If you only do one thing today go and read this article on the history of the T-shirt from Gelf Magazine.

Whether you choose to admit it or not, chances are a critical reserve of self-esteem rests somewhere near the middle of your T-shirt drawer. For within this darkened, hidden quarter lies dormant a secret weapon so witty, so elusively allusive, or just so damn hip it finds itself swathing your chest on only the most important occasions.

some of my favs are:

Choose Wisely!

Here’s another quote from the article from George Carlin’s “Coolest T-shirt Trap” in his 1997 volume of random musings, Brain Droppings:

There are times when you take 15 minutes to pick out which shirt to wear, because you’re going to a place where they’ll be a bunch of guys you’ve never met…and you think, ‘No one has ever seen a shirt like this. This will make them jealous’…then when you get there, no one cares at all. And all of the other guys turn out to be dorks who will wear any piece of shit that’s handed to them. Like ‘Property of Alcatraz’ and ‘Life is Beach.’ What a letdown.

[via Kottke]

originally published at tcritic the t-shirt blog

Indigo Clothing welcomes Karl (left) and Lhea (right), from the excellent, and highly acclaimed, t-shirt blog Tcritic, who are going to be guest authors on the Indigo blog. Life is pretty busy at Indigo right now and we have less and less time to browse the weird and wonderful tee sites that exist, so that is why we turned to Karl and Lhea help us out.

Tcritic is a t-shirt review site, which has over 3000 reported subscribers to its RSS feed. It is full of bright pictures, great editorial and links and adverts to the best t-shirt sites, wheter they be boutique brands or monster marques. These guys spend hours sifting through the detritus to bring their readers the best of what is out there and now they are going to do the same for Indigo readers. We strongly encourage you to check out what they are up to and we look forward to publishing their work here too.