In honor of the one and only holiday to celebrate the consumption of an illegal substance, cannabis, we decided to compile our top 5 favorite shirts that would be nothing more than fitting for today’s festivities. puff, puff pass…
“Click Click BONG RIP” tee by LRG
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“Smokey” Tee by IM KING
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“Burn-E 420” Tee by GOLD COIN
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“To Bake & Fry” Tee by Rogue Status x Mighty Healthy
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“It’s Da Joint” Tee by THE FAST LIFE
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If you are going to the beach, chilin’ with the homies, or hitting the town for the night a short sleeved button up is a clean, versatile look you want to have down right. So we decided we would help all our dedicated readers out there and compile the top 5 short-sleeve burners for this year. Find out after the jump…
There is no doubt about it, winter is here. Even here on the West Coast the temperature has dropped below T-shirt and Jeans level, and as a wise man once said, “something, like, 90% of your body heat escapes from your head”, taking his advice we thought it would be fitting to provide you all with this seasons top 5 dome warmers.
available @ Brooklynomics
Sold out nearly everywhere. if you know where to find it, comment below!
( or as we like to call them, ninja masks)
Available @ BBC online store
available @ East World Wide online store
5. Mr. Cartoon x Livestrong x Nike
released earlier this year, a re-make of one of the most sought after Nike x artist collaboration shoes, Mr. Cartoon was brought back to design another Air Force One to help raise money for the Livestrong Foundation to help fight cancer around the globe.
4. Vans Syndicate x GRIME
Released spring 08’ Vans works with writer, tattooist and painter GRIME to produce a slip-on and half cab design. Each shoe containing GRIME’s gritty black and white style. The clean black and white colorway matched with sketchy and grungy artwork made this a stand out shoe of the year.
3. Reebok Roland Berry Classic sw mid
Reebok works with long time collaborator Roland Berry to produce these retro looking Classic SW Mid. The comic book/pop art style graphics are vivid, but very clean and work well with this simple silhouette. Slip these kicks on and see how many heads you turn.
2. Nike Uncle Dunkle Futura
Extremely rare Nike SB was released back in 2004 and featured artwork by toy company UNKLE and graphics by pioneering graffiti artist FUTURA. Dope design and absolutely sick colorway put’s this sneaker towards the top of the list.
1. Nike Haze Dunks
Not just one of the sickest artist series dunk released by Nike, but one of the nicest dunks released by them, period. The HAZE dunks were clean and simple. The fact that these weren’t overdone, but still gave a nice graffiti feel shows HAZE got his point across in an almost subliminal way. The simplicity, impact, and memorable aspect of this dunk is what put it at the top of the list.
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Streetwear is a subculture that has been around for past 2 decades, though it is widely an underground community there are a handful of largely successful streetwear brands in the game today. look at brands like Ecko, LRG, Stussy, who have had success with their brand for quite some time, and then there are the more recent brands who are making a huge splash in streetwear such as The Hundreds, Crooks & Castles and Famous Stars and Straps.
With the current rise in popularity of the street brand culture there seem to be tons of “brands” polluting the community, with exception of a certain few who seem to keep raising the bar:
5. IM KING
a refreshingly creative brand started in 2006 by two friends residing in L.A. IM-KING meaning becoming the king of your own “Imaginary Kingdom”. These guys are putting in work releasing hot t-shirts, denim, outerwear, and accessories every season.
In the 2002 Tokyo club circuit Rocksmith was created to combine Japanese street couture with New York Swagger. Rocksmith constantly pays homage to hip-hop roots with a nice combination of retro and futuristic streetwear style.
10 DEEP is a brand from NY that started as a design firm and creative collective. they have been around since 1995 and were on the front line of streetwear booms in NY during the 90’s. Though finding success on the East Coast 10 DEEP’s original and creative ideas have more recently began to span out to the west coast, expanding their line and motto, ”forget everyone and listen to yourself. Strength lies in the hands of an individual (10 fingers), not in the approval of one’s peers. “
REBEL 8 is a San Fransisco based clothing company specializing almost exclusively in t-shirts, hats, and other small accessories. With co-owner and graffiti artist/designer/tattoo artist Mike Giant hand drawing all the shirt graphics, he makes it a stand out brand. Pulling influence from traditional tattoos and Latino gang culture it is very telling of living a west coast lifestyle. Rebel 8 doesn’t seem to want to blow up big anytime soon, they keep a humble attitude about themselves and their brand, and just do what they love.
Some of my favorite t-shirt and clothing designs have came way of these guys: Mighty Healthy. This New York based brand is not afraid to break the mold, with simple and bold designs accompanied by large typographic elements, Mighty Healthy is in a league of their own. They couldn’t have said it better themselves when they describe, “In an age of “look-a-likes” and music video inspired uniforms, today’s young man seeks distinction. Mighty Healthy is the answer.” Who else could pull of a t-shirt with Rhianna’s leaked nude photo and at the same time pull off designs that are miles away from what most brands are doing today?
Honorable mentions: Triumvir, Mishka, The Freshnes, Diamond,