Simplified Airplane T-shirt

Kay — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:28:42 +0000

Simplified dropped us a line to say they’ve revamped their website so I went to have a look at their T-shirts.

This one is still pleasing me after I reviewed it in black many months ago – it pleases me enough for me be looking at the cranberry option again. There aren’t that many T-shirts that make good use of the female form, rather than trying to disguise its natural shape, but this is one of them. It breaks all the rules about what women should wear to look good:

1. It has bigger bands at the bottom (widening)

2. It has horizontal stripes (fattening)

3. It’s white on a dark background (makes the eye focus on width).

But it works – it really works! It’s a simple, rule-breaking T-shirt that looks fantastic whether you’re buff or … frankly chubby.

Simplifed do say that this tank is on the skinny side, so you should order up a size from your usual fit.

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Meh, meh, not meh T-shirt

Mikey — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:08:50 +0000

Some weeks you go through the offerings and say meh. Meh, meh, meh. Summer brings out the boringly average in T-shirt designs, as if people say ‘hey, the sun is shining, everybody has to wear a Tee, so let’s schlep out some schlock, they won’t care because they’ve got to put something on their backs’. Which results in some pretty shoddy clothing, let me tell you.

So this was a meh week. A whole week where nothing grabbed me except another member of the Teejunkie team forcing me by the scruff of my neck to clear enough space on my desk so you could see there was actually a desk.

Meh.

And then this from Detroit based collective, Simplified. What is it with T-shirt designers and collectives, btw? It’s like they see themselves as some weird urban hark back to the proletariat. Still, who cares, if they produce work like this. It’s a stunning design that makes good use of the simple lines of a T-shirt to produce a genuinely graphic image. Bloody brilliant. Definitely not meh. Almost worth having to work a Saturday for.

Almost.