Our personalised teddy bears are the cutest and fluffiest bears around. Made by the wonderful Russ Berrie Teddies, with 100% cotton t-shirts, ready for you to design. They make gorgeous stocking fillers when printed with a picture or a drawing. Check out this little fella.
The Rottweiler has a little bit of a reputation for not being a pussy-cat amongst dogs. So Givenchy’s obsession with all things Rottweiler-y is quite a fierce statement. Take this t-shirt, for example….
Grrrrr!
Ew….scary, huh? This is the freakiest tee I’ve seen for ages, and to be honest, it gives me the creeps. But if you a, like Rottweilers, and b, have a hundred and fifty quid lying around, then this limited edition t-shirt could be just what you’re after. Me, I like something a bit more tame!
Cage the Kidz!
It’s no great surprise that there was a bit of an outcry when The Twin Rivers Police Association in Sacramento started selling t-shirts with a picture of a (terrified) child behind bars accompanied by the slogan “U raise ‘em, we cage ‘em!”. The police force maintained that the t-shirts were being sold to raise funds for the families of fallen officers, yet quickly withdrew the tees amidst huge criticism that they were sick and rubbish. People thought the Twin Rivers Police Force were rubbish anyway, after a catalogue of errors and incompetency. But now they think they’re sick too. Bad PR result. Even if you think all the local kids are going to turn into criminals, best not advertise the fact. Especially if you are trying to project a caring and protecting image. Just a thought!
Don't look behind you!
Little Suri Cruise, she of the Scientologist, sofa abusing parents, must be one of the most photographed little nippers in the world. She probably thinks that many people have camera for faces, so often is she surrounded by the paparazzi. However, she is undeniably very photogenic, and with A lister parents like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, she never was going to grow up all that far away from the limelight, was she.
I love how even at the tender age of five, she’s not remotely phased by anything, and rarely is the ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ expression wiped from her face. What’s even funnier in this shot is that the Holywood family are being followed by zombies and nobody has even raised an eyebrow.
Run!
Actually, the Cruises were in the middles of Zombiefest, a celebration of zombieism in the American town of Pittsburgh, hence the dramatic make up and bloodied t-shirts. But then, the Cruises are no strangers to weird religions, so they probably didn’t think anything untoward was going on at all. It brings to mind my favourite zombie tee, which is always in need of an airing, a sortmer from my favourite online store, Snorgtees. Don’t show it to little Suri, though!
The Bed Romance!
Going gaga for this beautifully simple t-shirt from Polish designers Excellent Glory. I love the combination of the classic Wham “Wake me up before you go go” t-shirt, together with the Lady Gaga referencing. It makes for a fabulous t-shirt, and is definitely worth a look. This is the sort of t-shirt that looks so great from a distance because of the size of print. I’m totally inspired to make my own version……How about “Wake me up before you goo goo” on a baby t-shirt? Or “Wake me up before you moo moo with a picture of a cow? Oh, the choices are endless!
Le T-shirt!
If you happen to be French and very chi-chi, then you would definitely have heard of French fashion brand Cyrillus; in fact, to have heard of the label at all you need to be at the very least chi-chi even if you can’t muster up a French bit. Cyrillus is the epitome of French chic, lots of navy and chignons, just what you would expect of our sartorially superior neighbours across the channel.
But here’s a thing. The catalogue just slid gracefully through the letterbox, and would you even believe it, the style for this autumn is English fashion. Liberty prints, good old hunter wellies, and union jacks abound, with barely a chignon in sight!
I love this boys t-shirt with an image of the London skyline in the shape of the union jack. It’s a really great picture and the long sleeved t-shirt is good quality 100% cotton. Do the French really do everything better than we do….even being English? Oh well, C’est la vie and all that!
Pretty or Plain Smart?
Girls t-shirts seem to cause far more trouble that their male counterparts with latest to tie parental knickers in a twist coming from the States. The slogan on a t-shirt from J.C. Penney reads “I’m too pretty to do my homework, so my brother has to do it for me”. On the retailers website, the marketing blurb says “Who has time for homework when there’s a new Justin Bieber album out? She’ll love this tee that’s just as cute and sassy as she is.”
Once again, parents are livid that their daughters are being encouraged via the sartorial medium of t-shirt slogan to be nothing more than skinny, pretty and underachieving. But is it really the t-shirts fault? Slogans that reflect ideas already rife in the media are an easy target, but probably not the root of all evil. And anyway, who would buy a t-shirt that read “I’m going to do my homework because I’m a good girl and I’m going to be a doctor”? OK, maybe they would, but would children want to wear them? The controversial will always the most appealing, and the more rebellious the better. And anyway, what’s wrong with getting someone else to do your homework? It worked for me!
Surfer to be!
T-shirt Studio, well this bit of it anyway, has gone on a little trip to way down south, from whence it came. “Whence” is Cornwall, home to the culinary achievement that is the pasty, and haven to all surfy types for miles around.
People who have never been to Cornwall always seem to think that the weather is perfect and it’s full of palm trees, although I don’t think I’ve ever seen a palm tree and it rains. A lot.
Still, a few days of pasties will weigh me down enough to make sure the rain doesn’t wash me away. There might even be a bit of sunshine.
So here’s a cutesome kids t-shirt which is ideal for all things seaside. Thirteen pounds from play.com, a nice little number for the delights of the seaside!
How fantastic is this t-shirt by Aubin and Wills? On the surface, it may merely be a long sleeved red and black striped t-shirt, however in reality it’s a thinly disguised homage to the ever wonderful Dennis the Menace. It’s just one of those things that ticks all the sartorial boxes, and then some. Nautical look. Check. Stripes. Check. Longer length. Check. Dennis the Menace look. Oh yeah, totally! This has got to be the t-shirt that takes yo from summer (member that?) right through to winter and beyond. I love it! And at only (?) 65 quid from Mr Porter, you can too…..you little menace!!!!
Photograph Cropped. Not Crotch.
Interesting dilemma here. Cult clothing company Urban Outfitters are being sued by the parents of model Hailey Clauson for $28 million for using an image of her on a t-shirt which they say was never meant for public consumption. The t-shirts show Hailey, who was then a mere whippersnapper of fifteen, posing on a motorbike with her legs open. Though clothed, the picture according to the parents, makes ”her crotch area the focal point of the image,”.
Her parents were present at the shoot, and allowed the photos to be taken. However, her agency decided they didn’t want the images released and were horrified to find the shot was used on a t-shirt being sold at Urban Outfitters.
Opinion seems to be fairly divided about the whole thing. Whilst Hailey’s parents argue that the image is “blatantly salacious”, you might be thinking, well why did they let some stylist dress her in hotpants and sit her on a motorbike with her legs open. You might even question why they let her go into modelling at all, especially at such a young age, if they weren’t happy about her being photographed in provocative poses. For the parents, however, it is a breach of trust, that a pose they never wanted of their daughter was used without their say so.
I’m not sure quite where I am on this one. Both arguments have their own validity. But 28 million dollars……that’s quite a lot to ask for. What would they do with all that money anyway…..buy a their daughter a pair of knickers perhaps?
