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Ryz

lilah wild — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:11:55 +0000

A vote-on-the-best-graphic catalog where the usual call for t-shirt submissions gets the rare treatment of shoe design. It’s mostly skate-style canvas slip-ons and a couple of thick-soled low-tops for now – disappointingly, the high-tops section is empty at the time of this review – but good for tastes that run towards the spacey and scientific, splashed with a little pop art. And if you *must* submit a tee image, they do those, too.

Shirt Fight

lilah wild — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:47:31 +0000

A t-shirt catalog that appears at first glance to be crowdsourced, with two shirts pitted against each other for design supremacy, but clicking through reveals all items are purchasable, not just the winners. Which doesn’t really matter, if you’re a fan of artsy full-frontal nouveau-cartoon-street art printed up in men’s and women’s fits.

Spraygraphic

lilah wild — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:23:00 +0000

The retail arm of a creative community for art/design/video.music/writing-minded people. Most of the site is devoted to social networking through bands and coffee shops and art galleries and such, but they do have some tees, tanks, longsleever, and polo dresses decorated with art of the street-pop variety: grenade brains, bright sprouts of dandelions, a lone lightning bolt striking from a crowd of clouds, a great place to pick up a hoodie that frames the cleavage in monkey wrenches.

KittyVamp Designs

lilah wild — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:43:48 +0000

Tees chopped up and stitched back together into hoodie tops, off-the-shoulders, halters, minidresses, and strapless sweethearts backed with corset lacing, often panelled with pops of plaid and zebra. Shopping by band reveals a promiscuous array that’s very heavy on the metal, spiced here and there with punk and classic rock, and if you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’re invited to send in a shirt of your own.

T-Shirt Bordello

lilah wild — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:00:07 +0000

A snarky tee catalog filled with pop culture remixes, retro-seventies lowbrow pride, and geekery of the “don’t phase me, bro” variety. There’s the usual Hoff-hassling and More Cowbell and Pedro-voting stuff, but flavored strongly with undead goodness and Star Wars ridiculum. And! They have zombie outbreak barricade tape.

Berserk Clothing

lilah wild — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:58:00 +0000

Fashion to fight in! A catalog of darkwear that turns out cute’n'evil cotton suitable for rollerderby and other lively pursuits that might involve a bloody nose. The dresses take their shapes from cheerleader and army uniforms, the skirts are emblazoned with polarized skulls, and if you’ve ever felt the burning need to sport handguns across the ‘tocks, this is your store. Knuckle rings, lightning bolts, and medical crosses make up the jewelry section, the armwarmers smother everything from elbow to wrist in brass knuckles, and they stock the footwear trifecta of Demonia, Pleaser, and Bordello.

Cats Like Us

lilah wild — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:19:51 +0000

A rockabilly-pinup-greaser-retro webstore that stocks a lot of smaller brands alongside the better-known works of Switchblade Stiletto, Stop Staring, and Lux DeVille: Cupcake Provacateur’s aprons and poodle potholders, Heartbreaker Fashion’s halter dresses, surreal hot-rod tees from Gasoline Gallery and King Kerosin, flower barrettes from Zombetty Bows, Hawleywood’s hair pomade, lava mugs from Tiki Farm, jewelry from El Dorado club, a good range that covers everything from chic glittery bags to Frankenstein socks. Thanks, Dolly!

Finroo

lilah wild — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:31:40 +0000

A crowdsourced catalog of arty tees, full of graffiti-surf-skate imagery with dedicated pages for the skulls and guns. It’s a pretty mixed bag, the elegant and evil and insane printed on organic bamboo and limited to runs of 200 each. It’s almost all white backgrounds for now – other colors, hopefully black among them, are on the way.

SativaBags.com

lilah wild — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:12:14 +0000

A catalog that takes the trendy, hardware-loaded shoulder bags of mainstream fashion and does them over in hemp. The shiny
O-rings, the cargo pockets, the buckle-over-zip fastenings – all present, as well as cute satchels and laptop bags. Also hoodies and tees, baby clothes, and bath and body goods that bring hemp into the realm of spa pampering.

MushyCat

lilah wild — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:29:01 +0000

An avalanche of feminist-queer-vegan-antiwar-craft-geek-pop culture buttons that will easily suck an hour out of your life once you start browsing. Sweet, acidic, hilarious, a witty and utterly fantastic array of one-inch sentiments to scatter across a jacket or handbag. They can also be made into stickers, some of them are available as t-shirts, and apparently the undies section will be returning soon.

Sweet n’ Sour Tees

lilah wild — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:37:45 +0000

Big, big catalog of retro tees from Junk Food, all the bands and cartoons and highly sugared snacks imprinted upon the consciousness of 80’s childhoods spent in front of the TV. Not only do they have plenty of stuff for men and women, but kids and infants have sizeable sections of their own to ensure the next generation gets their minds warped on Hanna-Barbera.

My Baby Rocks

lilah wild — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:05:59 +0000

Skull-slathered wears for wee ones, browsable by infants, toddlers, and kids, with maternity and daddy stuff too. The navigation categories include punk, band stuff, goth, rockabilly, 80’s retro, geekery, and other hard-to-find flavors, so this is your shop if you’ve been dying to pick up a baby bat hoodie, a boombox-emblazoned playdress, or a pair of teeny tattooed high-tops.

My Two Cents Clothing

lilah wild — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:52:08 +0000

Original tees loaded with pirates-guns-skulls-beer-good times sentiments, where rockabilly’s iconography gets smashed over punk grime with a few tattooed knuckles lurking at the edges. Hoodies, babydolls, tanks, tote bags, pins and patches are all emblazoned with various madnesses, with hats and belt buckles proudly flaunting the one-finger salute.