Russian Criminal Tattoo Art

[miniKAT]

I love the Man is Wolf T-shirt. I might order one except I'm slightly worried about getting my head kicked in by an angry Russian!

Ok, a few people mentioned this before...Most of the tattoos that are used for the shirts are from 50's and 60's and are not tattooed anymore. None of them, I repeat, NONE, proclaim u to have any sort of criminal rank. Even if it did the stigma of the tattoo has died out in the 80's. It's more as a commemoration now or respect to the art and that culture. Thats why I made the shirts.
I am Russian and I would think its cool if u had one of those on (and I'm not saying this cause they're my shirts) .

So you're safe

[PsyTox]

Not my kind of thing, but sure as hell an interesting -and slightly disturbing- read. i can surely see how you can get interested in that, never knew that there was such a symbolic importance to those signs (except the meaning for the person itself obviously).

[good_god]

in all seriousness, be sure NOT to wear these in sheepshead bay or bay ridge— or brighton beach. you know what—just avoid south brooklyn altogether.

[cloutier]

i really like the designs, and i'm a huge fan of tattoo art and culture / meanings, but i'd be wary of a prison tattoo on a t.shirt.


like mentioned above, wrong neighborhood / person, you might end up with a shank in your back. tough call...

[miniKAT]

i really like the designs, and i'm a huge fan of tattoo art and culture / meanings, but i'd be wary of a prison tattoo on a t.shirt.


like mentioned above, wrong neighborhood / person, you might end up with a shank in your back. tough call...

Both of u are out ur damn minds I live in sheepsheadbay and I have a few of the tats on me from when I was younger (not the ones from the shirts, but same category). I wear the shirts, My wife wears them, we sold quite a lot at a festival in Coney Island, to lots of people, Russian and not. As I said before the stigma of having those tattoos has been over for sometime, and the designs are from the 50's and 60's, Its not like walking around with a shirt with an 8 pointed star on ur shoulders. Relax, anybody fucks wit u, give me a call, I'll take care of it. Stop being such marys, its just a shirt

[good_god]

i really like the designs, and i'm a huge fan of tattoo art and culture / meanings, but i'd be wary of a prison tattoo on a t.shirt.


like mentioned above, wrong neighborhood / person, you might end up with a shank in your back. tough call...

Both of u are out ur damn minds I live in sheepsheadbay and I have a few of the tats on me from when I was younger (not the ones from the shirts, but same category). I wear the shirts, My wife wears them, we sold quite a lot at a festival in Coney Island, to lots of people, Russian and not. As I said before the stigma of having those tattoos has been over for sometime, and the designs are from the 50's and 60's, Its not like walking around with a shirt with an 8 pointed star on ur shoulders. Relax, anybody fucks wit u, give me a call, I'll take care of it. Stop being such marys, its just a shirt

dear mini,

i read another thread where you explained about being from Russia/Coney (lot of time on my hands today). i guess i'll yield to you since there's some background other than picking a book up in barnes & noble (i assume). besides, you seem to have focused on the 'tamer' designs. not, say, the dozen or so unmentionable horrorshows that populate the latter half of the Baldaev book. *cringe*

sincerely,
mary

[Thomas D and Jack Thomas]

Those are cool shirts actually, but I gotta side with Cloutier. In your average suburban U.S. city, you'll probably have nothing to worry about. In Russia, i'd be slightly leary. All I know is prison tattoos here in America is still very serious business.

[Thomas D and Jack Thomas]

so is this like a cafeexpress type site, or are these quality screen printings on quality shirts?

nm: once I actually looked at the descriptions, it says they're printed on American Apparel shirts. So quality is intact.