Category: Shirts

E.T The Extraterrestrial was a surprise sensation and adjusted for inflation still ranks as the 7th highest grossing film all-time. Allegedly set in northern California, the movie heavily features clothing from several popular pacific northwest clothing brands like Nike and The North Face. Since the movie doesn’t feature as many T-shirts as previous entries we’ll cover a variety of vintage clothing genres including the most expensive hoodie I’ve ever seen. 1. Greg’s Vintage Mystery Space T-Shirt Starting out with a stumper here. We searched high and low and couldn’t find an ID for this one. it doesn’t appear to be ... Read more

Adding a little spice today! We usually cover all the vintage t-shirts on eBay, but with all the hype on 3D Emblem sales lately, we’ve already documented five in 2024, so we decided to bring you a special edition of Heat Check. We did a deep-dive into the last 3 years of confirmed sales on eBay and found the top ten highest-selling 3D Emblem designs.  Several entries would have made multiple appearances so these are only the highest sales of each design. The Road Rebel and Bad to the Bone designs all rank very high with multiple sales over the ... Read more

This 1982 teen film adaption of the Cameron Crowe book by the same name was an instant Gen X classic. It provided a snapshot, even if a bit embellished, of teen life in the early 80s. While most analyses’ of the movie focus on many iconic scenes, we are going to look at it from a different lens: the T-shirt game. The 80s were a coming of age for the graphic tee. Wardrobe director Marylin Vance sought to closely depict what the youth of the day were wearing in southern California in the early 80s.  Director Amy Heckerling said this ... Read more

2023 is fading like a black tee that was accidentally washed with Oxyclean. The good news is that we now have nearly a year’s worth of Heat Checks to review for the highest-selling vintage tees on eBay this year. We went back and cherry-picked the top 10 most expensive tees (that actually sold) in the last year. Cheers to 2023 and all the dope tees we’ve seen. (BTW, if we allowed standard Nirvana Heart Shaped Box tees on here they’d probably take half the list…borrrring.) 10. Vintage Ramones Look Out Below Ringer T-Shirt $2,397.00 Sold By: candckola 9. Vintage 80s ... Read more

If you’re as old as me you probably haven’t watched the movie Heavyweights since the 90s. Heavyweights featured Ben Stiller and all of my favorite iconic 90s kid actors like Kenan Thompson and Shawn Weiss (who, until this moment, I only knew as “Goldberg”). The movie is a surprisingly dark take on a teenager’s experience at a fat camp that suddenly gets sold to a crazy weight loss guru with daddy issues. Being released in 1994 (a year I’ve personally thought might be the peak of vintage t-shirts), the movie features some serious banger tees.  So let’s dig into some ... Read more