Winky Boo Tees

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Winky Boo is a new t-shirt label, based in the U.S, born of the love and imagination of a doting grandfather for his three playful grandchildren which he nicknamed Winky, Boo Boo and Princess. The brand is a one-woman testament to the wonder of playful imagination we have all experienced in our childhood. Amy. L. Fielder’s given moniker was “Princess” due to her habit of wearing every piece of jewellery she owned (including a crown) wherever she went, her siblings were named “Winky” after her performance as a flying monkey in The Wizard of Oz, and the youngest of the three, “Boo”, after the long suffering conscience of Yogi Bear’s friend/confident Boo Boo The Bear.

Winky Boo is a fitting testament to the wonder of childhood, and a reminder that no matter how old we are in years, we can all feel young again if we merely view the world as we did in those golden days of wonder, when everything we saw and touched was transformed by the power of a youthful imagination. Life’s tapestry is weaved from experience both joyous and painful, but those first few years of innocent play are something that the cynicism of modern society has managed to forget, and Winky Boo is a fine example of how we can once again recapture that wonder of our youth.

Asides the very sweet sentiment, Winky Boo does have a lovely in-house style, with its first three tees in the collection you can already tell they’re going to be popular. They remind me somewhat of the fantastical artwork of The Beatles’ movie Yellow Submarine (one of my all-time faves), rich in colour, and exuding an all pervading sense of youth and vigour that many out there can only find in a bottle of Botox these days. There are four more designs being lined up for the collection as we speak, you can get a sneak preview of them all at Winky Boo’s Facebook page. But for now, let’s take a look at these outstanding examples of what’s in store at Winky Boo.

Jester Tee

Available for men and women in sizes S to XL at $24.99 each, a rather wonderful depiction of a jester, something I used to find rather scary as a kid (oh well each to their own :p). Beautiful colours and line, a little like the “Blue Meanies” meets Victoriana, stylish too!

Elephant Tee

Available for women in sizes S to XL at $24.99 each, as cute as cute can be, who wants a water fight? Yay. With an elephant? Hmmm, where’s that super soaker…

Hats Tee

Available for men in sizes S to XL at $24.99 each, a plethora of mad hatters for your delight, a great design for all those who want to get ahead in life heh. I’d tip mine to Amy if I wore one myself.

If you’d like to know more about Wink Boo tees then pop on over to www.winkyboo.com, or hook up with them at Facebook and Twitter.

The Sick Kids

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The Sick Kids is a streetwear brand launched in South London during the Summer of 2009 by comedy female rapper Kelly Jackson aka Jackson Kid, who makes up one third of ‘The Sick Kids’ alongside her sister Lele [SPEAKS], who is also a published solo artist through EMI Records. [SPEAKS] set out on her own, fresh from finishing up at ‘the Brit school of arts’ in Croydon and started working with various random producers making beats and sending them over to her on Myspace, as well as collaborating with her rapper boyfriend ‘Worthless’ and their beat maker friend ‘Pig Man Dan’, recording on basic home studio equipment and software.

It was whilst performing gigs that she and her sister came up with a few t-shirts for a show in Camden Town, it wasn’t long before the team branched off into t-shirt design, and what started as band merchandise has now become a fully fledged indie t-shirt label. The Sick Kids’ influences include a love of street fashion and music, from hip-hop sportswear to punk rock studs and denim… from cartoons, Disney, and comedy to horror, TV, the news, film, the 80’s and 90’s, toys, photography, churches, graveyards, junk food, crooked teeth and Rosehill Council Estate.

Here’s a few tees from their first collection, all are available for girls and guys in all sizes at £16.99 (some are a little cheaper)…

Ghost Kid Tee

Available in 3 colours for girls and guys.

Puppet Kids Tee

Wasteman Tee

I’m a big fan of ‘bad’ rap, the funnier the better, The Sick Kids might not be at the level of hilarity of say GLC and The Lonely Island, but considering their lo-tech roots this track is pretty impressive too:

If you fancy keeping updated with everything from the Sick Kids stable then you can hook up with them at Twitter, Facebook and Myspace.

Aaitski! T-Shirt Contest

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Our pals at Aaitski! Coolafied Clothing are holding an exclusive free t-shirt contest this August through Buy Tees, so if we’ve wet your appetite in the past and you fancy winning three of their highly original cartoon character t-shirts for yourself or your kids then here’s the lowdown…

Simply answer one question correctly and send it along with your size, name, address, email and phone number. The competition question is…

What is the creative alter ego of  ‘The Aaitski! Bros.’ ?

(Either the names, the url or both).

The contest ends on the 31st of August and the winner will be selected randomly via Random.org. Send your winning answer and details to us via our contact form or email us and you’ll have a chance at winning three freebie tees by the Aaitski Bros. Here’s a couple of tees to remind you of their signature style…

Ninjaboy Tee

Party Girl Tee

So get cracking and find the answer (which is at their site www.aaitski.com) today!

Discounts at Aaitski

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The super cute Aaitski t-shirt label, famed for it’s cartoon character tees for kids and, well, ‘big kids’, is offering discounts galore. If you’ve got the World Cup blues, I don’t even like football normally yet I’m sharing in the national grief we’ve experience in England after being beaten (yet again) by the Germans, then don’t worry, you can get 15% off all Afroboy tees at www.Aaitski.com until the final match on the 11th of July.

What’s more Aaitski have kindly offered Buy Tees readers a permanent discount on their whole range of iconic tees, whatever sporting disaster you might cope with in the future you can always cheer yourself up with a 10% discount. Just enter TWITSKI at the checkout and save some dosh!

All of their tees are manually silk screen-printed in Belgium to a very high quality, If you’ve got kids or are a big kid at heart then Aaitski are here for you! Normally available at €25 each you can get any of their shirts at Let’s take a look at some of their latest designs. Prepare to be supercutified:

All these and more are on offer to kids (up to 12 years) and big kids (S-XL) for €22.50 (with the Buy Tees 10% discount). See the rest today at www.Aaitski.com!

Happy Birthday Justin Hustlin

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It’s the mad and bad toon t-shirters Justin Hustlin‘s 1st Birthday & they’re offering up a new collection and are having a party to celebrate their first year in business.

If you’re in London on Saturday 12.12.09 you’re welcome to pop along to their Xmas bash at the newly refurbished Hustlin’s Bakery, but be prepared for disappointment as i’d lay good money down the place will be packed before early evening! The address is at the Hustlin Bakery, 68a Merton High Street, London SW19 1BE. Click here for event details. On the night music and big tunes will be provided iamsarahyoung.com and Jammy from 8pm – late. There will also be a special catering service provided by Shacky Sweet-Tooth consisting of crates of Ros√© and delicious cakes so make sure you arrive early for that. Do bring a bottle btw!

The big event coincides with a new collection of limited edition T-shirts that will be made available on the day. Inspired by early 80′s & 90′s arcade/console classics, from Nes to Neo Geo, Space Invaders to Street Fighter 2, Justin Hustlin will be presenting its latest series entitled ‚ÄòSince 81′ series. Each piece is produced by hand in extremely limited amounts, is silk screen printed and will be released exclusively at Hustlin’s Bakery.

Check these out for some arcade inspired tees:- read more

More Tolkys

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Here’s a quickie, Tolky Monkys have just released three new tees for guys, the new character-based shirts are Death – Vanity Fear, Bluby Birdo and The Astonishing Neighbours of 33C. I know, crazy, but isn’t that why we love ‘em? If there’s an award for lost-in-translation surrealism, it has to be the Tolkys. To be honest, I’d be disappointed if it was any other way.

Muerte/Death is an old favourite on the site, one of their original characters you might say. Bluby has featured before in the 5th edition of their Microstories Contest. As usual all the designs are limited edition and silk screen printed, plus they’re also printing new XXL sizes for some of their shirts. Anyway, here’s the frontrunner for me out of their three new tees:- read more