Perfect for the modern economic times we find ourselves in, this unique collaboration Tee is available exclusively from Urban Industry at www.urbanindustry.co.uk!
Entitled “WORK! EARN! SPEND!”, this exclusive tee plays on the notion of “Urban Industry” and the “City Worker”, and the endless treadmill of the rat race. Designed ahead of recent stock market volatility, the design is remarkably prescient of current economic times and the trouble city bankers now find themselves in, running to stand still.
With a half-tone newspaper-style print and retro shop-window graphics, the Ultrarama x Urban Industry collaboration tee puts a Sixties spin on the modern workplace.
Urban Industry have chosen Ultrarama! as the first brand to collaborate with.
I really like the way that the half-tone of the background image has the solid text running over it.
Costiness=£25 Buy it at Urban Industry
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
Mainstream brand alert! Mainstream brand alert!
Have no fear, I’ll get back to posting about stuff that is printed by some dude in a poorly-ventilated garage, but sometimes I’ve just gotta post this stuff.
Natterjacks are selling two very limited edition Adidas tracksuits, the first is a black and red leather (yes, a leather tracksuit) number based upon the 80s original, which would be perfect for completing your Run DMC cosplay outfit if you’re happy to hand over £550 ($1010) for it. Up next, a track jacket that actually has stainless steel woven into the thread, which is fairly clever, but rather pointless and gaudy. In their product description Natterjacks say they they only have a couple of these so they’ll go quick, but I get the feeling that they might be hanging around for a while with a £400 pricetag, unless I have seriously underestimated the amount of disposable income that rappers in the UK have going spare for bling.
Since I wouldn’t want you to come away from this post thinking “that was fun, but why not point I out something I should buy Andy, you handsome devil?” I’ve found (ok, that’s a lie, I got sent an e-mail about them, blogging is so easy sometimes!) 3 tees from the Adidas Originals range that are about as retro as their track suits cousins, but you might actually want to wear them. All three are available from Urban Industry for £24.50, which is probably a bit pricey for our buddies in the States, but actually pretty good going for a UK shop.
A couple of days ago I tagged a hoody by Addict to my del.icio.us thinking I might use it for a future post, and then just a couple of hours later, I get an e-mail from the good folks at Jungle Life told me to check out the new camo line from Addict. Great minds, eh?
I was actually going to highlight a different product, but I’ve gone off it a bit now, it feels a bit hip-hop to me, whilst the camo range is a bit more Ian Brown. At first I found myself not too into the whole camo thing, I don’t think it would suit me, but I can imagine it looking good on a lot of people, so this is my altruism for the day. There’s various styles available, but I picked this track jacket as an example.
Costiness= £64.99 (£5 cheaper than the official addict store…) from Urban Industry.
