I know my house pretty well. I can usually walk around in the dark without running into things. Usually.
Most of the time I know that at the end of the hall I have to walk straight forward until I can see the microwave clock before it’s safe to turn left. If I don’t, there’s a pretty good chance I’m going face first into a wall I forgot was there.
Every now and again though, we all do it. We forget where something is and run right into it. It’s usually enough to keep you from making it back to sleep right away because, well, it hurt dammit!
This shirt from Snorg Tees is instantly relatable to anyone that sees it. That means you’ll see a lot of positive reaction wearing it out and about. It’s printed in two colors on a black tee, and I have to admit I’m digging the font they used too. Pretty neat shirt, and it’s on sale just this week.
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So here’s a story of a t-shirt hunt with an almost-perfect ending. The other day I got an email from Liz, check this out:
Hello!
Stumbled across your blog, loved it, realized I had found a shirt a week ago that I loved but, unfortunately, it was too small (I was thrift-store hopping, they only had one). So I was wondering if you couldn’t hunt it down seeing as you seem to enjoy that sort of thing.
I looked for it online because the brand of the shirt itself was on the tag but it turned out that someone had simply silk screened it after buying plain shirts in bulk from that company.
Anyways, the shirt was black and it had an outline of Texas on it with the words, “Let’s Mess With Texas” written over top. It was pretty funny at the time.
Thanks in advance if you can find it. If you can’t, no worries, just thought I’d give it a shot.
Liz
This sounded like a tall order simply because of the sheer number of items you can buy with “Don’t Mess With Texas” plastered all over them. I also wanted to weed out as many print on demand (POD) items as possible, since Liz indicated in her email that the had been silk-screened by someone.
I got lucky, and I think I found the shirt:
Hopefully that’s the shirt you were talking about, Liz. I found it on Storyville Times, from a post dated Oct 1, 2007. The post tells me that the shirt was designed by a group called “Metro Three.” Some Googling brought me what looks to be their homepage and Twitter account:
Metro Three Homepage
Metro Three Twitter
I half-expect a tumbleweed to roll across that Twitter profile, it’s been deserted for so long. Nevertheless, Metro Three seems to be active, though that shirt doesn’t appear to be for sale right now. I’m thinking your best bet, Liz, is to contact them and see if they can’t make one appear in your mailbox one way or another.
If they can’t, here are some alternatives:
That’s Mess With Texas from Threadless, currently sold out but you can request an email notification for a reprint.
Here’s "Please Mess With Texas" from Protoculture Apparel. It’s a bit pricy IMO for the amount of print that’s on it, but it’s available in blue and green.
I also found this one on Cotton Factory, "I Messed With Texas." This one’s more reasonably priced at $16.
Hopefully you found something here you can run with with, Liz! Thanks for shooting me a message about this shirt you’re looking for. If anyone else has a shirt they’d like to see, hit the submit button up there on the right and let me know about it!
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In this episode of Thread Notes TV I review a couple of t-shirts from 2600 Strange Ave. If you think Ed Hardy t-shirts are lame, you’re going to love 2600 Strange Ave.
Their tees are the perfect antithesis to all the overpriced status-symbol brands that are bastardizing the core idea of what a t-shirt is and should be. It’s also worth noting that while every t-shirt business has a story of how they started, I don’t think I’ve heard one as amusing as the one 2600 Strange Ave has.
In This Episode
This shirt cheekily points out that there’s much more to life than a $90 t-shirt. If you’re spending that much on a shirt…well, you’re beyond help and probably not reading TRB. For a shirt to be worth that much it’s got to be pretty damn special, and well, I guess magic cotton would qualify. If you think the most important part of what you wear is how much you paid for it, this isn’t the shirt for you.
This shirt lists everything you’d find on an Ed Hardy t-shirt. So why is this shirt so much cheaper? This shirt only has the words, while an Ed Hardy shirt may have the actual things. If they actually printed on this shirt all the things they list, they’d have to charge an arm and a leg for it.
You see, Ed Hardy shirts are like Mexican food. Very, very expensive Mexican food. Stay with me here. While to the casual observer all Mexican dishes are different, they all have the same basic ingredients – albeit in a unique order. Mexican food is tortilla, beans, meat, cheese, and tomatoes/peppers. Each Mexican dish takes these 5 ingredients and rearranges them into some kind of unique dish.
Ed Hardy shirts are no different. Skulls, wings, gold foil, unicorns and crossbones – those are the basic ingredients. Tweak the colors, put them in a different order…tada! New Ed Hardy shirt. If only we could all be so original.
Both of these shirts from 2600 Strange Ave get down to the core of what a t-shirt is and isn’t, and I like that. No matter how cool you feel, spending $90 on a t-shirt accomplishes only two things – making you look like a jackass and telling people around you that you have no sense of your priorities. These guys get it right.
Leave a comment down below and let me know what you think! If you’d like your t-shirt featured in a future episode of Thread Notes TV, check out my submit a t-shirt page.
Thanks again to the guys at 2600 Strange Ave for sending over these shirts. Check ‘em out!
The other day I wrote about the classics sale at Threadless and this is one of my favorites that’s featured this week. Artistic? not really. Clever? most definitely. It’s a nice change of pace really with most of the print on the back too. Though I’m a huge AV and home theater nut, I know someone much better suited for this shirt than me, and I plan to pick it up as a Christmas gift before the sale expires at the end of the week.
AV is normally 18 bucks but you can snag it up for $12 before Friday as part of the classics sale at Threadless.
Check out AV ($12) at Threadless (hurry, sale ends 10/9)
It’s been forever since there’s been a t-shirt link tuesday! Let’s fix that right now. T-Shirt Link Tuesday is all about giving recognition to the other great t-shirt blogs out there and the awesome things that they come across. Check these guys out!
Colin over at Troundup wrote about this eye-catching (oh man! cheesy pun of the day!) t-shirt from the folks at Resist Today. There’s so much weird in this shirt, you can’t look away. It’s like a train wreck….but a good train wreck. I can’t say that I know what it means or what it’s supposed to say, but that’s alright. The detail is great and the shirt is unique!
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Andy at Hide Your Arms posted this interesting tee from 57Thirtythree the other day. The one color design reminds me a little bit of Toxic from Van Rockn. The placement is unique and it reminds me of Planet of the Apes. Charlton Heston FTW!
Protect The Skin You’re In (Fat Seagull)
What can I say about this…naked women on t-shirts. It’s done fairly tastefully. Well, tastefully in a not cartoon-barbie redneck-trash sort of way, anyways. Prominent celebrities and fashion icons adorn this line of tees, and all proceeds go towards cancer research. The shirt seems to only be available offline from Marc Jacobs stores for $35.
How cool is this tee?! I really like the powerful message of perseverance. It’s a very iconic design I think. It’s almost like our hero needs to reach the other side of the wall at any cost and without regard for what may await him.
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