I’ve found an incredible list of t-shirt related blogs and sites at HideYourArms.com – and I promised them a mention as they’ve put a lot of hard work in researching the finds – however they mainly focus on hoodies rather than tees so they can’t really be included here :p Then again I probably started this craze with my original t-shirt reviewer sites review (compare the dates) – so I think it’s only fair! Plus Andy hasn’t included any traffic information or listed the blogs by popularity so it needs to be done! If you have any additions worth mentioning contact me at submissions(at)buy-tees.net

I’m about to embark on a potential novella here, knowing my style of reviews, get ready for the absolutely definitive list of t-shirt reviewers. By the way I commented at HYA on not mentioning my blog, Andy hadn’t included Buy Tees which was kind of worrying since he’d managed to find loads of them already! Ah well, perhaps I will get some reward for my efforts in the next life!

All information is correct at time of writing, add your comments if you have new links or info on the current ones.

All the top t-shirt review blogs placed in order of popularity!

(Yes I know Alexa isn’t that accurate and the figures will fluctuate, but at least it is well known and gives some idea of web traffic.)

Tcritic – is the biggest and most popular t-shirt reviews blog in the world. A very large following, great layout and design, good choices of t-shirts, labels and designers and a succinct editorial style. This site has convinced me I need to do a major redesign of my blog in the near future! Anyway loved the Honesty T-Shirt design available at GRANDB√úRO.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 99,183

Tshirt Watch This has to be one of the most famous t-shirt review blogs on the net, Then again it could be because they feature so many celebrity tees, celebs in t-shirts, t-shirts about celebs, you know famous people, oh yes and their t-shirts. Celebrity has a magnetic effect on search engine rankings, if you can associate your site with celebrities you can stay at the top of most searches, then again that doesn’t guarantee great picks or reviews.- According to Alexa, this might be the most popular tee blog. Good if you want to see various celebs wearing tees.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 139,738

ShirtsonSale have been featured in part 1 of this epic round up of t-shirt blogs. Great reviews and taste in tees, plus an eye for a bargain! They seem to favour Uneetee, Shirt.woot, Shirtaday & more graphic boutique tee-shirt printers plus a few discount tips and vouchers when almost as soon as they’re out there S.O.S find them!?!
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 180,741

Viste Adecuadamente – A very popular Spanish-language t-shirt reviews blog, although I do recognise quite a few of the features at many of the other Spanish-speaking review blogs, I’m guessing by its popularity that this is the source for most of them. Lots of posts and a big archive, seems to have more than a cult following. Well worth a wander
GOOGLE PR5 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 184,024

Color Overload do feature some very very cool t shirts amongst their reviews, alongside a lot of shoes and hats too, however I was surprised at the lack of product images on their home page, i.e none at all. Apart from the needed redesign CO does an excellent job of their reviews plus some industry news, marketing tips and what seems to be yet another top list of t-shirt reviewers Have I started a craze here? My first list was June 4th and now they’re all doing it, at least give me some credit for the idea guys – as if. Amazing finds at this post – Top Ten Designers.
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 227,391

T Roundup – One of the major players in the t-shirt reviewers world, although I am surprised to see Color Overload taking over their high spot, I’ m relatively new to the field and yet there seems little in it at the top of this list. I suppose it comes down to most t-shirt fans reading as many blogs as possible lol. Anyway you probably have all heard of T Roundup – great selections, constantly updated, nice links in general. Not so sure I like the fiddly header navigation though.
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 228,951

Buy Tees …hey you’re reading it now if you hadn’t noticed! Yes I’m a relative newcomer to the scene (as far as the t-shirt reviewing side goes), but I’m an established t-shirt designer with a conceptual arts background attempting to make some waves in the industry.
GOOGLE PR5 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 236,162

The Daily Tee is a nice enough T Blog, quirky tastes in tees and some good finds, discounts, news and more. There was an annoying market research pop-up there though so be warned – maybe beefing up their advertising in the near future! Liked the rant about the price of tees too lol. What’s best is that they provide a new review every day – although don’t expect them to be as beefy as mine – yeah quality not quantity :p
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 249,730

Blog.RudeRetro.com A fully comprehensive and vibrant t-shirt reviews blog with a great layout and plenty of news, reviews, and features for the t-shirt fan and designer alike. The reviewer also runs a t-shirt store “Rude Retro” – his tees aren’t exactly to my taste but I do appreciate the fact he designs tees! It’s my argument that t-shirt designers are far more likely to know quality when they see it, and this designer does! I especially liked The Paradise T-Shirt from Uneetee.com. Well worth a visit!
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 260,141

I Love Your Shirt has a rather strange single column format (little bit 90′s Flash designer for me), but the content is great and they make a point of featuring user submitted tees (with purchase receipt as proof!). Not all the posts are in English which also provides something of a stumbling block, but from those I could understand, my favourite featured tees there is from the latest men’s t-shirt collection cult label EIO.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 311,351

Fantastic Blognanza – has a nice line on t-shirt reviews and also offers it’s own gear too (though you won’t find them on their blog). Nice selection of reviews, updated frequently, and especially enjoyed the paranoid piece on The Illuminati and all the “all-see-eye” t-shirts that seem to be cropping up these days!
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 359,637

The T-Shirt Blog offer a lot of topical tees, if there’s a topic t-shirts can cover they’ve probably featured it. I’d rather see a portfolio by a top designer than precarious themes, but that’s just personal taste. Plenty of activist and political(ish) tees here, plus a few pun t-shirts for a laugh. They do however offer some very interesting and sometimes hard-to-find information on making t-shirts including a great post on making your t-shirts photo-sensitive using a scary sounding chemical called Cyanotype (although they do have to be blue and white to work!).
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 364,361

Selekkt – Top quality shirts at budget prices, they’ve got the eye for a good design too. They seem to lean more towards slogan tees and icon tees over art shirts which is fine. I can see why the site is so popular – it delivers what it promises – not so sure about their love of 2Ktees though. Some self promotion for their store, but it’s a good quality collection so it’s all tickety-boo.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 453,474

TShirt Review This is one of the more popular and well-written blogs about tees, they do exactly what it says on the tin, no mucking about, just t-shirt reviews. They have a large archive, feature plenty of lesser known t-shirt designers, but the whole thing is undermined for me by the fact that they offer paid-to-review services. I’ve been offered bribes but I just couldn’t do that, it makes the whole exercise pointless for me. Nice Sesame Street Tee from Choice Shirts featured there though!
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 454,453

Tee Shirt Blog – French t-shirt reviews blog, I translated the site here so you can read them, but the images speak for themselves, some great and then some not so great designs here. Love this design from Stampede and available at BoundlessNY.com
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 481,618

Tshirt Groove is a daily blog offering “funny t-shirts of the day” – another affiliate-laden link site with most t-shirt offerings coming from Busted, Snorg and TorsoPants. Not my favourite kind of t-shirt blog, but the layout is smart and they do actually try and review the t-shirts rather than leave a pic and a link up like so many do.
GOOGLE PR0 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 505,025

Pop Culture Tees is an absolutely gorgeous looking site, love the grunge graphics and the Space Invaders wallpaper. The t-shirts featured are great too, although not all pop-culturally biased they still feel in-keeping with the ethos of the blog. Amusing sideline stories and links, and a section devoted to t-shirts (for designers). Great pick from Design By Humans called Perfection Is Boring
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 511,341

Addicteed – is a very addictive t-shirt reviews blog featuring plenty of designs ‘straight from the street’ and you’re sure to find some funky faves here, diverse and rather cool choices plus a very slick blog design, good archive though not too many posts each month – think quality rather than quantity. Take this pick as an example ATZ by Artoyz.
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 545,820

T Addict‘s blog has some excellent picks, some of the best recommendations I’ve seen so far, I like the artist spotlights – something I like to do myself – plus plenty of obscure links, coupons, news and reviews (as you’d expect!). Check this Kate Moss Cocaine t-shirt from Fame Theory
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 553,146

T-shirt Guru is a pretty cool t-shirt blog, despite a rather grey looking blog design, they have some pretty good designs here, plus generous tips on other t-shirt review sites, news and views and a few discounts. One t-shirt they feature is a smart design called Pollution Effect available DBH. Tons of posts, at least a few a day but falls somewhat short on the in-depth reviews.
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 591,896

T-shirt Review Blog has been on a short break but promises to start reviewing again in the next few days. Interesting blog that seems to focus on posts by other t-shirt reviewers and link to their content rather than directly picking out there favourites. Although I do like the comparisons made between different reviewers tastes. I loved this find from Uneetees called We Built This City (on Rock and Roll).
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 623,091

T-shirts Around the Internet – I really like this blog, yes the template sucks (probably the most overused blog template at BlogSpot.com), but the reviews are pure quality. Nice choices of tees, great pieces of background info, brand features, and only a smattering of affiliate links as far as I can tell. Very personable style of writing too. I particularly liked their pick of the Ex-President’s T-Shirt from Bang-Bang. Another T-Shirt competition site that I’ll probably submit too, yes the prize money is low, but they offer a link to your site and a little instant fame.
GOOGLE PR5 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 677,510

Threadspot is another affiliate feeder site, everything earns them cash which is fine, but I’d like to see more smaller independent t-shirt designers represented here (although they probably don’t offer referral commissions – hence the lack of range). Steers more towards the humour side of t-shirt design, and features the larger labels like Threadless, Uneetee, Lucky Threads, DBH etc… They do make up for it with a nice range of funny/smart comments that make for a good read!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 684,819

Militant Geek offers some really great reviews, well written, amusing, more than one sentence, he ticks all my t-shirt reviewers boxes except for one. I don’t really like his taste in tees, nothing particularly militant, a few geeky ones most definitely, but what a waste of a talent! This guy needs a new domain name and far more traffic and he’d be set – if only he could perform the same treatment on labels like Beautiful Decay, or just a few artier DBH tees I’d be impressed! Love that sense of humour though.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 843,742

1001 Camisetas have an absolutely amazing Spanish-language blog, the current feature is a full-blown interview with one of their homegrown stars, the cultural difference in design fascinates me. Some excellent designs here, so bold and confident in design, I am truly sold. Great reviews, I really liked this t-shirt by Super Mandolini. Spanish speaking version here
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 891,710

Sinbotones is another Spanish-speaking t-shirt blog – some nice picks here, but I do prefer the other Spanish-speaking t-shirt blogs in this list. Seems to be plenty of posts however I recognise a lot of the content which is a little disappointing after the surprises found at their competitors’ reviews. They also seem to always focus on competition winners for some reason?
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 896,665

Funky Duds is a very kewl t-shirt reviews blog that definitely deserves more traffic (hint). Kinda crazy looking design but maybe I’m just getting old (pass me my ear trumpet sonny) – a very diverse layout and selectio (although a little too many ads for my liking), I particularly enjoyed the dodgy looking Andy Warhol t-shirt they featured, available from turtlehead.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 914,933

T-shirt Alert traffic stats surprise me, I can’t understand why this blog isn’t more popular, for a start they’ve led me to MonkeyFist (definitely a future review for them) who are freaky to say the least, but what’s more their blurb is stranger than their t-shirt. Excellent find from the Alert team. They offer regionalised links, proper full-blown interviews with t-shirt designer stars, and have a great style all-round be it taste, content or approach.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,025,781

Shirtlog – simple bold and friendly, a very down-to-earth look at all the new t-shirts on the blog. I like the fact they will even feature artists on Etsy.com – it shows they truly are supporters of the independent design. Here’s an example called H ATR – absolutely fantastic old-school grunge/retro tee the way I like them.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,035,969

Loves Threadless – Threadless are great, a real innovator in the t-shirt industry, we have a lot to thank them for, but now they have our money, perhaps we can stop with the praise. It’s a profit-making company, it’s not a god, it’s not a saviour. I can’t understand why blogs would only want to feature one t-shirt label – unless they either secretly work for the company or wear blinkers whenever they surf the net. The truth is this blog could be far more popular if they just freaked out and reviewed a few independent stores for a change!
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,041,122

Shirt Spotting is a German language t-shirt blog, nice layout and decent picks of tees, the archive has some less familiar ones for me, you can read the translated version here. Nice line in discounts, plus an equal share of affiliate and non-affiliate links. I like their taste, Concrete Hermit (I’m planing to review them soon-ish), plus a featurette on CottonWerks who are selling their tees for just $8? Seems so cheap!
GOOGLE PR5 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,084,335

Fresh Dressed (translated version) I was in two minds to leave this in the t-shirt related blog pile seeing as it really focuses on fashion and only mentions t-shirts once in a while. But the blog is quality, even though I don’t speak German, the translated version still read pretty well. Some interesting choices too, not you run-of-the-mill CafePress.com t-shirts for a start. They have a great article on the label Exact Science, some extremely original street art tees from those guys! I love the Exact Science T-Shirt “Sneaker Head”.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,124,058

GymTops offers a very cool and fine looking clothing blog with plenty of features on martial-arts t-shirts, many of which I haven’t seen before. I particularly liked The Triumph United range of t-shirts featured there. In particular the Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller shirts, I have no idea who he is or why he looks like a Chimpanzee but I am sold!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,316,859

Vinteeage – vintage t-shirt reviews – mainly seem to be funny ones, this niche definitely has potential if he can find the rights t-shirts, but it must be costing him a fortune getting content every week lol. I doubt it won’t be long before he starts selling a few on the side to pay for his tee-addiction. I’ve worked it out – he’s actually featuring anything new or old that can be described as vintage, kind of a disappointment really.
GOOGLE N/A – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,391,398

Banned T-shirts is not as controversial as it sounds. I’d treat this blog more like a t-shirt news site that solely concentrates on the one theme. I’ve actually mentioned a few of the same stories here, including an anti-gay t-shirt, the banned Transformers t-shirt debacle, and of course the Obama / Curious George Controversy, I even featured a video of protesters outside the designer’s bar for a few weeks, it’s fascinating stuff, but I don’t know if it’s really enough to fill a blog. Hey look at this post if you’re into t-shirt controversy. Then again there are plenty of Celebrity Tees blogs out there focusing solely on their subject so I am sure there’s a demand for it. I can imagine a few blogs scraping their feed to fill their own t-shirt news pages, luckily I write like a madman so I’m sure no one can replicate my style lol.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,457,687

Best Losers This blog is a stroke of genius, it highlights some of my past criticisms of voter-based t-shirt sites. Ever since the rise of Threadless we’re witnessing the same problem faced by CafePress.com – so many t-shirts rise the ranks because their creators are well connected (i.e 5000 Facebook friends) rather than creative skill and style. Best Losers showcases the best of the best of Shirt.Woot’s rejects, and where else they are available to buy!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,729,597

Shirt2 is a German blog written in English (Hooray!). They have that single column Flash-style thing going on again here, I think it looks a little 90′s (just a personal opinion) but there are some cool choices here, although I haven’t found anything I haven’t seen before. It’s a little annoying how all the t-shirt images link to sales and general sites rather than articles and product pages, however you’ll get used to it.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,697,704

OMG Tees has a nice selection of t-shirts on offer, solid writing and choices in design and style. They also offer a very handy top t-shirt designer top list and directory which actually pulls content from each store and displays through their feed directory. Unlike a lot of t-shirt chart sites out there this one seems to have a far better quality control, choosing works from Threadless and UneeTee amongst others. Well worth keeping an eye on this blog!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,709,403

Indie Threads – T-Shirt news, views, reviews and a social network which is currently going through a design change as far as I can tell. I do like the features on shops there too. They offer contest updates (empty at the moment?) and a post about SeIBEI tees and who’s exactly ripping off their designs! If you want to know read this.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,804,772

Fat Seagull is a great t-shirt blog, the reviewer has good taste, the layout is friendly, the content is interesting, and the overall feel is very personable and welcoming. Here’s a great tip from then – one of Glennz latest tees – It’s Bottle Jim. I have to do a full review on Glenn – probably my favourite Threadless.com designer. here.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,858,732

Teejunkie is a great t-shirt reviews blog with a fantastic archive and real proper reviews (like what I do and that lol). Real written content, nice choices too, shame they’ve been a little quiet lately but looks like they’re up and running again now. Expect this site to rise the ranks quickly! I particularly liked their Elvis Behind The Turntables pick, unfortunately it isn’t available anymore!
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 1,935,377

YourIngredient.Blogspot.com does have a section dedicated to brand label tees, there are some picks there too, however the site really focuses on streetwear in general rather than tees. Still I suppose it’s worth a look, however I couldn’t find an archive of posts so you’ll have to trawl this one the slow way. I did enjoy Agent Reynolds Tee by Stereo
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,011,011

Tschitoushop is a French-speaking t-shirt reviews blog, smart web 2.0 interface, what seem to be well written reviews although my ‘O’ Level French (yes I am that old) is rather rusty. I noticed they feature a lot of videos on the home page, don’t know what that’s all about I did like their pick Artificial Instinct available from All-Tribes.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,133,164

T-Shirt Casserole Mainly does CafePress.com t-shirts, probably to earn some cash, although they have added a post about UrbanRetro.co.uk who I haven’t seen before – (let’s hope Casserole doesn’t own this site too lol) – I didn’t like their choice there but I found a fantastic ‘Megabot’ T-Shirt at Urban Retro here.
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,170,365

Camisetas En Blog is a well stocked Spanish-speaking blog featuring t-shirts around the world, new features every week and a nice and airy template to keep you chilled. A pretty funny review of LazyOaf.co.uk – not really my style but I can see this site becoming popular off the back of their mention. Take a look at some deliberately daft UK t-shirts here.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,585,220

Buy This T-shirt has a great domain name, simple design, and nice selections of t-shirts, no opinions as such which I’d prefer to see but the choices make up for it. Just scanning the blog I found a few tees posts I liked including Chalkie, NY IRAQ, and Pylon. Definitely worth a quick scan every few days or so.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,659,458

Thy Goodies T-Shirt reviews going back all the way to 2005, but in all those years there are surprisingly few of them, the style of reviews and tastes also differ wildly, I am guessing more than one person has worked on this, could be wrong.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 2,980,503

T-shirt Guy’s T-shirt Blog Simple and down to earth collection of favourite t-shirts with some very diverse sources and subjects, currently showing a restaurant t-shirt design and a particularly succinct Carbon Foot Print T-Shirt by the man himself available at CafePress.com Nice to see another reviewer actually designing tees!
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,058,627

Funny T-Shirt Blog by 101 Tees Good honest fun from 101Tees.com’s t-shirt reviews blog – they specialize in what’s funny, humorous, and occassionally hilarious! They also offer a nice range of their own funny t-shirts that are worth a look from time to time. Yes another reviewer that actually designs and sells tees – hopefully a growing trend out there.
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,090,690

Communiteeuk have some genuinely weird t-shirts, weird as in weird/great! Simple blog layout with an enormous list of featured labels in the sidebar. I’m guessing they have their favourites well established by now. I also like the way they usually charge a t-shirt for advertising on their homepage which has to be a good deal! Last post was a few weeks ago, fingers crossed they don’t end up in the graveyard at the bottom of this list!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,190,591

Shirt on Me is a very well established t-shirt blog (since 2006) which makes me wonder why they haven’t got themselves a better domain name yet, I know Blogger can be limiting but I am so sick of that dotty template they offer. Besides that great selection of tees, years and years worth of recommendations to trawl there, and yes there are some real gems for the offering – including Electric Zombie’s Stay Tuff t-shirt featuring the marshmallow character from Ghostbusters (…grow up Paul lol).
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,207,992

T-Shirt Gumbo seems to prefer funny t-shirts although nothing I haven’t seen before and not exactly side-splitting. Only 17 posts so far for 2008, their blog template needs work too. They do feature a competition from PooShirts.com which if you’re into waiting until October for a $100 top prize and 3 poo-related t-shirts, and completely losing the rights to your design – then click here.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,278,057

T-Shirt Rater offers plenty of regular posts every few days and prefers humorous t-shirts, but let’s not hold that against them, some of their choices are top-notch (if not a tad familiar), Plenty of Threadless, UneeTee, Lucky Threadz and other popular sites, plus some great discounts. I love this top pick called The Chuck Stops Here Well worth a look. A funny T-shirt blog with an eye for design.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,306,471

Aaron’s T-Shirt Review offers a ton of affiliate links, some interesting reviews such as Aaron’s piece on retro political tees, but still the posts are rather infrequent. I don’t mind affiliate links, I go through phases of chucking in a few myself, but I wouldn’t ever consider steering the content so far that I couldn’t write what I wanted about what I like. I suppose there are always arguments amongst t-shirt reviewers about this aspect of blogging. My position is that every one of the t-shirt designers we review wants to make a living from what they create, I design t-shirts and hardly make enough from them to buy a round at the pub, and so if I want to include a few commission links I do! However like I say, there’s only so many Busted Tees products you can feature before your readers move on to something more original.
GOOGLE PR4 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,639,200

KissMeImQueer.com is the only gay/lesbian t-shirt reviews blog in the list. Expertly dealing with their unique niche, although they do seem to be another affiliate driven blog, (well we all need to pay the bills), and it would be nice to see more focus on designers dealing with their specific market. Which designers appeal to the gay/lesbian market, where can they be found, and what do they have on offer? Of course exceptions have to be made, this is after all a limited market and they have to work with what they can find. They’ve taken the first step by producing their own tee. I have to admit after having a quick scout around Google they do have their work cut out for them, perhaps branching out to mainstream designers who’s work appeals to the gay market maybe the answer. I’d recommend creating a set of polls to find out their visitors’ favourite designers, labels, styles and so on.
GOOGLE PR0 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 3,727,624

Embassy of Tees is pretty good for a pure affiliate-driven site, i.e all the links are passed via Shareasale.com, Busted.com and other commission-based referral links. But for once I think this blog has got away with it, it might make him a few bucks but it has to be far trickier finding the best with such a limited range of stores to choose from. I did like the Vurt Wallpaper T-Shirt, very nice!
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 4,785,113

Blokk is a Russian language t-shirt reviews blog – I’ve included a translated link as I doubt there are many Russian t-shirt fans reading this, if you are you’re probably better off going straight to Blokk.ru. Its fascinating to see the tastes of another culture, however close the ties between Europe and Russia, the language and tradition (plus political climate) definitely affects their choice of styles and designers. I’ve found a few new sites I’d like to review there too, so well worth a visit! I couldn’t find any offerings that had even the slightest leaning towards political comment (unsurprisingly), and in keeping with the stereotypical image the West has of Russia, little of any humorous content – or perhaps I am not as much a fan of abstract art the way these people are, although I do love this design by Heavy Tees. However I can’t find it at the store (lol). They review t-shirts a couple of times a week (according to Andy at HYA – however their links seem out of date! Short or non-existent critique which lends itself to an non-translated audience, although I’d have liked to have read more than simply verbal nods like “well worth a visit”, “cozy designs”, “not all just about white” and “good pieces” – I suppose that Google Translations has something to answer for, but unless the Russian government are censoring this blog, I’d say this guy is a man of few words.
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 5,026,516

The dog house offer some great t-shirt picks but hardly any reviews, sometimes just a picture (and not even a link lol), but I think you’ll forgive them once you see the blog. Definitely the top dog for urban t-shirts with style, some great labels and designers including ome excellent picks from a label I’ve not come across before, Generic.

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Tshirt Legends – Yes they’re all Cafe Press tees (again) and affiliate-links (again). But the reviewer is a nice woman runs the blog in her spare-time between many unrelated on-line businesses, just a nice friendly t-shirt reviewer blog I’d say. She’s only been going a couple of months so make her feel welcome! Here’s a review she did of one of my t-shirts
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Defunkd: The vintage T-Shirt reviews blog, yep nothing new, except at his Ebay store, which seems a little bit complicated to access unless you just skip his heavily Flash-Animated site and head straight to the store. The vintage tees are cool though, few good picks there including a feature on how cheap he gets his gear.
GOOGLE PR N/A – ALEXA TRAFFIC 6,568,761

Thunderfrogs should be filed under slightly insane – some kewl t-shirt reviews spoiled by a bizarre obsession with horses. Ironically I didn’t see any horse-themed t-shirts there, then again I didn’t find any Thunder Frogs either and I was looking forward to meeting them. I do remember ‘The Thundercats’, they did suck actually, anyway this was a great post about an Etsy-based designer recommended by the founder of Threadless Jake Nickell!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 6,584,855

T-Shirt Advocate Yes I know the reviewer Paul has been on hiatus but he promises he’ll be up and running soon (He’s just got married so let’s give him a break!) I really like some of the t-shirts he’s featured at his blog. I even like his blog template, very minimalist and slick! I particularly enjoyed this pick – Fish Etc. T-Shirt at Linty Fresh.
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 7,671,499

Great Gear News is another CafePress.com t-shirt reviews site. I can’t see the fascination myself unless it is out of convenience. There are so many independent t-shirt designers out there with a great talent who don’t use CafePress.com and even if they do it’s almost impossible to find them amongst all the NRA, Flags, U.S Politics, Fathers and Mothers Day, and I Heart Anything designs. CafePress.com is great for cheap t-shirts but their search system is screwy, their most popular t-shirts are almost always their least impressive. Still Great Gear don’t use affiliate links for a change and they did find this excellent Anti Comic Sans tee!
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 7,847,672

Chaunt Quote from the writer – “I’m officially going to stop commenting on how crap I am at posting because a) nobody reads this blog, and b) that’s just the way it is – I’m a busy fella =0)“. So expect irregular postings, though most of them are well worth the wait! Nice style and good taste in tees. Oh except for the big feature on bewbs. I really don’t think Vivienne Westwood knows how to design tees anymore, her early punk ones were great, but this one has that awful boxy treatment again.
GOOGLE PR1 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 7,950,539

In TShirts is a purely affiliate Link-driven site offering averagely amusing t-shirts from CafePress.com in the main. Not my cup of tea, I noticed they’re using popshops.com which offers affiliate links to all sorts of programs including ShareaSale, LinkShare and Commission Junction, so a little more choice than your usual paid link t-shirt review site
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 7,971,381

ShirtFind
Has plenty of posts daily, rather new blog and very sweet attitude and picks, nice to see that some people out there still have the gentle touch. Not sure about the blog template design, could do with a bit of work, but very sound choices including this one I’ve not seen before called Galactic Milkshake.
GOOGLE PR N/A- ALEXA TRAFFIC 9,217,540

Laajo.com/weblog is a Chinese T-Shirt Reviewer’s Blog – I can’t read a word of it but he’s got great taste in tees. He recommends (I think) Monsieur T. which is another new designer for me, I love their iconic Cigarette Lungs t-shirt – straight to the point yet stylish! if you can read Chinese see the original untranslated version of Laajo’s blog here.
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 11,001,716

Planeta Tshirts is a Spanish-Speaking blog with excellent taste, I’ve seen at least two I’d love to get my hands on, one from Error Wear featuring PACMAN crashing at level 255. Plus an amazing t-shirt from ThreadPit.com called Immaculate Misconception There’s almost a 100 t-shirt reviews there now so should be a fun read – well view seeing as I don’t speak Spanish :/
GOOGLE PR3 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 12,208,563

Crucial Headache is a rather infrequent blog written by Perry. All I know is that he likes old heavy metal t-shirts. I was reluctant to include this reviewer as I can’t see much going on there. Essentially Perry buy’s a t-shirt and if you’re lucky he eventually writes a little about it, there’s a gap of over a month between the last two posts so I’m guessing he hadn’t passed a t-shirt store in a while. More a fan than a reviewer. He does mention one t-shirt store worth a look though, it’s called Deep Sleep and it’s based in Philly if you’re heading that way. They feature a lot of designs by Zuly, a brand I’ve not heard of before.
GOOGLE PR2 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 12,081,362

Funky Duds offers it straight with pics, links and coupons wherever possible. Quirky taste in t-shirts and plenty to choose from, essentially it’s a matter of taste again, I like some of the choices, others I’m not so keen on, but I don’t exactly love any of the tees featured. Funny because he’s using some really good sources such as Woot and Threadless. Almost daily posts and seemingly a popular site all the same.

The T-Shirt Graveyard - May they rest in peace – or rise again stinky and zombified!

We Love Tshirt – Last Post April.
T-shirt Fiend – nice archive – very intermittent posts – let’s call this one barely alive.
Death By Tshirt – last post was in March!
Tshirt Freak Blog not updated since 2007.
365 Shirts Not quite dead but the project has reached 365 tees! Good archive though!
http://teees.com No reviews since Feb. 2008
T-shirtjunkies.com is so infrequently updated let’s not bother (seeing as they’re not).
http://talkabouttshirts.blogspot.com – T-Shirt Designer Resources With Just 4 Posts!
The Secret Life of Tees – Last Post 2007
http://teeblast.com
http://savagetshirt.com
http://blogtshirt.com
http://shirtgods.blogspot.com last review Feb. 2007
http://preshrunk.org Not reviewed a t-shirt since Feb. 2008
http://teegalleree.wordpress.com A blank site when checked Friday 27th June 2008
http://www.nonvintageapparel.com/blog Last Review Monday, 14 April 2008
http://www.nobleach.com No Reviews Since 2007
http://www.chewingglasstees.com Last Review March 10th
http://threadlesswatch.wordpress.com
http://mydailyt.blogspot.com
http://www.tvteez.com Last Review April
http://www.indieclothingblog.com Last Review May
http://teeuser.wordpress.com
Tshaped Looks kinda dead.

Other T-Shirt Related Blogs/Sites!

Clothing Wire – Info on clothing brands, apparel releases, discounts and more!
T-Shirt Diary Personal blog by t-shirt a designer.
Indigo Clothing Blog – Light-amusing self-promoting corporate blog.
Everyday Tshirt – Self Promotion T-Shirt Designer’s Site.
Mr-TShirt Blog – Self-promotional blog.
Tshirt Entrepreneur – How to Make Money From T-Shirts!
T-Shirt Contest A T-Shirt Contest Site (duh) -regularly updated tee competition news.
Tee Junction Great T-Shirt Coupon Site!
Tee Burst is an RSS feed scraper site showing the latest t-shirt news, posts and vids from various sources.
TeeFeed.com is another RSS feed scraper site showing the latest t-shirt news, posts and vids from various sources.
Find A Tee is more of a directory than a t-shirt blog – except you can’t submit links?
http://www.fusshop.co.uk/blog.html offers insights into the t-shirt scene plus featured products from their store.
You Design It – Err….no… they design it. A self-promotional blog for a t-shirt printing company.
AssaultBlog Nice tees and advice but not a t-shirt reviews blog.
T-shirt Coupons – Discount T-Shirt Coupons Site.
Got Apparel Self-promotional blog for a clothing company.
DAPT Self-promotional blog for a t-shirt design company.
VanTribe Self-promotional blog for a t-shirt design company.
Contrast Shop Blog – Self-promotional blog for a t-shirt design company.
T-Shirt Jihad Blog More a political blog than a politcal t-shirts blog.
Spreadshirt US – Blog from Spreadshirt, with industry pointers and tips for their designers.
Spreadshirt UK – Similar topics to the US blog above.
Tee Lovers – Mostly self-promotion and dicount vouchers.
Buzzillions views from actual buyers at this t-shirt forum

T-Shirt Ratings Sites – No Reviews just stars and comments!

ratetshirts.com – Will exist one day when I finally install a script :p
http://www.tfodder.com
http://teevstee.com
http://LiquidCotton.com
http://www.tshirty.net – Doesn’t Review t-shirts (but offers public votes) but hasn’t updated since January.
T-shirt Rank : Similar to T-Shirt Countdown which has been around for years. Charts based on ratings.
T-shirt Countdown Chart Big old bruiser of a t-shirt ranking site, been around for years, mostly CafePress.com tees.
Rated-t T-Shirt Ratings.

T-Shirt Resources

Have you checked out my worldwide t-shirt printers directory yet? TshirtPrinter.org – If you print t-shirts it’s well worth adding a free listing, and if you offer organic printing and/or fair trade t-shirts I’ll upgrade your listing to featured. Someone has to help reduce our industry’s big fat carbon footprint!
T-shirtlinks.com is a large t-shirt designers directory – I think the listings are free.
T-shirt Talk – T-shirt industry portal.
T-shirt Forums – Enormous and popular t-shirt industry/fan forum – just check their Alexa Stats>>. GOOGLE PR5 – ALEXA TRAFFIC 30,180
Compete – tee – tion – T-Shirt contests only!
Cottonable- T-shirt industry news and views and readers polls (Formerly tshirtisland.blogspot.com)
Dobizo offers information to get your clothing line started.
Rumplo offers indie t-shirt designers a free way to advertise!
Thread Banger is a Youtube star! They have a massive collection of DIY t-shirt vids amongst their library.

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A T-Shirt Reviewer’s Review of T-Shirt Review Sites.

If I’ve missed any out don’t take it personally, I welcome any “mini-reviews” in the comments page, (but at least get one of your readers to write it), no hype or spam please). I won’t be placing the sites in any order of importance either, (I’m treading on enough toes here already!), but I will say that many are easily found in most major search engines and blog directories. Some are major players, others are just starting out (…ahem), but most show a passion (or is it fanaticism?) for t-shirt design and all that our weird and wonderful medium entails!

TshirtReview.com seems like a very logical place to start, I’m jealous of the domain name already! I don’t know much about these guys except that beyond the rather bog-standard blog template you’re sure to find loads of discounts, vouchers, freebies and specials on t-shirts from most of the major t-shirt stores out there online. Their latest post refers to a Threadless.com promotion, when aren’t they running a promotion, makes you wonder if there may be troubles ahead for what seemed to be a perfect marketing method. For instance what percentage of people who vote on their t-shirt designs actually buy them? It’s all a numbers game, they make a fortune as it is, I’m sure they can afford some wastage, I suppose I am only considering the bruised egos of past winners watching their beloved creations sold off to the lowest bidder. TshirtReview.com have plenty more great offers including a $12 sale at PrintLiberation.com, a Free Delivery Special at BustedTees.com, and of course some short but sweet reviews of what appears to mainly be BustedTees.com T-Shirts

T-Shirt Legends is run by a very friendly woman called Dana (must get her surname sometime!) and a few of her pals, she hails from Ireland and has an excellent editorial style. Dana writes her blog in her spare-time, concentrating mainly on other commercial projects that actually bring in the readies, (I must try to make some money myself one day lol). Despite the time limitations Dana has forged ahead with her insightful reviews of all the latest snazzy designs out there. I particularly appreciated the review she gave of my Cafe Press store, and even learned a thing or two about how to promote my own work in a more commercial style. I thoroughly enjoyed her post on Brev87 at Cafe Press. He has a fantastically funky eye for design, read about his exploits further at Dana’s T-Shirt Legends Blog.

T-Shirt Reviews at WordPress.com is another standard looking blog, thankfully there are some great finds here, and I have to admit I totally see where the owner is coming from (Although I only know he’s from Cali, another near anonymous reviewer – starting to make me think there’s a t-shirt reviewer killer on the loose). He’s even reviewed one of my faves, Smurfs Attack T-Shirt By Split Reason, a great spoof of those freaky French cartoon elves with blue skin, white boots, and a sickeningly positive attitude towards life. The mysterious reviewer guy from Cali has some rare finds too, I hadn’t seen this site before, including BedlamClothing.com who seem to have sold out half their stock and reduced the price on the rest to just $6, they’re even offering 3 for the price of 2, yep 3 t-shirts for only $12 (mad!). Let’s hope they’ll stock up on Road Trip again soon!

You’ll find plenty more original choices there, they have no real affiliation to a particular designer or store, and besides they’ve got a great tagline for their blog – “Because getting dressed up is too much work”. If you’re looking for something a little different in t-shirts, but you want a straightforward bare bones review so you can just get on with the business of buying tees, this is a great place to start.

ShirtsonSale.info offer concise and thoughtful daily t-shirt reviews from sites you’d usually have to hunt down. If I ever ran a “futurology agency”, I’d want this blogger on my team, they are streets ahead when it comes to picking out the future high fliers in the t-shirt design world; plus the fact that they’ve managed to gain decent rankings, traffic and Google PR with a .info domain, which in itself is a minor miracle. Beyond that, the featured t-shirts I viewed there were truly excellent, I’d say a close tie with TShaped.com in quality. Ironically my favourite featured tee shirt there is UneeTee’s “Scream” by Yoshi Andrian Amtha which absolutely rocks as far as I am concerned. Perhaps I’m just an old hippie at heart, though I do appreciate Shirts on Sale taking a stand on a point of principle. I love disco, kitsch, retro, hippie psychedelia, they don’t, and that’s a good thing. The general public know that there is no such thing as an expert t-shirt reviewer. Most bloggers who dip their toes in list a bunch of affiliate links (I’m not saying we don’t all do that – but most of us try provide entertaining content too!), churn out a few glib responses (if you’re lucky) and Digg the poor blog to death. Like I say you have to love t-shirts to even bother writing about them, and I believe that almost all, including Shirts On Sale, have a whale of a time doing it, which is just the way it should be.

T-Shirt Casserole is a well established T-Shirt Reviews blog with posts reaching back as far as 2005, however the posts seemed to have stopped in 2007 so I’d treat this as an archive. I have to admit I didn’t wade through many designs here, and although there are a few pithy one-liners, I’m not too enamoured by most of the designs. I have a feeling many of Kristen Fox‘s featured designers had trouble working within the tight constraints of Cafe Press. I am torn when it comes to CP, they have an enormous site with a lot of t-shirt buying traffic, I’ve sold quite a few there myself (at a miserably low profit margin), but even I struggled when I first joined them. The main problem isn’t the quality of their printing (I’d hazard a guess they’ve one of the most expensive DTG – Direct to Garment – printers in the world), I’ve had quite a bit of positive feedback on that count. It isn’t a matter of picky editors complaining about the width of vector image shapes or image formats. Even their delivery seems relatively reasonable in price and speed. Nope, none of the above, only this; the maximum print area they allow on most of their clothing is just 10″ by 10″. Now that maybe a great figure if you’re bragging about yourself, but for a t-shirt it really does limit the directions you can take any idea. For instance, the dreaded rectangular image one eventually learns to avoid. The lack of detail that can be feasibly included in the space allowed. I’ve seen some fantastic silkscreen printed tees out there, some with images over double the size, some with over-the-hem printing, shoulder details, some completely covered with design (although the few I’ve seen like that sell at over $100). Let’s take it a step at a time, Cafe Press, if you want to be taken seriously, offer screen-printed tees that “think outside of the box” or rather “print outside of the box”. So my advice to T-Shirt Casserole is to get posting, why not try a few other t-shirt stores like Threadless and SpreadShirt for more inspiration? I checked the host domain and found a Cafe Press scraper site (I have done the same thing at RetroGod.com), I’m suspecting the blog is still there to help their Google rankings, rather than a genuine passion for reviewing t-shirts. Although I can’t blame them, you’d really have to be a fanatic to want to keep reviewing t-shirts ever week ad-infinitum (call the doctor somebody), besides you have to give them credit. Cafe Press or no Cafe Press, 2 years of reviews is a very healthy t-shirt archive by anyone’s standards!

Rated-T.com is a great idea and in essence it only needs two elements for it to work. It’s essentially a forum where members’ reviews determine the site ranking for each design. Good. There isn’t any traffic and hardly any members. Bad. Besides it’s a rather ugly site to look at, I can see they’re using a specialized forum script to do the job, unfortunately it looks like they can neither find a decent template, or have the knowledge to adapt the one they do have. I suspect these two factors maybe connected, i.e very few members and a faceless forum design. Creating a thriving forum is tricky no matter what it looks like, I’d recommend this site find some scallywags on MySpace or somewhere similar, pay them to invite and sign up a few hundred of their “friends” and reward each with a buck for making a few posts to complete the deal. It’s far cheaper than SEO and it means potential members won’t be frightened off by the apparent lack of activity. Incidentally, I’ve just managed to secure the domain RateTshirts.com, so I’ll probably be getting in on the act, although I’l most likely stick with the more traditional “Hot or Not” type of t-shirt rating site. Yes, yes, the script I’d use for the site was most probably created with pervs in mind, but what can you do?

Tshaped.com is cool! Simple as that, they pay due care and attention to their choices for reviews, they definitely know what they like and although there aren’t too many posts, what they do review is worth reviewing. A nice layout in this blog, which makes a nice change, and I especially enjoy the mix of t-shirt and t-shirt store reviews, I’d class myself as a little more in-depth where the reviews are concerned, but you will be knocked back by the √úber-Cool Tees they do feature. I especially love this one:-

There are a few fab Anti-Bush tees at Tshaped too, then again I think it might be time to move on, a lot of Brits still can’t stand Tony Blair (Ex-PM of The United Kingdom), however I haven’t seen anyone ever wear a t-shirt depicting his ugly mug to this day.

I’d have at least expected a “Lapdog of Bush” T-Shirt by now, I’ll leave you to imagine just how gross the design would’ve been :p We have to contend with grump Gordon Brown (the Ex-Chancellor), he comes across as a guy who hates his job, hates people, hates life in general, yet no one has bothered making a t-shirt ridiculing him either. I’ve even seen quite a few Barack and Clinton Tees now, so perhaps it’s time to move on once and for all.

Tshirt-Reviews.com is a domain name built for high Google Ranking, unfortunately once you get there you begin to regret it. Like I’ve mentioned before, there are limitations to what a t-shirt voting system can do. Whatever script I do eventually choose I’m going to do my absolute best to make the site as attractive to the eye as possible, simply having an outdated and cumbersome layout is enough to put most visitors off voting for anything, t-shirts or otherwise. They make a point of reviewing “Funny Rude T-Shirts”. Seeing as “funny t shirts” is the second most popular t-shirt related search term on after “t-shirts” it doesn’t surprise me. I just wish their submissions could qualify the claim. Essentially this is not a reviews site, it’s a ratings site, it’s a quick way for what appears to mainly be yet more CafePress.com designers to promote and once in a blue moon, sell a t-shirt or two.

Tshirt-Reviews is very very similar to the Grand Daddy of all t-shirt sites, T-shirtCountdown.com who’ve been using a very similar script since 2005! Essentially every vote button is placed next to a prominent link to the t-shirt designers cart. Like most “Top List” sites they rely on a constant supply of banner clicks to work out the most popular tees. I’d say that neither site represents the market as well as say Threadless.com that actually produce and sell their most popular tee shirts based upon ratings, but I suspect most sites are beginning to realize how fickle the average Internet user is. Cash counts, clicks are ten a penny.

T-ShirtJunkies.com has a great ideology, one t-shirt a day fix! I’d like to think I could manage that myself but as you can see from this one review, I’d probably have to sleep at my Mac to achieve that. However I was kind of stunned at how far their latest post digresses from the subject. I’m sure you can point a thousand holes in my writing, I don’t claim to be a professional, I doubt any t-shirt reviewer does, this is for love not money. I am a self-confessed wandering arguer, I like to slide off in all kinds of tangents, but I reign it back in, that’s my style, that’s what I do. T-ShirtJunkies also like to wander, however apart from a few scant details about their latest find, Synchronicity, (I won’t even bother showing you it, it’s that lame), the reviewer goes on to fill their homepage with a long yet rather sketchy example from their own life. Essentially it involves a confusion with an Ebay order for an MP3 charger. Moving along…

I feel far more at home at a blog like TroundUp.com – they describe themselves as “The T-Shirt Lover’s Blog” and you can certainly see why. They have the passion I was talking about earlier, a true eye for a good design, and a wide spread of different designers and stores on view. I especially enjoyed their selections from DesignByHumans.com, UneeTee and Fantastic Bonanza. They also have a penchant for Threadless tees as per usual for most reviewers. I like the friendly writing style and the simple clean layout to the site is very relaxing, concentrating on design classics of the future and the occasional bargain is what this site does best! What’s more they’ve reminded me of one of Threadless.com‘s discount codes – if you’d like to save $3 on your next t-shirt purchase there – use the coupon code ‚Äúfacebookcoupon‚Äù.

It’s 5am and I’ve been reviewing T-Shirt Reviewers all night, I’m going to paste the rest of the list and let you make your own minds up on who you’d like to bookmark, and who you’ll be avoiding. For the most part it’s simply a matter of style and taste, some want critique, others discounts, who knows what my readers want, the meaning of life? Either way, from now on you’re sure to find more t-shirt reviewers on your travels so do post a comment and let us all know about your online travels.

http://blog.fantasticbonanza.com
http://www.tshirtreviewblog.com
http://www.best-tshirts-ever.com
http://www.shirtlog.com
http://tshirtisland.blogspot.com
http://omgtees.com
http://www.teeshirtblogger.com
http://tcritic.com