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The shipping from Singapore might end up costing you as much as the shirt, but it's worth it for this beautiful specimen from Dive Junkie. They've got plenty of other nice stuff for the diving enthusiast in your life, but this tee is our favorite out of their collection.

Besides, twenty four bucks in Singapore's currency ends up converting out to a little over fourteen dollars American. Honestly, that really isn't that bad. Especially when you consider the fact that you're getting a shirt that almost nobody else in your pocket of the western world owns. Just something to keep in mind, y'know...

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We just realized that it's been a while since we've done one just for the ladies. Sorry about that. We'd swear that it'll never happen again but we both know we're just going to forget.

You know if Preshrunk were your boyfriend, we totally wouldn't blame you for breaking up with us. Even if the sex is the best you've ever had.

Anyhow, Miele Fresca's line of shirts has a whole bunch of cute stuff - but this tee really caught our eye. Nice, blue and red silhouette work on a yellow shirt. It's very primary colors in a way, but we can assure you that the shirt looks outstanding.

Now if you'll excuse us, we've gotta get back to writing about guys shirts. But we'll call you, okay? No really, we swear...

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They say nobody walks in L.A. And while that may be nothing more than a half truth in a silly pop song, there sure are plenty of people that lack a car. A lot of those people - myself included - take the bus.

Because I take the bus, I have this kind of love/hate relationship with the L.A. Metro system. It gets me where I need to go, but it often times it ends up making me late. But hey, their logo is elegantly simple. I guess they've got that going for them... So, imagine how surprised I was when I found that they sell a logo tee from their web store. For eleven bucks, no less! If it came in anything bigger than an extra large, I'd be all over it. *shrug* Maybe it's time to start with the walking...

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I know this shirt may be a bit cost prohibitive to our readers with limited funds, but it's too damn cool to not run. That might just be my inner dance punk talking. *shrug* Who knows?

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to cranking LCD Soundsystem and drinking some beers. Man, I love three day weekends...

Update: Some people don't seem to get that the price for this shirt is in Canadian Dollars. While we're sorry if this confused anyone, we ask you to pay better attention to what you're reading. Seriously.

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These tees from Bamboosa may be double the price of the ones we ran yesterday, but their store is quite a bit nicer and they have more available sizes. Also, they won't gouge you on shipping if you live somewhere other than the U.S. So they've got that going for them too.

What's more, Bamboosa was recommended to us by Cool Hunting contributor and aspiring footwear designer Josh Spear. He seems to be in love with the ones that he owns - which is a good enough seal of approval for me. Domo, Mr. Spear!

Update: Morris from Bamboosa writes:

The reason that our shirt costs a lot more than our good friends Bamboo Textile is that our shirt is made in the US and their shirts come from China.

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Bamboo. Is there anything it can't do? Bamboo Textile doesn't seem to think so. I mean, hell, they're making t-shirts out of it. No, really. Bamboo t-shirts.

Before you go and think that they're made out of chunks of bamboo stalk - a la chain mail - they're not. That would look ridiculous. The process used apparently processes the fibers from inside the stalks. It's a neat idea that apparently yields extremely breathable and soft fabric. Since a shirt would only set me back a Hamilton, I think I'm going to have to give it a try. If the tee holds up to the hype, I may have found my new Summer shirt...

Update: Andrew writes:

I would like to point out that if one orders a Bamboo tee, the shipping to anywhere not in the US is about 35 dollars, more than three times the price of the tee. Perhaps if you live across the ocean in an isolated cardboard box in the district of Badgershire or something this might be acceptable, but I live in Canada, and have never seen shipping prices as high as 35 bucks to get packages across the nigh-unpassable 49th parallel. Just thought your Canuckistanian readers might like to know.

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• It must be t-shirt sale season. Diesel Sweeties is doing a surprise sale. You give them $7 and your size and you get a mystery shirt.

  Update: Well, they were having a sale. If you missed out, they're offering a deal for our readers... While checking out, mention that Preshrunk sent you in the "special instructions" field to net yourself some bonus stickers. Gracias R. Stevens!

• Did you know that Old Navy uses random asian characters to decorate their tees? Well, now you do.
• Preshrunk pal Justin Mason was awesome enough to throw together an RSS feed for the newest tees over at Threadless, with photos. Great job, Justin!
• Speaking of Threadless... Thanks to their $10 sale, we're now their top ranked Street Team member. Whatever will we spend all that store credit on?

It's been a while since we've posted an "I [heart]..." shirt. But after Kristen sent this one on we figured if we were going to break our embargo we may as well do it with this tee from Veer.

Hell, "I [heart] T-Shirts" begs to be posted by a site like ours. If there was a brand of calamari named "I [heart] Tentacles" we're sure that the SquidBlog would be all over it.

I mean, how can we not link something so self-referential and shoegazingly amazing? We just can't.

So we're posting it. And encouraging you to buy it. But, you know, only if you like t-shirts...

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• What sort of shill would I be if I didn't mention Threadless for the nth consecutive week? A pretty horrible one, to say the least.

  Well, it is worth mentioning that they're selling every shirt in their store for $10 until June 6th. So really it's less of me being a shill and more of me trying to save you some money.

  You don't have to thank me, I'm just doing my job...

• More bargains ahoy! Neighborhoodies is offering 10% off if you use the coupon code BLOGGER at checkout time. This should be wonderful for those of you who insist on wearing hoodies during the warmest months of the year.

  Or, you could just buy a t-shirt too. It's up to you, really.

The Preshrunk staff [hearts] Cory Doctorow. His pimp for this site on BoingBoing - the first post of 2005, we might add - drove a huge spike of traffic our way in our first few days. As far as we're concerned, he helped make us what we are today - and we're extremely grateful for that.

Besides writing for BoingBoing, Wired and Make, Cory has a new novel, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" that drops on July 1. He also happens to be the jet setting European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an obessed, yet socially functional Disneyphile.

Asking someone as t-shirt obsessed as Cory to jot down his top 5 shirts was a task. How can you choose when there are so many that you adore? So we broke from our usual format and let him send us an inventory of his the shirts that are in his heavy rotation. A few of the tees in his collection were either one-offs, limited runs or not available online. With that in mind, we've tried to provide URLs where we could find them. So without further adieu, here's your peek inside Cory's closet...

Well, I'm at home now long enough to change suitcases [which is practically the only reason I ever come home], so here's a quick inventory. I have too many tees -- more than I can wear for sure -- and every month or two I take 20 or so to the local charity shop and drop them off.

Currently Wearing

• A long-sleeve Disneyland tee that's all distressed and worn looking, with torn pieces of cloth sewn to it.

• A chocolate-brown Blogger/Google shirt from SXSW two years ago
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• Navy blue shirt from monochrom.at: OH MY GOD THEY USE A HISTORY THAT REPEATS ITSELF
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• Navy blue shirt from downhillbattle.org: PEER-TO-PEER KILLS PAY-FOR-PLAY
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• Kermit green shirt from FxxxPxxx: [THIS IS GOOD]
• Khaki Fantastic Four tee from Spitalfields Market
• Olive green Wonder Woman tee from Spitalfields Market
• Red tee from engrish.com: I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE, with a rainbow. I usually can't bring myself to wear this.
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• Red Walt Disney World tee A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME with Goofy's hat being blown off by a pirate's cannonball. I can't BELIEVE they offer these for sale!
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• Light brown Blogger/Google shirt also from SXSW two years ago
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• Chocolate brown shirt from spamshirt.com, with orange writing: FWD: VEDOXHERABAL VIAGRASUPP
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• Orange tee from monochrom.at, featuring a man in a tophat saying: UFO-Beobachtungen muB man skeptisch gegenüberstehen Nur dann er-kennt... ...man bösre Fälschungen"
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• Khaki B * A * S * H tee
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• Grey downhillbattle.org tee: HOME TAPING HIS KILLING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND IT'S FUN
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• Black eff.org tee
• Black Disneyland Paris Pirates of the Caribbean tee
• Black tee from monochrom.at: DER DOW JONES IST DAS WICHTIGSTE VON DER WELT
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• Black Michael Moore as Che Guevara tee
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• Black tee from EFFi (EF Finland), take off on Trainspotting
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• Black Second Life tee: PLAY IN THEIR WORLD LIVE IN OURS
• Black NTK.net tee: I [heart] MY VT-1OO
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• Black Campaign for Digital Rights tee: CORRUPT DISC INFERIOR AUDIO KEEP THE RIGHT TO COPY
• Black doombuggies.com tee: TOMB SWEET TOMB
• Black long-sleeve Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland Paris tee with skulls down the sleeves
• Black ntk.net tee: Pic of Ben Franklin and THEY THAT CAN GIVE UP GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS FOR THE SAKE FOR A LITTLE EYE CANDY DESERVE NEITHER COMPUTERS NOR EYE CANDY
• Black downhillbattle.org tee: BRAM COHEN SEEDED MY TORRENT
• White Cafe Press long-sleeve: MY NGO WENT TO WIPO AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS INFRINGING T-SHIRT
• White tee red-circle-slash-over-ID from no2id.net
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• Black tee my mom brought me from Tokyo: WHILE IT DOESN'T KNOW RADIOACTIVE DANGER REAT AT HAND IT ITSELF OF YOU AS WELL.
• Black lenticular anime tee from Cyberdog
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