Dance Party Massacre is a fairly new brand out of Boston, MA that pulls from horror movies mixed with…hipster-ism? I don’t mean that as a diss at all because I feel there’s definitely something genuine about what these guys are doing. Check out their site and it’ll make sense. The brand seems to be mainly run by Alex Dakoulas who is also currently a designer at converse. I’d like to think this plays into the restrained nature of the DPM designs. For me it’s definitely a breath of air when everyone seems to want to do more, more, more.
So on to the shirt. ‘Eyeconic‘ is basically their logo tee which is probably why it appealed to me the most of all their current line (the ‘Vampire Grill‘ is pretty hot too though). It’s a 3 color plastisol front print printed on American Apparel with the inside neck label VERY cleanly cut out…if you aren’t a dork like me you’d never know it was there. Kinda thick on the ink which is sorta disappointing, but the graphic is small so it isn’t too bad when you have the tee on. The tee also has a custom printed inside label and what’s a little odd to me is it’s really smooth/soft on the ink which makes me think the printer could’ve done a softer job on the front print.
The order shipped very quickly (in a generic envelope but with time I bet that will change) and cheaply. Stop charging people 10 dollars for shipping 1 item dudes we know how much that shit costs! Also, in my picture you can see the order came with a bunch of goodies which is always welcome. I’ll go ahead and consider myself a fan and def. look forward to see where this brand is going. If I could make a completely random suggestion to the brand…on their site they use the word ‘party’ in their nav to, naturally, see pics of parties. So it only makes sense to me that site nav should be broken down into a section for ‘DANCE’, ‘PARTY’, and ‘MASSACRE’..right? Ok, i’m just talking shit go buy a shirt!
VERDICT: 4 out of 5
buy link (they have almost every design available for girls as well just a heads up!)
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