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Shelf Life Clothing

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About Me

Shelf Life Clothing Co. is an independent designer t-shirt label, providing make high-end, 100% ring-spun cotton, silkscreened shirts with a humorous underground vibe. We take great care in making quality shirts that you will look cool wearing.Catering to well-informed pop culture fashion plates and movie geeks, Shelf Life is a bold, smart independent design studio packed with attention-getting, humorous and thought-provoking items.With inspirations drawn from a wide array of pop culture imagery, particularly exploitation cinema, classic Hong Kong cinema, 60s spy movies, classic samurai movies, vintage rock album art, WWII aviation art, eurotrash cinema and pro sports, Shelf Life makes a point of paying tribute to unsung b-movie classics while also satirizing commonplace ideas and delusional behaviors. Our shirts, designs and web comics have been discussed in countless blogs and featured by a diverse range of media, including ESPN, The Plain Dealer, Salt Lake Tribune, DIME magazine, CNN/sportsillustrated.com and Film Score Monthly.Shelf Life Clothing's own line of t-shirts feature clean, classic designs with a timeless retro look and feel that create a "must-have" compulsion for trendsetters, statement-makers and cineasts.Going forward, Shelf Life plans to expand its line to include jackets, bags and customized sneakers.Shop our collection by visiting:
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Shelf Life Customer Testimonials:
"I would let them date my daughter if I had one!"
"Quick service & a product exactly as advertised, I'd do business with them again."
"Very cool Kurosawa shirt, my brother will LOVE it, thank you!"
"Love the shirt, soft cotton, awesome store."
"Fast shipping to the Netherlands, items in very good contition, THANKS!"
"These are the best t shirts I have ever seen anywhere. I would buy them all if I had the money.""Great Transaction! Strength & Honor!"
"Great T-shirt, shipped quickly in time for Christmas!"
"The idea of a movie poster for a fictional movie (especially using the best samurai movies ever) is a really cool and unique concept."
"WOW!!! YIPPY!!! WHOOPTIE DOO!!!""Your chambara shirt is the epitome of what I loved about that era of films."
"You guys have some AMAZING shirts unlike any I've seen on the internet... They are RAD!!!!"
"Got my shirt It's great...I'll be watching your store for other cool stuff. Again thank you very much, you made my year."

My Interests

Silkscreening, Buster Keaton, Tsui Hark, Led Zeppelin, Toshiro Mifune, Alfred Hithcock, Sergio Leone, Fred Williamson, Jack Kirby, Saul Bass, Lalo Schifrin, Lau Kar Leung, Michael Powell, Terence Young, Mario Bava, John Ford, Maggie Cheung, The Beatles, David Lee Roth, Wong Jing, Brian Wilson, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, Akira Ifukube, Brad Bird, Wil Eisner, Stephen Chow, SCTV, Ishirô Honda, France Gall, Television, Ennio Morricone, ELO, Hammer Films, The Kinks, Godzilla, Tsui Hark, Tatsuya Nakadai, William Castle, Tony Jaa, Zatoichi, James Bond, Sonic Youth...

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I'd like to meet:

Customers, anyone headed to Magic & Pool tradeshows, music and movie buffs, fashionable types from all walks of life.

Books:

Dashiel Hammett, James Elroy, Jack Kirby...

My Blog

Funkalicious Ladies Crewnecks

We just added our first ladies crewneck cut shirt to our line, with our popular Dragon Sister blaxploitation/kung fu mashup design:Here's the ladies cut sizing info:We love the way these super-soft ri...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:07:00 PST

Rejected James Bond Themes

After I recovered (almost) from hearing the new James Bond movie theme "song" for Quantum of Solace by Jack White and Alicia Keys, I decided to seek out Bond themes that have been rejected over the ye...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:37:00 PST

Podcast on Fire

Thanks go out to Stewart at PODCAST ON FIRE for giving us a plug! Check out his site if you're a fan of Asian Cinema. I highly recommend their recent podcast on the late great Lam Ching Ying, one of m...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:13:00 PST

El Indio Wanted Tees

Check out our newest tee, a familiar image to spaghetti western fans.This is our 1st use of 100% organic, natural cotton for our line, and we love the look it gives this design.Just be careful not to ...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:58:00 PST

Che You, Che Me

We received an email last week informing us that our use of the famous and oft-silkscreened reproduction of Che Guevara on our popular and thought-provoking "I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS GUY IS" tee was an...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:23:00 PST

Tatsuya Nakadai in NY & DC!

I am incredibly bummed that I cannot attend any of these extremely rare events in NY and DC.Tatsuya Nakadai is one of the world's greatest living actors. If you don't know about him, treat yourself by...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:24:00 PST

Che Guevara : I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS GUY IS

I'm just going to take a moment to express my frustration with other companies who have blatantly stolen one of our T-Shirt designs.Mere weeks after we showed our CHE GUEVARA: I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS ...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:07:00 PST

Werewolf of Harlem

ShelfLifeClothing.com has added a new design to its poster art gallery, and it's another in our series of posters for movies that only exist in our dreams.Since we're big fans of blaxploitation and ol...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 PST

Shelf Life POSTERS (and site redesign!)

We've just completed our new site and we are now offering 18" x 24" poster art of all our designs.Click HERE to check out the new ShelfLifeClothing.com...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

Damon Jones and the Amazing Technicolor Hairstyle

Cleveland Cavalier guard Damon Jones, who has proclaimed that he is "The Best Shooter in the World" and also gave himself the nickname "Handsome," grew tired of the fauxhawk hairstyle he’s been ...
Posted by Shelf Life Clothing on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:35:00 PST