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Hand Dyed Limited Edition T-shirt Dresses

09.29.2011

Hand dyed wings tshirt dress group

We’re having a little fun this season with hand dying and hand distressing if you haven’t noticed. And there’s more to come, but the biggest experiment we are launching this winter are our women’s logo shirt for the season. These t-shirt dresses have a distressed wings logo print on the lower right, but the best thing about them is we are making them in limited edition colorways.

All of these are going to be hand dyed in small batches (think as many as you can fit in a washing machine) and then printed. That way we can play around with the colors more than if we made just a couple colorways. After dying, we’ll be choosing an ink color and printing them with the distressed Akinz wings logo.

Since these are a limited edition experiment, once we run out of a colorway, they are gone, and we will move onto a new fun color combination. So, if you see a color combo that you fall in love with, grab it when you can. The first batches of these we did are purple with white, pink with white, yellow with red, and blue with orange (as seen in the picture above).

These also layer really well with our acid wash hoodie dresses and color block hoodie dresses (to be released in October). Keep an eye on our womens clothing section this winter for new colorways.

Sneak Peek Fall 2011/12 – Acid Wash Hoodies

07.18.2011

Aqua acid wash hoodie dress Fall 2011 Akinz

One of our favorite items from the upcoming fall/winter line is our acid wash hoodie dress. Each one is acid washed by hand, so the variations in pattern and coloring between each one is absolutely unique. We kept them pretty simple by letting the colors speak for themselves and just adding a print of our wings on the lower back left. I wore mine nonstop last winter ever since we made the first samples and they seem to be everyone else’s favorite too since my team riders keep nabbing them from me everytime they see me. (Evidenced below by the pic of Erika Vikander (left) and Claire Hewitt-Demeyer (right).

Erika Vikander wearing the acid wash hoodie dressClaire wearing the aqua acid wash hoodie dress

And the ones we sent to Woodward at Copper as an early release for their summer camps sold out in the first few weeks of camps. I just sent Woodward a new box of freshly acid washed hoodies, so if you are lucky enough to live close to The Cage at Woodward at Copper, go snag one while they’ve got them. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait til they hit our site around September. Although it seems like everyone’s favorite is the aqua acid wash colorway, it will also be available in fuchsia, a navy-pink acid wash, and bleachout black.
Acid Wash hoodies come in Aqua, Fuchsia, Pink, and Black

5 Reasons to visit the Akinz showroom today

07.12.2011

Today is Tuesday which means we are having our trial showroom hours from 1pm to 6pm and there are many reasons to visit.

1. I’ve had a lot of coffee this morning and I’m in the mood to chat.

2. If you stop by right at 1pm, you might get to meet some super cute Articulate City interns as they learn how to screenprint so they can help at our CommuniTEE Night Event next week.

Free shenanakinz sunglasses with purchase3. I just restocked the $10 T-shirt Table (1-off colorways / experiments of our designs not for sale on the website).

4. Since we finally have a sunny day in Fort Collins today, I’ll give a free pair of sunglasses to anyone that comes in and spends $20 or more.

5. We’re down the street from Odell’s, Fort Collins Brewery, and Funkwerks. Plus we’re next door to A Hunt Club, if that’s more your style. ;)

Bike to Work Week and Bike Accessories

06.21.2011

Fort Collins Bike to Work Day is tomorrow and so far we’ve raised almost $200 for the Fort Collins Bike Co-op! You have until the end of June to buy your bike t-shirt and benefit the Fort Collins Bike Co-op. You can buy your bike tshirts here. That also means that today is the last day to put in your order to be hand-delivered by yours truly by bike tomorrow (June 22nd). Don’t live in Fort Collins city limits? Surprise a friend with a bike-delivered gift! Just choose By Bike as your delivery method by 10pm tonight and you’ll get added to our route.

We also are joining up with Big Shot Bikes and the Fort Collins Emergency Vet Clinic to host a Bike to Work Day breakfast station on the Poudre Trail at Riverside and Lemay. Come say hi, buy your bike shirt, and snag a La Luz burrito on your way to work (or another breakfast station).

With all this BikeStravaganza Frenzy going on, we’ve been inspired to create some bike pendants and necklaces. We have both bike scrabble pendants and laser-cut acrylic bike necklaces (modeled above by Houdini) rolling in on the site soon. Check them out in our Jewelry and Accessories section.

Akinz Beanies now available on NewVintageTees.com

01.18.2011

NewVintageTees.com is a company all about bringing back the classics. You know the reason you won’t let go of that favorite band shirt you’ve had for years… it just fits so nice. It just may smell a bit and have some stains that are getting a little out of control. So, they are reprinting vintage designs on new supersoft t-shirts.

They wanted some accessories to match this idea and after demo-ing a couple of our handmade beanies, they thought they were definitely the ticket they were looking for. So, check out their site if you’re looking to grab any of this season’s handmade beanies.