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ribbons69 wrote:
Being645 wrote:Hard stuff, ribbons69 ... :eek: ...
the only good thing is that you know it already now, so there's some time window to find another job ...
and I wish for you that this won't present much of a problem to you and that your next job is better than the one you've got now.
You deserve it!!! And you should by no means be forced to give up your wonderful collection. All my best wishes from here to you!!!
Prices are indeed incredible. Some sellers demand several hundred quid for an old shirt ... just ridiculous.

And thank you for the new pictures ... :D :notworthy: ... the grey Replicant one is especially cool.

Btw, first of your shirts are integrated here and here (both scroll), more to follow asap ... :D ...
Great work Sabine .
Oh hell, the great job is yours to find all those wonderful cloth and give them a good home, David ... :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: ...

I absolutely keep my fingers crossed that things go all well for you (and your collection)!!! ... :kiss: :kiss: ...

Btw, meanwhile I've added some more here ... not sure about that longsleeve though. Do you know?
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Being645 wrote:
ribbons69 wrote:
Being645 wrote:Hard stuff, ribbons69 ... :eek: ...
the only good thing is that you know it already now, so there's some time window to find another job ...
and I wish for you that this won't present much of a problem to you and that your next job is better than the one you've got now.
You deserve it!!! And you should by no means be forced to give up your wonderful collection. All my best wishes from here to you!!!
Prices are indeed incredible. Some sellers demand several hundred quid for an old shirt ... just ridiculous.

And thank you for the new pictures ... :D :notworthy: ... the grey Replicant one is especially cool.

Btw, first of your shirts are integrated here and here (both scroll), more to follow asap ... :D ...
Great work Sabine .
Oh hell, the great job is yours to find all those wonderful cloth and give them a good home, David ... :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: ...

I absolutely keep my fingers crossed that things go all well for you (and your collection)!!! ... :kiss: :kiss: ...

Btw, meanwhile I've added some more here ... not sure about that longsleeve though. Do you know?
The longsleeve is definateley a bootleg. There is a yellow version of the tour shirt,also in this thread somewhere.
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Oh yes, how could I forget ... Image ... Thank you, ribbons69 ... Image ...

Anyway, adjusted ... :D ...
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I tried on a black velvet bolero jacket I wore in 2001- ffs too small! Fat Sister! :lol:
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There are some vintage sisters shirts on Etsy.com from around 1990-91 going for over £300 - blimey! is this the going rate now :eek:

Reading through this thread, every time i see someone say 'i threw the shirt in the bin' i die a little inside.
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elamanamou wrote:I tried on a black velvet bolero jacket I wore in 2001- ffs too small! Fat Sister! :lol:
I like to describe my shape as cuddly, very cuddly :lol:
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elamanamou wrote:I tried on a black velvet bolero jacket I wore in 2001- ffs too small! Fat Sister! :lol:
I like to describe my shape as cuddly, very cuddly :lol:
Cuddles to Smiley Sister :D
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Charlie wrote:There are some vintage sisters shirts on Etsy.com from around 1990-91 going for over £300 - blimey! is this the going rate now :eek:
They'd be surprised if they actually went for that.
I've sold a few of mine lately,mainly between £30 and £50. Best one was a Wembley Arena one from 1990 that went for £70. That said I've seen the Sisters on Cake long sleeve go for £90 recently.
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am i the first to think that this threads title sounds like teen voyeur porn?
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ribbons69 wrote:
Charlie wrote:There are some vintage sisters shirts on Etsy.com from around 1990-91 going for over £300 - blimey! is this the going rate now :eek:
They'd be surprised if they actually went for that.
I've sold a few of mine lately,mainly between £30 and £50. Best one was a Wembley Arena one from 1990 that went for £70. That said I've seen the Sisters on Cake long sleeve go for £90 recently.
That sounds more like it. At £300 a pop there would be some heartlanders sitting on a small fortune!
Still you never know, might be worth holding onto them, they might well be worth that much when the sisters become the biggest band in the world after :von: releases the new album :innocent: :innocent:


eastmidswhizzkid wrote:am i the first to think that this threads title sounds like teen voyeur porn?
Or confessions of a teenage drag queen?
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That said I've seen the Sisters on Cake long sleeve go for £90 recently
I'm rich, I have three of those monstrosities
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Hi folks !
Does anyone know the exact name of the font style which appears on some Sisters shirt or hoodie of the 2009/2010 period ?
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do you have any photo examples of the one you mean?

they used arial narrow on the website and various promotional material for a while

eg: the logo on the homepage:

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sentenza wrote: 27 Oct 2020, 08:17 Hi folks !
Does anyone know the exact name of the font style which appears on some Sisters shirt or hoodie of the 2009/2010 period ?
2009 was the Mechanised tour , the font is the one on the right of this link (can someone with better IT skills put the image up?)


https://sisterswiki.org/Mechanised_Zurich

By 2010 they had gone back to Caslon Antique.
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This is the first time that I have been in this thread since 2017 when those tossers at photobucket removed all of my images, and now I see that they are back, albeit with watermarks. There is a 2009 Mechanised t shirt on the first page.
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gotcha, thanks.

the "mechanised europe" font looks like either Arial Narrow (though they may have squashed the height), or Akhbar Regular

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if you were looking to recreate it, i think using either would give you a good enough result whereby most folks couldn't tell the difference

the font is nowhere near as iconic and identifiable as caslon antique
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ok, so i took this image

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opened it in photoshop and tried to recreate the type, using the original as a reference

the top line of text is my hastily recreated copy:

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here it is overlaid on the original - it's not perfect but you can barely see any difference:

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and here's the photoshop "type" settings i used create it

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so yeah, it's probably arial narrow with some tweaks to the tracking and horizontal spacing
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Oh eh I've some problems to insert some photos (as an old 47 years man...)...Sorry for that.
The font I was talking about is on the hoodie from the 2009 tour (I bought it in the bataclan) and on the militant sex machine hoodie's as well.
Actually it is for a tatoo, I met the guy this morning but I finally decided not to add the name "sisters" over the sisters wings logo (from 2007, which I think is the best ever).
Anyway many thanks for your help !
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Hard to tell from the photo but it looks like the standard Caslon Antique font they’ve used since day 1? Just in lower case?
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Yes of course, it is the caslon antic but in lower case ! Thanks...
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YEEEEEAAHH , thanks Quiff !
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Not my wardrobe but a friend on the twitters posted this today & I've never seen this back print before.
Anyone have any idea when this was available?
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I remember seeing that on one of the recent (ish) tours. Possibly 2016?
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