T-Shirt Reviews Blog

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:57 AM PDT

Suck! Clothing are based in Italy and sell their funky t-shirts via their online store at www.suckmystar.bigcartel.com. First off I don’t know if the meaning got lost in the translation but I guarantee you one thing, Suck! Clothing doesn’t suck! In fact quite the opposite, their wild style designs and jampacked with strong colours, memorable designs and a great sense of humour. They seem to take their inspiration from everywhere including bad movies like Teenwolf, abstract and graffiti art, outer space, and surreal cartoons. Their latest and highly confident collection opens up a vista of Italian design sensibility that’s distinctly different to much on offer in the USA dominated t-shirt market.

Check out their video promo for their Sping/Summer 2010 collection, it’s not too informative but the music is cool heh.

Check out these tees:

Wayne’s World T-Shirt

The Wayne’s World T-Shirt says it all. If you still find yourself mumbling “Wayne’s World! Party time! Excellent!” from time to time, probably reluctantly and with a smidgeon of guilty pleasure then come out of the proverbial heavy metal closet and proclaim your love for this celluloid tribute to iffy rock and bad jokes. I don’t know what it is about Mike Myers, his movies, especially Austin Powers, seemed so funny at the time, nowadays they grate on my nerves. Still the t-shirt rocks, a great sense of perspective and superb old school colours. Get this tee for guys in sizes XS to L for $31. PLUS get a free limited edition hand numbered Wayne’s World poster (applies to first 100 customers).

Teenwolf T-Shirt

I like this one, hate the film mind you, but I like this shirt. Probably the smartest piece of brand placement I’ve ever seen, a great lesson for budding designers trying to think of a name for their label, make sure you can use your logo in your designs! College does suck, or rather it did when I was there, not as much as school mind you, not even as much as work, but sure, it sucks. Love the font on this one, looks like something out of a bad horror comedy, oh yeah it is heh. The face needs some work, if that is supposed to be Michael J. Fox under all that fur? I give it a 7/10, would give it a 9 if they sort that face out. Get the Teenwolf T-Shirt for $31 for guys in all sizes. Get a free movie poster with this order too…

Candies T-Shirt

Here’s a cutie for the girls, it’s called the Candies T-Shirt and the reasons why are self evident. Those lollipops look so real I wouldn’t be surprised if Suck! has deliberately stuck real ones on there to mess with your mind. If you have an extremely sweet tooth then you can get this tee for girls in sizes S to L for $25.

1969 T-Shirt

A lot of stuff happened in 1969, first off I was born the day before on New Year’s Eve, the world had succumbed to Moon madness, and everyone thought we’d be living there by now, don’t ask me why, I’d want to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. The hippies started kicking off, they’d come down off their seemingly inexhaustible supply of LSD and free love and started getting shot by bikers. Iggy Pop’s Stooges made a great song about the year, it doesn’t tell us much except that just maybe that the people were sick of putting flowers in their hair and wanted to riot a la the French. Cool t-shirt, nice sentiment, get the 1969 T-Shirt for guys at $25 in sizes XS to L.

See the rest of Suck! Clothing’s shirts at www.suckmystar.bigcartel.com plus check out their blog and Facebook page too!

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Tuesday, 30 March 2010