Vintage T-Shirt Forum & Community Authentication Appraisals

Hi all!

I’ve relied on this site for years and have a pretty deep history with vintage tees — especially Nine Inch Nails shirts — I owned at least 30 in the 90s purchased from legit chain stores and record shops (Newbury Comics probably sold 15 different styles over the years I bought them, Hot Topic and even Filene’s department store). Some I wore out until they had holes in the armpits, while others I only wore a few times because the fit was off (I was a fat kid!) or the style wasn’t my favorite…

e.g. My “Hate 1990” tee I got around 1996 almost looked NEW when I got rid of it a couple of years ago.

Some had clear licensing info printed with the graphics while others did not. I know they were printed on everything from Fruit of the Loom to Gildan.

I had MANY All Sport and later in life replaced my Pretty Hate Machine one I got rid of prematurely.

I’m getting some “bootleg” comments as I try to downsize my closet, but this All Sport tag looks authentic to me when I view it side-by-side with the best examples.

Any thoughts?

The All Sport fakes I’m seeing have some pretty clear issues: wrong numeric sizing paired with letter sizing, wonky fonts, spacing, etc.

The border, colors, and fonts seem spot-on for me on this one.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

Yeah she's fake. This one seems to be slightly different than the several ones we have indexed as fake:

https://www.defunkd.com/fake-tag-archive/#allsport-1

The print is trash, wrong colors, missing details, alignment.

And the tag, biggest red flag is how close the 100% cotton line is to the border, but there's lots of issues. Maybe the worst version yet, but actually still better than the fakes of most other tags.

Thanks for sharing.