Category: Shirts

Welcome to a deep-dive into the last 3 years of confirmed sales on eBay for the top ten highest-selling Sade designs.  Several entries would have made multiple appearances, so these are the designs with the highest sales. Not all the magic happens on eBay. In fact, many of these t-shirts are sold privately, so we’re going to do our best to update this list with notable sales that we’ve done our best to confirm. If you have confirmed sales and some photos, please contact us to have your t-shirt added to this list! Some ground rules before we get into ... Read more

I’ve been on a mission for at least a decade to document all the vintage t-shirt books in the galaxy. When I first started my mission, a handful of books were published in the 2000s, but once the first wave of the vintage t-shirt gold rush was over, things went dark. So, I started to dig into the earliest t-shirt books I could find, which now all have vintage content by default. The oldest one I could find was from 1974, then 1978, and one from 1988, so we’re gonna go back, way back. However, vintage t-shirt books have picked ... Read more

We are now the definition of vintage. It’s hard to believe – time has flown by. It all started in early 2004 when I witnessed the first wave of online vintage t-shirt sales erupting on eBay and thought, “That looks easy enough!” (Spoiler: It wasn’t) First, I conjured up the name and registered the domain. My pal Colm built the website, while another friend created a nifty Flash intro. I miss Flash. https://www.defunkd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/defunkdhistoryflash1.mp4 Meanwhile, I stockpiled inventory I thrifted, which I then photographed on actual models. Ok, they weren’t actual models, just friends that I pleaded with to stand against a ... Read more

Last week, on Reddit/VintageTees, a user posted photos of his yard sale haul, and it ignited a firestorm of comments regarding authenticity. Let’s use this as a case study, examine the situation closely and learn something from it. I know I did. Yes, that’s a Nirvana HSB t-shirt among the pile, which basically means this lucky son of a gun scored it for $10. Some applauded the haul, but it wasn’t long before the shirt’s authenticity was called into question. If you visit the post currently, here’s the comment at the very top with the most reactions: and then there ... Read more

Welcome to a deep-dive into the last 3 years of confirmed sales on eBay for the top ten highest-selling Mosquitohead designs.  Several entries would have made multiple appearances so these are only the highest sales of each design. Some ground rules before we get into the list: I don’t personally authenticate these t-shirts, nor does Defunkd. I do my best to confirm the transaction is real, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t shill bid or returned. If a sale looks too fishy I leave it off the list. These are eBay sales only since we have tools to verify ... Read more