Starting with the t-shirt, you've got the design right above this sentence, and it's called the "don't care bears". I didn't post a picture of the whole shirt cus I don't actually have it yet and cus the model wearing it on the web site might scare you (it's at threadless tees type in "don't care bears" and you'll see what I mean, but don't say I didn't warn you). As you can see, the design clearly fits the "swag animals doing swag things rule", and it gets extra points for irony. Anyone who was ever abused with the carebears as a child (thank you gracious sister for your help in this area) probably said the phrase "I don't care" a number of times to counter their mantra of "WE CARE, WE CARE... WE CARE". The children that grew up with this abuse should love this shirt as I do, and if you are one of those children I give you permission to go get this shirt, even if it bites my swag a lil bit. For more recommendations of similar swag, threadless is actually a great resource; it's not street wear but if you sift through the hipster shirts you'll get to the gold, probably at a good price too. This means you should avoid shirts that say "geek" and have words making ironic historical jokes; instead try to stick with the awesome animals rule, it has never failed me. Some threadless suggestions:
"monkey business"
"da noize"
"electric jellyfish"
I've purposely shielded you from the models on the website but if you do go there remember not to judge them; they don't mean anything by their weirdness, they just don't know any better. Also, shout out to dbthecoolkid for puttin me up on threadless.
On to our next matter of business: the hat. Remember that Michigan hat I told you about in that previous swag lesson? The one in which I said that if you didn't get it soon, I'd have it first? Well, unless you got it before 5 o'clock today, I beat you to it. If you forgot what the hat looks like it's here:
We've already been over the specs so I don't have to do that again and I've already made my recommendations... so yeah, not much to say here, other than that the white part of the hat feels really cool (don't hate, I don't usually feel up hats, this one is just very touchable). Also I would love to say that this is my last snapback purchase, especially as it is not a new era, but I cannot make this promise. I've heard it from reputable sources that motivation will be dropping some new snap backs with the raging Wolverine in a new design that looks too good to pass up. So I'll try to refrain from snap backs, but in the mean time I'll defend myself with examples of swag luminaries wearing Michigan/wolverine snap backs:
1. Big Sean: the snap back king from the D is probably the most credible source out there for snapback swag, peep his choice of hat in this vid
that's right wolverines (woot woot!)
2. Chris Brown: I know what you're thinking "first he's defending snapbacks, now he's using Chris Brown to justify his cause tisk, tisk" *quizzical look you give to crazy people*... Well first of all, don't give me that look, and second of all, in this video Chris rocks the throwback Petway bball jersey to go along with a smooth hat, I'm contractually obligated to admire him for that. Also, the song isn't terrible and his collab with big sean was pretty hot too, he's getting better (or maybe that's just the side of me that likes his hat talking, we'll never know)
3. Bun B: That's right, I redeemed myself from the Chris Brown fiasco with a pic of Bun B himself rockin a wolverine featured snapback that I recommended earlier. It's almost as if he read my mind or something
but really tho, there's actually a ton of big names who have this hat including Bun, Wiz Khalifa, and Mac Miller (photo evidence can be found at the motivation blog).
But all this talk of wolverines and rappers has brought me to the fast rising wolverine rapper P.L. He's one of Ann Arbor's finest and reps the whole state of Michigan quite well with his unique flow. He's already dropped a ton of singles from his upcoming album and here's a free style on "Bill Gates" that will only serve to raise his profile (he's also done a "black and yellow" remix called "blue and yellow" so you know he's got my respect) check out his block M tattoo as well:
Anyway, that's all from me, peace swag world, happy swag trails.
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