Dr Suess Shirts by The Honorable Shirt Company SS14

Classic American children's writer Dr Suess and his illustrations have taken over proceedings with the designs for The Honorable Shirt Company's SS14 collection. A fitting tribute to a truly exuberant storyteller, with values as old as the hills. Available at Urban Outfitters this April.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. 

The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut.

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GIVEAWAY - tuktuk AW13 Shirt

For this week's giveaway I've teamed up with shirting specialists tutktuk, who are offering a Buckets & Spades reader the chance to win a shirt from their AW13 collection! You can choose from either the awesome navy + blue Floral Print Shirt or tuktuk's take on a Classic Work Shirt in maroon corduroy, both worth £59.

tuktuk make shirts and they make them seriously well. Inspiration for their designs comes from the diverse culture of South Asia, from the vibrant colours and scents to traditional patterns and music. As well as shirts they also carry a range of accessories, bags, small leather goods, music and artwork. You may remember me featuring tuktuk's Banana Print Shirt on the blog in August, which we spotted it on our recent trip to Brighton.

To win one of two AW13 tuktuk shirts all you have to do is fill out the Rafflecopter form below, if you're having any troubles with the Rafflecopter just post a comment below stating shirt you like and how you follow Buckets & Spades. The more ways you enter, the more chances of winning.  Remember, if you follow my blog you can enter this giveaway daily! This giveaway is open worldwide, good all around.

Good luck everyone!

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Osmium Menswear Giveaway

Today I've teamed up with USA based menswear label Osmium for this week's giveaway. Osmium have been creating "handsome" clothing for men, inspired by traditional American tailoring which suits today's busy lifestyle. Based in downtown Stoneham, MA, all Osmium's pieces are Made in USA and have been build to last, using domestic production and materials sourced locally and Japan.

The lovely people at Osmium have been kind enough to offer one of their staple pieces to one of the readers of Buckets & Spades. Up for offer is the Machinist Shirt (worth $128!), which is an  absolutely bobby dazzler. A hardwearing work shirt featuring a railroad stripe, constructed in beautiful Japanese cotton/linen fabric. Classic button down collar and re-enforced side seams. The linen mix adds a really nice rich texture and will keep getting softer with each wash. All proudly produced in the USA. 

To enter the giveaway just fill in the Rafflecoper form in below, nice and simple. Please note this giveaway is only open to UK and USA residents. Thank you to Osmium for the prize and good luck!

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The Hawaiian Shirt

 The Hawaiian Shirt - Levi's

I picked up this Hawaiian Shirt by Levi's while I was on my jollies in Orlando recently, it has to be one of my favouite purchases of the whole trip by far. I've got tones of short sleeve printed/patterned/striped shirts in my wardrobe but I'd been looking to add an Hawaiian doozy into the mix for quite a while now. Maybe it's down to the Seinfeld re-runs I've been catching. 

Like buses two happened to come along at once. Just before we left for holiday I managed to find another show-stopper in H&M no less. Let's just say I fitted in extremely well with the Floridian natives at the Celebration Town Tavern; which I highly recommend if you're ever in the Orlando area. Work your way through all 100 bottled beers (not all at once of course) and you get a special CTT tankard. I managed five.

For me this shirt is almost perfect but not quite there. I would have preferred a traditional open-neck collar rather than the button down but hey, I got it in one of the discounted outlets so I can't complain. I'll mostly be wearing this with a plain white t-shirt, Levi's denims and Jack Purcell's sneaks, easy.

Have you recently found any items you've been on the look out for, or are you still holding out for the ideal version?

Also see -

The Fisherman knit
The Blue Jeans
The Stripe T-Shirt

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Hentsch Man's Steve Shirt x Kent Comb

What do you get when you mix top-notch shirting, classic combs and a killer soundtrack? You get Hentsch Man's new short, featuring their weather appropriate short sleeved Steve Shirt. I'm pretty partial to the Hawaiian one myself. Boooom!

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The Hill-Side & Co. Short Videos

Today I wanted to share with you some amazing 10 second videos by The Hill-Side & Co. The Brooklyn, New York based small accessories connoisseur usually concentrate on ties, pocket squares, scarfs and smaller good but they have recently extended their range to clothing, hats, bags and quite excitingly, furniture.

It's amazing what you can do in such a short period of time, I cannot think of a better way to spend 10 seconds. I don't tend to post videos much but please do watch them, trust me you won't regret it!

The Hill-Side & Co. is available at Hickoree's Hard Goods. For more of their videos click here

Buckets & Spades x Balibaris Selection

From left to right - Steven Spieldberg t shirt/Nouveau Droit indigo selvage slim jeans/La Cie du Kraft A5 notepad/Madras navy gingham shirt/Pijama fluo Ipad case/New Balance 420 "Road to London" sneaks/dark green socks

I was recently asked by Parisian retailer Balibaris to to pick out some of my favourite products from their store, and here's the result. Balibaris started out in late 2009 selling ties and other small accessories, a couple of years on and the chaps have branched out into their own range of clothing which is all produced in France and a few other countries around Europe (apart from the Japanese denim). They also stock brands like Han Kjobenhavn, Opening Ceremony and Sanders as well as having some pretty cool, low-key collaborations going on. The online store has been a big hit, so much so that they will be opening their first boutique in Rue de Marseille, Paris this coming September.

The fluo Ipad case sticks out like a sore thumb I know. Every time I go shopping these days I end up looking at the same old stuff so I'm making an extra effort to challenge my normal tastes at the moment. I reckon this would make a pretty cool additional to my daily carry-arounds. Which is your favourite item from the selection?

Thanks to Balibaris for this opportunity and their photography.

Folk Printed Shirt

It's jam packed, you can't move for patterned shirts these days. I'm not complaining, since my days back at college there hasn't been many years gone by without a patterned shirt being somewhere in my wardrobe. The oldest one I remember (which I still have somewhere) was actually a turquoise patterned polo shirt. It was nicknamed the "roller coaster" top as it had a unusual zipped pocket placement, therefore your loose change would be ok if you went on a ride with a loop the loop.

For me this printed chambray printed shirt from Folk is one of the best out there. The block print shirt seems a bit garish at first but I think it has the potential to be quite wearable. The pattern is created by overlaying various shades of chambray cotton and also features a pebble shaped top pocket and extended back hem.

Each shirt is uniquely printed and patterns vary quire significantly, see the difference in these here and here compared to the one above. It's divide option though, at least three people I know have said they'd give it a wide birth, I am definitely in the yes camp. So is it a yes or no?

Folk block print shirt available at Oi Polloi

It's Nice That / Hawaiian Shirts

Fancy a shirt that comes with its very own matching background? That's what we all want. The  design magazine It's Nice That have created a exclusive range of rad shirts for ASOS. Five artists were picked by It's Nice That to create their own graphic pattern for a shirt. It would be pretty cool to say at the pub that you design Hawaiian shirts I reckon. The first white one reminds me of bedcovers that I had in the early '90s, and come to think of it my pyjamas too. Very Saved By The Bell

My favouite of the five designs is the bottom one by Mike Perry. Not for everyone but it's a bit of fun isn't it, especially now the sun's out. See the designs here, images by ASOS.

Have a nice weekend everyone.