Faded Line launches Flora

The Colorado-based Faded Line Clothing Co. has launched their Flora apparel series. Four different Flora images printed on sixteen shirts (and an infant's onesie) can be viewed and purchased at the FLC Flora page.

The images (licensed from Jim Flora Art LLC) are titled "Jived" (from the 1954 Primer for Prophets series); "Robot Guy" (detail from July 1956 Research & Engineering magazine cover); "Drummer" (1993 unpublished pen & ink of Gene Krupa); and "Hot Notes" (1941 detail from Shillito's Department Store circular).

We don't know plans for FLC's retail roll-out, but for now this snug armor can be scored with a few mouse-clicks at the store's site.

Sundazed blasts off with Flora

Sundazed Records, one of the world's foremost boutique rock reissue labels, offers a new limited edition T-shirt emblazoned with a Jim Flora space-age pan-galactic starship.

The original 1958 illustration (from the back of a Billy Mure LP) was black & white. Sundazed offers two colorized editions, the mustardy-cheesey:

And the aqua & salmon tinted:

That Little Man --

Coulda been clad in this onesie as a littler one. Had it been available. Just a mock-up. This image (circa 1940) originally graced the top of a box designed to collect issues of Little Man Press publications.

The Flora Faded Line

Jim Flora's art has appeared on record album covers, in magazines, in children's books, and on fine art prints. You'll soon have more options about where to display your Flora:

Jim Flora Art LLC is working with the Colorado-based Faded Line Clothing Co., who are designing a very cool line of t-shirts, hoodies, and assorted apparel featuring Flora's mischievous and curiously sinister art.

Above are proposed designs, of which there are a half-dozen others being developed. The apparel line has not been finalized, and shirts not yet manufactured, so don't place orders. We'll update as the line comes closer to launch, hopefully by Fall 08.

Bubbly Buddies and Bix & Tram t-shirts

Now on eBay: The "Bubbly Buddies" design (above, adapted from an early 1950s Christmas montage painted by Flora), and "Bix and Tram" (below, featuring caricatures from a 1947 Columbia Records album cover).

Happy Horns t-shirt

Jim Flora Art LLC just launched the latest in our line of upper body haute couture: the Jim Flora "Happy Horns" t-shirt. The illustration—a jazz buff making cozy with a clarinet and sax—originally appeared on a 1942 record shop retail banner showcasing "Columbia Album Favorites." Our previous shirts were digitally printed. The "Horn Buddies" shirt is our first silk-screened piece of fashionwear.

We also modified a previous shirt: the "Hot Notes" design (featuring a 1941 department store illustration), previously produced on white cotton, is now available in gray as well.