T-Shirt of the Day - Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular

The Christmas Spectacular has been a Radio City Tradition since 1933, featuring the Rockettes in full Santa garb (among many other acts). While I like to limit myself to a good viewing of "The Christmas Story" and "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" each year (and maybe "It's A Wonderful Life") those of us outside of New York City can always display some brazen hard core holiday spirit by venturing to this show that boasts one million plus attendees per year (though not in a single showing, of course).

This t-shirt is an early nineties special, with a "Oneita" tag.

Click here for a full rundown on the Christmas Spectacular.

Vintage T-Shirt of the Day and Why You Should Be Wearing a Helmet

Perhaps you remember or at least have been told about the Chicago Bears' best season ever, one in which Ditka reigned supreme and the Bears turned in a 15-1 regular season record. The bare task (yes, a pun) was so monumental that there arose the distinct and specific need for a song to be written. So the world has hidden copies of the "Super Bowl Shuffle" on LP, sealed in plastic and residing in the corners of basements throughout the mid-west, patiently awaiting their week on eBay in hopes of netting their soon to be former owners a sum upon which the working man might modestly retire.

I am going to cheat on this entry, simply because these two shirts go together entirely too well. Sometime before the actual game was played, the 1985 New England Patriots flirted with the notion the they might indeed be the champions of Super Bowl XX. This idea carried its way into a run of T-shirts that were probably promptly disposed of sometime during the evening of January 26, 1986. This one, however, has survived in fantastic condition with an incredible 50/50 soft feel. Lucky for you, both of these items are in our shop at the time of this posting.

Why You Should Be Wearing A (Football) Helmet
Football season is upon us - which essentially means the safety of proper helmet wear can never be underestimated. Helmets protect their users form head damage and injury of all sorts and kinds. They also happen to look fantastic on an old t-shirt, reminding us of seasons long since past and heroes that we wish had never retired. I think the "football helmet" on a super soft 50/50 blend is probably in the "archetypal vintage t-shirt" top ten, which I shall save for a later post.

Game on, my friends, game on.

Vintage T-Shirts on Etsy.com

A recent search for "vintage tshirt" (in the clothing and accessories category) on eBay returned 130,561 results. Not only would this take about a day and a half to sift through, the quantity to quality ratio is very poor. Many "retro" or "distressed" items are included in eBay's results as well as "vintage style" and "replica" items. I consider myself a patient person, but by page 15 things can get a bit discouraging.

 The same search on Etsy.com returns 4,336 results (as of this posting) and by page 4, I have already spotted 4 items that I wouldn't mind making my own - if the house payment weren't due on Tuesday.

Here are a few of my personal favorites: