I admit that shamefully I haven’t checked the site of vintagevantage until they wrote me an email recently. Luckily they did. I filed them under “awesomely random funny stuff” immediately. And their offer to send me a sample nicely matched the fact that I wanted one of these really badly upon seeing it. It says “Real men don’t LOL” and what struck me about it was the combination of this rather stupid message using internet slang with its old-fashioned representation of pure manliness: a weightlifter, circa 1920 circus style. I’m not considering myself as the manliest dude around so I always wear this with a grin and a certain sense of irony.
My first impression when unwrapping it was: Wow, even cooler than I thought. The colors are more intense and luminiscent than it seems on the preview pictures on their site. Plus: the combination of yellow, orange and red on a creme colored shirt is just pretty.The details of the design come out beautifully - I always love this kind of ancient looking drawings in the style of old book illustrations or etchings. Its print is soft and barely noticeable with your fingers.
The shirt itself makes me a little skeptical. I can’t figure which shirts they used, apparently they make their own, but the fabric seems rather thin. I know from AA that a thin tissue does not automatically mean poor quality, but I hope this will be lasting quite long, since I am fully in love with this design and want to wear it a lot. Let’s trust them since they’re fond enough of the shirts to sell them as blanks and describe them as “buttery soft and thin loveliness“.
Get yours here, ladies and gents, or best check out all the fun stuff VV has to offer.
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