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Mickey Mouse Kicks Adolf Hitler in the Nuts
April 27, 2009 by Jimmy J · 1 Comment
Here’s a gem from 1943 that was recently sold by vintage clothing merchant torray. It was acquired from the widow of a WWII veteran who resided in the bay area of California. The art was hand drawn by a friend of her husband’s who made it to celebrate deployment.
Home made t-shirts were quite common back then, the t-shirt was quickly becoming a new medium for messages and people were percolating with social commentary (and couldn’t wait 60 years to wait until Threadless was born).
Get a load of the 1940s Hanes logo which almost inspired the title of this post to be “Mickey Gets His Hanes on Hitler”. It just didn’t have the same attention grabbing properties, know what I mean?
Happy belated birthday Adolf, we hope you enjoyed your gifts!
This t-shirt celebrates Mickey during his prime, in fine form and battling evil. It’s hard to believe only a few decades later the poor little rodent falls on hard times. Sorry Walt, there’s more unauthorized vintage mickey mouse t-shirts.
Ebay Vintage Nike Watch List
April 25, 2009 by Karl · 2 Comments
Some people did some really good pick up’s the last week….
lets start with some steals:
45 USD for a pair od DS OG 1992 Tailwinds is a steal… these should go probably for 120-140 USD
in the same category: 54 usd for a pair of air max ST. Ok this pair has some cracks in the leather, but nothing that structurally damamges the shoes….
another steal: you can’t go wroing for 83 usd, which is for below “market value”
1969 Easy Rider T-Shirt
April 24, 2009 by Jimmy J · Leave a Comment
My Vintage T-Shirt is a section written by our readers. Thanks to Ron Graff over at craftymodolls for sharing this shirt and great story. If you have a rare vintage t-shirt and a great story please contact us.
When ‘Easy Rider’, the movie, came out in 1969 I was 19 years old and living in London while studying at the famed Morris School of Hairdressing. The school was situated in the heart of Soho, directly opposite Paul Raymond’s Revue Bar. What a location! One could look out of the upper floor school windows and see directly into the Revue Bar dancers’ changing room windows across the road!
Those were the heady days of Soho – all sex shops, strip joints, clubs, studios and fashion boutiques. Carnaby Street was just a five minute walk from the school. If you’ve ever seen any of those old movie clips of ‘swinging’ London in the 60s, you get the idea!
I bought the shirt that year, shortly before leaving London to continue my misspent youth as a newly qualified ladies hairdresser. It wasn’t ’till about a year later that I saw the film. Moved to tears, I thought then as I think now, that it is an outstanding commentary about many things – not just the obvious search for the American Dream. Relevant then, and perhaps even more so today.
Maybe there was always a bit of Captain America hidden inside me – it just took an amazing movie to open the door.
The same year that I saw the film, 1970, I was working on the Isle of Wight. It was also the year of the last IOW Festival. Outdoing by far the massive crowds of the 1968 and 1969 events, 600,000 hippies and freaks invaded the island to see Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Leonard Cohen, Hawkwind, and all the magnificent rest.
I was there and so was this rare t-shirt!
- View the vintage Harvey Milk t-shirt previously featured in My Vintage T-Shirt.
- Search eBay for a vintage Easy Rider T-Shirt.
Early Air Tech Challenge Hybrids- Cross Courts?
April 24, 2009 by Karl · Leave a Comment
After having made a post yesterday about the “Muaraches” with the rare grass court soles, here are two other strange looking pairs from the air tech challenge line….
Supposedly, these are called “Nike Cross courts” and were found in an old store in Europe; and at first sight they look like a hybrid between the Air Tech Challenge II and Air Tech Challenge III.
This is the box they came in and and also looks kinda strange….
This is a picture of the same bow, with even the hang tag still present, but with a another pair inside… i guess this bow was for one of the above pairs and that the boxes and shoes got mixed up….
Thanks to Ivanus from Sneakerplay for these pics of the Air Tech Challenge and fetish4design for the air max pictures
Nike Air Challenge Muarache?
April 23, 2009 by Karl · 2 Comments
Well, this is a special pair… not only because they havea gras court sole and that you don’t see that often also, what’s up with the box: air challenge Muarache???
Or this has to be a typo (it has to be Huarache) or something special… i just can’t imagine that a Nike employee who made the size tags made an error and it went unnoticed.
Pics courtesy of Gonz from crooked tongues
