Roughly 13 years ago, In My Eyes dropped this tee. That means this tee is older than your younger brother, your turtle and your love of Twilight. Just kidding on that turtle part, turtles live forever.
13 years later, it still looks fresh. A clean, simple logo. No frills. No goofy ass shit. Just crisp fonts and a little graphic. Plus, you can’t go wrong shouting out the Boston Straight Edge.
This is one of the original colors. No Rev logo on the back, this was pre Rev. Some of the other original colors are black tees with white (or is it silver??) ink, and maroon tees with white ink. Both are more rare than this royal blue version. Not saying this version is in every drawer in every household, mind you. But the others colors were printed in much smaller runs. Later on, I think there was a navy blue with yellow ink version printed up too. Then IME signed to Rev, and this shirt came back with the Revelation Records star on the back. Good look.
I have this shirt with a live pic on the back, Revelation era
Which live pic? You may be confusing two IME pics.
I own a rev era In My Eyes thumbprint tee with a Bold back print. Sort of cool. But definitely a one off screen test type of shirt.
Mine was athletic gray with blue ink. I miss it.
they also made this with navy ink on a grey shirt. got it on the first west coast tour wore it til it fell apart
Early on, I definitely remember a darker blue (pre Rev) version of this shirt. A few of my friends had it. There was also a shirt before this that said In My Eyes Boston Straight Edge with the hand print. I got it in 5-97 at the Redemption 87 weekend shows.
WITHOUT the hand print.
Always under the impression the first IME shirt was the navy blue shirt w/ white ink. Just said “In My Eyes” w/ “Boston Straightedge” underneath. No thumbprint, no back.
Then they dropped these thumbprints. Their first west coast trip (demo out only) they sold them in 2 colorways at Showcase: Navy w/ yellow ink & Grey w/ blue ink.
That’s right, Chase. The first tee definitely didn’t have a thumbprint. I think it was yellow ink on a navy tee. Possibly navy with white ink too since I have a white ink hood (one of one) from the same shirt pressing session.