Hendricks’ Happy Birthday Sale at CollarFree.com

Jimmy Hendricks (perhaps one of the coolest names of all time) is celebrating his 28th birthday (oh to be youngish) by offering a whopping 28% off all tees, available at his fabulous t-shirt crowd sourcing site CollarFree.com. I’ve watched this company leap from strength to strength over the last year with a mix of fond admiration and a tinge of envy. If you’re going to run a successful t-shirt label, Collar Free offers a textbook story of achievement and expansion that’s sure to make any CEO raise an eyebrow. With a strong range of graphic tees, a faithful band of designers and fans, and a savvy technical and business team working all hours behind the scenes, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s as near to t-shirt nirvana as you can get.

First things first, happy birthday Jimmy, may your all your birthdays be celebrated with as much success if not more! It does make me wonder if Mr. Hendricks lives to a ripe old age will the discount climb with him? It’s a long time to wait, but I’m sure it’d be worth the wait to celebrate Jimmy’s centenary on the planet. Although I’m sure by then accounting department for his multi-million dollar global fashion corporation (yes - I’m sure it could be if we wait long enough), will be shaking their heads as they wheeled him to the retirement home. Back to the present, and despite the fact it’s his birthday, here’s Jimmy’s gift to all of you! Just pick what you like and punch in the code “28on28” at the checkout.

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Boston Tee Party @ Viva Ortegacy

My apologies to Dave Ortega of Viva Ortegacy for taking so long to get around to this, I’ve spent near enough a day tracking down links and information for another review that turned out to be rather a waste of time. The problem with receiving requests from PR agencies is they simply don’t know the industry as well as the designers they represent. to cut a long story short the site was great, professional, nice graphic designs, but they had no way of letting their readers buy their gear, well there was probably a phone number somewhere and perhaps they could take your credit card details, and they did have a few for sale in boutique in Georgia, but really, if you want a review, remember my readers are global, they need closure! Luckily Viva Ortegacy is a different story altogether, and then some.

Not only do have a shopping cart (phew) but what’s more they’re throwing a party, and it’s free, and there’s food and drink and everything you could imagine!! Okay maybe I’ve gone a little too far there, but it still sounds fun to me, although I maybe rather out of the loop here on the blustery wintry south coast of Britain. If you want to join in the fun be at The Grand, 374 Somerville Avenue, Union Square, Somerville, Boston on December 4th between 6pm and 8pm or be square!

Besides it will get you away from that damn screen, so if you’re not here, on the other side of the world then you really should join in the celebrations for Ortega’s new Tees of The Future. Now don’t ask me why they’re from the future, I’m sure Dave will have a convincing argument for you when you get there.

His latest offering is his Geoskullz Tee, which is available in both olive and brown, and for some strange reason remind me of Argyle patterns, yes you probably need to be me to see that one. Read the story »

Word Up To Word Apparel

Deamn Right! Here’s a fresh young label straight from the street for all you homies out there looking for something laid back yet sharp, slick but with a nice line in self-deprecating humour. Great for a night out downtown, or chillin’ with your bro’s, your first stop should be Word Apparel; created, owned and run by Levi based in Houston, Texas. His style, distinctly ghetto, his humour, toon surrealism with a great eye for colour and a great knack for one-liners. This t-shirt collection is not your usual funny ‘ha ha’ eclectic range of old tired japes you’ll normally come across. As you might (or might not) expect from the freshest of the fresh, there’s a distinct blend of the underground street about Word Apparel. Bold prints peppered with touches of pathos and cheek, backed up by an illustrative edge that any self-respecting graffiti artist would have to lay down his cap to, that’s the order of the day at WP. You should expect big things from this lad, and you won’t be disappointed…

As Levi puts it at his popular Myspace joint, “We are always doing something new, focusing on new items to release, and many more things. So check back everyday, you never know what you could miss out on if you don’t! We have your biggest concerns in mind: Quality, Comfort, a “true to size fit”, and LOOKIN’ GOOD! That’s why we only use the highest quality prints and shirts, American Apparel!” Read the story »

T-Shirt Writers Needed!

Do you love t-shirts? Do you love writing? If you’re a fan of Buy Tees, you’ll know our blog is one of the top independent t-shirt reviews blogs in the world. We are known for our in-depth and comprehensive articles on all the latest designers, labels and stores in the world of t-shirts. We require new writers to contribute to our blog, this is a non-profit resource, created and maintained purely for the love of tees, it takes a great deal of time and effort to maintain its content and so we are opening the doors to established and new writers seeking an avenue into the fashion industry.

Our only stipulations are that you can:-

Write entertaining and informative reviews and news related to t-shirts.

You have a passion for great design and have the ability to communicate your ideas for our readers.

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You can commit to at least two articles every week, and at least on of them will be a t-shirt label, designer, or online store review.

What you will receive in return:-

Great experience in fashion journalism.

A footer description and link to your own website in every article submitted successfully.

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Free Shipping at Vig Tees

If tou like funny tees, it seems everyone does these days, you’ll be glad to know that Vig Tees have just introduced a free shipping deal for all orders over $50. Get down there now and see if you can do with some Vig

Btw here’s a t-shirt that made me laugh (for once). If you know your history then I suppose it’s kind of bad taste, it depends if you personally remember the last World War or not :/

ImaHotTee.com - Takes The High Road

Before I get started, two things to mention, firstly the hilarious video we’re featuring at Buy-Tees.net this week, it stars the man, the brain, the frenzy of activity that is Mike Martin, the creator of I’m A Hot Tee (ImaHotTee.com). For more of his hilarious t-shirt related videos take a jaunt down to Mike’s little corner of Youtube.com

Secondly it’s Mike, I’ve rarely enjoyed an email (or five) as much as I have Mike’s. An intelligent, funny and at times inspiring chap who, as far as I can tell is about to make it big in Hollywood if his agent can sell the script, but don’t tell him I’ve mentioned this, he will most likely deny it, he’s a modest guy and besides it’s all extremely hush-hush you know? Such are the ways of La La Land.

On to the label itself. Mike is a fan of Buy Tees, and seeing as he’s just launched his new t-shirt company, I’m a Hot Tee (www.imahottee.com), he thought we could set him off to a good stead (we’ll do our best!). The ethos behind I’m A Hot Tee is a simple, but dare I say it, righteous one. Yet again I’m breaking one of my golden rules, I have two pet hates as far as t-shirts go. ‘Slogan tees’ and ‘funny shirts’. However Mike’s mission to provide a genuine alternative to the old school stores offering the same vulgar, crude, and just generally insulting shirts out there, and his intelligent and highly amusing personality swayed me.

Avoiding clichéd offensive shirts that I believe, most sane people, without a Meth habit, and not living in a trailer park, would most likely avoid. Let’s lay our cards on the table here, what kind of people can hold down a job and wear these expletive-loaded, hate everyone under the sun, bar brawler shirts anyway? Do they have a secret wardrobe? Perhaps there are special conventions for extremely bad taste t-shirt addicts. Do they sell well in the Summer, or is it just a Winter fancy to secrete beneath a thick sweater or two? Mike has a sound philosophy, he wants to sell t-shirts that everyone can wear, not teenagers who’ve decided they hate their parents and need to be forced out of the family nest in order to get some housing credits. I’m a Hot Tee’s slogan says it all - ‘Hot Tees You Can Take Home to Mom!‘ Read the story »

Spreadshirt Winter Vouchers

If you’re a Spreadshirt.com designer and want to help your customers get their holiday shopping done early, or you just want a quickie bargain then Spreadshirt are offering FREE UPS ground domestic US shipping.

Coupon codes:
USD$: WINTER48
CAD$: CADWWINTER48

*Minimum $30.00 order required. Offer available for domestic US shipping only.

Spreadshirt Voucher

Spreadshirt.com are offering a new promotion for October until the 31st.

For 20% off all tees include one of the following codes (depending if you’re in the USA or Canada - yes it seems like another corporation has decided to ignore the rest of us).

US: FALL28
CAN: CADFALL28

Make sure that you get your order in by the 31st and they want a minimum of $30 purchases which kind of takes the edge of the whole idea…

T-Shirt Advertising With a Twist

Now I don’t normally put the terms “genius” and “marketing” together in the same sentence, but if you’re after something a little different, no matter what your business, t-shirt related or not, here’s something out of the ordinary for you. Essentially Jason Sadler of Iwearyourshirt.com is renting out the upper-half of his body for the next year. You will be disappointed to find out that just about every day for next January (2009) has been sold out, and in a moment you’ll understand exactly why.

The beauty of Jason’s idea is simplicity, unlike the awful multi-level marketing scheme EyeEarn.com (I won’t even link to it :/) which seems to have a master plan of forcing the world to wear it’s grotty logo, yes everyone, the same shirt, (isn’t that more communist than capitalist?), Jason is prepared to do the modelling and marketing for you. Read the story »

T-Shirt Scammer

If you receive an email written in BOLD CAPITALS from Nigeria without any proper contact details you should most likely throw it in the trash. Take a look at this latest example of the dodgier side of the t-shirt industry. As I’ve mentioned before in this recent post if you’re running an independent t-shirt store and you happen to find your inbox filled with the following kind of urgent requests for stock ignore it, it’s just the latest scam, to be filed in your never to be read again trash, along with all those offers of a percentage of millions of dollars from Nigeria and other regions that need you to place their incredible valuable cheque in your bank account (for a small fee) before their king, president, or oil tycoon is shot by rebel forces. Read the story »