https://www.badbillys.com/tags/vintage-tees/Recent content in Vintage Tees on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comTue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/dating-vintage-skate-tees-label-era/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/dating-vintage-skate-tees-label-era/ <p>Two skate tees sit on the same table. Both carry the same late-80s graphic, the same washed-soft hand, the same faded ring of a logo across the chest. One is an original run worth real money to a collector; the other is a reprint pressed twenty years later off a scanned art file. Nothing on the front separates them. Everything that does is on the inside — the stitch holding the hem, the typography on the neck tag, the small block of regulatory text most people never read, and the way the ink sits on the cotton. Learning to read those tells is the difference between paying for provenance and paying for a photocopy.</p>