The T-Shirt Blog

I’ve never paid for anything in euros, but CTRL clothing just might change that habit. The Helsinki based street wear company has always caught my eye with their sharp photography and sense of humor, and their prices aren’t bad to boot. Check em out.

First off, I’d like to apologize to anyone who might find the title offensive. What really interests me about this topic is how t-shirts designs can be different, or stay the same as you look at different countries. For every This Is How I Roll, there is Play Back That and Swimming To You. Clearly, there’s a lot of attention and creativity applied to these shirts, as Wikipedia explains:

For the same reasons that a Chinese character or a Japanese Kanji tattoo seems “exotic” to many in the West, Asians may appreciate English words or gibberish for its aesthetic appeal alone; straight lines, frequent symmetry, and the unembellished curves of Latinate letters may all appeal to Asian senses of aesthetics and balance.

With this in mind, I’m wondering where some of you are from. I’ve checked last month’s logs, and I’m seeing a bunch of visitors from Sweden, Australia, and Ukraine (which is where I was born). Of course the majority of my visitors I believe are from the Unisted States, which is where this blog is based.

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I don’t know about you, but I have a healthy curiosity toward the Brits. They speak the same language as we do (English), play the same sport (football), and sell/wear the same type of raunchy slogan tees. Of course their English doesn’t quite sound like our own, football is an altogether different sport, and their shock-jerseys are the same but different in an alternate reality/parallel universe sort of way.