The ‘user-generated content’ web revolution has led to an entire genre of constantly evolving sites. And that concept has extended beyond the web to the actual products being sold on the web. The most well known example might be Threadless.com, but there are countless other great sites where the creative can exercise their skills.

Wooshka is a competition based shirt shop that let’s users submit and vote on designs. The winner’s receive cash, kudos and the satifaction of knowing their shirt designs are reaching the masses.

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I’d like to personally invite all of the creative designers, shop owners and t-shirt fans who read our site to make a small charitable donation to worthy cause. T-Shirt Watch has set up a donation page with FirstGiving.com to help give back to our community. Donations will be made to a local organization that helps clothe school kids who are need of extra help.

This is the first, in what will be our site’s continued involvment with charitable organizations. As a way of saying thank you on our behalf, we will be featuring those shop owners who are generous enough to make donations. Please click here for additional information. Thanks!

Little light hearted video action for you today with a Classic Seasame Street clip - The Wonderful World of T-Shirts. Haven’t seen this one in a lot of years. Now how do you spell Forg again?

With the popularity of the Sopranos it’s no suprise to see some mob inspired designs make their way into t-shirt culture - and so we have ItalianGangsterWear.com. They’ve got a full like of merchandise with designs based on their logo “G” (top shirt), and plenty more Gangster inspired garb. A couple here for the women to wear - the Gangster Girl, and one of our favorites, 49% Angel. Very funny.

Shat Happens don’t ya know. So do funny t-shirts. SplitReason.com is ‘materializing geek culture’ with some good tees for gamers and geeks alike. From Cowbell Hero to the illustrated How to Kill a Zombie. And for course a nod to the cultural icon that is William Shatner with a nice spin on the ole’ Shit Happens slogan.

For the budding t-shirt designers check out their design competition. Submit your t-shirt designs, get reviewed, make some dollars. They’ve also got some toys, gadgets and whatnot as well.

This clip from the BBC provides a brief history of the slogan t-shirt. By no means comprehensive, but it’s hard to find many resources that really dive into how t-shirt culture has evolved. So it’s not a bad piece for our archives. Though we’d argue the male broadcaster with horrible tie shouldn’t be allowed to talk about fashion in anyway whatsoever.

It’s truly amazing (scary) the things people will take the time to do. Like taking the time to film yourself wearing every single shirt you own and then sticking it on YouTube.

I’ve been meaning to get around to post on T-Post for a while. The concept is very cool. T-Post is a subscription based t-shirt shop. You sort of sign up like you’re going to get a magazine, and instead you get a t-shirt once a month (six weeks actually). The conept behind the shirt designs themselves is even more unique.

Each shirt design is based on a current news item. Information on the topic of each month’s shirt is then printed on the inside under the tag. The subscription runs $32 (USD) a month and includes shipping. T-Post is based in Sweden and prints on American Apparel tees. You can stop your subscription at anytime you like.

For real t-shirt fans who are really into t-shirt culture this is a very cool way to insure you get cutting edge, unique tees that the guy next door is definitely not going to have.