Vintage tee by Quicksilver © Quicksilver
You don’t often get designer brands that do retro t shirts – mostly they are own brands and mockups of the originals. You can get retro t shirts from most t shirt shops, from the A-Team to retro Olympic images and slogans. There’s one I’ve never seen though, and that’s one of Superstars – the TV show in the 80s where Kevin Keegan fell off his bike and Daley Thompson obliterated everyone around him. If I ever see a big red and blue S I’ll be first in the queue - for a child of the 80s that’s totally cool.
But what about retro designer t shirts? Let’s face it, they don’t make t shirts to last 20 years, no matter what you pay for them, so you’re going to struggle to get original retro designer t shirts. I remember Diesel did some nice bright retro-style t shirts a few years ago, but as a fashion conscious man you’ve usually got a choice between retro or designer.
The designer brands are catching on though by reproducing their old designs and creating new garments that look old. I like Quiksilver for reproduction retro t shirts, and some are even rolled to make them look like proper vintage t shirts. As a skating and boarding company, Quiksilver are the reason I had no money as a teenager and I’m still a closet admirer of their designs now.
Peter
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Surf brands always make nice retro style t shirts and are always worth a look, they seem to be timeless classics too as I’ve still got some of my old surfing brand t shirts and they just keep coming back into fashion no matter how old they get, in fact the older they get the cooler they seem to get!