You Can’t Spot a Fake Vintage T-Shirt!

January 19, 2009 by Jimmy J  · 2 Comments  

And now the chilling conclusion to the Can You Spot a Fake Vintage T-Shirt challenge.

vintage digital underground shirt

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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  • http://hermosavintage.blogspot.com/ Hermosa_Vintage

    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.

    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.