Good, nonfunny graphic tees?

bficky

Where can I get some good graphic tees that aren't funny or geeky or punny or pop-culture-y? I've bought shirts from Threadless.com and Noisebot.com, but the only ones I wear nowadays are the ones that are generic graphic tees, not the ones with Legos and whale-pianos or baby godzillas. Searching for "graphic tees" brings up lots of sites with the latter, not much of the former.

Bonus points if someone can suggest an actual B&M place where I can try stuff on (recently lost 40 lbs, I have no idea what size I am now). When I accidentally look up as I walk through Macy's on my way in the mall, all of their tees have huge skulls on them and they're $50. Hot Topic looks ridiculous and emo. I'm not looking for those (unless I'm over-generalizing). I'm in Dallas though, the chain store capital, so if you know of a store that has good, cheap-ish t-shirts, chances are there's one around here somewhere.

Improvolone

Old Navy can have some non-ridiculous ones. I've also gotten some from Anchor Blue, but I don't know how wide spread they are.

Monolithic_Dome

http://shirt.woot.com/ varies from subtle to ridiculous. Today's is more silly but check tomorrow and it'll be different.

Target has a pretty good range from subtle designs to stupid fratboy crap. Also cheap.

H and M too, although that's going to be a bit more expensive.

Iruka

For Online shops: Design by Humans has more graphic/artsy tees, and Teefury, their sister site, is a place to watch, too. Tilteed and shirtfight Have limited selections right now, but may have cool stuff in the future.

For actual stores, when walking around the mall you may fair better in slightly preppy stores, but those shirts are also going to be like 20-30 bucks a lot of the time. But, if you have shirts you know fit you, I would just compare sizing charts before buying offline, and only buy one or two shirts the first time around to confirm the fit.

DasUberEdward

http://www.express.com/catalog/thumbnail.jsp?parentCategoryId=1&categoryId=53&subCategoryId=53&index=0

Express isn't awful.

NotYou

beautiful/decay's website

admanb

DasUberEdward wrote: »

http://www.express.com/catalog/thumbnail.jsp?parentCategoryId=1&categoryId=53&subCategoryId=53&index=0

Express isn't awful.

Sears carries Structure: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/s_10153_12605_Clothing_Men%27s_Shirts?sbf=Brand&sbv=Structure and they're 50-60% off until... the end of today, actually. :P

Corvus

Man, I sympathize with this. It is difficult finding a physical store with graphic t's not featuring some combo of: skulls, tattoo themed art, or random bits of heraldry.

But, you can always start moving away from t's to other types of shirts for casual wear, if you want to class it up a little.

Improvolone

He lives in Dallas.
I bet he wears a short sleeved shirt 360 days out of the year.

Hooves

Try upper playground. They have some lame stuff but also some cool stuff and the cool stuff is generally pretty cool.

HyperAquaBlast

Assault Shirts


Found this place awhile ago. They look pretty cool and they don't really have any words.

Khavall

Uneetee has some good ones often


And shirt.woot as was mentioned.

JebusUD

http://www.threadless.com/

they will have some interesting non-joke ones.


http://www.threadless.com/product/1994/The_Homesick_Cosmonaut#zoom

that one looks cool

http://www.threadless.com/product/1995/The_City_Below#zoom

this one looks pretty sweet too.

EggyToast

I'll pimp shirt.woot again because for $10 it's like c'mon. That's the price of a non-printed t-shirt at Target, yet these are printed, often with very cool designs, and shipped to you for $10. For the price you can simply guess at your size and get the next size up or down on the following shirt.

I added it to my RSS feeds and I just keep an eye on it. There's some lame shirts but tomorrow there's a new one, and there's weekly derbies where you often get some very cool designs.

I was a big fan of threadless, but they've gotten quite expensive.

Corvus

Oh neat, Shirt Woot actually ships to Canada unlike regular woot.

Maticore

I occasionally go into Urban Outfitters for t-shirts and shop off the sale rack. They really only sell graphic tees. Their new shirts are like twenty bucks though. Sale rack 10ish.

cooljammer00

It's kind of telling that the idea of non funny graphic tees didn't even register in my mind.

Scrum

www.designbyhumans.com is great. Some of their shirts are a little weird, but a lot of it is really awesome and have ended up being my favorite shirts.

timmyblog

I own the Assault Shirts website and will hook you up with a coupon code if you want anything from us. We have sizes ranging from s-3xl

Send me an email: tim@assaultshirts.com

Same goes for anyone else on the forums who wants anything. We have free shipping on all our stuff.

DemonStacey

teefury.com

Only one per day, but sometimes they are really cool.

bficky

Improvolone wrote: »

He lives in Dallas.
I bet he wears a short sleeved shirt 360 days out of the year.

And the other 5 days of the year, I stick a long sleeve undershirt under my tee and call it a day.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've started looking through the sites, and while a lot of the shirts have designs that are huge (cover basically the entire front of the shirt) and seem to look cool in a going out sorta way, there are some that have a few cool designs that are more my style (smaller, less showy). I went to Target last night after dinner and got a "STP" shirt that reminded me of a Stone Temple Pilots shirt I had 15 years ago, only with the real brand logo, not the band's version. Most of their shirts though fell into the "cover the entire front with skulls, shiny material, and chinese characters going clubbing shirts" category. My wife gave me a "I don't think you're hip enough to wear that" look when I tried those on.

I am basically trying to find shirts to cut the grass in, wear after work, wear to dinner. I don't wear my cartoony, funny shirts anymore after taking my kids to the park and having three year olds ask about my shirts (Is that a dinosaur? I have Legos too! I like your Yoshi shirt). Just boring, not going-out-worthy, just one step above solid color shirts.

Gandalf_the_Crazed

Teextile has a new set of 5 designs each week, available (AFAIK) for only that week. They have funny ones (such as the "Horse With No Name" design currently on display), but they also have just normal ones like the penguin design that was on Wednesday.

$10-$15, usually.

darkmayo

man its threads like this that remind me that I need to make more shirts again. Too bad your not in Canada I could hook you up with original stuff.

BrotherVoodoo

http://www.upperplayground.com

http://enclothe.com

BrotherVoodoo

bficky wrote: »

Bonus points if someone can suggest an actual B&M place where I can try stuff on (recently lost 40 lbs, I have no idea what size I am now). When I accidentally look up as I walk through Macy's on my way in the mall, all of their tees have huge skulls on them and they're $50. Hot Topic looks ridiculous and emo. I'm not looking for those (unless I'm over-generalizing). I'm in Dallas though, the chain store capital, so if you know of a store that has good, cheap-ish t-shirts, chances are there's one around here somewhere.

How tall are you, how much do you weigh? I'm 6'4, 170 and I rock Mediums and I still have room to breath. You're probably definitely a size if not two lower than you were

elfdude

I toss my lot in with threadless. Almost all of my tshirts are threadless and they fit me the best of any shirt I've ever had. Their t's can vary from very complex to quite simple just keep your eye out they get new tshirts every month.

Krikee

This is a sweet collection of sites we have going here. :^: