Sheffield retro nightlife T-shirts are popping up on music idols
A Sheffield T-shirt company is rocking the world with it’s retro venue designs - they are popping up on music idols!
The T-shirts - celebrating the likes of he city’s iconic Limit nightclub - are being worn by members of bands from Motorhead to Siouxsie & The Banshees.
You can view the Limit collection at dirtystopouts.com/collections/the-limit.
Stray Cats' frontman Brian Setzer has also been pictured wearing one featuring the cover of a book about Eddie Cochran’s final fatal UK tour. Check out the T-shirt here at dirtystopouts.com.
The T-shirts are hand-printed by Sheffield author and publisher Neil Anderson’s Dirty Stop Outs company.
He’s best known for the retro books he writes and publishes about nightlife in the city and beyond.
BUY: For all Dirty Stop Outs’ T-shirts, books and more visit dirtystopouts.com/collections.
But he launched a hand-printed T-shirt business during lockdown. He bought a heat press and threw himself into the process.
Neil admits he knew nothing about clothing manufacture - but he was well-versed in the lore of the city’s legendary punk/goth Limit nightclub.
The author of the best-selling book, Take It To The Limit, which chronicles the stories of the venue, saw a T-shirt dedicated to the famous West Street venue as the perfect trial for his new business idea.
He never looked back.
Now, his company, Dirty Stop Outs, has products in demand worldwide, with rock stars also wearing his T-shirts, all printed by hand in Sheffield.
"In many respects, the lockdown period was perfect for what we were doing. The future was very uncertain, and people were reminiscing," Neil said.
"I was already selling a popular series of books that celebrated retro nightlife, and selling T-shirts that celebrated old venues seemed the next logical step.
"The Limit T-shirt was an immediate hit.”
Neil Anderson added: "Four years on, these shirts have been shipped worldwide; they've been purchased by many musicians who performed at the venue; they've helped raise hundreds for Dementia UK; and one was even ordered so a fan could be buried wearing the T-shirt from the club he loved more than any other."
You can view the Limit collection here: https://dirtystopouts.com/collections/the-limit