Monthly Archive for November, 2007

Good Tees Come In Threes At Enclothe

If you haven’t already, you should really check out Enclothe’s new winter line: two hoodies and three t-shirts ripe for the pickin’! Er, well—that phrase isn’t really appropriate to the season, is it? Two hoodies and three t-shirts ready, uh—ready for the figurative picking of gifts for the upcoming designated non-denominational gift-giving-and-receiving time period! Oh, you know what I mean. Check ‘em out:


Battles at Enclothe: $19.00

Looks like a belligerent mechanical military menace decided to start some trouble with the Sleeping Giant’s cousin, the Outraged and Battle-Ready Giant. His friends call him Eddie. I’ve always liked Enclothe’s balance of ornateness and clarity in their designs, as many other stores fall into the trap of favoring one over the other. Good to see Battles carrying the proper-balance-torch.


Falconeer at Enclothe: $19.00

I’ll leave you guys with the appropriately blustery Falconeer, a permanent reminder of the precarious relationship between Old Man Winter and falcons. You know how you can’t see a polar bear in a snowstorm? The Falconeer’s falcon can see that bear. If you’re looking for something to educate the children of tomorrow in the days where falcons and winter have gone extinct, this shirt is for you. It is a very cool shirt (pun intended).

You can see all three designs—as well as the hoodies—for yourself at Enclothe’s main page. When you pre-order one of the hoodies, you’ll be saving five bucks and receiving an exclusive Enclothe Sticker Pack. And when you pre-order one of the shirts—you’ll be pre-ordering a sweet shirt! These designs are being sold as pre-orders until November 20th, so keep that in mind! Don’t allow Time to inspire complacency: order immediately!

Link: [Enclothe]
Expensiveness: $19.00 for shirts, $40.00 for hoodies

Shirts On Sale: Aggregation With A Smile

It’s getting harder and harder to hold onto your cash these days—the number of t-shirt manufacturers producing new designs each day continues to rise. Kind of. T-shirt enthusiasts “in the know” should be plenty familiar with the most popular of them: Unetee, Shirt.Woot, and ShirtADay, namely.

John, I am so confused, you howl in exasperation. You expect me to keep track of three whole stores that update every single day? There has to be a better way!

Fret no more, citizen. Behold the mighty Shirts On Sale, the answer to your shirtish woes!

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Although this isn’t a photograph of the Shirts on Sale crew, they posted it on their About Page. Might as well follow suit!

Shirts on Sale doesn’t limit its t-shirt coverage to just those three online stores, though. They’re also keen on publishing sales from around the web whenever they can. If you know a store that’s slashing prices to an incredible degree, be sure to let them know at shirtsonsale [at] allgoodshirts [dot] com!

And, you know, the site doesn’t limit itself to a mindless aggregation of shirts and sales, either. Each featured t-shirt is accompanied by keen and reasoned commentary, sometimes jocular and sometimes critical. You should check it out! Before it’s too late. Go. Go now.

Link: [Shirts on Sale]

Fantastic Bonanza Free T-Shirt Contest IX: Bloodlust With A Vengeance

It’s been seven days since the start of the month. You know what that means! What time is it?!

TIME FOR A FREE T-SHIRT CONTEST

With eighteen entrants last month, it sure took a lotta slogging and culling to find an Ultimate Contest Winner, but we couldn’t pass up Joshua Sharp’s deftly crafted press release. So he won the contest! All of last month’s entries can be seen at last month’s contest page.

This month, there are two prompts, with one free t-shirt going to the best entry in each category!

Prompt number one: As accurately as you can, use up to six adjectives to describe Fantastic Bonanza’s t-shirts.

Prompt number two: Describe the kind of person who would buy a Fantastic Bonanza t-shirt in six adjectives or less.

I should probably emphasize that we do want answers that have some basis in reality. For example, a wild and crazy answer like “obsequious, brumous, and Rhadamanthine” would not be so great. This is not to discourage imagination, of course! We just want truthful answers instead of “truthful” answers. You know?

Feel free to answer both prompts! You might even win two t-shirts. Just be sure to make clear which answers correspond to which prompt so things don’t get confusing for us. Also, be sure to leave your email address behind when you fill in those comment fields so we can contact you if you win!

This contest is lame. New contest here!

Part HYA*, Part mimoco, All Awesome

I’m sure you’re all abundantly familiar with Hide Your Arms*, that exceptional t-shirt blog authored by the owl-eyed Andy. If you’re not familiar with HYA*: A) you’re a horrible person, B) the preceeding description pretty much covered the important points, C) I guess you’re not actually all that horrible.

Anyhow, Andy announced a contest of epic proportions this past Wednesday: Hide Your Arms* is teaming up with mimoco in order to host an illustration contest to end all illustration contests.

Hold on, John, you are saying. Just hold on a ding-dang-doggone minute now. What is mimoco, exactly? Well, most of their activities revolve around manufacturing designer USB-flash-drive-toy-monster-things called mimobots:

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Owsley Owlbert, part of the mimobot Core Series 2 lineup. If you’re interested, check out the Halo and Star Wars lineups while you’re at it.
Now that that’s out of the way, what are the rules for this auspicious contest? Andy lays it down on the line:

There are three tees from mimoco’s new apparel line up for grabs and all you have to do to win is create an illustration with a mimobot in it. Yeah, it’s that simple. Let your imagination go wild, draw anything you want in any style you want, just make sure it involves a mimobot in some way. You can feel free to incorporate Hide Your Arms into the illustration too, but that isn’t a submission requirement.

Please send your submissions, preferably in a .jpg format and under 1MB in file size, along with your t-shirt size and mailing address to the following e-mail address: competitions [at] hideyourarms [dot] com or, in case that e-mail doesn’t work for some reason info [at] hideyourarms [dot] com.

Be sure to get those submissions in by midnight (GMT) on November 21st, Bonanza Cadets! Because that’s when, you know, the contest ends. Get to it and win those mimoco t-shirts for your own self!

Link: [Mimoco Apparel x HYA* Illustration Contest]

Mama Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away

To say that the retro/70s-style t-shirt look is “overdone” is something of an understatement. It would perhaps be more accurate to say that it has been done, overdone, well-done, burnt to a crisp, and turned into a smoldering hunk of charcoal. However, this does not mean we should discount all things done in this style! Case in point:


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Kodachrome is one of the two Paul Simon songs I have on my iTunes playlist (the other is You Can Call Me Al). So it would probably be a bit of a stretch to call me a Paul Simon fan, but I certainly am a fan of Kodachrome at Spectral Apparel

See? This shirt proves that as long as you refrain from making lame puns or painfully blunt pop culture references, your 70s-style shirt can be done with refreshing grace and class! Kudos to you, Spectral Apparel!

Spectral also has some other really nice offerings, such as this wonderful addition to our growing collection of eye-related t-shirts:


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Eye Contact at Spectral Apparel

Sure, it’s a little creepy, but that just makes it all the more endearing, no?

Anyway, be sure to take a look at the rest of Spectral’s offerings—they’re quite nice, and sure to please.

Link: [Spectral Apparel]
Expensiveness: $20

Savin’ Money at Design by Humans

Even though the members-only 25% off sale at Design by Humans is over, that doesn’t mean it’s too late to save!

Just use coupon code VTTKHC for 15% off until 11/8 on amazing t-shirts like The Ultimate T-Shirt:

The Ultimate T-Shirt - Olly Moss - Design by Humans

Link: [Design by Humans]
Expensiveness: $15-$24

People Like Us Has Some New T-Shirts, Dude(tte)s

You heard me. You heard me loud and clear: five new shirts have been released over at People Like Us! Whoaah, that means five new opportunities to decide whether you really want to spend money on clothing! Awesome, I love those opportunities.

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Three, Thanks, Les Sharpe at People Like Us: $69.00 AUD (approx. $51.75 USD)

This would have to be my favorite of the quintet, if only for its endearing simplicity. It’s apparently inspired by Bjork’s “All Is Full Of Love” music video, but, well, I don’t listen to Bjork, so the reference falls on deaf ears (no pun intended). Good thing I like the design regardless, though! That’s what we in the biz call “good t-shirt designingness.”

This is only one of the five new shirts offered by these auspicious Aussies, though, so don’t forget to check out the rest. Until next time!

Link: [People Like Us]
Expensiveness: $69.00 AUD (approximately $51.75 USD)