Category: Tees

Early in 2022, we hosted a survey for vintage t-shirt heads, and over 500 of them participated. One of the questions asked was which apps they used in their day-to-day vintage lives. Aside from the obvious social ones like Instagram, and apps for marketplace platforms like eBay – the most commonly cited app was Gem. Gem is a vintage clothing-specific search engine that fetches results from the majority of popular vintage marketplace platforms. It’s super handy if you’re looking for a specific shirt, you punch in the name of the shirt and it brings back all of the t-shirts available ... Read more

I first got into tees when I started going to concerts around 1986-87. My brother gave me a cassette of Diary of a Madman when I was younger and I’ve been hooked ever since. A few years of Ozzy’s solo stuff and then I dove into Sabbath. I have seen Ozzy and Sabbath in concert around 15 times. I consider myself a massive Ozzy and t-shirt fan. I’m totally psyched for Ozzy’s new album. I have already pre-ordered a signed copy of it. And I’m definitely looking forward to his NFL halftime kick-off. My go-to shirt is my Tribute shirt! ... Read more

Similar to live tee auctions, raffles have become a mainstay in the Instagram-based vintage t-shirt universe. I’ve never participated in one, but I’ve been tempted. An established seller presents a handful of “grails” as prizes. Then they sell X amount of spots for X amount of dollars, (with X amount of maximum spots a single person can purchase.) Once the deadline for entry has been reached, or the designated spots are sold out, the host has a draw to select the winner. The winner usually picks a single t-shirt from the available prize offering, most of which are beyond mid-value. ... Read more

For this installment, we’re back in Florence, AL for Tee Jays. Founded in 1976 by Terry Wylie and Jim Morris (T+J), Tee Jays started as a screen printing company with 8 employees but quickly expanded to a vertical operation with over 4,000 employees and 19 production plants. 1976-1985 1978 1979 1983 We begin to see various forms of the Tee Jay brand, including Hef-T and Selec-T.  Vintage Brands Insider Sign-up Email*: Subscribe 1981-1985 1986-1990 Late 1985 is when their new logo is introduced.  1986-1989 (some variations until ’02) 1986-1989 1991-2002 During the early 90s, Tee Jays would procure monumental partnerships ... Read more

My name is Sebastian. I live in London England and I own around 30 vintage KH vintage T-shirts. I collect other items as well, for example, posters from KH exhibitions or his art released by the KH foundation. I also have some other cool stuff KH used to sell in his shop called “Pop Shop”. I started to collect vintage around 8 years ago, back in my small hometown, Żory in Poland (only around 60,000 people live there). We used to dig for cool pieces every day, sometimes even skipping school to get more time. We would be digging and ... Read more