label: artextype: 100% cotton
era: mid 1980's?
where found: salvation army, clifton park, ny
this shirt is dying a slow and painful death. every time i take it off there is at least one new hole or tear in it, which is sad because it is a really cool shirt. just the other day, our scottish (i believe) UPS delivery guy at work commented me on it. he told me he really likes lake placid.
i had never heard of the artex label before i saw this shirt. searches for them online bring up a TON of vintage t-shirt listings on eBay ... a number of which have snoopy on them. i'm left to assume that these guys had the (exclusive?) rights to snoopy t-shirts (but not the rest of the peanuts gang?). a close up of an artex tag on another site has the words "DIV OF JOSTENS" printed on it. is this the same jostens that tried to pimp class rings to us in high school? i dunno.
i have another snoopy t-shirt by artex that i'll be putting up here in the future. hopefully by then i'll have the label's mystery figured out. coincidentally enough, this shirt is also pushing tourism for new york - how many different types of these shirts are floating around? was this one of those deals where you customized a shirt with a print and your company's name? that would explain the jostens connection.
i had never heard of the artex label before i saw this shirt. searches for them online bring up a TON of vintage t-shirt listings on eBay ... a number of which have snoopy on them. i'm left to assume that these guys had the (exclusive?) rights to snoopy t-shirts (but not the rest of the peanuts gang?). a close up of an artex tag on another site has the words "DIV OF JOSTENS" printed on it. is this the same jostens that tried to pimp class rings to us in high school? i dunno.
i have another snoopy t-shirt by artex that i'll be putting up here in the future. hopefully by then i'll have the label's mystery figured out. coincidentally enough, this shirt is also pushing tourism for new york - how many different types of these shirts are floating around? was this one of those deals where you customized a shirt with a print and your company's name? that would explain the jostens connection.
but, who knows?
scan of the label:
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