The best vintage graphic tees arent always the ones you find at the thrift store
Spent the last two years digging through bins every weekend. Found some great stuff, a few things I still wear constantly but lately the deals just arent there the way they used to be. Resellers got faster, prices shot up, and half the vintage section is fast fashion that aged badly. What actually surprised me is how many of the best vintage-style graphic tees I own now came from places that arent thrift stores at all. Some small online shops and indie print platforms do the faded, worn-in aesthetic way better than I expected. Not repros of existing stuff, just original art that feels like it came out of 1994.
The thrift hunt is still fun but I stopped treating it as my only option. Anyone else shift how they source their tees lately?