If you’re bored of mass manufactured high street t-shirts,Glass Boutique wants you to put your talent where your mouth is. They’re giving you the chance to design your own tee and if it’s a winner they’ll print it up! The competition is open to anyone with a good idea, creative talent, or who just thinks they are the next Henry Holland.

And there are prizes …

• The winner will receive a £250 cash prize and £150 worth of vouchers to spend at the Glass Boutique online store, where you can invest in one of the fifty T-shirts bearing your winning design. Each of them will have a limited edition label, featuring the artwork of the T-shirt, signed by the winning designer.
• Two runners-up will get a £100 voucher each to spend at the Glass Boutique online store. Their designs will be printed on 25 tees and will be available exclusively at the online store.

So, if you’ve got an idea …

Download the t-shirt template from right here and get designing. Email your tee to info@glassboutique.co.uk and put ‘T-comp’ in the header … don’t forget to include your name address and all that good stuff.

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• The competition is open from Friday 25th April with the last day for entries being Sunday 25th May. Regular entries to the competition will be displayed on the Boutique Blog.
• You will be able to vote for any T-shirt design up to the end of the first week of June on the Glass Boutique page - the Winner and Runners-up will be announced at the end of June. The tee with the highest amount of online votes will be the winner, natch, while a Glass Boutique panel of judges will select the two runners-up.

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SevenX today, and in the random way that we’re ranking T-shirts, I’m saying ‘there or thereabouts’. The fit on these tees is stellar, really good - they do not do that weird thing where you wash them a few times and the side seam starts creeping around so that you look like you turned round fast and your tee couldn’t keep up, and the designs range from okay to excellent. The blue mermaid one is excellent, while this pink one is only okay - I think it’s a bit emo, but maybe emos buy T-shirts too?

So what’s the problem?

It’s the ‘secret pocket’. It’s a great idea and I bought a bunch of them because of it, but here’s the weirdness. The secret pocket, which is actually part of the rear neck of the shirts, like a placket, has a hem. So about a year ago, I’m running around this Scottish loch, all on my lonesome, sit down for a break and … somebody touched my back, right between my shoulders! I did spin round so fast my tee couldn’t keep up and nothing. Nobody. Five minutes later, jogging along, same thing! It’s the hem on the secret pocket, which rolls up as you move and then, when you slow down, unrolls and feels like somebody running their finger along your spine. It is a not-good feeling.

Also, the pocket means you do have to iron these T-shirts, cos if you don’t iron it totally flat it looks like you have strange underwear underneath. And while I do like a flat tee, I also like to have the choice of pulling them from the line still creased and wearing them which Sevenx don’t let you get away with. But the prices are way lower than Ed Hardy so at least Johnny won’t give me grief on that issue!

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There’s no way of being cool without an Ed Hardy tee. Don Ed Hardy was born in Iowa in 1945 he was the first Western tattoo artist to properly incorporate the Japanese tattoo aesthetic and techniques into his work. Not just that, but he’s famed for his fine art - in 2000, he completed a 500 foot long scroll painting of 2000 dragons to celebrate the millennium and the arrival Dragon year and it’s been shown in galleries around the USA.

In 2004 Christian Audigier licensed the rights to produce the Ed Hardy clothing line, based on Hardy’s vivid imagery. Audigier’s got a great track record in this area – he was Head Designer at Von Dutch, which marketed the imagery of legendary Kustom Kulture artist Von Dutch and he’s used the same techniques for Hardy.

His tees wrap around the bodies of Fergie and Madonna, which is pretty cool. They can also be seen on Sylvester Stallone, and everybody’s favourite breast implant specialist, Jordon which cancels out the celebrity cool factor.

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Yup, it’s official. In fact, it has been for several months. We’re heading for a bad time and Despair Inc, out of Austin Texas will sell you a T-shirt that says “Just because you’re necessary doesn’t mean you’re important.”

They also have a line of random Demotivators – posters that rip off the motivation and self improvement industries, and a coffee mug that’s transparent, with a line on it to show you exactly when your cup is half empty!

The business first became famous a decade ago, but has taken a jump this year and no surprise - the Bureau of Labor Statistics says U.S. employers ‘lost’ 80,000 jobs in March and that means Despair’s sales are up about 15% this year, often because fed-up employees are buying ‘demotivated’ T-shirts to wear during their final week of work before being laid off.

‘People are buying because things are getting bad,’ says Justin Sewell, co-founder of Despair, a company whose existence is a direct result of his own experience. Sewell and his twin brother and another colleague, Lawrence Kersten, felt hosed by their technology company employer and started dreaming up satires on motivational posters as a private joke – now it’s a million dollar business. What would you have printed on a T-shirt for your last day at work?

Demotivator mug courtesy of bpende via flickr

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Snerko!

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“Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in.”
-Michael Corleone

Well, the TJ hasn’t officially gone into retirement just yet. Just been on a bit of a hiatus I guess. But getting a free t-shirt in the mail the other day kinda says at least someone doesn’t want me to just go away. So stick around, I’ll get motivated again soon. Maybe my slogan should be “will work for free tees” or something…

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okay. Andre from London says:

“I just used the email address to contact Alex at Born Clothing. He sent me the total cost with shipping and i sent him the money via PayPal. shirts arrived a few days later .. .and they are brilliant”

so there you have it. if you want that stormtrooper crossbones shirt or anything else, go ahead and contact them.

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Well, I had planned on keeping the Star Wars theme going for a couple of days with the cool Walker with one of those bell colar things on it’s head that keeps dogs from biting their feet or whatever from Go Ape Shirts, but Preshrunk beat me to the punch on it. Oh well. So even though Oddica doesn’t officially open until 12:01 a.m. on Friday, May 19, I figured I better jump right on this bad boy. As you can see, it’s the world’s dumbest stormtrooper hammering a ping pong ball past Vader. But what you can’t see is that, down in the corner (back corner I think), there is a little pic of Vader’s foot, the tip of his lightsaber and that poor, foolish stormtrooper’s hand chopped off, laying on the ground. So I apologize for jumping the gun a bit, but don’t forget to slam them with orders on the 19th, okay? I’ll try to remind you.

And speaking of Preshrunk, have you all noticed how many, I won’t say copycats, but… t-shirt blogs are out here in the blogosphere? Some of you might’ve said the same about the TJ, and I don’t blame you, but I started this site after seeing the massive list of links on iloveyourtshirt.com, but no way of knowing what was what without going there. Then somebody called me the copycat… and was introduced to Preshrunk. I had actually seen a tee guide by a dude “jamespo” way back when, but has since gone away I think. Now there’s teees (who just posted Oddica I see. Bastards! just kidding), addicteed (whose name seems to have a somewhat familiar ring to it. Fuck! They posted Oddica too!), plenty of shareasale and other affiliate posts at tshirtreview and I can’t forget apieceofshirt. I think that’s all. For today anyway. Probably more soon. WTF?! Totally uncalled for. I think the TJ might retire and focus on JustAddNoise.

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Alright, I’ll stop pimpin’ Threadless after this for a while, but the sale is almost over and they added 11 new and reprints to the shop today. Thought you might like to know.

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So I realize it’s been a little quiet around here for the last week. Sorry ’bout that, but I told you it would happen again didn’t I? Well, I’d like to say thanks for not bustin’ my balls about it. In looking at how many of you read this everyday, it’s got me curious as to how many tees the average person owns. Maybe it’s time to put another poll up…

Anyway, let’s start this week off with the little Aussie brand Valaa by me bloke Paul. I came across these quite some time ago when he just had photos of a few one offs and some images of other designs he had in the works. Well, now they’re printed up and ready to go, but there’s only 20 of each so get yer ass on over there before they’re gone.

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