‘Teeshirts’ Category
POP! San Diego now carrying CHILDREN
This weekend, the Thread show in SD was a huge, massive, gargantuan success. Not only were CHILDREN tees purchased and put into the hands of many streetwear loving San Diegans, but a boutique in SD called POP! picked us up and is now carrying 5 designs including the Miles tee, the Frank tee, Music fist and Headphones.
POP! is a cool spot that also carries LA brand 7 Lighting Bolts and the very popular Free Gold Watch.
All in San Diego check out the owner and my new homie, Mike at:
POP!
2927 Lincoln Ave. (at 30th)
San Diego, CA 92104
(619) 688-1038
Tomorrow I’ll have the full report on the THREAD show.
Tags: streetwear fashion san diego tee shirt
THREAD Show San Diego this Sunday Dec. 2
Aaahhhh… busy busy busy. I’ve been off the blogging and afk for a lil while, but I is back.
This weekend CHILDREN will be showing at the Thread Show in San Diego. It’s a massive sample sale, trade show, fashion show that should be very very dope. Anyone in SD should definitely check it out.
THREAD Show
The San Diego Air & Space Museum, 2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
BE THERE!
More real blogging soon, son.
Aaahhhh. FUCT brings it back to cool.
Since my last post on FUCT, they’ve added a few new items that I really like. Some old school FUCT flavor, graphic tees. The first release they put out on their new site was little “Nordstrom” feeling for my taste, if you know what I mean; sort of Affliction-y The new stuff on there, however is reminiscent of the FUCT I grew up loving. So reminiscent, actually that it’s some of the same designs from yesteryear with a little ‘07 makeover; like the ape logo, the FUCT “LOVE” logo, etc.
Check it:
Simian since ‘91 raglan:
FUCT follies tee:
And my favorite, paying homage to the classic bike movement with the Wild in the Streets tee:
I don’t know what these tees are like. Whether they’re slim-cut, soft cotton or regular old-school Hanes-style. I hope they’re Hanes-style.
I’m also very jealous of the Japan-only, manly looking, slim-cut flannels. these shirts are manufactured and sold only in the JP. They look like they belong in SLB (which, by the way, has a rad website). I especially dig the black one:
Holla!
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Stussy at Rose Bowl Swap Meet - Real or fake?
My wife and I and some others went to The Rose Bowl Swap Meet last weekend. It was the first time I’d ever been there; pretty sad as I’ve lived in LA my whole life.
Over all it was pretty cool, but I’m not writing a review on that. My real issue here is the Stussy booth that was set up there. I could not figure out if the clothes real or bootlegged. Overall, most of it looked real, but the whole set up was so messy and unofficial looking that I really couldn’t tell.
Hundreds of Stussy New Eras, thousands of tee shirts… all just piled on tables outside. I mean does Stussy really sell their stuff like that?
I saw at least one shirt that looked like it fit badly, like it was too short and wide. I saw another shirt where too much ink was applied on the silkscreen and the image was kind of bubbly. Maybe they were just seconds, like mistakes and what not, but I couldn’t help thinking it was all fake.
One guy picked up a Stussy x Mad Hectic x Undefeated tee and asked the lady working the booth how much it was. She told him it was $40 and that it was available only in Japan. Well according to Hypebeast it was available at Undefeated in the US, too. Maybe she was just misinformed… or maybe she was trying make a sale on some fake-ass shit!
The Rose Bowl Swap Meet is a huge event though and I would think that if they were selling fake Stussy, they’d get caught real quick. What the hell do I know, though.
Anyone out there know if this stuff was real? I mean shit, I should have bought some if it was.
Tags: streetwear stussy tee shirt new era fashion los angeles rose bowl
New FUCT website and collection
FUCT has been making a comeback in the last year or two and have just recently released their new site and their new F/W ‘07 collection. Looks OK.
They’ve got 2 lines: BDU (Battle Dress Uniform, according to Highsnobiety) and Premium. It’s definitely a departure form what they’ve been doing.
The BDU line is mostly black and white and the art is in a west coast graffiti/tattoo type of style.
The Premium line so far seems to consist of just 3 tees which are soft cotton, thin tees with soft, worn feeling prints.
An apparent anti-war message runs throughout the line. It’s kind of a weird thing with FUCT, I can’t figure out where they’re coming from, what they’re saying. The website has got girls in lingerie drinking in front of a confederate flag. It’s all very artistic and tasteful mind you, but nonetheless… it is what it is. That combined with what seems like anti-war messages and it kind of seems like FUCT doesn’t really know where it stands. Not that drunk girls and peace are necessarily conflicting ideas, it’s just that I can’t tell what this line is about now or who what demographic they’re aiming at. The vintage-cotton tees aren’t my thing either. There’s nothing wrong with them, but it seems to me that when a line starts printing shirts like that, they’ve basically left teh streetwear market. I wouldn’t be surprised to see these shirts end up at Barney’s NY, Scoop, or Fred Segal, places like that. Which if they do, props to FUCT and founder Erik Brunetti for getting his shit out there. I remember when I thought I was dope with my FUCT logo tee and then they started carrying it at Urban Outfitters. I couldn’t buy anything else FUCT for a while.
I just read an interview with Erik Brunetti and he definitely seems like a smart, cool, down-to-earth dude. And FUCT has been one of my favorite lines for the last 12 years or so. I’m glad to see they’re back and I hope they do well. I’m just a little confused at what they’re putting out there. Maybe it’ll just take a little time to digest.
CHILDREN at Thread Show San Diego
It’s official, you suckas. CHILDREN will be representing at the Thread Show in San Diego on December 2. It’s about time! I waited to hear from these fools for months!
For those that don’t know, Thread is a big fashion hullabaloo (that word really doesn’t make sense here, I know, but I’ve never used it and it sounds good) of sorts where about 75 designers show their stuff and thousands of public peruse the racks of up and coming young designers to cop new gear and retail buyers search for the goods. GOT IT? Sort of like going to Pool, or Project and getting to buy the samples.
It will be on December 2nd from 11am - 6pm in San Diego at the Aerospace Museum, 2001 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101
For public it’s $10 at the door or $7 if you rsvp.
It’s definitely a hot event. I don’t know exactly who will be there this time around, but past exhibitors include Diesel, RVCA, G-Star and mucho mucho more. There will be a ton of shirts and hoodies and whatnot for the fellas, and lots and lots of cute stuff for the ladies.
If you’re in San Diego or anywhere else around SoCal, head on over. It’s finsta be hot.
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Rogue Status disses The Hundreds on new sticker. Snaps!
I saw this on a MySpace bulletin from Rogue Status, a new sticker they just put out:
I mean DAMN! Maybe it’s tongue-in-cheek and they’re good homies and The Hundreds family is laughing with them, but I doubt it.
Rogue Status is probably most well known for their “Gun Show” tee:
I personally don’t think RS has any real right to diss The Hundreds like that. I’m looking at their site right now and these shirts are nothing special. I’m guessing that Rogue Status takes pride in the boldness of their designs. And they are bold and definitely catch your eye, but bold just for the sake of being bold is really just loud and obnoxious. I mean, the “Kate Moss Blows” shirt? Come on… who wears that?
The whole thing is pretty childish. You don’t see top companies out there shitting on their competition. You don’t see Stussy with a shirt that says some shit like, “Fuck Upper Playground.” Yanawmean?
And also, the sticker doesn’t even make sense. It’s one thing to say “Streetwear is dead.” Alright, whoa, you’re making a statement here, you’re opening up our minds. But “The Hundreds killed it”? As if The Hundreds is responsible for the streetwear explosion that’s happened in the last 3 years? They’re a big company, don’t get me wrong, and they’ve done a really good job getting themselves out there. But outside of streetwear circles, nobody’s even heard of them.
My point here isn’t to diss Rogue Status, just to say that it’s not cool when your intention is just to piss people off or rile them up. If it’s done creatively and subtle then that’s different. It’s cool when you hide your message behind aesthetics, but this in-your-face kind of dissing is boring. It takes no creativity. It’s too easy to do and really just makes Rogue Status look jealous. They sound like some plain ‘ol haters.
“I” to the “M” to the “O”
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Backside Records and Clothing
Backside Records in downtown Burbank recently started carrying CHILDREN. This place used to be a record store with a small apparell section, probably like 10 shirts. It’s turned into a really dope clothing store carrying a bunch of top streetwear names like Schmack, Triumvir3, FreshJive, OBEY and of course: CHILDREN.
Check them out:
Backside
139 N. San Fernando Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
Peep their vinyl selection while you’re there too. They’ve always got good finds on used hip-hop.
The Stupefying State of Stussy!
The underground teeshirt world has gone the same route as everything else underground. Namely… no longer underground.
I used to be in love with Stussy. It was immortal, untouchable. I thought that no matter what they did, they would still just be the dopest brand out there. Even when they were selling at Macy’s, I loved it.
Over the last year or so, I have slowly been coming to terms with Stussy’s mainstream movement. This last week… I accepted it.
RIP Stussy
Stussy was the originator, the first real teeshirt line, my graduation from Gotcha. They’ve left their irie roots and moved on to a very generic hip-hop/skate thing. The all-over prints, the logos aaaaaallllllll ooooovvvvveeeeerrrrrrrr everything, the NewEra caps. Not that anything is wrong with any one of these things, but you know… if i wanted that stuff, I’d rock LRG or Roca Wear.
I was at Barracuda on Melrose the other day (for those that don’t know, probably the best store in LA) and I was dissapointed at my selection of men’s tees. Normally a sick selection, I was confronted with a wall of Stussy tees and hats (all looking the same in different color-ways), some 2K and some otherhand-drawn looking tees of monsters or girls throwing up or something. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOPE TEES?!?!?! Everyone loves a dope tee. (In Barracuda’s defense they did have a dope selection of denim, kicks and other goods, but we’re talking tees).
Maybe it’s just my oskee-woskee bias, but these new tees are, for lack of a better word, whack! Some lines are still holding it down: FreshJive, Upper Playground, and others, but even some of the more underground ones… they just all look the same. It’s dissapointing really. I’ve only bought 2 new tees in the last year, a FreshJive and an X-Large (the Woody Allen tee, DOPE!). Other than that, I seriously have not found tees that I just had to have.
I used to be able to rely on Stussy and FUCT (another one of my old favorites), but it seems these days there’s only 2 or 3 companies with different tags. I don’t like wearing shirts that seem to scream out, “CHECK OUT HOW DOPE MY TEESHIRT IS!!” I may as well print that on my next shirt. I need a little subtlety in my gear.
I’ll still keep my eye on Stussy. I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for them; I’m sure I’ll buy something of there’s again. But for now, i guess I’m, on my own.
So… that being said, check out my line: CHILDREN.
PS - My wife and I found out yesterday that it’s a girl.
