality is good too. It’s a pretty detailed print, with lots of small pieces and lines that could have easily tripped up team Squishi, but they’re passed the printing test with flying colours, and when it comes to this tee, some of those colours actually are flying. There’s a custom tag sewn in as well, which always gives a nice professional touch.

Costiness=£15 Buy it here


Americans might still hate the prices, but at least they won’t have to worry about shipping costs from British premium tee retailer Roktic this month. They stock some great brands such as CTRL, Wemoto and Le Sucre, and a few others that I haven’t got excited about on HYA before.

Roktic

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