About Us

About Extra Special Vintage

Premium vintage-inspired shirts for anime fans and retro gamers. Built by collectors, for collectors.

Our Story

Extra Special Vintage started the way most good things do: with obsession. We're the people who spent hours hunting through thrift stores looking for that perfect faded Final Fantasy promo tee. The ones who still have boxes of Dragon Ball VHS tapes in the closet. The ones who remember when Evangelion was just this weird anime your friend burned onto a CD-R for you.

We got tired of two things. First, finding those vintage grails was getting harder and more expensive. Second, every time we found a "vintage style" shirt online, it was printed on some cheap Gildan blank that would fall apart after three washes.

So we built the store we wished existed. Premium blanks. Vintage-accurate designs. Prints that actually last. No bootleg energy, no fast-fashion garbage. Just shirts we'd actually want to wear ourselves.

99% 5-Star Reviews
155+ Verified Reviews
100+ Countries Shipped
4.99 Average Rating

What We Stand For

Premium Quality

Every shirt is printed on Comfort Colors blanks. Heavyweight, garment-dyed, pre-shrunk. The same quality vintage collectors hunt for.

Curated Designs

Our design team obsesses over period-accurate details. Original box art, vintage typography, and that perfectly faded aesthetic.

Fan-First Approach

We're fans ourselves. We build what we want to wear, and we listen when you give feedback.

The Quality Difference

Comfort Colors Blanks. If you've ever worn a true vintage tee from the 90s, you know the feeling. Soft, broken-in, substantial. That's exactly what Comfort Colors delivers. Every shirt we sell uses these blanks because we refuse to compromise on quality.

Garment-Dyed. Our shirts are dyed after construction, which gives them that unique, lived-in look from day one. Each piece has subtle color variations that make it feel like you found it at a vintage shop.

What Customers Say

"The print quality is awesome, and Comfort Colors are always great. Sizing chart helped immensely!"

— Steve K.

"Fabric is really great, went a size up for the oversized feel. Will definitely be adding a few more to my rotation!"

— JT

"The quality of the prints are really good, the nostalgic drip that I needed. I will definitely buy more in the future!"

— Mario

"People always react to this shirt in this totally caught off guard way whenever I wear it. It's always a genuine, 'Woah, I love that shirt' kind of comment."

— Brad S.

Read all 155+ reviews on our site or check out our Judge.me profile for verified third-party reviews.

Our Collections

We've built out collections spanning the franchises that defined the golden age of anime and gaming:

Retro Gaming: Final Fantasy, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Street Fighter, Xenogears, Shin Megami Tensei, Parasite Eve

Vintage Anime: Akira, Evangelion, Berserk, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball, Studio Ghibli, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, Uzumaki, Hunter x Hunter

Americana & Beyond: Dragon Ball x McLaren, King of the Hill, Blade, Vintage Korea, Vintage Japan

Shipping & Service

We ship worldwide to over 100 countries. US orders typically arrive within 3-7 business days. International orders vary by location but our customers consistently mention fast shipping times, even to Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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