Add Some Body Hair To Your Wardrobe, Courtesy Of Nutty Tarts.

I have written about beautifully hairy bodies before when I introduced you to several sexy hairy chests and a new book.

Now, Nutty Tarts, a female design duo in Finland, brings us additional body hair in the form of underwear, leggings and a wife-beater tank. The white wardrobe staples with screen-printed chest hair, leg hair and pubic hair are simply hilarious.



They offer three different "hairy" products, all screen printed on white organic cotton (95% organic cotton, 5% lycra).

Hairy slim fit sleeveless undershirt for women and men with screen-printed chest hair. €35.00



Hairy hipster panties with screen-printed pubic hair for women. €25.00



Hairy leggings for women with screen-printed hair on the lower legs. €35.00



Or get the whole Hairy Set!

Hairy Underwear Collection by Nutty Tarts €95.00

The set includes:
* Hairy Panties
* Hairy Undershirt
* Hairy Leggings
* Bad Face Day paper bag or Bad Day paper bag (another one of their clever products)
* a gift box (optional)
If you order the whole set you will automatically get 5€ discount. The gift box is for free.

And now they've added some for babies!


Shop for any of the above items here.

About Nutty Tarts:


Nutty Tarts (in finnish Tärähtäneet ämmät) is a finnish art duo that offers its customers high-quality design products. Nutty Tarts, Mrs Katriina Haikala and Mrs Vilma Metteri, have been working together since year 2007 and their goal have ever since been "to do things like they have never been done before". In this case things include design products, performances and artpieces.

Nutty Tarts work and live in Helsinki, Finland.

WAW
Women At Work Oy Ltd.
Arabiankatu 2
00560 Helsinki
Finland

Today's WTF? Winkers: Handpainted Pants That "Wink"

I will try to refrain from personal opinion as I share the concept of patent-pending Winkers(TM) with you. Rapidly making the rounds on the internet due to a you tube video of the jeans in action (shown below), the company, based in Everett, Washington is hand-painting pants so that as one walks, the images painted on the b'thigh (you know, the place where your butt cheek meets your thigh?) actually 'wink'.



They are pricey as well as hideous (oops, did I say I was going to refrain from personal opinion?) but certainly are imaginative.

It might help their marketing to feature a rear end that isn't quite so... um, bloppy. Oh and some less cheesy music on the video. And yes, a decent typeface on the site. Okay, so much for refraining from personal opinion.

Below are the five designs for which they have pricing and are available by order. But they will also create custom or special designs.


above: Eyes ......................... $159.00

above: Ducks ....................... $169.00

above: Clap Boards ........... $259.00

above: Owl.......... $279.00

above: Lion in the Jungle.............$579.00

When it comes to ordering yourself a pair of Winkers, they ask you to take the following into consideration.

In their own words:
"To order a pair of Winkers a couple of things to take into consideration are what pants and will they "Wink".

Jeans work the best for Winkers. Baggy jeans do not wink very well. Other types of pants work well also. But if the leg is to loose and hangs from the widest part of the buttocks the pants will not wink. Some dresses and lingerie will also wink. I do not have a satisfactory way to decorate lingerie though. Perhaps later. Taking all into consideration men's pants will wink also. Many slacks and overalls do not wink very well though, because they are to (sic) loose.

When selecting a pair of pants to be decorated, select a pair that fit well and will show off your wink. Make sure they are clean. If they are new make sure they have been washed."


Order them here.

Shikisai: Alternative Interactive T-shirts

When is a T-shirt more than just a T-shirt?

When husband and wife designers, Noto Hirotsugu and Noto Miyo, add ribbons, chains, plastic, tags, buttons and more to screen printed line art to turn the clothes on your back into interactive art.


Above: talented husband and wife team, Noto-fusai ( * "Noto" is their last name. "Fu" means husband. "Sai" means wife. All together, Noto-Fusai stands for "Mr. and Mrs. Noto".)

And they call it "Shikisai"

What is shikisai?
In their words:

Incorporating the interactivity,the mundanity, and the sense of fun, SHIKISAI is trying to explore the alternative possibilities of t-shirt design, through the use of black print on white surface.

The Products

The Reversi Shirt ( In Japan, Reversi is a very popular family game for children first to learn the hierarchical relationship.):




The Blinds Shirt:




The Shoelace Shirt:




The Faucet Shirt:



The Bathtub Plug Shirt:



The Tricycle Shirt:



The Shoulderbag Shirt:




The Umbrella Shirt:



The T-shirt Shirt:



The Book Shirt:



Power line Shirt:



and they also makes shirts for children and even dogs, too!


for Kids:



And, at Design Tide in Tokyo 2006, they newly introduced a series of "shikisai dog T-shirts", which is a collaborated work with the San Francisco-based modern pet furniture company Everyday Studio.

For Dogs:




Purchase the shikisai doggy shirts here.

The Designers:

Noto-Fusai: husband (Noto Hirotsugu)

after his sudden resignation from teaching history at high school, he learned design from the designers like Susan Kralovec (everyday studio), Aaron Lown (built new york), Ted Noten and Gijs Bakker(Droog Design). Now in japan, on his native land, he is looking firmly at what he want/can/should do. shikisai is his first project.

Noto-Fusai: wife (Noto Miyo)

graduated the same design school as her husband, KIDI parsons, she chose the career school to learn technical aspect of fashion, like pattern and sewing. at the same time she started her career as an assistant of the costume designer Anan Asuka, under whom she takes parts of accessory design, hair and makeup arrangement for models. the original pictures of shikisai t-shirts are all hand-drawn by her.

Where can you buy these fabulously creative shirts?
Right here.