Hey, see that guy over there by the bar? OMG, don't point! He'll see that we're checking him out! Turn around slow, like you are just happening to look over in that direction... totally hot, right? I just love that tattooed-sleeves look. It reminds me of like, really tough and cool rock stars. Like Benji Madden! Or maybe Dave Navarro but he is kind of old. Do you think he would buy me a drink? I don't even have any piercings except my navel and my ears!!! I am probably so not his type. I mean, you have to be seriously committed to being like really, really alternative to have fully tattooed arms like that. There are probably a lot of jobs that guy couldn't have, like, they probably would not let him work in a day care! He is probably a DJ or, like, a whitewater rafting guide. Wait! What is that thing at his wrist? Um, are his tattoos actually just TATTOO-PATTERNED NYLON ARM STOCKINGS?
Sleeves Tees [Thrillist]








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Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
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So wearing those to the office tomorrow.
Looks like something you'd see at Spencer's and/or Hot Topic.
The douchebaggery of anyone who would choose to wear such a shirt cannot be measured in earthly quantities. Our simple humanoid brains would not be able to comprehend.
From the people who brought you t-shirts with definition (for ab's and pecs) already shaded in...
can't wait until they make those for your face, head, and neck so i can rock the back of the neck celtic tree-of-life tattoo i've always been hankering for..
This is the best thing since female shoulder pads.
why am I dressed in black do you say? Oh, I'm just going to a wake. For whom, you ask? For anything that ever existed that actually represented freethinking and alternative lifestyles as opposed to, say, aping the trappings of counter-culture while embodying mainstream conspicuous consumerism. Wanna come with? Should be a blast!
ROFL!!!
even worse than blazers with built-in hoodies!
Raising the terrifying spectre of a condom with "Mother" emblazoned upon it.
Why am I dressed in black, you ask? Oh, I'm on my way to a funeral. For whom, you ask? Oh, just the death of anything that was actually progressive and anti-conformity as opposed to, say, aping the trappings of counter-culture fashion while actually embodying everything about superficiality and conspicuous consumerism! Wanna come with? Should be a blast!
Holy fuck. This makes me want to go out and get my tattoos removed.
Gawker, we need to issue a challenge. A bounty. First person to provide photographic evidence of some douche actually rockin' these in the wild* gets a bar tab picked up somewhere.
*-offer not valid in the MPD.
To top off this classic Billyburg look you must get the dermagraphic hat. Nothing say PBR like accesories!
I'd love to see the awkward moment when he has to decide whether to fuck wearing pantyhose on his arms or peel that shit off and risk putting a run in it.
Cool! Do they make leggings as well? I'd love to have a pair for under my shorts this summer! I'll save so much money on spray-on tanning products!
Imagine the cognitive dissonance if you got drunk enough to take this fake punk (pfunk?)home: "Wait, you're not fulfilling my dirty rockabilly greaser fantasy--GET OUT!"
$80?!?! I got a pair of these at Dave & Buster's for like 3 tickets. And then I walked around acting like a high school drop-out who loves the Insane Clown Posse, because that's what they make you look like.
Didn't Gaultier do this, like, 6 years ago?
wikkidawesome. now i don't have to use up a box of bic pens the next time i want to look tough at the bar.
sorry for the double post. i let the passion get the best of me.
Quebecois fashion cesspool Le Chateau sold these, to women, about 10 years ago.
I think I've found an article of clothing to hate more than the tuxedo t-shirt. Nah, they both suck something awful.
I foresee dude getting a shiv in the gut on the B train from a guy who grew up in Bensonhurst.
Was this post written in a gay bar?
@xavierk: You're a little late for a funeral that took place in 1967.
Or you could do what the rich who want to look like rock stars do in LA and go in for "sleeve sugery." They put you under and then two tattoo artists go to work on both of your arms at the same time. When you wake, you're instantly "Indie."
Can't wait to see two total idiots show up to the same bar with matching sleeves. Twinkie-dinks...
"For the ink without the commitment, grab a Sleeves Tee."
Fucking hell. Even guidos and Park Slope moms are willing to make "the commitment."
@zaky:
*Dior?
Nothing says h-core like the full body suit.
http://www.style.com/style/view/95/67/100116795.jpg
http://www.style.com/style/view/90/68/100116890.jpg
Wow. I just realized how sad it is that I even REMEMBERED seeing these abominations before (granted those probably cost 800 bucks but whatever)
*kills self*...oh wait, that's emo not rocker...um...*breaks stuff*
the look only really works when you're wearing those "douche'" t-shirts too.
You guys laugh, but Brad Pitt and three-time US National Champion figure Skater Michael Weiss are on the Sleeve Tees bandwagon. Now who's laughing, hah? Hah? http://www.sleevesclothing.com/thebuzz.htm
They come in four styles: Sanskrit Sayings You Don't Understand, Illustrations That Meant a Lot to a Seattle Rock Drummer in 1997, Bennington Philosophy 201 Cheat Sheet, and Guide to Busting Your Brother Out of Prison.
How long will it take for someone to rock the sleeves and a trapper hat at the same time?
shit, if Brad Pitt and some figure skater are rockin' the look, it must be cool.
Or not.
they've been on stupid.com for at least a year:
http://www.stupid.com/stat/TSLV.html
check out the "tribal" style (page down).
That has got to be the ultimate in pussiness. Talk about wearing your fashion slave status (not to mention your fear of pain and commitment) on your sleeve.
What a douche.
I saw these at the Alphabet Lounge on some chick. My wife was admiring her "sleeves" until we saw the wrinkle at the elbow, then it was daggers from our eyes.
I wish they made those for babies.
Please tell me this was a sponsored e-mail from them. Otherwise, I have lost my faith in the mighty Thrillist.
(A.J. would have written, right?)
@SylviaPlathWasFramed: No, body suits. Really, really realistic looking pudgy arm and leg sleeves.
The in-laws would fucking love it.
Ya know, they still look better than a lot of the ink that shows up on BSL.
"Each package contains TWO tattoo sleeves of the same style, so you can cover both arms or share one with a buddy"
Miami Twink
no offense to anderson and regis, but isn't this the gayest moment alive ever?
also no offense to gays, who probably have too much taste to be caught dead in these things
@mediahohoho: yup.
@copyed: please offend someone.
@xavierk: I'm crying AND laughing (and not just because you're higher status than I am).
@xavierk: Cuz the more I think about this, the less difference I can see between wearing tattoo sleeve-hose and, um, getting sleeves of purty pictures tattooed on your arm. But maybe that's just me.
@cdmunch: Your question suggests that there are Gawker posts not written in gay bars. Which I doubt.
zaky - Yup, Gaultier did this more like 10, maybe 12 years ago. I remember my grandmother and I laughing at the leggings, at something like $150- a pop. Even my 80 year old grandmother could see how fake they were and how idotic it would be waste money like that.
Why don't people just get their own sheer leggings, pantyhose, some permanent markers and have at it? At least if you made it yourself you might have a little credibilty.
I was just on a cruise where a guy was wearing these. Can you imagine the nerve to lie outside in the sun trying to fake the realness?
I wish they had these available for my penis. I would be the coolest gay ever.
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