Category: Tees

My Vintage T-Shirt is a section written by our readers. Thanks to Abigail over at blog.ivi.tv for sharing this shirt, a great story and inspiring this section. If you have a rare vintage t-shirt and a great story please contact us. My mother grew up in San Francisco, and in 1976 she moved our family back to San Francisco from Vermont, where we’d been living. My grandmother, Jane Swinerton Ophuls, moved us into a Victorian she’d restored in the rough-and-tumble Western Addition — this was back when all the abject highrise projects dominated the landscape — and my education about ... Read more

We’re not going to cram any vintage Irish t-shirt propaganda down your throat, we know you need that passageway clear for green beer. Instead we’re pausing for the cause to let you know about a tee organization that’s doing something for the environment. Teecycle.org is run by Tim Cigelske. His nifty newly renovated site offers second hand t-shirts for sale with a portion of proceeds passed along to environmental charities. Most of his inventory is late 90s / early 00s promotional schwag and humor tees, but he also has the odd 1980s up for grabs; so keep your eyes peeled ... Read more

Meet DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein. Here he is with Gene Simmons from KISS. Gene doesn’t look very impressed, probably because DJ AM is wearing a vintage Axl Rose t-shirt and not a Gene Simmons one. DJ AM was a member of the band Crazy Town best known for “Butterfly”; and in modern times is world renowned for his abilities on the ones and twos. His talents frequently land him gigs at private parties for celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Leo DiCaprio and collaborations with artists like Madonna and Will Smith. He even guest starred on Entourage, yadda, yadda, yadda. The ... Read more

Meet costume designer Susan Matheson, Tinseltown’s go-to gal when a flick calls for a vintage t-shirt wardrobe. Her recent work on Step Brothers caused a frenzy of fans searching for the vintage Converse t-shirt John C. Reilly wore throughout the movie. Wondering where you can get one? Read on. I first met Susan while she was browsing through our store a few years ago. Yes, we’re happy at least one shirt we provided made a 15-second cameo in the film. Oh, and Susan has many times seen Will Ferrell in his undies, but then again, who hasn’t? What’s the rarest ... Read more

After we posted our interview with Jochen, the godfather of metal t-shirts, a bunch of you were curious about accessing his site to see what goods were for sale. Getting this list was no easy task. Let’s just say we had to fly to Germany and torture him. And by torture we mean forcing him to wear his most valuable white vintage tee and then treating him to a sloppy spaghetti dinner. He screamed uncle before the appetizers arrived. Works every time. Access the members only PDF here.