This geek-chic shirt in baby blue sports an engaging motif: a bright blue robot astride a sepia-colored dinosaur. The bold retro-style print immediately evokes science fiction B-pictures of the ’50s, with their sensational battles and promises of heretofore undreamed-of excitement. But it also brings to mind those children’s games where toys from wildly different contexts interact together for no readily apparent reason, creating surreal juxtapositions of genre and scale. Tiny spacemen action figures do battle with enormous 11-inch tall fashion dolls or gargantuan pastel teddy-bears, the doll-house is requisitioned by a detachment of minuscule plastic army men, and the clockwork robot rides out on his loyal triceratops mount. Great stuff from happyfamily.
