Posts Tagged ‘custom t-shirts’

FizzyT, September 8th, 2010

Top of the Tees!

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!

FizzyT, September 7th, 2010

Wild at Heart!

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!

FizzyT, September 6th, 2010

This Paris or that Paris?

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!

FizzyT, September 5th, 2010

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!

FizzyT, September 1st, 2010

Pot, Kettle anyone?

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!

FizzyT, August 31st, 2010

Saving Animals?

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!

FizzyT, August 27th, 2010

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!

FizzyT, August 26th, 2010

Guess Who!

There seems to be an awful lot of hoohah about the fact that Top Gear’s Stig wants to write his autobiography and tell of his time as TV most popular unidentified secret racing driver. The BBC want to take him to court, claiming that he signed a confidentiality agreement, although the Ben Collins has been revealed as being the Stig by the papers so does that even count now anyway?

Personally, I think they’re all taking this way too seriously, and are missing the real point. There is a perfect opportunity for an X Factor style “Hunt the Stig” show. How many applicants would you get for being Top Gear’s Stig? It would be amazing, and you would have TV dynamite if you were to add the magic ingredients of Jeremy Clarkson (Simon Cowell but a bit sharper), James May who could be Louis Walsh, kinda dim but nice and Rickard Hammond, aka the Hamster, ideal in the Cheryl Cole/ Dannii thingey role.

Isn’t this perfect? I can’t think why the BBC haven’t come up with it already. Or maybe they have, and all of this court stuff is merely a smokescreen. Anyway, here is today’s t-shirt: I am Stig. Perfect, I am getting mine right now!

FizzyT, August 21st, 2010

No Tips Please!

It seems that there is a new copycat craze sweeping the country, that of Robin Reliant tipping. Taking their cue from a Top Gear episode in which Jeremy Clarkson drives a Reliant around the track, tipping it over on the corners, bored youths all over the country are abusing the cherished three wheelers, without the slightest consideration for the great history it entails.

Although this story has more than a little bit of  humour in it, the thought of Reliants nationwide suffering the same fate is far too dreadful to comprehend. The charming vehicle, beloved of Rodney and Del Boy and er…..so many others,  is far too special, far too precious, and to be serious for a nanosecond, a reminder of how cars became available to the masses at very reasonable prices.

Hence today’s t-shirt is in defence of the Robin Reliant, a great British Institution. Long may they stand upright!

FizzyT, August 16th, 2010

I'm a Goddess, me!

When the divine Nigella Lawson wrote a cookery book entitled “How to be a Domestic Goddess” women everywhere flocked to buy into a piece of the most sumptuous celebrity chef ever created. Although the title conjured up images of ladies in pinnies 1950′s style baking and making for their better halves, there was a great irony in the title as it was quite evident that the lovely Nigella had sampled EVERYTHING and her better half , the art collector Charles Saatchi,it emerged only ate eggs.

Katie Price’s book tour for her new novel “Paradise” has been a massive success; astounding really as she is quite open about the fact that she didn’t actually write the thing. What is beyond incredible however,  is the army of fans queueing up for the book signing, are loving it anyway. The never shy Price proclaiming her status in a series of diamante t-shirts with slogans such as “Celebrity Goddess” and “Caviar, champagne, chocolate, french fries” seems not to repel her avid followers but to bring them on in their droves.

Obviously goddesses are the thing, be it celebrity or domestic or other. Just make sure you write it on your t-shirt just in case everyone else is in doubt!