We should have had one, shouldn’t we? With the teejunkie logo on it and a list of countries visited on the back. Aw.
Still, the last word falls to me (which doesn’t happen nearly often enough round here) and I’m going to say it in New Zealand.
Small country, famous for sheep, LOTR and um … [...]

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There are countries where T-shirts really matter – like Australia, where there’s almost nothing else to wear, and the USA where what you’ve got across your front says everything about you: even if the message is ‘I supersized too often’.
And then there’s Brazil, and Brazil’s hot designer Alexandre Herchcovitch. Taught to sew by his [...]

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What can I tell you? With the entire resources of assorted search engines at my fingertips, I failed.
Failed.
Failure.
I hope you’ve got that message now, because I don’t intend to say it again. I don’t understand it – Egypt produces the best cotton, bar none, in the world and yet every Egyptian T-shirt I found was [...]

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I never thought I’d end up suggesting Armani know their arse from their elbow, but in this case, they seem to have sorted out their anatomy. Venezuela, led by Hugo Chavez who’s a bit of a political maverick, is also home to a bloody huge petroleum industry and so much biodiversity it’s amazing they [...]

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Okay, cheating a bit here. It’s not exactly an Indian T-shirt. Well it is, but it’s shipping out of Gainesville, which is weird (not in a bad way, necessarily, but weird nonetheless) – the thing is, much as I heart India, and I do, buying stuff from the sub-cont is a fairly hit and miss [...]

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Sometimes you do this job for love and sometimes you do it for money but you always do it in the hope of finding pure gold, and I am not talking Colombian here. Luke Ramsey at Damag3 is that gold. He’s a graphic artist and a zine illustrator and his work is rated alongside [...]

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Okay, so this isn’t going to be the cheapest T-shirt on our world tour, or the easiest to get hold of, but hot damn, it’s funny!
Produced by Denis Simachev (who’s a bloke btw, that’s Dennis, not Denise, in non-Russian) who seems to be the kind of designer who put the edge into edgy, this tee [...]

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Eureka! I found it and all that shit. I tracked down the world’s best Icelandic teeshirt as my first pick on the T-shirt world tour.
This is a magic tee and I mean that most sincerely. It’s a version of the runic symbol Ægishjalmur which means Helm of Awe, and that is the word for [...]

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Okay, on our November world tour of t-shirts I’m starting in the far north with … Finland! No, not Tom of Finland (is it just me, or does that sound like the world’s most boring porn film?) but with an import shop. Whoo hoo, be still my beating heart!
I did try to find [...]

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