Category: Shirts

In this section, we highlight the vintage shirts you simply must have in your poly-cotton arsenal. Some are hot commodities while others are speculation on a future trend. Selection: Vintage Lightning Bolt Shirt Demand: Moderate – High Price: $75-$150 HOT: Lightning Bolt shirts are the bi-product of a Hawaiian brand of surfboards that began to take shape in the late 1960s. By the latter part of the 1970s the surf board was being ridden by the top names in the sport and the company extended their brand to apparel. Their shirts usually featured a beautifully detailed surf inspired landscape across the chest or ... Read more

Going through some old family pictures, i came across this picture of myself back in 1993… 15 years old and wearing a nice outfit LOL… a Levi’s hat, my dinosaur Jr. t-shirt and finishing it of with my air flight huarache.. although i wasn’t that focused on combining shoes with tees, i had to say the tee did go very well with flights especially for the purple finishing on both…. and before laughing with me…. these were the early nineties 🙂

Every two weeks we scour through eBay’s past auctions and report which relics are fetching the big bucks. Even more reasons to raid your granny’s closet. Click the links below to view the full eBay listing or the seller’s current inventory. vintage 70s East West M.I. leather jacket sold for $1000.00 by everythingchangezz vintage 40s Coca-Cola coke uniform shirt sold for $722.29 by gregblueridge3qnu vintage 30s Wilton men’s t-shirt sold for $499.99 by theknotgarden vintage 70s Converse All Star shoes sold for $430.00 by underdog417 vintage 30s WWII ARMY U.S. Air Corps t-shirt sold for $394.99 by pacificmarket vintage 90s Polo Ralph Lauren ski hat sold for $365.00 finchen171  

After visiting numerous skateboard forums to research this post I quickly learn how massive the scope of vintage skate tees really is. Out of fear of being called a poser (flashbacks to my lame skating days in the ’80s) I enlisted the help of a godsent who has one of the largest collections of vintage skateboard tees in the world. His name is Thomas and he occasionally musters up the strength to sell one from his collection via his eBay account rubysoho08. Skate tees are the OG mullet t-shirts, typically they had a small print on the chest and a ... Read more

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 ... Read more