Softest best music/band/concert tees?

January 13, 2023 1:13 AM

About to stock up on a bunch of music/ band/ concert tees or t-shirt dresses. Where can I find the most/best buttery/soft-well-made ones? Most of them are like shitty cardboard, but I’ve come across some great ones randomly. Sometimes at shows. Also looking for the same quality non-music t-shirts, but that’s secondary.
posted by jitterbug perfume to Shopping (5 answers total)

My favorite band T-shirt was one I got at a Chromatics show, and is from Italians Do It Better, but I think everything is out of stock....
posted by yueliang at 2:40 AM on January 13, 2023

It's pretty common for bands to use American Apparel or Bella Canvas for shirts, and those are pretty good, soft, reasonably well-made shirts, especially the poly-cotton and tri-blends.
posted by box at 7:05 AM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

Seconding Bella+Canvas. I wish I could remember which blend it was off-hand (sorry!), but my favorite t-shirt ever was some random swag t-shirt from a company I used to work with. I tracked it down to a specific Bella Canvas blend and bought a few blanks from Wordans online.
posted by cgg at 7:53 AM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

When given the choice, I like shirts that are a triblend. They're so soft.

From that website, indeed Bella Canvas and American Apparel have a triblend shirt:

"Check out a few of our favorites:

Bella + Canvas’ Unisex Triblend Tee,
American Apparel’s Women’s Triblend T-shirt,
Anvil’s Youth Tri-Blend Tee,
Next Level’s Men’s Triblend Crew Shirt, and
Champion’s Premium Fashion Ringer T-Shirt."
posted by hydra77 at 9:49 AM on January 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

Yup, nthing Bella+Canvas triblends. Someone gave me a band shirt which became my favorite T-shirt; early lockdown I ordered five more plain ones from clothingshoponline.com (blanks supplier with no minimums) and basically lived in them for two years. Their regular cotton jersey shirts are pretty good too.
posted by yeahlikethat at 5:53 PM on January 16, 2023