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You Can’t Spot a Fake Vintage T-Shirt!
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And now the chilling conclusion to the Can You Spot a Fake Vintage T-Shirt challenge.
Could our vintage t-shirt loving readers correctly answer our poll on fake vintage t-shirts? Nope! Not very many of you did. Check out the fourth addition our series of guides Vintage T-Shirts 104: How to “Spot” a Fake for the big reveal.
After reading it you might say, “Hey! That’s not fair you tricked us!” Perhaps a little, but I just employed the exact same type of deception that these shifty vendors do, so let this be a lesson to ya!
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RIP Ira Keeler. Long live the resistance.
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Hermosa_Vintage
January 19, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Excellent post JJ. Apparently that Humpty Dance t-shirt has been widely reprinted is sold all over the place. And you don’t need a t-shirt inkjet printer to do the job, just head on down to Hot Topic, clip the tag, and get creative in “aging” it. Buyer beware! Maybe the vintage t-shirt industry needs provenance like the art market. Thrift store receipts ?
John K.
January 19, 2009 at 10:28 pm
It just sucks that there are people going to such great lengths to create fakes.
Great blog! Always look forward to the next one.
John K.