Dragon Ball T-Shirt

I am not too sure what has happened over at Uniqlo’s website. Fast Retailing, owner of Uniqlo, are expanding so rapidly that they are probably trying to make a tighter ship. They have pulled the UT site into the main Uniqlo store in Japan (I’m talking web here) and I just can’t find the US UT store. Anyway, they have just released some more manga collaboration t-shirts and this Dragon Ball one caught my eye.

Even if you can read the Japanese I don’t think they ship overseas. If anyone can find it in the US store please drop a link.

Star Wars T-Shirts coming to UT

Star Wars fans: mark your calendars. Uniqlo have announced that they will be releasing a Star Wars line on March 3rd 6th in the Harajuku UT store as well as Uniqlo Ginza. So if you are in Tokyo on that day you might want to check it out. They note that Boba Fett won’t be making an appearance at the stores. I’m not quite sure what that means though.

I have to go to Tokyo on that day and it is fairly close to Harajuku so I might just pop in to see what’s happening. That’s a big might though. Wrong day. Woops.

Graniph 2010 Winter Sale

The Graniph sale has been on for quite a bit as you can see and that is the decidedly strange way they depict up “up to 30%” off in Japan. I know English speaking nations would put the tilde (squiggly hyphen) before the 30%. I’ve been corrected. It actually means from 30% up so there are even better bargains to be had. Anyway the sale is still on and while there are a decent number of bargains there are not a whole lot of t-shirts. Below are two interesting tops that are in the sale.

Great deals at Graniph for PayPal users

Design TShirts Store Graniph has teamed up with PayPal to offer some great deals to ensure you get some bargain t-shirts. Graniph is the ever expanding Japanese t-shirt company with over 80 stores worldwide and an online store with a huge selection of t-shirts.  And new shirts are constantly appearing!

Anyway, in collaboration with PayPal they are offering three ways to make your shopping experience even better.

1. 15% Off
2. Free shipping
3. Chance to win 12 t-shirts.

Sounds awesome because it is awesome. The only catch that I can see is that you have to pay with PayPal but that doesn’t seem like a catch to me at all. In fact it could be seen as the 4th bonus.

You can find out more details on the Graniph website. As I am living in Japan I can’t take advantage of these offers but on the other hand I can and do just pop into the local Graniph whenever I feel like it.

A tee with a difference from Uniqlo

Living in Japan I do see a lot of fashion that makes me look twice or sometimes even stare. In fact, just the other day I saw this lady wearing what looked like a big sofa cushion as a sweater. To be honest though I am still not convinced it wasn’t a sofa cushion. I really wanted to take a photo but of course that isn’t always easy when it comes to strangers.

Anyway this little number comes from Uniqlo and is only 500 yen (about $5) in the sale.  A cool and simple design is placed on this interesting article and of course there are suspenders attached. I have a feeling they won’t keep your pants up though.

[I don't know if it available outside of Japan.]

Graniph teaches you how to dress

Recently Japanese t-shirt store, Design T-Shirts Graniph, have been branching out into other areas such as pants and jackets and now that they have all these new items they are providing lessons on how to coordinate your wardrobe. It’s very kind of them. Check out Graniph Coordinate Guide no. 4.

The 4th graniph Coordinate Guide presents a few quick and easy PRACTICAL styling tips. Looking towards autumn/winter, check out our versatile and cool Shawl Collar Blouson in a MAD RANGE OF stylin’ color HITs!

Graniph don’t sell socks yet apparently.

Sweet Zebra Tee at UT

This is a very pretty t-shirt for girls and if you like zebras all the better. This is available in the US but you have to order it by email if you can believe that. You’d think that Japan’s richest man would get that e-commerce store set up.

Shiro to Kuro means black and white…well actually means white and black.

Cost: just $15.50 plus shipping.

20 Days Left for Submissions to Edo Label

There are now over 100 designs in the running for the Edo Label t-shirt design contest. The designs are quite varied with most of the submissions coming from Japan. There have been quite a few non-Japanese entries too though and there is plenty of time for you to submit yours too. There are 20 days left so if you are planning on submitting you had better get around to creating your design soon.

There are two prizes of 50,000 yen which works out at around US$500 and submissions close midnight September 30th, Tokyo time.

Edo Label looking for t-shirt designers

I haven’t been posting as much as I’d like recently but hopefully I will get back in the groove soon. Of course I did have a virus on my pc and my web sites were hacked but the fact is that I have just been pretty busy recently. One of the things that I have been busy with is Edo Label. Edo Label is a soon to be opened online t-shirt store based in Japan. The website will be bilingual so even though it is based in Japan so you don’t need to break out the Japanese text books and kanji dictionaries to participate in the website. Yes, I said “participate”. Edo Label will be a community driven website with many ways for the users to interact with each other.

In the run up to the launch of the store Edo Label is holding a t-shirt design contest. Submissions are being accepted for t-shirt designs for the first tees that will be sold in the store. In fact the contest has just been opened with 2 prizes of $500. There is no special theme but you do have to include the Edo Label logo in the design. You are even free to butcher the logo. It can be altered in almost anyway as long as it remains recognizable.

The contest closes on September 30th and the winners will be announced on October 14th. See Edo Label for Terms and Conditions.

Up to 30% Off at Graniph Sale

Fans of Japanese t-shirt store, Design TShirts Store Graniph, will be delighted to know that their summer sale has started with up to 30% off many t-shirts. Also some hoodies and other things I believe. They have an eclectic collection of tees but from what I can see there aren’t many men’s t-shirts on sale. This sale excludes retail stores outside of Japan except the online store.

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