shoreditch, society

Not for all the t-shirts in Shoreditch…

Just got back from Brick Lane market, and realised one thing: if you laid out all the t-shirts for sale on Brick Lane side by side, they would loop the Earth 14 times. It’d be like some hipster version of hands across America. The Ditch’s appetite for t-shirts is phenomenal. You have arty t-shirts, geeky t-shirts, retro t-shirts and some really, really shit ones. It’s getting out of control, there needs to be an embargo on t-shirts.

I think if you took all of the t-shirts out of Shoreditch there would actually be a realignment of the tectonic plates, creating a massive hill for scenesters to ride their choppers and Mary Poppins bikes down.

Brick Lane is possibly the epicentre of t-shirt design in London, but there is no debate about the t-shirt kings of the interwebs. Threadless is the sex. If it wasn’t a website I’d make it my girlfriend and have frenzied sex with it whilst wearing complementing ironic t-shirts . In fact I’m currently wearing some of its wares, this little puppy.

If you aren’t au fait with Brick Lane market, you should check it out – it has a fairly eccentric spread of stalls varying from beautifully intricate and inspired design and craft stuff to good international food to Steptoe and Son-esque Rag and Bone stalls. Also there’s a bike stall where you can probably reclaim all the bikes you’ve ever had stolen.

As a taster of some of the more scene elements of the markets check The Style Scout.

For an example of some of the fly stuff available at the market check out The World of Bobby Dazzler.

Oh and if you’re walking down Great Eastern Street today watch out for this mad Chinese chick trying to sell crack, not appropriate Sunday afternoon vibe. However, if you are going near the Shoreditch High Street Tesco, they have the motherload of reduced stuff today, which is fully FOR THE WIN, MOAR!!!!!!one1!!!!!

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