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Wear your sexiness and class on your sleeve. Or, I guess, on your tie. The store also features similar ties with the likenesses of legends such as Johnny Cash, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix.
$14.99 from simplyneckties’s Etsy shop
Sometimes you have to dress up, and for some of us that means wearing a tie. Well, if you’re like me then you hate the dressy stuff. So wear your tie and make an anti-tie statement, all while being a gigantic geek, with this tie. Yes, that’s right. It says “ties suck” in binary.
$24.99 from Think Geek
Rigged is the most publicized queer clothing store on the internet. The goal of Rigged is to sell “original garments suitable for the female body, but with a masculine attitude.” The creator and designer of the line, Parisa Parnian, describes in an OurChart blog post why she quit her high-paying fashion job to start a clothing line for us. This blog post rang true with me – why did she do it? Because no one else had.
Get your Pulp Fiction style on with this wallet from Pik & Pokket. Foil muggers! Get arrested at airports for having a picture of a gun on your wallet! The possibilities are endless.
$46.40 from KJ Beckett
Here’s another entry in the queer clothing list. Started last year in 2007, Tomcat is based out of Phoenix and has a long list vintage and retro clothing and accessories. Tomcat’s signature seems to be this: buy vintage clothing – mostly 50s style buttondown short sleeve shirts – and add a screenprinted graphic. The look is vaguely rockabilly while occasionally having a touch of unexpected fun, like a shirt with a banana seemingly growing out of the pocket. The site also has more retro gay magnets (“But mommy, wouldn’t gay marriages be happy marriages?”) than your local gay bookstore.
More belts! More recycled goodness! These are straight from the salvage yard, with a stop-off for some hand painting.
$56 from Worn Rubber
I’ve been meaning to do a series on queer clothing shops and designers, and Dykes in the City is a good place to start. Like most startup clothing companies, they have generic DITC-branded tees and tanks, but where they really shine is in the accessories and formal wear. You can find vests, button-downs, hand-crafted belts and cuffs – all designed by and marketed to queer women. Which of course also means that the models are smokin’ hot. DITC aims to “purposely blur fashion gender and body image rules in the creation of clothing.” You may have seen DITC clothing – or even its founder Niki Cutler – at pride festivals or fashion shows.
For the hip astronomer who has everything, this tie was inspired by the rings of Saturn and has that 70s feel. Which is still a planet unlike poor little Pluto. Never mind that the shipping is about what I would expect to pay for a tie.
$125 from Hlaska
No, it doesn’t play music, although if you could mod it to do such I would probably love you forever.
$165 from Urban Outfitters
Add some color to your life. This blue will make you smile even when you’re pulling out that extra $50 to pay for drinks you don’t remember ordering. Bonus points: wear this with a turquoise bolo tie.
$26.21 from DogFunk.com
