Loose Fit (Other Mondays collaborations)

 As promised here's the (not so much) good, the bad and the ugly of some of Happy Mondays other designer collaborations.

I wrote once upon a time on this blog about 1999's surprising link up with Admiral. The 1970s football shirt supremos had been bust for about a decade and hoped their big come back would be boosted by Mondays reformation in 99. I can't really say that worked for them as the last time I saw any Admiral gear was in the TU section of Sainsbury's. 

That said they made some smart tour tees, plus back stage crew specials, in a Mondays yellow. And also they stuck to what they knew, producing an awesome red football shirt sold at gigs - a few years ago I spied one on eBay for 40 quid and passed on it. The one I found on Google images was over £300. Sigh.

Next up was last year's Palarse effort. The skateboarding crew went a long way to beat the competition, namely COVID19, to be the worst thing to come out of 2020. Perhaps slightly unfair, the overpriced tees are ok, using central stations design but changing the P for Palaces slant. And there's a crazed Bez.

But the hats, shirts and jacket? Dam, kuff. Decent on a record sleeve but on your person? Yes please? No thanks.

Loose Fix (Happy Mondays x Levi Clothing)

 Posted about bands x brands collabs once upon a time on this blog. With a great deal of suspicion and contempt.

The latest one involves one of my favourite bands - The Mondays - who have had one or two questionable collabs in the past, Admiral and Palace spring to mind (stay tuned for more on these..)

This collaboration seems a bit more on point as the designers are actually Central Station, who worked with Factory Records creating artwork for the Mondays early work. And it's these late 80s iconic designs that are emblazoned on Levi gear.

The t shirts are the pick of the bunch. Clean, crisp, white long sleeved tee coming in a Loose Fit, obviously, with one of four LP covers on the front - singles Freaky Dancin' or Tart Tart and albums Squirrel & Gman or Bummed. If that wasn't cool enough, they come folded up in its own record sleeve box.

Double double good.