Sneak Peek @ SockMonkee For Spring

admin    T-Shirt News, T-Shirt Reviews     Chris Sandlin, SockMonkee, funny tees, new t-shirts, new tees, t-shirt sale

SockMonkee is a cool indie toon tee label headed up by Chris Sandlin, a highly accomplished illustrator, popular t-shirt/merch designer for bands like and a chap with a great sense of humour, which you can see immediately in his selection of fine funny tees. Past clients include Bravado, Case-Mate, MusicSkins, Click For Art, Laurence King Publishing, Pyknik, ueled By Ramen, Live Nation / Signatures Network, 410BC, Rockett, Glamour Kills, Paint the Stars, Electric Zombie, DS!, Anberlin, Armor For Sleep, Bayside, Coldplay, Gym Class Heroes, Living Sacrifice, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Plain White T’s, Saves the Day, Staind, The Academy Is.

He’s just released some sneak peek views of his latest Spring Collection which is coming real soon…

In the meantime there are a few bargains to be had, although all the ones I like are still $18, there is a rather enticing t-shirt bundle that includes a free print and two shirts for $24. Most tees are still available in sizes XS-XL.

Cuckoo Tee

You don’t have to be cuckoo to work here wear this, but it helps :D Deffo my fave!

Daddy?! Tee

Not sure where to go with this tee. Does this mean that lumberjacks hump trees? I thought they’d just stick to dressing up in frilly silk lingerie?

Shirt & Print Bundle

Order both shirts (Hoody Hoo & The 3 Wongs) and receive a free Barbaric Brad print. Barbaric Brad Prints are limited to only 50

More?

LadyUmbrella – La Segunda Coleccion

admin    T-Shirt News     Lady Umbrella, LadyUmbrella, T-Shirt News, designer tees, ladies tees, new t-shirts

It’s been quite a while since our first review of LadyUmbrella, a Dublin based t-shirt label for women fuelled by the seemingly unbound talents of Spanish illustrator Elena Montes Casado. It goes without saying that the feature went down a storm (especially with our female readers), the people at LadyUmbrella have described it as one of the best they’ve ever received, and with good reason, great products make a great review. Let’s hope we can do justice with their second collection otherwise known as “La Segunda Coleccion”.

The team at LU were kind enough to let us have a sneak peek at a few tees from the new collection, all of which will be available from the 13th of September, just a couple of days from now! As always all the shirts are cut and sewn to their exacting standards. There’s a tank top on offer titled “Mona LadyUmbrella” plus two further designs “LadyUmbrella and the Merry Go Round” and “LadyUmbrella and the Umbrella Tree” which are printed on their highly popular slinky style t-shirt, that features a swooped neck and longer sleeves. All the t-shirts at LU are 140grsm 100% pure combed cotton and printed with pigment print which is soft to touch, long lasting and shows off the details in the designs really well.

Another big improvement is a wider variety of larger sizes available including XL and XXL, this applies to the new collection plus three old favourites “LadyUmbrella is Away with the Birds”, “LadyUmbrella is Friends with Sir David” and “LadyUmbrella and the Wise Owl”. Plus the new collection features two woven tags instead of one, a neck tag and an additional blue tag on the front seam featuring their (now famous) umbrella logo. All of the designs come with their own unique hang tag which tells the t-shirts tale and is also signed, dated and number by our designer Elena to make each shirt unique to the buyer. This should be a real treat for the more discerning ladies out there seeking something affordable yet stylish for the Fall/Autumn season. Here are some preview shots to tide you over until the 13th.

Al I can say is that LadyUmbrella’s uniquely surreal and illustrative tees have, do and will go down a storm, with over 14,000 combined fans and followers on their Facebook and Twitter accounts and customers worldwide the latest collection of tees is bound to sell out fast. Bookmark their website at www.ladyumbrella.com to be sure you get yours!

3 New Tees At Infinite Now

admin    T-Shirt News     graphic t-shirts, infinite now, infinite-now-com, logo tees, new t-shirts, octopus tee

Graphic savvy Infinite Now have just released three new tees (well two if you want to be absolutely technically pedantically precise about these things), two logo t-shirts and one rather jolly little number featuring an octopus. I remember a few years back when octopuses were sprawling all over the t-shirt world, perhaps it was the lure of drawing all those suckers, who knows, all I know is IN are reviving an old favourite of mine and how…

All three tees, 8 Ways, Blackout and Knockout are available in sizes S-XL at $25 each, printed on super soft American Apparel shirts. Check them all out at www.infinite-now.com!

604Republic Preview

admin    T-Shirt News     604Republic, new t-shirt brand, new t-shirts, t-shirt brand launch

I don’t know anything about this brand new label yet except they’re about to knock out some cool designs. If you want to stay updated you can follow them on Twitter or sign up to their mailing list at www.604republic.com. In the meantime check out 604Republic’s t-shirt art, still waiting for a launch date here…

Definitely worth keeping an eye on these guys!

RateTshirts.com

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     T-Shirt Votes, best t-shirts, new t-shirts, rate t-shirts, ratetshirts.com, t-shirt community, t-shirt ratings

You may have noticed the posts have been relatively drying up at Buy Tees since Xmas. The truth is we need contributors, true t-shirt fans with a passion for blogging, we will credit your blog or website on our homepage if you’re reviews are up to scratch, and we’d need at least 2 a month from each contributor. Plus carte blanche on all or any t-shirt news you can hunt down on the net. Email me if you fancy reviewing shirts, but please, no self-promoters, just true fans of the art.

The fact is I’m snowed under with a million things to do at the moment. What with my personal blog, my new arts blog at ArtUrban.co.uk and now the latest addition to the Bainsey network, RateTshirts.com. I’ve had this domain sitting around for years, I thought it might have sold by now, but thinking about it I’m glad it didn’t. It means I can still keep a hand in as far as t-shirt design goes, sharing my love for the latest and greatest in t-shirt design and so can all of you! read more

New Tees at Assault

admin    T-Shirt News     Hubble, abstract, assault inc., assult, new t-shirts, new tees, punk, rocker t-shirts, rocker tees

To welcome you to the New Year let’s start off with a couple of new tees from our friends at www.AssaultShirts.com – the rockers’ choice for counter-culture t-shirts. Whilst I’m at it I’d like to offer my congratulations regarding their media scoop! Skull Propaganda one of their best-selling tees has been seen worn by Bryan of Dear Enemy. Check out the photo of Bryan, the leader singer of Dear Enemy sporting the Skull Propaganda shirt! Get it now for $22.99. You can also check out more Dear Enemy at their iLike page.

Anyway let’s take a look at a couple of Assault’s freshest releases:- read more

Prepare To Meet The All New Disturbia

admin    T-Shirt News     Autumn Winter Collection, Christ, Disturbia, DisturbiaClothing.co.uk, Mary, Rasputin, new t-shirts

Just had a rather exciting email from Frank at Disturbia Clothing. They’ve redesigned their whole site and let me assure you it’s dead snazzy, the store is encased by a rather meaty looking bass amp in true Marshall style. Even better it’s faster to load and the product images are bigger than ever! What’s more they’ve just released their latest Autumn/Winter Collection for 2009 and all I can say is wowzers – there are a few new tees there to die for – I mean not literally, you can always buy them, but then again I wouldn’t be surprised if you bump into a zombie punk or two at the check out.

Let’s just say that something very big has been happening at Disturbia, there might be experimental drugs in the water supply, or perhaps they’ve tortured their artists until they’ve excelled beyond everyone’s expectations, but things have evolved incredibly fast since I last wrote about this label. I have already found a couple of instant classics there that will blow your t-shirt craving mind. Wait a minute. Ssshh. I can hear a disturbance outside. Yep it’s those damn zombies again. Okay when they burst in make sure to shoot them in the head, if you don’t they’ll eat your brains. In the meantime let’s drool over some Disturbia newbies to their personal asylum of macabre and appocalyptic vision. In other words let’s look at two of their new tees :/ read more

New Tees From Spunky

admin    T-Shirt News     Summer Season, new designs, new season, new t-shirts, spunky, spunky.co.uk.Spunky Tees

It’s that time of year again and Spunky.co.uk have been busy beavering away and tracking down the best in funny/arty t-shirt designs from around the world. Their latest collection includes designers from as far afield as Holland to the Philippines. All of their tees are a 100% organic and are extremely limited edition, i.e once they’ve sold them you’ll probably not see msot of them again.

If you want to grab one of their latest designs hurry, here’s a few of the new ones we like here at Buy Tees :D

Smiley Headphones Tee

Y Love NY Tee

Tachebot Tee

See plenty more of their new collection and a few remainders of their old – (including one by me titled “Old School” :) – whilst stocks last at Spunky.co.uk

New Tees at Spunky.co.uk – Including one of mine!

admin    T-Shirt News, T-Shirts     Glastonbury, Paul Baines, Spunky.co.uk, fame, fame at last, famous, new t-shirts, spunky

Fame at last! Check out the latest tees available at Spunky.co.uk and if you take a closer look you’ll see Old School which if I do say so myself is one of my favourites there, not least because I designed it. Woot! This is a great British t-shirt store, they even have a stand at Glastonbury Festival, so you know you’re in with the hip kids when you choose Spunky! read more

War and Peace in the World of T-Shirts

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Banksy, BombG T-shirts, Glennz, Robit, T-Shirt News, chance, coincidence, karma, matchmaking, military t-shirts, miracle, new label, new t-shirts, saga, spreadshirt, story, wonder

Now, I’ll warn you, this is most likely the beginning of a long saga, if not an epic of all t-shirt articles. I doubt you can really call it a review because there’s so much to tell you, so much to explain, and so many twists and turns in the story that the word ‘review’ just wouldn’t do it justice. This is the story of the birth of a new and hopefully very successful (fingers crossed) niche target t-shirt label.

Let’s start from the beginning, the very beginning. Now, if you believe in fate, hey you have to believe in something, then you’re probably not the most ardent fan of coincidence. I’m not, in this grizzled addled brain of mine I like to cling on to the small hope that perhaps some things in life have a purpose, and that on those few occasions you should grab life by both horns and wrestle it to the ground.

Now, human beings are complicated creatures, they have individual lives and emotions, each has their own perception on why we are here and what we should be doing, and that means that a lot of us will never meet and if we do we will never agree on the most fundamental precepts of existence. Sometimes that’s a good thing, it means avoiding wars and most painful experiences in life, but sometimes it can be a real shame, glancing back and realising you’ve missed a great opportunity to help (in some small way) others find their way in modern life and all that it entails.

i want to introduce you to two guys, two very different men, both have a love of t-shirts, both want to find their way in the industry, and until recently neither had any idea of the other’s existence. read more