Topman is a great place for finding interesting t-shirts. Not too pricey but with lots of quirks and character, and a great range of styles and prints. I sort of love this military style t-shirt, and I sort of don’t at the same time. Partly because it’s on trend, with the buttons, the colour of the t-shirt is good, and it’s a simple design.
On the other hand, it would only work if your tummy isn’t going to stretch apart those lower buttons and ruin the line of the thing. Also, the buttons are a bit nippley. On a cold day, it might just not look right. Military styling looks great on coats and cardigans, but I’m just not quite there with the t-shirt. Maybe I just need to give it some time. It might help as well, if you were offered a peek at what it looks like on, just to see where those buttons go.
Military is a big trend this autumn winter, so this t-shirt is a definite yes, or no, or maybe!
Everyone in LA seems to wear Wildfox Couture t-shirts, they must be the most popular label around. Combining quirky statement with prints that look a bit like those sugarey loveheart sweets I used to love when I was little, they’re practically a trend in themselves. Actually, didn’t they update those sweets for the new generation with things like “Text me!” on them? Anyway, Wildfox is the name to look out for when doing a bit of celeb spotting in the name of research.
Full of bite and attitude, the foxy numbers are favourites of Katy Perry, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and just about anybody else who is anybody else.
Think funny slogan, quirky hand drawn pastel print and oversize t-shirt or vest t-shirt and have a go for yourself. Slogan tees are where it’s at right now, so keep up by designing your own little number. I’ve gone back to the sugar hearts for inspiration,which look amazing on t-shirts. I so used to love those sweets!
I keep wondering if it’s just me thinking that I see more and more celebrities wearing t-shirts with not so discreet messages printed on them. But a little snippet in Glamour magazine definitely confirmed my thoughts. Swedish/ Canadian actress Malin Akerman is shown in LA wearing a vest bearing the slogan “Paris is Overrated” and a broken heart underneath it. Might a feud be brewing between her and alleged vacuous coke head Hilton or is she just bored of travelling? Either way, it’s a great t-shirt and a sure fire way of getting people talking. I love Glamour magazine’s style tip which is “DO wear witty vest tops and tees to inject some tongue-in-cheek fun to your wardrobe.” Am in total agreement!
I hate to admit it, but it’s become sort of a guilty pleasure watching the best clips from the X Factor on Sunday morning and not sitting through the whole thing on a Saturday. Not only was Natalie Imbruglia’s face suspiciously solid, (always fun having a bit of Botox spotting) but there was the most horrific piece of car crash television I think I have ever seen.
Shockingly bad telly and quite unforgivable for me to have been so hooked by it, but the truly awful audition by Abbey and Lisa (aka Ablisa) which ending up with one of them punching the other was proof if ever you needed it that Vicky Pollard is alive and thumping. Small wonder looking at this, that British women have been voted the most minging in the world (as voted by the rest of the world!)
The tragic thing is, that they were exploited for the purposes of cheap entertainment, and they should never have been allowed on the television in the first place, it was quite obvious they couldn’t sing right from the word go. They were only picked to make riveting telly by embarrassing themselves. So while part of me is appalled, another possibly much smaller part feels a bit sorry for them. Thus I thought they should have their own supportive t-shirt, courtesy of T-Shirt Studio. But only if they promise never to be on TV again. Ever!
One of my favourite kids t-shirts here from the fabulous All Saints. A really great graphic t-shirt combining all the key trends of the year in one go. It features a high definition screen print with an etching of black and white moodiness, anchor motif and a pair of cross bones (without the skull) thrown in to complete the look for those who are totally past the age of dressing up as pirates and who are cooler than those ice lollies that are made of fruit juice.
Skulls n' Anchors!
These graphic print t-shirts are a great way of kids wearing more grown up gear without having to throw everything away and start again. At £15 they’re not too pricey either which is always good news when you’ve got to buy clothes that are deemed acceptable by kids who aren’t kids any more!
The Guiness World Records are always a bit mad. There are a lot of categories one might never come across in real life, and this is one of them. How many t-shirts can one person wear in one go?
I love this clip of Matt McAllister putting on 155 t-shirts in one go to the Ride of the Valkyries in 2006, and achieving the world record for the greatest number of t-shirts worn at once. With t-shirts sizes ranging from modest through to massive Mike really goes for it, donning an extra 100 pounds in weight, wowzer! The best bit is if you pause the clip and check out some of the wackier t-shirts. And what is that enormous barbie pink one about, Mike?
I must confess, the sporty urge doesn’t hit me very often, and when it does it’s more of a tap on the shoulder than an overwhelming punch in the face. But every once in a while, I put loud music on and go for a run. The fact that I never get very far seems to be less of a problem than the annoying fact that my Ipod keeps falling out of my pocket and the and the wires keep gently bashing against me like Chinese water torture. Needless to say, my run doesn’t last long!
Having come across Urban Tool, I realise that this, and an awful lot of other problems can be dealt with in one fell swoop. They offer a great t-shirt featuring a little pocket for your phone, Ipod or whatever, and a loop to feed the wires through. Simple, yet extremely effective.
Of course now that there is no excuse not to go an run a half marathon. Darn!
Tony Blair’s memoirs of his time in Downing Street were always going to cause a stir. The way he soared into Number 10 after the Tories had gone on too long proclaiming “Education. Education. Education” and other such soundbites heralded a new era in British politics. A lot of what he’s saying in his book, (which is already being sold at half price) is already well documented, but it’s been all over the newspapers today, thus a Tony Blair t-shirt seems to be in order. Trouble is, there are so many different things you could say, where to start? I quite like the line “I knew Brown Would be a Disaster” which seems to point towards the fact that he himself wasn’t perchance? Although I’ve gone for another quote where Blair credits Brown with a lack of emotional intelligence. Anyway, it’s good enough to start, roll on the rest of the Blair t-shirts!
The Saturdays are a kind of latter day Spice Girls from what I can gather. They don’t seem to have made much impact, but their publicists are working day and night to conjure up meagre stories about them so they can garner a few column inches. One of the girls was photographed the other day in a t-shirts saying “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” which looked glaringly familiar to me. Katie Price was spotted with the same slogan shortly after splitting up from Peter Andre, causing confused t-shirt decipherers to question whether or not this was a statement or just hopefulness. Interestingly enough, the words actually come from a song lyric from Big and Rich, a country group who released the song in 2004.
Ye-Haa!
This has become a very popular slogan which has given rise to a variety of snowclones (I only just discovered what this meant, and am going to use it on everyone I know to see how long I sound clever for), such as “Save a horse, (Ride an American)”. Possibly a variety of slightly changing t-shirts could be worn every day, just to see if anyone notices or how long it takes them to catch on. Fantastic fun!
The last ever Big Brother is drawing to a close. With the final winner in place, some old favourites (the ones who haven’t got anything else coming up in the near future, and whose agents are threatening to quit) are re-entering the house for the final time. Nadia, Makosi and Ulrika meet Nasty Nick, Coolio and that guy from Channel Four racing, in what is an exercise in barrel scraping for the very, very last time. Please say it’s the last, please!
I love this t-shirt that Nasty Nick is wearing.
I'm so casual about this!
Back in the first series of Big Brother, his cheating was enough to cause a great big scandal. That was before the producers decided the show was too tame and started turning it more and more into a freak show in a bid to keep those flagging audience figures going. If you’ve never read Ben Elton’s “Dead Famous” then do so now.
Big Brother is anything but a game show. What started as a loosely termed ‘experiment’, descended pretty quickly into voyeuristic trash. Quite funny trash for a while, until it the sound of the barrel scraping overwhelmed the show.
Maybe it will be the end, but I wonder if they’ll find another reason to revive the format. Big Brother: the Resurrection? I’m sure it’ll happen!
