New York

Many graphic t-shirts are inspired by drugs you've rarely taken -- so why not change things up with tees inspired by history you've scarcely read? Flaunt ye olde school, with Beard and Bangs.

Handmade in Brooklyn, BB's 100% cotton shirts are designed along historical themes, with the current collection taken from arcane postage stamps and a line from a Dylan song ("Tombstone Blues": confounding fans with oblique references since 1965). Graphical fodder's 18th/19th Century etchings, e.g., a brim-full highball glass ("Whiskey"), a monkey skeleton ("Counterfeit"), and "The General" -- a heavily decorated German officer from the last era when heavily decorated Germans didn't bespeak "yay, genocide!"

Besides tees, B&B prints their vintage designs on neckerchiefs -- an anachronistic garment adorned with further anachronism, the sartorial equivalent of smoking opium from a pipe made of quaaludes.