Phoenix Wright Meets My Wardrobe.

This shirt can be tied to that mysterious case…Two years ago….

Friends, associates, and random strangers at bars know that if there’s one thing I like babbling about incessently, it’s where to find a good deal. Whether it’s the fourteen dollar two-packs of Evan Williams at the Wine Warehouse on 8th street, the hippies in Bed Stuy that’ll give you a bike for free if you ask em nice or the savory and heart cloggin’, five-for-dollar dumplings in chinatown, nothing gets me gabbing like an Irishman quite like a good deal in a profoundly expensive city.

Which is why I guess I’ve become attracted to Japanese retailer UNIQLO’s flagship store in NYC. Aside from agressively clearencing their stock (Protip: If you go NOW you can still get a pair of skinny tapered jeans for 20 bucks, with free same day alterations), they’re stuff is essentially non-branded, simple and affordable. This is a nice contrast to the Gap, which plasters their name on everything and American Apperal, which charges 48 bucks for a freaking hoodie and subsidizes Dov Charney’s wang.

Normally the place sells really fashionable Anime-print tees from things like Great Teacher Onizuka, Tekkon-Kinkreet and the works of Osama Tezuka. Every once in a while, however, they slap a videogame on there. Last year it was all MGS4 shirts and this year they’ve expanded. They also slapped down a couple of Galaga and Ms Pac-Man machines set to free play in the middle of the store and mixed retro game samples into the ambient house music playing in the background.

I ended up leaving with the Phoenix Wright tee pictured above as well as a tee for the Famicom game The Tower of Druaga.

From the Front

From the Back

No word on how to get the shirts if you live in, say, San Fran, Canada or Seattle but I’d try calling the flagship store on Broadway (only one in the US) or having a VERY good friend in NYC that’s willing to do you a helluva solid.

What’re you looking at me for?