Working out the best OTHER pieces to buy is mostly a question of deciding which version of rock and roll clothing you actually want to wear: hand-distressed graphics, period-correct vintage blanks, real band archive tees, or the mainline leather and knitwear.
The UK label describes itself as luxury rock clothing cut from silhouette, heat and ruin, built for the wild ones and the others. Here is what that looks like as a shopping list, ranked by how much construction you get and how often you will realistically wear it.
The Thrasher Tees: hand made, hand printed
Rocker Hands Thrasher Tee
The most complete expression of what OTHER does. It is a classic crew neck tee with a self-binded neck, cut in a regular fit, with every tee individually hand made at the brand’s studio to create a completely one-off and original piece. It is hand screen printed in the UK studio using vintage correct plastisol inks for a genuine vintage look and feel.
Plastisol is the ink that gives old band tees that slightly raised, cracked-over-time character, and hand printing means placement varies slightly piece to piece. Buy this if you want the graphic to feel earned rather than manufactured.
Runnin With The Devil Thrasher Tee
Available in white and in black, and specced with the most detail of any tee in the range. The brand calls it a timeless classic, cut in a regular fit with a crew neck, each piece individually handcrafted in its studio, creating a unique garment marked by heavy distressing and raw, destroyed details. Made from 100% cotton and hand printed in the UK studio using vintage correct plastisol inks.
The phrase to weigh is heavy distressing and raw, destroyed details. This is a deliberately wrecked garment. If that is the look you want, it is the strongest execution here; if it is not, take the Vintage Tee instead.
Road Crüe Thrasher Tee
Same construction story, different graphic: regular fit, crew neck, individually handcrafted in the studio, heavy distressing, 100% cotton, with every tee individually hand made to create a completely one-off piece.
Road Crüe in black is the most straightforwardly wearable of the Thrasher graphics, and black hides distressing better than white does, which makes it the safer first buy in the range. The F-U Thrasher Tee sits alongside it in the same white Thrasher construction if you want something blunter. Compare the Thrasher styles before you choose.
The Vintage Tee and the Rock Archive band shirts
The Vintage Tee, Desert Sand
The connoisseur pick. A classic crew neck tee cut in OTHER’s signature relaxed fit, featuring vintage correct single stitch hems and finished with a vintage wash for an authentic worn-out look and feel.
The colour range is drawn from early 60s Fender and Cadillac paint: Black, Heavy Relic Black, Blonde, Olympic White, Shell Pink and Desert Sand. The brand notes that colour may vary slightly due to the nature of the washing process, which is exactly the sort of disclosure garment-dyed products should carry.
Single stitch hems are the reason to pick this over any other blank in your drawer. If you want to understand what separates one blank tee from another, our blank tee fabric weight guide is the primer.
WHITESNAKE LOVE SONGS VINTAGE T-SHIRT
The brand describes it as a way to show your love for legendary rock ballads, featuring bold artwork inspired by the band’s iconic compilation album, capturing the spirit of classic rock romance. Crafted from 180gsm, 100% cotton.
180gsm is deliberately lighter than the current heavyweight-blank trend, and that is what makes it read as a real band tee rather than a modern reissue. Buy it if you want the graphic to be the point.
WHITESNAKE SNAKE RATTLE & ROLL TOUR 88 VINTAGE T-SHIRT
The tour-graphic counterpart, described as a tribute to the band’s electrifying live shows and hard rock legacy, featuring bold tour graphics and vintage-style artwork. Crafted from washed black 180gsm, 100% cotton.
Washed black rather than flat black is the detail that matters. A tour tee from 1988 would never still be jet black, and this one is not pretending to be. It is the more collectible of the two Whitesnake pieces for that reason.
The mainline: knitwear and leather
BANDANA OVERSIZED BRUSHED CARDIGAN
The best non-tee buy in the range and the piece that most justifies the luxury label. The brand calls it a soft wrecked luxury: an oversized mohair blend cardigan carrying the spirit of a lived-in classic, with a bandana motif that feels iconic, romantic and slightly dangerous, designed for effortless layering and late night rock and roll ease.
The published details are specific: a mohair wool blend knit with a soft brushed hand feel, an oversized silhouette with a relaxed drape, signature bandana artwork woven into the knit, a deep V neckline with custom black buttons, and ribbed cuffs and hem for structure. The brand recommends it over cropped tees, tanks and slim trousers. Woven artwork rather than a print is the spend here: prints on knitwear crack, woven motifs do not.
Brando Biker Jacket
Inspired by the original Perfecto biker jacket, embracing the rebellious attitude cultivated by its predecessor with an added contemporary edge. Cut in a relaxed fit and crafted from a medium weight luxury suede, finished with YKK hardware, a belted waist and shoulder vents for comfort.
Suede rather than leather changes the character completely, softening a silhouette that is otherwise quite aggressive. Worth knowing that this piece sits in the brand’s archive range rather than the current mainline, so availability moves.
The layering pieces you will wear most
The Racerback Beater
The quiet workhorse. OTHER introduces it as the perfected essential vest, crafted from 100% ribbed rayon. Ribbed rayon drapes differently to cotton rib, sitting closer and moving more. It is the layering piece that goes under everything else on this list, including the cardigan and the biker jacket.
Cropped Oversized T-Shirt
The pick of the women’s jersey range, and the best-specced piece in it: a cropped oversized t-shirt with a ribbed neck, crafted from 100% 240gsm organic cotton, finished with a vintage wash giving it an authentic worn-out look and feel.
240gsm organic cotton is a serious weight for a cropped tee, and the vintage wash means it arrives already broken in. The rest of the jersey capsule, including the Muscle Tank, Mini Tank, Shrunken T-Shirt and the baseball tees, is cut in a slightly cropped, fitted silhouette if you want the tighter shape instead.
Which range is right for you, and where to start
The four ranges are not interchangeable, and picking the wrong one is the most common way to be disappointed by this brand.
- THRASHERS — hand made, hand printed, heavy distressing and raw destroyed details, 100% cotton. Buy if you want a one-off piece and accept that it will not match the photo exactly.
- Vintage Tees — relaxed fit, vintage correct single stitch hems, vintage wash, early 60s Fender and Cadillac colours. Buy if you want construction detail over graphics.
- ROCK ARCHIVE — real band product at 180gsm, 100% cotton, in blonde and washed black. Buy if the artwork is the reason.
- Mainline and knitwear — mohair blend cardigan, luxury suede biker jacket, sheer polyester shirt. Buy if you want one piece to carry a whole outfit.
The safest first order is one tee from either the Thrasher or Vintage range plus the Racerback Beater as a layering piece. That gives you the brand’s signature and something to wear it with, without committing to the full aesthetic in one go.
Accessories matter with a look this specific, and vintage-shaped frames finish it better than anything else; see our picks for vintage-inspired sunglasses. For where OTHER sits among independent labels generally, our roundup of the best online fashion brands is the wider map. Then compare the ranges here and buy the tees first.