T-Shirt Reviews Blog

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 07:35 AM PDT

Probably one of the coolest labels we’ve featured at Buy Tees so far, The Ugly Kids Club is a UK based urban wear brand and collective with a strong street following who’s vibrant collection has been featured in the likes of:

Loaded Magazine’s 10 of the Best : ‘No. 8 - Best for in The Club’ - Loaded Oct 09
Front Magazine : ‘…ace bunch of designers, artists and tattooists… website has a f***-load of tees, so go and treat your eyes’ - Front Sep 09

TUKC provide a great online experience, offering a shop where you can load up on all their latest t-shirts and sweats as well as a vibrant online community and blog packed with tons of features on everything from fashion to music, street art, skateboarding, funny vids, gigs and more. But what matters to us and hopefully you the most are the quality and originality of their t-shirt collection, and don’t worry, you definitely won’t be disappointed. They have some powerful designs under their belt, think ’street’, think in your face, think swagger, you’re there. One thing you can be assured of, these tees aren’t ugly!

No matter the attitude you’ll find their t-shirts are all of a high quality in both design and production, with some very unique concepts and ideas on offer, spoofs of corporate logos, booze, the Facebook phenomena, tattoos and skulls seeming to be the order of the day right now. Their T Shirts range from £25 to £16 and are all limited edition, generally they won't print more than 100 of each design and once a design is sold out, it's gone forever - so no need to worry about staying fresh!

They’ve had some very fine grimy tees on offer in the past too, their archive reveals all that have been sold and sadly not available any more - their store includes an archive in the footer where you can see what you’ve missed. This one - UCK Rizla - would’ve been my favourite (modelled by Skinnyman and featured at Grime Garms.)

Ugly or Die Tee

The title for this beauty is based upon the old saying ’skate or die’, ugly or die offers up a fresh graffiti-street style print including obligatory skull donning military ware and a nice phat slogan in puffy cloud style - perhaps the smoke after the bomb has dropped? You can get the ‘Ugly or Die’ tee for £25 in black, white, charcoal and grey. Sizes where available range from S to XL.

Whisky Tee

Celebrating the TUKC’s favourite booze, the Whisky Tee should leave you in high spirits (boom boom), featuring a wide range of branded bottles of scotch and most likely bourbon too (that’s not the biscuit if you’re a Brit). Each bottle is stamped with a lovely selection of typography that spells out the words, ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Kids Club‘, available for just £16 in White (L, XL), Black (XL, XXL), Purple (XL).

Wild West Tee

Yeehah! ‘Get off your horse and drink ya milk’, as John Wayne would say, or if you don’t have a horse or like milk, but have a hankering for big hats and a little rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ then check out this tee by TUKC cleverly rounding up a herd of cowboy related paraphernalia to spell out the label’s name, very cool, very smart. Get the Wild West tee for £20 in Red (L,XL), Yellow (L,XL) and Purple (XL) here.

Lollipop Tee

It’s nice to see the art of ‘mash-ups’ entering the medium of the tee, this superb example mixes the likes of The Rolling Stones and Lil Wayne to form an uber future classic, as you’d expect these have all but sold out with just XL white shirts left now, get one of the remaining for £20 here.

TUKC are definitely a label to keep an eye on, their limited t-shirts are very popular and almost always sold out within a week or two, if you see something you like I’d grab it or regret it forever! Check out all the ugly kids at www.theuglykidsclub.com.

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Friday, 16 October 2009