We’re leaving tomorrow for our road trip, and sooo excited! There won’t be any new items on the site next week while I am gone, but still got a lot up this week for you! Please remember, I won’t be shipping out any orders after today until August 30th – sorry!
I may be able to write a blog post or two while we are away, not sure…if not see you in a couple weeks! If you’d like to keep in touch, I will still be tweeting – you can follow me on Twitter @bethanylouise
Dan and I will be going on a 10 day road trip vacation, starting Thursday!
We’ll be spending time in Columbus, Washington DC, Outer Banks in North Carolina, and Pittsburgh, and I’m so excited to be seeing the east coast for the first time!
Of course, this means I won’t be able to ship out any orders while we are gone. If you are planning on purchasing anything either on our webshop or our Etsy shop, please do so by Wednesday afternoon!
This also means I’d love your suggestions for places to go, shop and eat in these cities! When we went to Seattle, you guys gave me so many AWESOME ideas, and we loved all the suggestions! Please tell us what to do (we seriously have hardly any plans) by leaving comments on the blog or emailing me!
Oh, and I’d also LOVE to meet you in real life! Wanna get dinner or drinks?!?
The weekend was so great!
I got to see little Josephine for the first time
Went to the Farmer’s Market
Visited friends and checked out the Bizarre Bazaar at Theatre Bizarre!
Where I got a handmade hula hoop!
Plus Handmade Detroit is nearly ready to launch Detroit Urban Craft Fair applications! Can’t give away any details right now, but this year’s DUCF is going to be INCREDIBLE!
Wow, it was a busy week here at Reware Vintage headquarters (our spare bedroom)! Here’s a ton of new stuff available in the webshop!
The last dress is my favorite – the previous owner had started to reconstruct it, and I got to finish it!
This weekend will be packed! We’re going to a wedding reception, a visit with baby Josephine, a craft fair, the farmer’s market, an estate sale, and a meeting! Needless to say, I’ll be drinking A LOT of coffee for the next 48 hours!
Tag Thursday, a day late!
You’ve probably noticed that I’m a big fan of Screen Stars brand T shirts – I even point out in every listing of an 80′s Screen Stars T shirt that it is our favorite brand shirt! There’s a simple reason behind that – they are hands down the most comfortable T shirt ever made. This is the T shirt that every current manufacturer is trying to get their “vintage” T shirts to feel like, and no, none of them even come close.
I love their shirts so much that there are a number of T shirts in my collection that I liked but mainly kept just because they are Screen Stars made. I even work out in junky Screen Stars T shirts – they are so thin, they breathe great when I’m running!
There were actually a few different types and tags of Screen Stars T shirts made over the years. In the late 70′s, when they were first made, the tag was orange or blue with a star print, and either said “Screen Stars” or “Super Screen Stars”. These shirts are extremely hard to find - in 15+ years of buying vintage T shirts I have only ever had two!
70′s Screen Stars Tag
In the 80′s, Screen Stars became one of the most popular blank T shirts made to use in production. They made both a 100% cotton shirt and a 50/50 shirt – the 50/50 was far more popular, and so is now much more common to find today. Screen Stars 505/50 T shirts are by far the best of all their brands!
80′s Screen Stars 50/50 Tag
80′s Screen Stars 100% Cotton Tag
In the late 80′s, Screen Stars began production of “Screen Stars Best”, which most vintage collectors will tell you is actually the worst. It started the horrible trend of the 90′s to make T shirts bigger, thicker, and out of 100% cotton. While they may have held up better over the years, they are not nearly as comfortable (but still better than a lot of other brands!).
90′s Screen Stars Best Tag
By the mid 90′s the brand fizzled out and brands like Giant, Fruit of the Loom and Brockum became the major players in blank T shirts. Though I guess it just wouldn’t be the same or as much fun to collect if they were still around today!
Some of my favorite Screen Stars T shirts we’ve had over the years:
Hands Across America – 100% cotton Screen Stars
(this one was bought by Fox and made an appearance in an episode of Bones)
Detroit Bad Boys Pistons T Shirt – Screen Stars Best tag
Wrestling T Shirt – Screen Stars 50/50
Screen Stars Best Tag
And some of our favorites for sale right now on the site:
Bob Seger Tour Shirt – 80′s Screen Stars 50/50
1991 Sturgis T Shirt – Screen Stars Best Tag
70′s Monster T Shirt – Blue Star Style Screen Stars Tag