This post is part of a continuing summer fashion series in which Carles from HIPSTER RUNOFF searches for the most authentic way 2 express urself [via fashion] during the hot summer months.
Photo via GorillaVsBear
I was looking at the popular alternative mp3 blog, GorillavsBears, and I noticed that the GorillaVsBro took some pictures of popular conceptual musician Panda Bear, aka stage name “Noah Lennox”, from the band Animal Collective. I saw that he was wearing a shirt that looked pretty kewl. The shirt featured several wolves ‘chilling.’ I thought it might be a t-shirt for a band that was named ‘Wolves’ or ‘Wolf Collective’ or something, but it was actually just a shirt promoting the generic wolf brand. Wolves for Wolves’ Sake.
I feel like it might be a modern take on the famous ‘child predator glasses‘ trend. It is a look that says ‘I am a bro who values different things than u. I live in a different world than u, and I am not searching for the same things in life than u r. I am part of some sort of collective of animals who don’t care about material things’ and so forth, and so on… Sort of like how child predators ‘just wanna get off with kidz’, WolfBros ‘just want to be a part of nature’ or something like that. Roaming the earth.
It’s weird how we are in this Am Appy era of solids + stripes, but it might be time to ‘break free’ from this minimal branding, and start wearing t-shirts with various nouns on them, represented via images (no words).
Srsly. The more I see Wolf t-shirts, the more it ‘makes sense.’
Seems like ‘wolf’ might be my power animal [via the Fighting Clubs]
Wolf Altbro #1
Wolf Altbro #2?
Wolves roam together in packs, sort of like how I envision a ‘perfect scene’ where every1 gets along and there is no ‘drama’
Wolves can also be ‘lone bros’ who ‘just chill by themselves’ and are ‘happy’ with a life of solitude
Might ‘convert’ a wolf t-shirt into some sort of tank top for the summer months
This shirt sorta represents being American, but also being a wolf bro
People who have read lots of wikipedia pages will have found out that ‘indie music’ is actually short of ‘Indian music’, not ‘independent music.’ Wolves and Buffalo were the most important animals to injuns.
“I am a lone bro.
Lone wolf bro
Alone in this modern world
searching for my pack of bros
to roam this earth
in search of meaning
we are comfy in nautica bros.”
-Panda Bear, 2014
R u gonna buy a wolf t-shirt?
Do u believe in the wolf t-shirt as a relevant summer look?
Does n e 1 know how to convert my blank Am Appy t-shirts into Wolf Tees?
Is Panda Bear a bro who ‘gets it’?
What will u be wearing this summer?
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50 Comments
3OH!3 DID WOLF TEES IN LIKE FUCKING 2006 YO!
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//////////Reply by bleep bloop bleep
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
@anon, @carlester, @altbros,
MEET WHITE WOLF.
http://www.sucksorrules.com/objects/detail/otherstuff/143399/white-wolf/
if you’re a true altbro, you’ll drop a shot of it into PBR and chug.
“go out, or bro out, yall.”
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fursttttt!
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//////////Reply by Anonymosse
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Fail, you fucking loser; nobody cares.
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//////////Reply by heroin
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
@Anonymosse,
lol fail
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
@heroin, epic fail
Wolf shirts are out. They happened, then died.
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//////////Reply by fuckingbirds
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
@Drew.
yeah, wtf carles. even happened here in retard-Sweden. or is that the whole point?
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//////////Reply by c
//////////Posted June 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
@fuckingbirds, yeah i know…i’m lost in the layers.
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already been taking place in the pop-punk/hardcore scene bro. but I guess I’ll give you a late pass, since ur such a hip guy.
this bro could very well be the spokesperson: http://doesawolfshaveitstail.com/
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sry crls bt u r pretty behind the curve on this 1
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wolf shirts are so last summer.
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so late
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nerds have been on wolf shirts for years
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wolf shirt=automatic disqualification for entrance to my vag, along with owning a PC (sorry gregg gillis or girltalk whoever you are) and HPV
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
@lolz,
what if i own a pc, but run appl’s os x on it?
is ur vag fuckable 4 me?
or am i still outcast?
:-/
ps- u seem hott, do u like uv blu?
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@aw, fukk, lolz!!! maybe!!! UV blu iis for sorority girls, lets get a bottle of georgi and get to work
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
@aw, fukk, you so took the words out of my keyboard on that one.
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Im with benjamin on this one.
http://www.we-are-awesome.com/nights/teeparty/img_0027.html
this came out ages ago.
aw06 yo.
like anon put it.
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wolves have been out for a while, its all about bear and eagle shirts now, elk shirts are also very classy
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
@cass, and shamu shirts? (via BITTE ORCA ORCA BITTE)
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//////////Reply by marinelovr44
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@hey anony anony, i heard something about marine animals taking a big leap ahead in summer fashion teez.
dolphin?
whale?
otter?
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is this like a back to the future post? via 2006?
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no one ‘gets’ irony any more.
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//////////Reply by Kenny G
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
@peen,
seems nice, charming no?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@peen, I think it’s kind of played out….or it needs to be more subtle now like you still need to leave some people guessing. I’m noticing a definite communication rift within the alt community, it’s definitely getting more real. I blame carles.
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the joke is that its old right
good joke i get it
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haha i love how i can automatically disregard the first 15-20 comments on each post now until i get to the smart ones.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3my-y-x0r0
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great wolf shirt review:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2XKMDXZHQ26YX/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
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//////////Reply by chorles
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
@molly,
fuck yes.
can i howl at ur moon molly
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http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm
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yeah 2006 was a good time for those. the chi predators will b3 eternal though.
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this have something to do with the new twilight film or somethin ya’ll??
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@top ramen, think it has something to do w/zach galifia(…) giving a speech about ‘wolfpacks’ in the mnstrm event film ‘the hangover’
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BMX was well ahead of the game on this one.
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i concur, im into unicorns for the new wolf
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
@m, I have most certainly seen some unicorn shirts being rocked. Quite possibly the cutting edge of authenticity right now. Or maybe it’s just a twee thing. My altness is clearly lacking within this realm.
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//////////Reply by m
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
@anony, yeah exactly and i think big sparkley pastel rainbows
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old
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peen shirts are the new wolf shirts yall, go out and buy them
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i was into dolphins for a while but now they’re all ghey
you see the odd zany bro still holding onto this dead culture and it makes me sad
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Dood i bought a Wolf shirt last year at a thrift store
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2311/2437035382_d5bbf04bac.jpg
It reminded me of when i was a kid and my parents took me to Cherokee county and we went to some Indian-themed ‘trading post’ buying silly things.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
@Adam, Oh yeah… These were all over the southwest in the mid-late 90’s.
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Y’all are slow gahlee – Wolf shirts R back this summer for mainstream bros (everybody?) via Amazon.com comments and drive sales for some random company that doesn’t realize their shirts are now internet kitsch.
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wasn’t that dude bret from flight of the concords doing wolf shirts like a million blog years ago?
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button-up shirts w/ flames and anime characters are big in miami right now (via smelly kid from 2nd period pre-calc)
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 12:18 am
@vivi, also big with pre-tweens on the upper west side in new york
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bret rocks a new animal each episode, i cant keep up. i think he’s on white lions now
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At the gift shop of mission space at disney world they had these shirts covered with all the consteallations. I thought it would be in the same category of wolf shirts cuz they both take something nerdy and make it alt.
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//////////Reply by Cray
//////////Posted June 7th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
@Cray,
http://www.computergear.com/glindacot.html
Ya, how fucking alt does this constellation shirt look guyz?
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Get on board with da times crls bro.
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ty for keeping me up to date on the latest/greatest in the alt-world.
found a chill ass bro who airbrushes 1-of-a-kind shirts some my local mall. mostly wolves, other ‘power animals’, and simpsons characters. going 2 bring him a blank am appy and get him 2 work his magic.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
@chorles, I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. That level of irony combined with an AA shirt could be explosive.
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http://www.insideoutbodywear.com/
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My friend is Wolf Altbro #1. I couldn’t be more “ashamed/proud”
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fkn lol crls has gone bac in time to 2k4
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Put those wolves in the throne room!
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Flight of the concords def brought the wolf/random animal portraits back into the frame for me.I hope Bret gets one with the wolf they have hanging on the wall, cause it is pure class.
I usually just skim over the “typical” wearers of animal tees like backround images(not that I’m a dick, it’s just nature bro), also- does it make them cool in a pseudo way?
Once you’ve procured a wolf T of your very own,how would you add dopeness, to let the general population know that you’re still alt, and not part of the dirtmall subculture of despair ?rocking some Air jeezies ?possibly.
Maybe a series of strategic,yet random low 5’s ?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
@Roy, I’m thinking it’s all about rolled up/cut off skinny jeans.
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//////////Reply by Roy
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 2:00 am
@anony,
Indeed. That wold set it off nicely, with most of your newfound 90’s rerun cool intact.
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Wolf shirt = So 2k7
Remember Teki from TTC, big dumbass in 2 X large wolf shirt
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monkey/gorilla ts are the new wolf ts
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wolve shirts are so out their in again duh. stop trying to catch up to Carles he’s already behind u.
SRSLY Carles, with it again ROOAR
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theysuxx
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http://14.media.tumblr.com/IV7Bm7P4Soe437i7XddcXtupo1_400.jpg
4got 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB45AUmchM&feature=channel_page
threewolfmoonbro.
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Excellent post, you’re back Carles.
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ugh, cum on crls. wolf shirtz been in 4ev!!#@#$%
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its called napoleon dynamite chic, and that shit was cool like 3 years ago!
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Sometimes I wish I was a Wolfbro but I’m not sure if i have what it takes, and I don’t have a wolf shirt.
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im a seattleite from the heart. live for the garage sale clothing and underwear from the 7th grade.
it makes me sick when people monopolize classic shirts such as the infamous wolf.
i know this is an old post, but srsly, get over yourselves. wear shit from goodwill and make it look good.
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i had a wolf dream and became the shirt. check it.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=26578071&albumID=1872902&imageID=760029#a=1872902&i=760029
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