Our good friend getdown87 just listed this 1985 Black Flag bars shirt. How can such a simple design have such an impact for so many years?
It’s mind blowing. This one has a SST 1985 copyright under the logo. Grab this one and show your friends how vintage you really are.
I would argue on this shirt being from 85. That looks like a hanes “tagless” tag printed in the inside. And this thing is freaking clean and white for 85
Hi there, thanks for the rep TDD!
Mike, this is indeed a “tagless” tag but they made those sporadically in the 80s, it just wasn’t their company motto at that point. Its not that that clean there are some tiny rust colored looking dots on it just like all my other white shirts from the 80’s have. Its in great condition and I have no idea how you can question the print on the shirt that tells you when it was made. I mean maybe its “from” slightly later, but they didn’t make these with the date on them for too long, like maybe 86-87 at the latest. This thing is old, you’d believe it if you saw it in person.
2XL? And a silk screened tag? I didn’t think they did this back in 85.
Got it in there right before me. Good info. Thanks
If you say it is, then we have no choice but to take your word.
I have a few shirts that have a date printed on them but are reprints. A copyright 1985 on a shirt just might mean that’s when that design or original version was made and or copywrited.
And I’m not saying your lying at all :)
Not saying this is one of them, but Hot Topic definitely sells this shirt with a ‘1979’ copyright date on it. You can see it here if you use the zoom option:
http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Apparel/TShirts/Music/Black-Flag-Bars-TShirt-985057.jsp
Wow, that’s crazy. I mean this shirt is old, the front print is cracking like a 25 year old shirt would, plus the guy I got it from sold it to me with a few other 80’s shirts that are undeniable. No idea why he would throw this one in with a bunch of legitimately old shirts, it just doesn’t make sense. I don’t want to piss him off by asking if its legit though, he’s got some insane stuff that I intend on getting next time I have the dough.
I definitely have a reprint from ~2005 that has the 1985 copyright on it. In fact it’s the exact same shirt.
This is the same shirt that can be bought at Hot Topic, or any other chain. This is directly from the Hanes website: “2004 –
Hanes Printables introduces a “Go Tagless” Hanes Authentic T-shirt. Say ‘Goodbye’ to irritating neck labels and ‘Hello’ to ultimate comfort. No more itchy, scratchy tags.” source: http://www.hanesprintables.com/Globals/CompanyHistory.aspx
seller really needs to change the title and description for this. mine from six years ago even has the exact same fading pattern across the bars, which probably means it’s from the same print run.
Hmm well seeing as there is some conjecture here, I’ll take it down and edit it. Thanks for the info….someones got some explaining to do. Hopefully I can make what I paid for it back.
definitely a new one, no doubt!~