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Meet the Artist: Ashley Carroll
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There are many types of heroes. We salute them all.
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As we head into summer, with the celebration of Memorial Day, a holiday of special significance and tradition, honoring our fallen heroes, we are all finding the opportunities to reconnect and reunite with family and friends we’ve missed for too long. This year there's so much to hope for, as we move to the other side of the pandemic. We are stronger together, and we are all thankful for the freedoms and strengths that come with being in these United States. We'd like to call special attention to our Military and Maritime collection, recognizing some of our finest who...
What's in a tee? Most likely, you.
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Tees are cool. During the pandemic, many of us resorted to shopping online and purchasing merch to satisfy our urges to socialize, and to communicate. “Merch with a Message” became a trend on top of a trend, outfitting us all with cool slogans and graphics that said something about us, the way we were and the way we wanted to be…again. It’s always been a matter of personality and personal style with clothing. We make statements all while working to keep ourselves on trend. Tees are as cool as you want them, or need them, to be. Why tees? When we...
How Do We Signal Each Other?
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We humans interact with each other seemingly without obvious effort. Our sophisticated and nuanced social signals are part of this delicate and impactful communication. While these signals include speech and body gestures, they also include what we wear: our fashion – our tees. The items we choose wear send string signals to our friends, family and strangers alike. We use our tees (and other clothing items) to project the image of us or message we choose for that day and time. Don’t be confused: clothing and fashion, by definition, are not the same. While clothing is what covers the body,...
New Year, New You: Making Room for More Cool Designs
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The transition of one year into the next; the end of one thing always represents the start of something else. Our present circumstances do not define where we will go; they only determine where we next begin. For every today is a new beginning, and every yesterday a cool memory. Our future blooms from the seeds of the past, and that’s why we created Yestercool and brought you great designs like those below. We are in the process of expanding our cool designs with two new collections over the next two months: saluting the military and recognizing the bike (motor...