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.

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.

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!

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!

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:-

The release of the first 2 Tees in the series were voted by their fans for (via Facebook and Twitter) and as a special thank you to all for such a great 1st year, each T-shirt in the ‚ÄòSince 81‚Ä≤ series will be priced at £20.

The Bear-Doe Bear NES Tee

1UP in Invader Tee

To avoid disappointment you can place your pre-orders here or you can email them to us at info@justinhustlin.com.

If you do make it to the party you might want to try out their very own custom arcade machine which will be in full effect on the night, so come and get your ass whooped on Streetfighter 2 by Dirty Dre or get the highest score to win some freebies!

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:-

The Astonishing Neighbours Of 33C Tee

Very cool, totally mad, love the graphics, and I’m glad I don’t have neighbours like this. Still even the sane have to agree it’s a very strong design. This 1st edition character tee is limited to 160 shirts and is available in sizes S to XXL for ‚Ǩ22. Comes in white or claret. I’d include a quote from the story behind The Astonishing Neighbours of 33C, but I fear it might melt your brain, and so I’ll leave with a synopsis. A couple of mad professors who live in a skyscraper, and are against animal testing, decide to shoot, with the aid of gunpowder, multi-coloured smoke trails from their rear ends in the name of scientific progress. Ah well, now you see what I mean… heh. Next time you’re tempted to journey on a mind-bending trip, try out www.TolkyMonkys.com, even if you don’t snatch up a shirt you’ll definitely come away with a new and balmier perspective on life!