“You so Haole, you dont even know you haole.” I get emails from people who run t-shirt companies on a daily basis. It seems like every man and his dog wants to be the owner of a hip designer t-shirt company, and most of the time they’re just carbon copies of each other. It’s the same played-out vector graphics style designs time and time again, and I’m bored of it!

So it was a breath of fresh air to get an email from TheRyde.com. It’s almost like they’ve been going through my garbage to find out my likes and dislikes in order to design my ultimate t-shirt. They’ve got the hand-drawn type I’m a fan of, and a simple black and white colour scheme, but ultimately they’ve based it around my guiltiest pleasure, and that’s the greatest movie ever known to mankind, the 80′s surf film North Shore. Unless you were a surfer growing up in the 80′s you probably wont appreciate the North Shore T-Shirt, but for those who did, it’s probably the best t-shirt ever created (and as an added bonus for those people, check out the North Shore Soundboard!)

Even if you don’t appreciate the North Shore T-Shirt, there are many other great laid-back designs to choose from at TheRyde.com, so go and check it out.

Like a supermarket special offer, only infinitely cooler. Back in March I posted about the designer espadrilles over at The String Republic. It seems they’re now available to buy, and there is even a ‘buy two pairs, get third free’ offer this month.

So I suggest everyone pile over to The String Republic right now to take advantage of the offer before all the best styles are gone (many of my personal faves have already sold out!)

Get your espadrille fix now, before the summer is over, at The String Republic.

Beware the “hoodies”. In the UK, a sub-culture of underclass youths have been given the name of “hoodies” thanks to their penchant for wearing hooded garments. It seems the hooded tops these youths wear are scaring the middle-classes. But what the middle-classes have yet to experience is the gangs of youths creeping around inner-city shopping centres dressed like scary clowns thanks to the hand-printed clothing of Headhoods.

In a bustling factory in Brooklyn, New York each and every hood is meticulously hand-printed and one-of-a-kind. Check out their MySpace page to see some photos and keep up to date.

Visit the official Headhoods website.

Get some new feet. I’m not really a fan of the hipster-vans-style shoes, but the Loker Model from Fallen Footwear might turn me.

Revenge of the Espadrilles. Last summer The String Republic launched a range of espadrilles covered in fantastic designs. When they were first released, I tried telling everyone that they were cool, but no one would believe me. But, it looks like I’m going to get another chance this summer, judging by the The String Republic Teaser!

A year on, is the world now ready for “The Summer of the Espadrille”?

Keep your eyes on The String Republic.

One for the sneaker freaks! If you love customised sneakers, or you just like creative stuff, check out the latest submissions at customsnkr.com It’s amazing to see the amount of work that people put into making their footware unique and personalised.

More at customsnkr.com

Argyle T-shirts & Floral Lions. Aaron Feiger emailled to tell me about the label he and his girlfriend Ashley Marcinczyk run called Pop Junkie. I often get emails from people looking for a quick bit of free exposure, and, quite frankly, most of the time the stuff they want me to pimp is garbage. So it makes a nice change to get an email from Pop Junkie, as their stuff is great. I particularly like the argyle style Floral Lion t-shirts.

Go and check out the products from Pop Junkie.

A lesson in how to earn brownie points! My girlfriend has started a blog about fashion. If her ability to highlight cool fashion items is anything like her ability to spend money on those items, then it’s bound to be a success. To give her a headstart, I thought I’d let my readers know about her blog. If you’re into fashion, and want to be kept up to date with the latest labels and styles, go and check out Random Fashion Coolness (the name sounds familiar, don’t you think?)

Weddings are boring. The while spectacle of weddings bored me to death. Unfortunately. At some point I’m going to be drawn into one of these organised regimented events, but if I had my way it would be done spur of the moment with an Emergency Wedding Dress by Aleksandra Paszkowska (Rachel, if you’re reading, you should buy one!)

Designer underware. I failed to convince people last summer that the cool illustrated espadrilles available from The String Republic were hip. Now The String Republic are back, but this time with underware. So hopefully it’ll be easier to convince people to wear these great designs this time around.

Via NotCot.