Category: Tees
1963 Stanley Mouse T-Shirt
My Vintage T-Shirt is a section written by our readers. Thanks to vintage tee seller Don over at corinalarks for sharing this shirt and great story. If you have a rare vintage t-shirt and a great story please contact us. Stanley Mouse is an American artist who has had two distinct phases in a career that’s influenced pop culture for decades. As a teenager, he and guys like Ed “Big Daddy” Roth were part of the emerging hot rod art movement of the late 1950s. Stanley would travel to custom car shows selling air-brushed t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring his crazed ... Read more
Our Favorite Vintage Michael Jackson T-Shirt
In honor of the man in the mirror we riffled through our photo galleries to find the coolest vintage Michael Jackson t-shirt we’ve ever had. No we’re not trying to profit from his misfortune, we sold this shirt over two years ago, it’s long gone. We do, however, always preach that going throwback is the best way for any fan to show respect. After a quick browse through eBay’s inventory, I’m amazed at the number of vintage designs emerging that I have never seen before. Everyone always remembers where they were when something of like this happens. Sadly, I was at ... Read more
1983 Gary Numan T-Shirt
My Vintage T-Shirt is a section written by our readers. Thanks to Travis over at emperoroftoronto for sharing this shirt and great story. If you have a rare vintage t-shirt and a great story please contact us. Gary Numan has Asperger’s Syndrome, and so do I. We’re on a a “high-functioning” part of the autistic spectrum, misunderstand social rules and have problems interacting with others. This makes his career- and this shirt- poignant to me. Once one of the biggest acts in Britain, his inability to muzzle it made him the music press’s whipping boy; when success left him, he ... Read more
Eddie Minds His Ps and Qs
A feeble attempt to document the endless array of brilliant vintage Iron Maiden t-shirts. Shirt #16: Iron Maiden Guinness Fraud Newspaper Print Availability: Explore Vintage Maiden Tees on Defunkd Released: 1992 Information: The Guinness share-trading fraud was an attempt to manipulate the price of Guinness stocks on a massive scale. The “Guinness four” were British businessmen who set out to inflate the price of the company’s shares to assist a takeover bid on another alcoholic beverage company called Distillers. Approximate value: $40-$100
WDYW in 1993
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 🙂