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Valentine’s Day Gifts

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Gifts for Valentine's day

This might be the first time this year you are reminded of valentine’s day. Or maybe it isn’t. However, over here we are already busy thinking of it because we know that the time around Valentine’s day will be busy again.

Why? Because this day is one of the top occasions that you can use custom gifts for your beloved one. And Shirtcity is one of the best shops that allows you to create those. Our product range allows you to choose from shirts and gifts of all kinds. So maybe think of already having an unconspicious look at your boy- or girlfriends clothes’ labels as they lay around on your floor…

Especially customized string thongs have a seasonal high around february 14. Obviously a strong recommendation as a hot and sexy present for your girl.

Customized string thongs from £ 11.90

Customized string thongs from £ 11.90

On the design side there is a vast Love T-shirt design section that is full of romantic designs. Hearts and flowers everywhere. Our top recommendation is of course the custom I love T-shirt that is described here. Each of them means giving something special that hardly anyone has. Add a few lines of text in the shirtdesigner and you have the perfect, romantic, unique, personal and original present for valentine’s day. And unlike flowers they will last long long time and give your darling a romantic reminder of your love every time he or she stands in front of the wardrobe.

Last order date: Since Feb 14th is on a Sunday this year, think of early preparations! In order to get everything shipped on time and make sure the Mailman has enough time to get your romantic gifts across the pond, please place your order until February 1st (USA & Canada).

Out of the twilight: vampire and werewolf T-shirts

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Twilight fans, speak up: Edward or Jacob?

Vampires are huge. Well, thanks to Anne Rice and other authors’ spooky stories and movies bloodsucking creatures have never been really out, but with the Twilight book and movie series there’s vampire and werewolf mania. Vampires have become an ideal for love - since they’re immortal they are the only creatures that can fulfill the promise of eternal love.  “Because I read Twilight, I have unrealistic expectations in men” is the name of a popular Facebook fan group. That says basically all, or at least a lot.

To fuel the controversy of the inner-fan argument whether vampire Edward Cullen or werewolf Jacob is hotter, we provide the fan T-Shirts for each side to prove their love. Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob? Following some of the discussions in the forum we found that most fans would nt necessarily take sides if at least one of these beautiful creatures crossed their way. Thus the twilight fan T-shirt for those who love them both is our shirt of the week that you get for 5$ less (ding dong: remember the free shipping coupon this week).

Vampire T-Shirts from $ 19.99

Vampire T-Shirts from $ 19.99

And for those who like vampires but can’t relate to the teenage romance take on them, there are a lot of more general vampire designs in store. And in for a vampire, in for a werewolf: there are also some new werewolf T-Shirts in the shop for those who take their teenage boys fierce and hairy. Like for example the funny werewolf T-shirt “Villagers Yum”.

Werewolf T-Shirts from $ 19,99

Werewolf T-Shirts from $ 19,99

Top T-Shirt Trends 2009

Happy new year and happy new decade!

We’ll start the year with a bit of a look back at the past year. I had a look at our best selling T-shirts in 2009 - all year, all countries. Since some of the designs are around in variations (like in one color and two color versions for example) and others belong together by subject, I decided to sum up the subjects that belong together. This leads us to Shirtcity’s Top Ten T-Shirt trends 2009:

10. How I Met Your Mother T-Shirts

How I Met Your Mother T-Shirts from 19,95 $

How I Met Your Mother T-Shirts from 19,95 $

2009 marked the international breakthrough of the series - especially Spanish customers helped the series’ quotes (by the incomparable Barney Stinson) gather the Top 10 spot. Legen … wait for it … dary!!

9. The Big Lebowski T-Shirts

Dudical! Big Lebowski T-Shirts from 19.95 $

Dudical! Big Lebowski T-Shirts from 19.95 $

A newcomer in our most wanted designs. 2009 saw another Coen movie with considerable success - Burn After Reading - while A Serious Man is the next in line - but will they ever make another film of which a classic character like The Dude emerges? We don’t think but we sure hope so. The Dude T-Shirt was one of the most popular Designs in 2009. In Dude you trust.

8. Barack Obama T-Shirts

Barack Obama T-Shirt from 19,95 $

Barack Obama T-Shirt from 19,95 $

What Barack Obama did not achieve in 2009: Close down Guantanamo, end the economical crisis, end the wars in Afghanistan, the Gaza strip and Iran, lead the Kopenhagen climate conference to success, save the polar bears, save the world, turn water into wine and walk on the water.

What Barack Obama did achieve in 2009: not getting shot, receive Nobel peace prize, make health care reform pass the Senate and hold #8 on Shirtcity’s T-Shirt trend list. But maybe mostly due the Yes We Can T-Shirt which is still an often ordered design - but has gathered a dynamic of its own. There were significantly less orders of his portrait T-Shirt than in the election year 2008, but still enough for a top spot. And these orders came from all over the world, not so many of them from America …

7. Beer T-Shirts

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Beer T-Shirts from $ 19.95

Cheers.

6. T-Shirts for Mom and Dad

T-Shirts for Mom and Dad from $ 19.95

T-Shirts for Mom and Dad from $ 19.95

Obvious, right? Everybody’s got two parents, and most often they’re the best parents in the world. Then there are several occasions that you need a personal gift: birthdays, christmas, mother’s day, father’s day. This is where our Mom and Dad T-Shirts come into play.

Surprise: the World’s Best Mom T-Shirt beats our all time classic Mom Deluxe as the most chosen design.

5. The I Love T-Shirt

I Love + Custom Text T-shirt from 22,95 $

I Love + Custom Text T-shirt from 22,95 $

Everybody knows the I NY T-Shirt - thus there are gazillions of variations (check this list of the best ones!). You can easily make your own: just load our  I Love + Text T-Shirt into the shirt designer, add your text (the right font is American Typewriter which should be preselected) - and there you go. We’re happy that so many customers enjoyed this idea and took the opportunity to love all that is lovable.

4. Bud Spencer T-Shirts

Bud Spencer T-Shirts from 19.95 $

Bud Spencer T-Shirts from 19.95 $

Though we added some new one this year - buddy, one of the Designs it all started with, was one of the most wanted shirts again this year. The dark face on the left was ordered slightly more than the outline on the right, made for dark T-shirts. I guess like the films these never get old. Anyone still without a Bud Spencer T-Shirt?

3. Game Over T-Shirt

Game Over T-Shirt from 19.95 $

Game Over T-Shirt from 19.95 $

Like the year before the Game Over T-Shirt (with the blocky writing, left) was the single most sold design by far. People keep on marrying (I also have the first invitations for weddings in 2010), people will need wedding T-Shirts. We provide a huge range of designs in our bachelor T-Shirts section to get you dressed for the best stag or hen night you could ever dream of. However, most people go for the classic best-seller.

2. House, MD T-Shirts

House MD Shirt from 19,95 $

House MD Shirt from 19,95 $

We couldn’t help but recognize how popular our TV series shirts were (a big shout-out to the Spanish customers here again). You liked our designs about the Big Bang Theory, Heroes or - see #10 on this list. Anyway: Nothing against the popularity of Dr. Gregory House. The grumpy medical genius still kicks ass. His portrait with his motto “Everybody lies” is the most popular, but you also like the practical House Kit. And House is only second to …

1. LOST T-Shirts

LOST T-Shirts $ 19.95

LOST T-Shirts $ 19.95

Maybe it’s because of our selection of LOST T-Shirts - all made by serious LOST junkies in our office. At first it looked like Game Over or House would make it. But adding up the numbers of designs sold LOST emerged as our top T-shirt trend in 2009. You particularly liked the Dharma T-Shirt, the Oceanic airlines T-Shirt and the famous sequence of numbers.

Make sure you get your gifts before christmas

We have received some questions on that, so here’s the information for you all:

To make sure you get your customized gift items for your loved ones on time for christmas, please make sure you placed your paid order until december 11 if you live in the US or Canada. Paid order means: we need to have received the payment by then. When you pay with credit card or PayPal express your order gets registered immediately and we start producing it. We have it shipped out on monday, december 14th. It has to travel across the big pond then. You should have received it by wednesday, december 23.

Generally you cant count two (work) days for making the tee and five to seven days for shipping. The delievery services have communicated us these delays.

And after that? We can give no guarantees for orders placed after the deadlines. However, a clever alternative and great last minute gift is a shirtcity gift certificate. This gets sent to you or the recipient by email and you get this immediately. So you can make sure the recepient gets exactly the custom made T-shirt he/ she wants and don’t have to worry about choosing the right size or design.

Warm clothes for cold days

Custom printed longsleeve shirts

Custom printed longsleeve shirts

As said in the previous post, winter season is here. We react to this with some cool Xmas and winter designs - but “Winter T-shirts” sounds a bit like an oxymoron, right? But of course Shirtcity is not only the place for short sleeves.

We offer a range of products that keep you warm, and of course all of them can be custom printed with your text and design ideas. And to help you find the right product for your needs, we briefly introduce our long sleeved products, starting from light to warm:

A longsleeve shirt is basically a T-shirt with elongated sleeves. We have three of these in store: a male one, the baseball longsleeve with contrasting sleeves and a lady longsleeve. Nice ones to wear inside.

Printed hoodies and sweaters (examples)

Printed hoodies and sweaters

When you need something warmer you can opt for a nice comfy sweater (right) which is recommended for, say, rooms with a broken heating. Add a hood and a handy front pocket to this and you will have - a hoodie. There we also have three models: The American Apparel hoodie (left) is a high quality product with a modern cut, more tight fitting and made from a lighter fabric - the ideal choice for warm summer nights. The standard hoodie is warmer, made from a thick fabric and loose fit. The ideal choice if you tend to be cold. A brand new product in store is the lady’s hoodie by Stedman:

The new lady's hoodie

The new lady's hoodie

It offers a great modern cut adapted to the female shape, is super comfy on the inside and is guaranteed to keep you warm. Available from now on.

If you prefer products with a zipper, there is a variety of jackets in store: Men can choose from the fashionable retro jackets with striped sleeves, the even more fashionable track jackets by American Apparel with white accents and the hooded jackets by Continental Clothing. Ladies have the choice between the classic lady jacket and a hooded jacket, both made by Continental Clothing.

Finally,if you have kids you certainly want to make sure they are kept warm in winter, so for them we have a kid’s baseball longsleeve, a kid’s hoodie and a kid’s hooded jacket. And if they design their products themselves, you can be sure they will not grumble if you tell them to put something on to go outside…

Here come the bride’s T-shirts

About to marry? Well, stag nights are one of the top occasions where you need custom printed T-shirts.

o it will come as no surprise that this is a huge topic for us. Our range of stag night T-shirts is constantly growing and we recently added some new bride T-shirts.

http://www.shirtcity.com/us/design/bachelor-wedding/bride-t-shirt-2130.html

Bride T-Shirts from £ 13.90

Guys tend to celebrate the last night in freedom in a manner that involves a lot of alcohol. Okay, and girls, too. While you are out celebrating and doing … well, we don’t want to know exactly what, it is a beautiful tradition to dress as the team that you are. And will be the last time in this constellation. The lucky queen of the evening gets one special dress for the evening, like a bride T-shirt pictured above. Her friends are the bridal team, and will consequently dress as the Team Bride T-shirt.

Team Bride T-Shirts from £ 13.90

Team Bride T-Shirts from £ 13.90

It is also a good idea to have your (pre-) marriage T-shirts customized. In our shirt designer you can add custom text to the back or underneath the design. This could say something like “Julie’s hen night, (date), (incomprehensible insider joke)”. Or you can opt for numbers, using the shirt designer’s “sport” mode. Everything is completely in your hands.

Last word on this: we would like to see how you spent your bachelor party in our shirts. So if you send us a T-shirt of you and your girls (or boys) wearing bachelor party T-shirts, we will reward you with a wedding present for the lucky married couple. Send your mails, stories and photos to win@shirtcity.com !

T-Shirts for Game Boys and Game Girls

Mario Bros T-Shirts from 22.95 €

Mario Bros T-Shirts from 22.95 $

If you, like us, are part of the generation that grew up with the first or second wave of video gaming, you will understand the nostalgia that we’re talking about when it comes to game classics like Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda.

Objectively and with the standards of today, late-eighties Nintendo Gameboys were plastic bricks with few possibilities, a crappy low-contrast display and annoying 8bit sounds. However, most of us have spent countless hours with it, waiting for the school bus, on rainy afternoons or clandestinely playing the last levels in bed. This generation growing up celebrates a sentimental glorification of earlier computer games like PacMan, Pong or Tetris.

The 8bit aesthetic, born of limited technical possibilites, has become an art of its own. Think of pixel artists like eboy or 8bit music, be it the so-called Nintendocore of Horse The Band or the Beatles versions of 8bit operators (just discovered via Nerdcore).

So, with all game classics like Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart or Donkey Kong still playable and emulated online, they are not only unforgotten, but still alive and kicking. We created a bunch of geek T-shirts as a tribute to these games and the fun we had with them. First off: the Mario Bros. T shirts, the cute star and the Mario Bros mushroom T-Shirt which will give you super powers and extra lives as long as you wear them.

The Zelda T-Shirt features the logo prominently and looks great on you even for those who don’t know its origin. When you create a custom T-shirt with this design, gold foil print on black tee is highly recommended.

The Donkey Kong shirt is a great idea for an instant Halloween costume: dress & ape.

To be able to laugh about the Mario Kart T-Shirt you have to know the game of course. Otherwise it’s not too obvious why you would throw turtle shells and banana skins at other karts.

Cool video game T-shirts from $ 19.99

Cool video game T-shirts from $ 19.99

… and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt

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And all you get are these lousy T-Shirts from only 19.95 €

Once upon an eternity, it even used to be funny: “My friends went to … this summer and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” While these kind of shirts aren’t likely to be found any more in the souvenir shops, the slogan remains in mind. And begs to be adapted and varied.

They still make great gifts on various occasions. How about a lousy T-Shirt to give away to…

parents: “I paid over 18 years for my children” T-Shirt

graduates: “I graduated…” T-Shirt

children that expect way too much: “My parents are rich” T-Shirt

voters: “I voted for Obama” T-Shirt

your soon-to-be ex-employees: “I lost my job” T-Shirt

baptized people: “I became a Christian” T-Shirt

these lousy T-Shirts from $ 19.95

these lousy T-Shirts from $ 19.95

Speaking of christians: Of course there’s also a Jesus T-Shirt “I was crucified” and the I went to hell T-Shirt.

Of course we should affirm that our T-shirts are actually far from being lousy since we pay a lot of attention when it comes to choosing the quality as well as to T-shirt printing.

Big Bang Theory T-Shirts

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Big Bang Theory T-Shirt Sheldon's Sofa for 19.95 $

We are geeks and we love geeks. So we do love the big bang theory.

The sitcom abut two geeky physicians and a hot waitress is maybe only fully understandable to those who have a soft spot for geeks and basic knowledge about science, but it seems there are enough of them to make this a hit.

We honour Leonard and Sheldon with these two designs: the Sheldon’s Sofa T-Shirt originates from this hilarious scene:

And the other Big Bang Theory T-Shirt is just a great design for fans, reminding of the Beatles’ Let It Be album cover, but not necessarily meant as a reference.

Big Bang Theory Shirt: The BBTs 19.95 $

Big Bang Theory Shirt: The BBTs 19.95 $

Try any other colour combination in our T-shirt designer.

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We know sometimes it’s not fair: with over 1200 designs waiting in store and the endless possibility of choices given in our shirt designer it’s really hard to decide which one is your ideal T-shirt.

So why not opt for more then - this saves shipping costs, and speaking of saving: this week we grant another 3 £ off every order with the special secret code aug09 - valid only until next week.